Jay T. Stock jtspic
 
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 335 463
E-mail: jts34@cam.ac.uk
 
 
 
Positions
Senior Lecturer in Human Evolution and Development
Fellow of Downing College, Graduate Tutor
 
Office Hours: Pembroke Street Room 53: by appointment
 
Research Interests
Skeletal biology, phenotypic plasticity, the evolution of human variation, human growth and development, evolutionary ecology, skeletal robusticity, biomechanics and behaviour, functional morphology and locomotion, morphological integration, body size and allometry, bioarchaeology, hunter-gatherer behavioural ecology, the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, coastal hunter-gatherer adaptations, the origins of agriculture and sedentary societies Regional: southern Africa, southeast Asia, Siberia, northern Africa, the Levant, Europe, the Andaman Islands.
 
Selected Publications
Pinhasi, R., & Stock, J.T. eds. (2011) Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 504p.
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Selected Publications
Maher, L., Richter, T., Stock, J.T. (2012) The Pre-Natufian Epipalaeolithic: Long-Term Behavioral Trends in the Levant. Evolutionary Anthropology. 21:69-81, pdf
Diaz, A., O’Connell, T., Maher, L.M., and Stock, J.T. (2012) Subsistence and mobility strategies in the Epipalaeolithic: A stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains at ‘Uyun al-Hammam, northern Jordan. Journal of Archaeological Science. Early View pdf
Maher LA, Richter T, Macdonald D, Jones MD, Martin L, et al. (2012) Twenty Thousand-Year-Old Huts at a Hunter-Gatherer Settlement in Eastern Jordan. PLoS ONE 7(2): e31447. pdf
Pomeroy, E., and Stock, J.T. (2012) Estimation of stature and body mass from the skeleton among coastal and mid-altitude andean populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147:264-279. pdf
Stock, J.T., Pinhasi, R. (2011) Changing paradigms in our understanding of the transition to agriculture: Human bioarchaeology, behaviour and adaptation . In Pinhasi, R., & Stock, J.T. eds. Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture.  Wiley-Blackwell., p. 1-15.  
Stock, J.T. O’Neill, M., Ruff, C.B., Zabecki, M., Shackelford, L., Rose, J. (2011) Body size, skeletal biomechanics, mobility and habitual activity from the Late Palaeolithic to mid-Dynastic Nile Valley. In Pinhasi, R., & Stock, J.T. eds. Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 347-370.  
Wells, J.C.K., Stock, J.T. (2011) Re-examining heritability: genetics, life history and plasticity. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 22(10):421-428. pdf
Longman, D., Stock, J.T., and Wells, J.C.K. (2011) Digit ratio (2D:4D) and rowing ergometer performance in males and females. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144(3):337-341. pdf
Maher, L.A., Stock, J.T., Finney, S., Heywood, J., Miracle, P., and Banning, E.B. (2011) A Unique Human-Fox Burial from a Pre-Natufian Cemetery in the Levant (Jordan). PLoS One. January 2011: Volume 6(Issue 1)e15815.
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Richter, T., Stock, J.T., Maher, L., Hebron, C. (2010) An Early Epipalaeolithic Sitting Burial from the Azraq Oasis, Jordan. Antiquity 84(324):321-334. pdf
Bondioli, L., Bayle, P., Dean, C., Mazurier, A., Puymerail, L., Ruff, C., Stock, J.T., Volpato, V., Zanolli, C., Macchiarelli, R. (2010) Morphometric maps of long bone shafts and dental roots for imaging topographic thickness variation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142:328-334. pdf
Buck, L., Stock, J.T., and Foley, R.A. (2010) Intraspecific variation in the Catarrhine postcranial skeleton. International Journal of Primatology 31:779-795. pdf
Stock, J.T., and Buck, L. (2010) Canalization and plasticity in humans and primates: implications for interpreting the fossil record. In: Perote Alejandre, A., & Mateos Cachorro, A. eds. 150 años después de Darwin: evolución, future o crisis? Lecciones sobre evolución humana. Instituto Tomás Pascual Sanz / Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana: Madrid: 91-101. pdf
Shaw, C.N., Stock, J.T. (2009a) Intensity, Repetitiveness, and Directionality of Habitual Adolescent Mobility Patterns Influence the Tibial Diaphysis Morphology in Athletes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 140:149-159. pdf
Stock, J.T., Migliano, A.B. (2009) Stature, Mortality, and Life History among Indigenous Populations of the Andaman Islands, 1871–1986. Current Anthropology 50(5):713-725. pdf
Wells, J.C.K., Stock, J.T. (2007) The biology of the colonizing ape. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 50:191-222. pdf
Starling, A., Stock, J.T. (2007) Dental indicators of heath and stress in early Egyptian and Nubian agriculturalists: Difficult transition and gradual recovery. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 134(4):520-528. pdf
Stock, J.T., Shaw, C.N. (2007) Which measures of skeletal robusticity are robust?: A comparison of external methods of quantifying diaphyseal strength to cross-sectional geometric properties. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134(3):412-423. pdf
Stock, J.T. (2006) Hunter-gatherer postcranial robusticity relative to patterns of mobility, climatic adaptation and selection for tissue economy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 131(2):194-204. pdf
Stock, J.T., Pfeiffer, S., Chazan, M., and Janetski, J. (2005) The F-81 skeleton from Wadi Mataha, Jordan, and its bearing on human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 128(2):453-465. pdf
Stock, J.T. and Pfeiffer, S. (2004) Long bone robusticity and subsistence behaviour among Later Stone Age foragers of the forest and fynbos biomes of South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 31(7):999-1013. pdf
Stock, J.T. and Pfeiffer, S. (2001) Linking structural variability in long bone diaphyses to habitual behavior: Foragers from the southern African Later Stone Age and the Andaman Islands. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 115:337-34. pdf
 
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