Dr. Jaimin Weets earned his M.A. in Bioarchaeology from Arizona State University and his Ph.D. in Archaeology from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Weets has excavated in the U.S. Midwest, Southwest, and Eastern Woodlands, Denmark, and studied bioarchaeological collections in Ireland and from Vanuatu in the southwestern Pacific. His geographic areas of interest include Europe, North America and the Pacific Islands, with a focus on prehistoric human migration, human dentition, osteology, mortuary behavior, chemical sourcing of cultural materials, and demography.
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Weets JD (2014) When Irish Teeth Are Smiling: Genetic Origins of a Celtic People. Paper presentation. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2014.
Weets JD (2013) Where are the Celts?: Biological Continuity from Ireland's Neolithic to Early Christian Era. Presentation. 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2013.
Weets JD. (2009). A Promising Mandibular Molar Trait in Ancient Populations in Ireland. Dental Anthropology, Vol. 22, No. 2.
Weets JD (2006). Dental Variation in Ireland Through Its Prehistory and Early History. Poster presentation. Society for American Archaeology 71st Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 26-30.
Weets JD, C Carr, D Penney and G. Carriveau. (2004) Pipe Caches and the Social Affiliation of Mortuary Ritual Participants at the Tremper site, Ohio. In Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, edited by C. Carr and D. T. Case.
Carr, C, B Goldstein and JD Weets (2004) Estimating the Sizes and Compositions of Mortuary-related Gatherings at Scioto Hopewell Earthwork-mound Sites. In Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, edited by C. Carr and D. T. Case.
Weets JD (2004). A Dental Anthropological Approach to Issues of Migration and Population Continuity in Ancient Ireland. Ph.D. thesis. The Pennsylvania State University.
Weets JD (1996) The Dental Anthropology of Vanuatu, Eastern Melanesia. Master's Thesis, Arizona State University.
Courses taught:
ANTH 100 Riddles of the PastWAYS 102 Frauds and Hoaxes
ANTH 106 Ancient People and Places
ANTH 111 Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 202 Cultural Anthropology
GEOG 350/ANTH 353 World and U.S. Geography
GEOG 360/ANTH 357 Social Geography
ANTH 347 Humans, Disease and Death
ANTH 367 The Prehistory of Europe
ANTH 368 Peopling of the World
ANTH 369 Vikings
ANTH 372 Celts
ANTH 393 Professionalism in Anthropology
ANTH 457 Dental Anthropology