Scientific journal articles and book chapters
Journal Articles
| 2024 | Plomp KA, Owen J, Dobney K, Collard M. Mandibular shape and diet in extant primates: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis. Anthropologischer Anzeiger. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2024/1675 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2023 | Timbrell L, Habte B, Tefera Y, Maroma C, Ndiema E, Plomp KA, Blinkhorn J, Grove M. Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2023.2268986 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2023 | Plomp KA, Dobney K, Gestsdóttir H, Collard M. Mixed ancestry of Europeans who settled Iceland and Greenland: 3D geometric-morphometric analyses of cranial base shape colonies in Greenland. Antiquity. 97(395):1249-1261. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.131 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2022 | Collard M, Dobney K, Plomp KA. Can we combine 3D data obtained with a MicroScribe digitising arm and photogrammetry to address bioarchaeological research questions? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 46: 103676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103676 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2022 | Timbrell L, Scott C, Habte B, Tefera Y, Monod H, Qazzih M, Marais B, Black W, Maroma C, Ndiema E, Henderson S, Elmes K, Plomp KA, Grove M. Testing inter-observer error under a collaborative research framework for studying lithic shape variability. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14(10): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01676-2 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2022 | Collard M, Plomp KA, Dobney K. Back pain in evolutionary perspective: updating a classic hypothesis. Biological Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00402-4 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2022 | Gilmour R, Plomp KA. The Changing Shape of Palaeopathology: The Contribution of Skeletal Shape Analyses to Investigations of Pathological Conditions. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24475 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2021 | Plomp KA, Dobney K, Collard M. A 3D basicranial shape-based assessment of local and continental northwest European ancestry among 5th to 9 th century CE Anglo-Saxons. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252477 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2021 | Plomp KA, Dobney K, Price N, Collard M. The composition of the founding population of Iceland: a basicranial perspective. PLOS One 16(2): e0246059. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246059 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2020 | Plomp KA, Dobney K, Collard M. Spondylolysis and spinal adaptations for bipedalism: The Overshoot Hypothesis. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 2020(1): 35-44. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaa003 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2019 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Weston D, Dobney K, Collard M. 3D shape analyses of extant primate and fossil hominin vertebrae support the Ancestral Shape Hypothesis for intervertebral disc herniation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 226. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1550-9 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2019 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Weston D, Dobney K, Collard M. Potential adaptations for bipedalism in the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae of H. sapiens: A 3D comparative analysis. Journal of Human Evolution 137: 102693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102693 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2019 | Timbrell L, Plomp KA. Using the shape of the basicranial portion of the temporal bone to distinguish between relatively closely-related human populations. Journal of Archaeological Sciences Reports 26: 101885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101885 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2016 | Plomp KA, Boylston A. Frequency and patterns of costovertebral osteoarthritis in two Medieval English populations. International Journal of Paleopathology 14:64-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.05.007 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2015 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Weston D, Dobney K, Collard M. The ancestral shape hypothesis: An evolutionary explanation for the occurrence of intervertebral disc herniation in humans. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0336-y (opens in a new tab) |
| 2015 | Plomp KA, Roberts CA, Strand Vidarsdottir U. Does the correlation between Schmorl's nodes and vertebral morphology extend into the lumbar spine? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 157: 526-534. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22730 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2015 | Plomp KA, Roberts CA, Strand Vidarsdottir U. Morphological characteristics of healthy and osteoarthritic joint surfaces in archaeological skeletons. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 25: 515-527. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2319 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2012 | Plomp KA, Roberts CA, Strand Vidarsdottir U. Vertebral morphology influences the development of Schmorl's nodes in the lower thoracic spine. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149(4): 572-582. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22168 (opens in a new tab) |
| 2012 | Roberts CA, Bernofsky K, Cardoso FA, Henderson C, Jakob T, Plomp KA, Ponce P, Sharman J, Spencer R. Palaeopathology: studying the origin, evolution and frequency of disease in human remains from archaeological sites. UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. |
Edited Volumes
| 2023 | Hirst C, Gilmour R, Alves Cardoso F, Plomp KA (eds.). Behaviour in our Bones. Elsevier Press. (opens in a new tab) |
| 2022 | Plomp KA, Roberts CA, Bentley G, Elton S (eds.). Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An integrated approach. Oxford University Press. |
Book Chapters
| 2023 | Plomp KA, Gilmour R, Alves Cardoso F. Skeletons in Action: Inferring Behaviour from our Bones. In: Hirst C, Gilmour R, Alves Cardoso F, Plomp KA (eds.), Behaviour in our Bones. Elsevier Press. |
| 2023 | Plomp KA. Behaviour and the bones of the thorax and spine. In: Hirst C, Gilmour R, Alves Cardoso F, Plomp KA (eds.), Behaviour in our Bones. Elsevier Press. |
| 2023 | Gilmour R, Plomp KA, Alves Cardoso F. Acting On What We Have Learned and Moving Forward with Skeletal Behaviour. In: Hirst C, Gilmour R, Alves Cardoso F, Plomp KA (eds.), Behaviour in our Bones. Elsevier Press. |
| 2022 | Plomp KA, Roberts CA, Bentley G, Elton S. What's it all about? A legacy for the next generation of scholars in evolutionary medicine and palaeopathology. In: Plomp, KA, Roberts, CA, Bentley G, Elton S (eds.), Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine; an integrated approach. Oxford University Press. |
| 2022 | Plomp KA, Been E, Collard M. Acquired spinal conditions in humans: the roles of spinal curvature, the shape of the lumbar vertebrae, and evolutionary history. In: Plomp, KA, Roberts, CA, Bentley G, Elton S (eds.), Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine; an integrated approach. Oxford University Press. |
| 2022 | Bentley G, Roberts CA, Elton S, Plomp KA. Now you have read the book, what next? In: Plomp, KA, Roberts, CA, Bentley G, Elton S (eds.), Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine; an integrated approach. Oxford University Press. |
| 2017 | Plomp KA. The bioarchaeology of back pain. In: Brynes J, Muller J. Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives. Springer. Pp: 141-157. |
Conference Abstracts
| 2017 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Weston D, Dobney K, Collard M. Bipedalism evolved from knuckle-walking: Evidence from 3D geometric morphometric analyses of cervical and upper thoracic vertebral shape of Homo sapiens. Pan troglodytes, and Pongo pygmaeus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162: 148. |
| 2017 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Weston D, Dobney K, Collard M. Bipedalism evolved from knuckle-walking: Evidence from 3D geometric morphometric analyses of thoracic and lumbar vertebral shape of Homo sapiens. Pan troglodytes, and Pongo pygmaeus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162: 318. |
| 2015 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Weston D, Dobney K, Collard M. Ancestral Aches? 3D vertebral morphology, locomotion, and human spinal health. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 254. |
| 2014 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Weston D, Dobney K, Collard M. Ancestral Aches? Vertebral morphology, locomotion, and human spinal health. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153: 209. |
| 2013 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Roberts C. Applying anthropological shale analysis techniques to archaeological research: Overcoming problems and exploring possibilities. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150: 277. |
| 2012 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Roberts C. The shape of the spinal canal and Schmorl's nodes: a two-dimensional shape analysis of lower thoracic vertebrae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147: 238. |
| 2011 | Plomp KA, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Roberts C. Quantifying palaeopathology: Using geometric morphometrics to develop a quantifiable recording method for osteoarthritis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144: 240. |