Michael Schillaci

Michael Schillaci joined the Department of Anthropology in 2003 after completing his PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of New Mexico, where his doctoral research examined morphological variation and growth and development in hybrid macaques from Sulawesi, Indonesia. More recently Dr. Schillaci’s research has covered a variety of different topics within the subfields of bioarchaeology, archaeology, primate evolution, and medical anthropology.  His current research focuses on the prehistory of the American Southwest, and combining bioarchaeological, archaeological, and historical linguistic data sets to investigate culture history.

Recent Publications

2021    Schillaci MA. Another Look at Tewa Origins: The Biological Evidence. Kiva 87(2): early view.            

2021    O’Donnell L, Schillaci MA. Inferring the relationships of the Gallina and Pottery Mound populations using craniometrics and dental morphological biodistance. Kiva 87(1): 97-128

2020    Evans BJ, Gansauge M-T, Tocheri M, Schillaci MA, Sutikna T, Jatmiko A, E. Saptomo EW, Klegarth A, Tosi AJ, Melnick DJ, Meyer M. Mitogenomics of macaque monkeys (Macaca) across Wallace’s Line in the context of modern humans. Journal of Human Evolution 146(102852):1-14        

2020    Schillaci MA, Lakatos SA, Ferguson J, Wilson D. Analysis of ceramic compositional data from Late Developmental period sites in the Tewa Basin, New Mexico. Kiva 86(1):70-107.

2019    Schillaci MA, Lintlop J, Sumra M, Pizarro M, Jones-Engel L. Hair cortisol and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) from Gibraltar. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 33(9):831-838.                       

2017    Schillaci MA, Kopris C, Wichmann S, Dewar G. Linguistic clues to Iroquoian prehistory. Journal of Anthropological Research 73(3):448-485.

2017    Schillaci MA, Klegarth AR, Switzer WM, Shattuck MR, Lee BPY-H. Hollocher H.  Evolutionary relationships of Macaca fascicularis fascicularis (Raffles 1821) (Primates: Cercopithecidae) from Singapore revealed by Bayesian analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology  65: 3–19 

2017    Schillaci MA, Lakatos SA, Sutton LD. Tewa place names for early habitation sites in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico. Journal of Field Archaeology  42(2):142-151.                    

2017    Schillaci MA, Lakatos SA. The emergence of Kwahe’e Black-on-white pottery in the Tewa Basin, New Mexico. Journal of Field Archaeology 42(2):152-160.

2016    Schillaci MA, Wichmann S. The use of linguistic data in bioarchaeological research: an example from the American Southwest. In Mant M, and Holland A. (eds). Beyond the bones. engaging with disparate datasets. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 101-112.

Teaching

• Biological Anthropology (undergraduate UTSC, ANT B14)
• Human Osteology (undergraduate UTSC, ANT C47)
• Medical Anthropology (undergraduate UTSC, ANT D17, ANT D25)
• Quantitative Methods (graduate, ANT1099)
• Evolutionary Perspectives on Growth and Development (graduate, ANT3041)

Graduate Students

• Chris Kendall (PhD program)