Keith Jacobi
Keith Jacobi (PhD Indiana, 1996) is a biological anthropologist with research interests in the health of prehistoric and historic groups. He is affiliated with both the Department of Anthropology and the Alabama Museum of Natural History. Through human osteology, paleopathology and dental anthropology Jacobi has investigated culture clashes at the time of contact. His most recent research investigated the historic Maya (16th century) of Tipu, Belize and the genetic relationships that could be gleened from examination of dental traits. Jacobi has conducted archaeological fieldwork and done skeletal analysis on material from India, Peru, Barbados and Midwestern, Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. Forensic analysis is also a research focus. Current projects include examination of prehistoric scalping, skeletal evidence of syphilis at contact, and porotic hyperostosis (anemia). He enjoys vampire fiction, Dr. Who, The Who and Groo. Jacobi currently serves as a Blount Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Contact Dr. Jacobi at: kjacobi@as.ua.edu
Office: 13 ten Hoor Hall
Lab: 301 Mary Harmon Bryant
Phone: (205) 348-1960
Selected Publications
In Press
Jacobi, Keith P. Slurpee, Silly Putty, and the Lego Killer: The Anatomy of a Crime Scene. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology (6th edition), edited by Patricia C. Rice, David W. McCurdy, and Scott Lukas. Prentice Hall (Pearson), Upper Saddle River.
2010
Wilson, Gregory D., Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Keith P. Jacobi. Social and Spatial Dimensions of Moundville Mortuary Practices. In: Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective. Edited by Lynn P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. Pp. 74-89. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2009
Jacobi, Keith P. Forensic Anthropology. In: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience. Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck, (Eds.). Pp. 455-456. 2 Volumes. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
2009
Jacobi, Keith P. Mummies of Ancient Egypt. In: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience. Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck, (Eds.). Pp. 758-761. 2 Volumes. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
2009
Jacobi, Keith P. Tombstones. In: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience. Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck, (Eds.). Pp. 961-964. 2 Volumes. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
2009
Jacobi, Keith P. Zombies, Revenants, Vampires, and Reanimated Corpses. In: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience. Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck, (Eds.). Pp. 1001-1005. 2 Volumes. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
2007
Danforth, Marie E., Keith P. Jacobi, Gabriel Wrobel, and Sara Glassman. Health and the Transition to Horticulture in the South-Central U.S. In: Ancient Health: Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification. Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian Crane Kramer, editors. Pp. 65-79. The University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2007
Jacobi, Keith P. Disabling the Dead: Human Trophy Taking in the Prehistoric Southeast. In: The Taking and Displaying of Human Trophies by Amerindians. Richard J. Chacon and David H. Dye, editors. Pp. 299-338. Springer, New York.
2006
Milner, George R., and Keith P. Jacobi. A New Deal for Human Osteology. In: Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains. Jane E. Buikstra and Lane A. Beck, editors. Pp. 113-129. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
2005
Powell, Mary Lucas, Marie E. Danforth, Keith P. Jacobi, and Leslie E. Eisenberg. “Syphilis in Mound Builders’ Bones”: Treponematosis in the Central Southern United States. In: The Myth of Syphilis: The Natural History of Treponematosis in North America. Mary Lucas Powell and Della Collins Cook editors. Pp. 117-161. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2003
Jacobi, Keith P. What’s in a Grave? Anthropological Data Snatching in a Cemetery. Strategies in Teaching, 3rd edition. P.C. Rice and D.W. McCurdy, editors. Pp. 9-12. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River.
2003
Jacobi, Keith P. The Malevolent Undead: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. In: Handbook of Death and Dying. Volume 1. Clifton D. Bryant, editor. Pp. 96-109. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks.
2003
Jacobi, Keith P.Body Disposition in Cross-Cultural Context: Prehistoric and Modern Non-Western Societies. In: Handbook of Death and Dying. Volume 2. Pp. 810-818. Clifton D. Bryant, editor. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks.
2003
Lasseter, Alanna E., Keith P. Jacobi, Ricky Farley, and Lee Hensel. Cadaver Dog and Handler Team Capabilities in the Recovery of Buried Human Remains in the Southeastern United States. Journal of Forensic Sciences 48(3): 617-621.
2002
Jacobi, Keith P. and Marie E. Danforth. Analysis of Interobserver Scoring Patterns in Porotic Hyperostosis and Cribra Orbitalia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 12: 248-258.
2002
Jacobi, Keith P. A Time Capsule of Physical Anthropology: Charles E. Snow’s WPA Letters, 1940-1941. Southeastern Archaeology 21(1): 55-63.
2000
Bridges, Patricia S., Keith P. Jacobi, and Mary L. Powell. Warfare-related trauma in the prehistory of Alabama. In: Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture. P.M. Lambert, editor. Pp.35-62. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2000
Jacobi K. Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
1997
Cohen, Mark N., Kathleen O’Connor, Marie E. Danforth, Keith P. Jacobi, and Carl Armstrong. The Archaeology and Osteology of the Tipu Site. In: Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons. Stephen L. Whittington and David M. Read, editors. Pp. 78-86. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
1997
Danforth, Marie E., Keith P. Jacobi, and Mark N. Cohen. Gender and Health Among the Colonial Maya of Tipu. Ancient Mesoamerica 8:13-22.
1997
Danforth, Marie E., Stephen L. Whittington, and Keith P. Jacobi. Appendix. An Indexed Bibliography of Prehistoric and Early Historic Maya Human Osteology: 1839-1994. In: Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons. Stephen L. Whittington and David M. Read, editors. Pp. 229-259. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
1997
Havill, Lorena M., Diane M. Warren, Keith P. Jacobi, Karen D. Gettleman, Della C. Cook, and K. Anne Pyburn. Late Postclassic Tooth Filing at Chau Hiix and Tipu, Belize. In: Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons. Stephen L. Whittington and David M. Read, editors. Pp. 89-104. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
1997
Jacobi K. Dental Genetic Structuring of a Colonial Maya Cemetery, Tipu, Belize. In: Bones of the Ancestors: Recent Studies of Ancient Maya Skeletons. S. L. Whittington and D. Read (editors). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Pp. 138-153.
1994
Propst, Kathryn B., Marie E. Danforth, and Keith P. Jacobi. Replicability in Scoring Enamel Hypoplasias: a Preliminary Report. Paleopathology Newsletter. Number 87, September. Pp. 11-12.
1993
Cohen, Mark N., Kathleen O’Connor, Marie E. Danforth, Keith P. Jacobi, and Carl Armstrong. Health and Death at Tipu. In: In the Wake of Contact: Biological Responses to Conquest. Clark Spencer Larsen and George R. Milner, Editors. Pp. 121-133. Wiley-Liss, New York.
1992
Jacobi, Keith P., Della Collins Cook, Robert S. Corruccini, and Jerome S. Handler. Congenital Syphilis in the Past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89(2):145-158.
1992
Meier, Robert and Keith P. Jacobi. Coming of the New Age: Review of the Video “The Evolution Conspiracy: A Quantum Leap into the New Age.” Creation/Evolution 12(1):41-43.
1991
Jacobi, Keith P. and Kathryn B. Propst, eds. Thirty-Year Index (1959-1988). Anthropological Linguistics 31(1-2) (Spring and Summer 1989).
1989
Borstel, Christopher L., Geoffrey W. Conrad, and Keith P. Jacobi. Analysis of Exposed Architecture at San Antonio: Foundation for an Excavation Strategy. In: Ecology, Settlement, and History in the Osmore Drainage, Peru, Don Rice, Charles Stanish, and Phillip R. Scarr, editors. BAR International Series 545(ii). Pp.371-394. BAR, Oxford.
1989
Handler, Jerome S., with Michael D. Conner and Keith P. Jacobi. Searching for a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies: A Bioarchaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigation. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper No. 59. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
1987
Corruccini, R.S., Keith P. Jacobi, Jerome S. Handler, and Arthur C. Aufderheide. Implications of Tooth Root Hypercementosis in a Barbados Slave Skeletal Collection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 74(2): 179-184.
1985
Corruccini, R. S., J. S. Handler, and K. P. Jacobi. Chronological Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasias and Weaning in a Caribbean Slave Population. Human Biology 57(4):699-711.
1984
Green, Margerie, Keith Jacobi, Bruce Boeke, Helen L. O’Brien, Elizabeth S. Word, Richard L. Boston, Heather B. Trigg, Gilbert D. Glennie, and Melissa Gould. D:11:2030. In: Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Andrew Christenson and William Parry. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
