Austin B. Lawrence
PhD Student
research interests
I am interested in the functional morphology of the hip and pelvis in humans, primates, and early hominins, especially as it relates to understanding locomotor and ecological diversity in fossil hominins. Additionally, I am interested in understanding how anatomical variation contributes to symptoms and biomechanical differences in patients with conditions such as femoroacetabular impingement.
Recent publications
Lawrence AB, Sandberg PA, Van Gerven DP, Sponheimer M. (2018). Evidence for differences in activity between socioeconomic groups at Kulubnarti, Nubia (550-800 CE), from osseous modifications of the proximal femur. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 28(6): 735-744. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2699.
recent presentations
Lawrence AB, Townsley S, Ward CV, Duren DL, Crist BD (2019). Non-metric Skeletal Traits are Related to Cam-type Femoroacetabular Impingement. Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meetings, Austin, TX.
Lawrence AB, Sandberg PA (2018). The Evolution of Femoroacetabular Impingement. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66): 154.
Pelissero AJ, Bergstrom K, Hammond LJ, Lawrence AB, Bunn HT, Musiba CM (2018). Drone mapping of Isimila, Tanzania: The Implications for Future Research into Mid-Pleistocene Homo Behavior. PaleoAnthropology 2018: A26.
Lawrence AB, Sandberg PA (2016). Femoroacetabular impingement: relationship to non-metric pathologies of the proximal femur. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159(62): 204.
Lawrence AB, Sandberg PA (2015). Femoro-acetabular impingement in a skeletal assemblage from medieval Nubia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156(60): 199.