Phillip Walker papers
name: label: Creator
content: Walker, Phillip L., 1947-2009
place: label: Place
content: Santa Barbara (Calif.)
label: Place
content: Channel Islands (Calif.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropologists -- United States
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content: Forensic anthropology
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content: Physical anthropology
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content: Primates
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content: Pinnipedia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Phillip Walker's wife, Cynthia Brock, in 2014.
creator: label: Creator
content: Walker, Phillip L., 1947-2009
culture: label: Culture
content: Chumash
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content: Phillip Walker papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Phillip Walker papers document his research and professional activities from 1969-2008 and primarily deal with his bioarchaeological research in California and his studies of primate feeding behavior and dentition. His involvement in issues surrounding the repatriation of Native American human remains, forensic work for public agencies dealing with human remains, and writings are also represented. The collection consists of research and project files, raw data and analysis, graphs and illustrations, photographs, and dental impressions.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Phillip L. Walker was a leading physical anthropologist and bioarchaeologist and a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Born in 1947 in Elkhart, Indiana, Walker graduated from the University of Chicago in 1973 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology. His doctoral work focused on the feeding behavior of great apes and included field work at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center in Atlanta, Georgia.  In 1975, he completed field work in Guatemala studying the behavior of free-ranging New World monkeys.

Walker began teaching at UCSB in 1974 and became fascinated with the "enormous archaeological heritage of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands region, and the native peoples who occupied it." He started a research program on the bioarchaeology of the region and collaborated with other scholars as well as the Chumash community in the region. He "struck up a positive dialog with the Chumash tribe, developed friendships, and pioneered the notion that the living descendant community is a crucial player in research and learning about the past."

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Walker was active in the development and implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).  He was a founding member of the U.S. Department of the Interior's NAGPRA review committee and the Smithsonian Institution's Native American Repatriation Review Committee.

In the late 1990s Walker was instrumental in launching the Global History of Health Project which focused on the investigation of regional and continental patterns of health and lifestyle through the study of human remains. In addition, he was the co-director of an archaeological project excavating a Viking settlement in Mosfell, Iceland and volunteered his forensic services to public agencies in California and Nevada.

Over the course of his career Walker authored more than 200 scholarly articles and reports.  He died in 2009 at his home in Goleta, CA.

Source consulted: Larsen, Clark Spencer and Patricia M. Lambert. 2009. "Obituary: Phillip Lee Walker, 22 July 1947- 6 February 2009." American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 141:1-2

Chronology

1947 -- Born on July 22 in Elkhart, Indiana

Summer 1966 -- Archaeological fieldwork, Atlas, Illinois (Director, field laboratories in Human Osteology)

September 1969 -- Archaeological fieldwork, Northwestern Hudson Bay Tule Expedition, Northwest Territories, Canada

1970 -- B.A. Indiana University (Anthropology, minor in Zoology)

Summer 1970 -- Dental anthropological fieldwork, International Biological Program (Eskimo villages in Northern Alaska)

March 1971 -- Dental anthropological fieldwork, Gila River Indian Reservation (Pima), Arizona

1971 -- M.A. University of Chicago (Anthropology)

Summer 1971, Spring 1973 -- Primate Behavioral Research, Yerkes Regional Primate Center, Atlanta, Georgia

1973 -- Ph.D. University of Chicago (Anthropology)

1974 -- Lecturer, University of California, Davis

1974-2009 -- Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Summer 1975 -- Field study of the behavior of free-ranging New World monkeys in Guatemala

Summer 1982 -- Archaeological fieldwork, San Miguel Island

1991-1992 -- Chairman, Society for American Archaeology Task Force on Repatriation

1992-1997 -- Member, Department of the Interior Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee

Summer 1995 -- Archaeological fieldwork, Mosfell, Iceland

Fall 1996 -- Archaeological fieldwork, San Miguel Island

1998-2002 -- Advisor then Co-Chair, Society for American Archaeology Task Force on Repatriation

Summer 1999 -- Archaeological fieldwork, Mosfell, Iceland

2000-2002 -- Vice President, American Association of Physical Anthropologists

August 2000 -- Cemetery excavation, Vandenberg Air Force Base

August 2001 -- Cemetery excavation, Chatsworth, CA

Summer 2001-2007 -- Cemetery excavation, Mosfell, Iceland

2003-2005 -- President, American Association of Physical Anthropologists

2003-2009 -- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Summer 2006 -- Archaeological excavations, San Miguel Island

2009 -- Died on February 6 in Goleta, CA
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 34.75 Linear feet (71 boxes, 1 map-folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969-2008, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2014-08
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Field notes
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content: Manuscripts
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This collection is arranged in 7 series: Series 1. California projects and research, 1969-2003, undated; Series 2. Primate research, 1970-1988, 1997, undated; Series 3. Forensic work, 1980-2003, undated; Series 4. Repatriation work, 1987-1999; Series 5. Writings and academic material, 1974-2008, undated; Series 6. Other research, 1976-circa 2008, undated; Series 7. Slides, 1969-1998, undated.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection arrived at the National Anthropological Archives in 2014 after being stored in Walker's offices at home and at the University of California, Santa Barbara since his death in 2009. Where present, original folder titles have been retained. All others were derived by the archivist.

Processed and encoded by Katie Duvall, 2015
bibliography: label: Selected bibliography
content: 1973.  -- Great ape feeding behavior and incisor morphology -- . Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago.

1976. "Wear striations on the incisors of ceropithecid monkeys as an index of diet and habitat preference".  -- American Journal of Physical Anthropology -- . 45 (2): 299-307.

1978. "A quantitative analysis of dental attrition rates in the Santa Barbara Channel area".  -- American Journal of Physical Anthropology -- . 48 (1): 101-106.

with Craig, Steven, Daniel Guthrie, and Roderick Moore. 1978.  -- An ethnozoological analysis of faunal remains from four Santa Barbara Channel Island archaeological sites -- . Santa Barbara, California: Phillip L. Walker.

with Snethkamp, Pandora E., and Jeffery Serena. 1984.  -- Final report, archaeological investigations on San Miguel Island--1982 -- . Santa Barbara, Calif: Office of Public Archaeology, Social Process Research Institute, University of California.

1986. "Porotic hyperostosis in a marine-dependent California Indian population".  -- American Journal of Physical Anthropology -- . 69 (3): 345-354.

1989. "Cranial injuries as evidence of violence in prehistoric southern California".  -- American Journal of Physical Anthropology -- . 80 (3): 313-323.

with Hudson, Travis. 1993.  -- Chumash healing: changing health and medical practices in an American Indian society -- . Banning, CA (11-795 Fields Road, Morongo Indian Reservation, Banning 92220): Malki Museum Press.

1996. "Facing creationist challenges".  -- The Lancet -- . 348 (9039): 1397-1398.

1996.  -- Malibu human skeletal remains: a bioarchaeological analysis.

with Collins Cook, Della, and Patricia M Lambert. 1997. "Skeletal Evidence for Child Abuse: A Physical Anthropological Perspective".  -- Journal of Forensic Sciences -- .42 (2): 196.

with Hagen, Edward H. 1998.  -- Human evolution a multimedia guide to the fossil record -- . New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton.

2001. "A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the History of Violence".  -- Annual Review of Anthropology -- . 30 (1): 573-596.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
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content: Field notes
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content: Manuscripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Phillip Walker papers document his research and professional activities from 1969-2008 and undated and primarily deal with with his bioarchaeological research in California and his studies of primate feeding behavior and dentition. The collection consists of research and project files, raw data and analysis, graphs and illustrations, photographs, x-rays, and dental impressions.

Material documenting his involvement in issues surrounding the repatriation of human skeletal remains, forensic work for public agencies, and writings are also represented.  There is limited material regarding the courses he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara and his other research on pinniped butchering methods, an archaeological project in Mosfell, Iceland, and a project in the Aral Sea region.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: Seven rolls of 16mm film (100' each), 3 rolls of Super 8mm film (50' each), and one small roll of Super 8mm film of primate behavior were transferred to the Human Studies Film Archive (accession number 2014-013).