Margaret J. Schoeninger

Professor Margaret J. Schoeninger received her B.A. from the University of Florida, her M.A. from the University of Cincinnati, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has held positions in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and in the Departments of Anthropology at Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin.

Her research centers on subsistence strategies with applications to behavior and ecology in anthropological contexts. She has participated in archaeological, paleontological, and ethnographic fieldwork projects in North America, MesoAmerica, Pakistan, India, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Her laboratory analyzes carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotope ratios in various organic materials including hair, bone collagen and bone carbonate for diet and ecology reconstruction.

Selected publications:

Fitzer, P. W., Schoeninger, M. J. & Sept, J. M.

(1993). Stable isotope variation in chimpanzees: implications for diet selectivity in early hominids [abstract]. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. Supplement 16: 85-86.

Hutchinson, D. L., Larsen, C. S., Schoeninger, M. J. & Norr, L.

(1998). Regional variation in the pattern of maize adoption and use in Florida and Georgia. American Antiquity. 63: 397-416.

Kohn, M. J., Schoeninger, M. J. & Barker, W. W.

(1999). Altered states: Effects of diagenesis on fossil tooth chemistry. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 63: 2737-2747.

Kohn, M. J., Schoeninger, M. J. & Valley, J. W.

(1998). Variability in oxygen isotope compositions of herbivore teeth: reflections of seasonality or developmental physiology? Chemical Geology. 152: 97-112.

Murray, S. S., Schoeninger, M. J., Bunn, H. T., Pickering, T. R. & Marlett, J. A.

(2001). Nutritional composition of some wild plant foods and honey used by Hadza foragers of Tanzania. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 14: 3-13.

Schoeninger, M. J.

(1989). Reconstructing Prehistoric Human Diet. Homo. 39: 78-99.

Schoeninger, M. J.

(1996). Stable isotope studies in human evolution. Evol. Anthropol. 4: 83-98.

Schoeninger, M. J., Bunn, H. T., Murray, S., Pickering, T. & Moore, J.

(2001). Meat-eating by the fourth African ape. pp. 179-195 IN Stanford, C. B. & Bunn, H. T. (Ed.), Meat-eating and Human Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schoeninger, M. J., Bunn, H. T., Murray, S. S. & Marlett, J. A.

(2001). Composition of tubers used by Hadza foragers of Tanzania. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 14: 15-25.

Schoeninger, M. J., Iwaniec, U. T. & Glander, K. E.

(1997). Stable isotope ratios indicate diet and habitat use in New World monkeys. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 103: 69-83.

Schoeninger, M. J., Iwaniec, U. T. & Nash, L. T.

(1998). Ecological attributes recorded in stable isotope ratios of arboreal prosimian hair. Oecologia. 113: 222-230.

Schoeninger, M. J., Moore, J. & Sept, J. M.

(1999). Subsistence strategies of two 'savanna' chimpanzee populations: the stable isotope evidence. Am. J. Primatol. 49: 297-314.

Schoeninger, M. J. & Moore, K.

(1992). Bone Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology. Journal of World Prehistory. 6: 247-296.

Schurr, M. R. & Schoeninger, M. J.

(1995). Associations Between Agricultural Intensification and Social Complexity - an Example From the Prehistoric Ohio Valley. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 14: 315-339.

Schwarcz, H. P. & Schoeninger, M. J.

(1991). Stable isotope analyses in human nutritional ecology. Yrbk. Phys. Anthropol. 34: 283-321.