| Ph.D. 2006 University at Albany, State University of New York |
| M.A. 2001 Texas Tech University |
| B.A. 1998 Angelo State University |
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Dr. Taylor is a bioarcheologist specializing in the prehistory of Texas, the Southern Plains, and Southwest. His interests include dental anthropology, paleopathology of hunter-gatherers, and the relationship between stature and health in early populations. He has worked on Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) issues for The University of Texas at Austin, the New York State Museum, and the State of Texas. Dr. Taylor holds an appointment as the Assistant Curator of Archeology at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. |
ANTH 2307 Biological Anthropology
ANTH 4358 Texas Prehistory
ANTH 4406 Human Osteology
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In Press. Taylor MS. Adult stature and health among early foragers of the Western Gulf Coastal Plain. Plains Anthropologist. |
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In Press. Taylor MS. Book Review: “The Lipan Apaches: people of wind and lightening.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly. |
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2009 Taylor MS. Book Review: “The bioarchaeology of metabolic bone disease.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 139:106-107. |
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2008 Wilhelm K, Taylor MS. Osteological evidence of prehistoric and historic scalping in Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 79:201-211. |
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2008 Taylor MS. Cabeza de Vaca and the introduction of disease to Texas. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 111(4):419-428. |
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2006 Taylor MS. A possible case of syphilis from the Lower Pecos region of Texas. La Tierra 33:83-86. |
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2006 Taylor MS. A type III odontoid fracture of the axis (C2) from the middle archaic of the Texas coastal plains. Plains Anthropologist 51(198):207-212. |
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2005 Taylor MS. Dental wear and pathology during the middle archaic of the Texas gulf coastal plain. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 76:173-183. |