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Matthew R Bond
I am currently a graduate student in the M.A. program in Physical Anthropology at California State University, Chico. I look to gain osteological experience through paleopathological, bioarchaeological, and forensic applications. My research emphasis will be in forensic anthropology, specifically skeletal biomechanics and trauma analysis.
I recently returned from Guatemala where I was a field school participant and subsequent intern with the FAFG (Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation). With the IFIFT & FAFG I gained an in-depth exposure to the unique multidisciplinary approach used to maneuver and establish transitional justice in Guatemala after internal armed conflict.
During my internship I worked as an osteology lab technician in La Verbena cemetery. The La Verbena project's purpose was to identify approximately 1,000 skeletal remains that had been concealed among the three (3) ossuaries used by the city cemetery as secondary storage for past due tenants (approx. 18,000 remains throughout the three (3) ossuaries).
Duties included: biological profile establishment, osteological pathology analysis, taphonomy analysis, osteological trauma analysis, DNA sample extraction, legal documentation, mass and individual grave: investigation, exhumation, analysis, documentation, and processing.
Research interests include: Forensic Anthropology, Osteology, Skeletal Trauma, Skeletal Biomechanics, Forensic Archaeology, Taphonomy, Latin American Studies, Human Rights Violations, Forced Disappearances, Extrajudicial Murders, etc.
Phone: (801) 301-0555
I recently returned from Guatemala where I was a field school participant and subsequent intern with the FAFG (Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation). With the IFIFT & FAFG I gained an in-depth exposure to the unique multidisciplinary approach used to maneuver and establish transitional justice in Guatemala after internal armed conflict.
During my internship I worked as an osteology lab technician in La Verbena cemetery. The La Verbena project's purpose was to identify approximately 1,000 skeletal remains that had been concealed among the three (3) ossuaries used by the city cemetery as secondary storage for past due tenants (approx. 18,000 remains throughout the three (3) ossuaries).
Duties included: biological profile establishment, osteological pathology analysis, taphonomy analysis, osteological trauma analysis, DNA sample extraction, legal documentation, mass and individual grave: investigation, exhumation, analysis, documentation, and processing.
Research interests include: Forensic Anthropology, Osteology, Skeletal Trauma, Skeletal Biomechanics, Forensic Archaeology, Taphonomy, Latin American Studies, Human Rights Violations, Forced Disappearances, Extrajudicial Murders, etc.
Phone: (801) 301-0555
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Though the Peter Shirts Project is still underway, this paper/presentation will illustrate the methods and current findings involved in the exhumation conducted in March 2013. The purpose of the Peter Shirts Project is the comparison and subsequent confirmation or contradiction of the information contained on a grave marker in Kirtland, New Mexico. Peter Shirts is a dynamic and enigmatic historical figure that was heavily involved in the Mormon pioneer migration and the subsequent colonization, surveying, and mineral interest identification of current day Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Amid varying narratives concerning Shirts’ life, the greatest riddle of all is associated with the time, place, and manner of his death. According to oral accounts, Mr. Shirts was exhumed in 1961 though no report was given nor is the identity of the excavators known. As a result of conflicting histories, inaccurate death records, and vague funerary/interment documentation – further measures were desired by the Tuft family (descendants of Mr. Shirts) to establish the identity of remains buried in Kirtland, New Mexico under the name of Peter Shirts. The Peter Shirts Project was a privately funded and small-scale excavation that was conducted in March 2013 in Kirtland, New Mexico with the purpose of building a biological and DNA profile with the interred remains that could then be compared against historical and living profiles provided by family histories and living mitochondrial DNA. Currently a full inventory has been taken of the remains, and the excavation processes have been documented and are being organized. Finalized interpretations will be reached upon the completion of in-depth identification and verification of osteological and taphonomic markers. Ultimately an authoritative confirmation or contradiction will be established with the results from DNA testing on viable osteological remains derived from the exhumation.
Matthew Bond
Though the Peter Shirts Project is still underway, this paper/presentation will illustrate the methods and current findings involved in the exhumation conducted in March 2013. The purpose of the Peter Shirts Project is the comparison and subsequent confirmation or contradiction of the information contained on a grave marker in Kirtland, New Mexico. Peter Shirts is a dynamic and enigmatic historical figure that was heavily involved in the Mormon pioneer migration and the subsequent colonization, surveying, and mineral interest identification of current day Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Amid varying narratives concerning Shirts’ life, the greatest riddle of all is associated with the time, place, and manner of his death. According to oral accounts, Mr. Shirts was exhumed in 1961 though no report was given nor is the identity of the excavators known. As a result of conflicting histories, inaccurate death records, and vague funerary/interment documentation – further measures were desired by the Tuft family (descendants of Mr. Shirts) to establish the identity of remains buried in Kirtland, New Mexico under the name of Peter Shirts. The Peter Shirts Project was a privately funded and small-scale excavation that was conducted in March 2013 in Kirtland, New Mexico with the purpose of building a biological and DNA profile with the interred remains that could then be compared against historical and living profiles provided by family histories and living mitochondrial DNA. Currently a full inventory has been taken of the remains, and the excavation processes have been documented and are being organized. Finalized interpretations will be reached upon the completion of in-depth identification and verification of osteological and taphonomic markers. Ultimately an authoritative confirmation or contradiction will be established with the results from DNA testing on viable osteological remains derived from the exhumation.