Dr. Rose received his B.A. degree in Anthropology in 1969 from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he studied archeology and geology. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in biological anthropology, specializing in dental anthropology, from the University of Massachusetts graduating in 1973. He taught for three years at the University of Alabama in Birmingham before joining the University of Arkansas in 1976. His early interests were in the area of developmental enamel defects and dental histology. In addition to working with the teeth of ancient peoples he did experimental work with sheep and mice. Rose interests shifted to the general area of bioarcheology where he conducted general skeletal and dental research, including mortuary site excavations, in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Trans-Mississippi South working with both prehistoric and historic skeletal samples. His main interests are in CRM contract bioarcheology and bioarcheological syntheses and literature reviews covering large geographic areas. More recently, he developed an interest in the Middle East and has excavated mortuary sites in Egypt and Jordan. He is actively involved with the King Fahd Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and conducts a bioarcheology field school in Jordan each summer.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Edited Books, Monographs and Symposia:

Fowler, Melvin L., J.C. Rose, B. Vander Leest, S.R. Ahler 1999 The Mound 72 Area: Dedicated and Sacred Space in Early Chahokia. Illinois State Mueseum Reports of Investigations, No. 54. Illinois State Mueseum Society, Springfield, IL. 

Steckel, R.H. and J. C. Rose (eds). 2002 The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

Rose, Jerome C. and Dolores L. Burke (eds). 2004 Sa'ad: A Late Byzantine Site in North Jordan. Yarmouk University Press, Irbid, Jordan.

Journal Articles:

Rose, J. C., Thomas J. Green and Victoria D. Green 1996 NAGPRA is forever: Osteology and the repatriation of skeletons. Annual Review of Anthropology 25:81-103

El-Najjar, Mahmoud, F. al-Awad, J. C. Rose and S. Sari 2004 Dental pathology as an indicator of health at Sa'ad: A Byzantine site in northern Jordan. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth wad-Dirasat 19 (3):9-29

Book Chapters:

Rose, J. C. and P. S. Ungar 1998 Gross dental wear and dental microwear in historical perspective. In: Alt, K.W., Rösing, F.W. and Teschler-Nicola, M (eds). Dental Anthropology: Fundamentals, Limits and Prospects. Pp. 349-386. Springer-Verlag, Wien (Vienna).

Fitzgerald, Charles M. and J.C. Rose 2000 Reading between the lines: dental development and subadult age assessment using microstructural growth markers of teeth. In Katzenberg, M.A. and Saunders, S.R. (eds) Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton. Pp. 163-186. Wiley-Liss, New York.

Rose, J. C. and W.M. van Haarlem 2001 First Intermediate Period mortuary patterns at Tell Ibrahim Awad in the eastern Delta. In: Belova, G and Sherkova, T (eds) History and Culture of Ancient and Early Christian Egypt (title translated from Russian). Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. ISBN 5-89282-177-3

Rose, J.C. and W.M. van Haarlem 2002 The people of Tell Ibrahim Awad in the Nile Delta. In: Belova, G and Sherkova, T (eds) Ancient Egyptian Temple at Tell Ibrahim Awad: Excavations and Discoveries in the Nile Delta. Pp. 131-137. Aletheia, Moscow.

Published Contract Research Reports:

Powell, Joseph F. and J.C. Rose 1999 Chapter 2: Report on the Osteological Assessment of the "Kennewick Man" Skeleton (CENWW.97.Kennewick). In Kennewick Man: Report on the Non-Destructive Examination, Description, and Analysis of the Human Remains from Columbia Park, Kennewick, Washington [October 1999]. National Park Service, Archaeology and Ethnology Program Web Site: http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/powell_rose.htm.