Indigenous Caribbean Network

Education:: 2006 PhD Candidate (ABD). Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2001 MSc, Human Osteology, Paleopathology, and Funerary Archaeology. School of Archaeological and Environmental Sciences, Universityof Bradford, Bradford, UK.

1999 BA, Classical Archaeology. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Contact Information:: Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 W. Harrison St.
Room 2102 (Mail Code 027)
Chicago, IL 60607

Research Interests:: I am currently attempting to use stable isotope analysis to reconstruct the diet of a large number (approx. 400) of prehistoric Puerto Rican individuals, with the ultimate goal of understanding the linkages between diet and social change among island's prehistoric inhabitants.

Publications:: 2007 Onderka, P., and W. Pestle. Thebes under the Nubian Pharoahs. In Thebes: City of Gods and Pharaohs, edited by J. Mynářová and P. Onderka, pp. 180-187. National Museum, Prague.

2007 Pestle, W., Demel, S., Colvard, M., and R. Pickering. Skeletal biology and mortuary practice at the Kubinski Site (11WI1186), a Middle Woodland ossuary. Illinois Archaeology 19: 47-84.

2006 Pestle, W., Colvard, M. and P. Pettitt, AMS Dating of a recently rediscovered juvenile mandible from Solutré, (Sâone-et-Loire, France). Paleo 18: 285-292.

2006 Pestle, W., Wilson, K., Nash, S., and S. Coleman. Reconciling the Past: A Catalogue of Scattered Collections. In Archäologie und Computer, Kulturelles Erbe und Neue Technologien (Cultural Heritage and New Technologies). Stadtarchäologie Wien, Vienna.

2006 Colvard, M.D., Cordell, G.A., Villalobos, R. Sancho, G., Soejarto, D.D., Pestle, W.J., Echeverria, T.L., Perkowitz, K.M., and J. Michel. Survey of Medical Ethnobotanicals for Dental and Oral Medicine Conditions and Pathologies. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 107(1): 134-142.

ND Pestle, W. Bone Chemistry and Paleodiet at the Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes, Municipo Autonomo de Ponce, Puerto Rico (Article in Preparation).

ND Pestle, W., Curet, L.A., Laffoon, J., and E. Crespo. Los Muertos Si Hablan: Estudio Preliminar de Análisis Químico, Genético y Osteológico de Restos Humanos de Puerto Rico (Article in Preparation)

Affiliation:: University of Illinois at Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History

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At 8:44am on January 6, 2024, Ronald Morris said…: Good day,
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At 8:27pm on August 14, 2008, adem medina cardona said…: welcome to ICN
looks like we can learn so much from you!
peace~c

At 12:37am on May 5, 2008, Will Pestle said…: Thanks for the welcome. Look forward to seeing what will transpire here.

Chicago is a good city for about 6 months of the year, becomes fairly unlivable for the other 6.

At 12:29am on May 5, 2008, Maximilian Forte said…: Welcome Will! Thanks for filling out this profile, and more than that, for joining the network. I hope to be in touch more as time passes, but in the meantime I just wanted to send a quick greeting your way.

(Chicago: the only big city I truly like on this planet.)