Ashley S. Hammond
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​Ashley S. Hammond
Assistant Curator and Assistant Professor
Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History


Professional Preparation
Ph.D., Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri (2013)
M.A., Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University (2008)
B.A., Anthropolog
y and Social Sciences, Florida Atlantic University (2006)
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Current Appointments
Assistant Curator, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History (2018-present)
Assistant Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School (2018-present)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUNY (2018-present)
​Visiting Assistant Professor, CASHP and Department of Anthropology, George Washington University (2017-present)
​Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, Human Origins Program (2017-2020)


Past Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor, CASHP and Department of Anthropology, George Washington University (2017-2018)
Postdoctoral Scientist, CASHP and Department of Anthropology, George Washington University (2015-2017)

Instructor, Department of Anatomy, Howard University (2015-2016)
Research Instructor, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University (2013-2015)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri (2011-2012)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University (2006-2008)
Adjunct Teaching Faculty, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami (2007)
Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University (2007-2008)


Major Funding Sources
National Science Foundation (2012, 2019)
National Geographic (2019)
​Constantine S. Niarchos Expedition Fund (2019)

Wenner-Gren Foundation (2012, 2016)
Leakey Foundation (2012, 2015)
American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2017) 
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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Hammond AS, Rook L, Anaya A, Cioppi E, Costeur L, Moyà-Solà S, Almécija S. 2020. Insights into the lower torso in late Miocene hominoid Oreopithecus bambolii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Almécija S, Tallman ME, Sallam HM, Fleagle JG, Hammond AS, Seiffert E. 2019. Early anthropoid femora reveal divergent adaptive trajectories in catarrhine hind-limb evolution. Nature Communications 10:4778.

Fatica LM, Almécija S, McFarlin SC, Hammond AS. 2019. Pelvic shape variation among gorilla subspecies: Phylogenetic and ecological signals. Journal of Human Evolution 137: 1-25.

Ward CV, Hammond AS, Plavcan JM, Begun DR. 2019. A late Miocene hominid partial pelvis from Hungary. Journal of Human Evolution.

Shearer BM, Muchlinksi MN, Hammond AS. 2019. Large pelvic tubercle in orangutans relates to the adductor longus muscle. PeerJ 7: e7273.


Hammond AS, Foecke KK, Kelley J. 2019. Hominoid anterior teeth from the late Oligocene site of Losodok, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 128: 59-75.

Muchlinski MN, Hammond AS, Deane AS, Purcell M, Hemingway HW, Hanke G, Pastor J, Garrosa M, Hartstone-Rose A. 2018. The ligamentum teres femoris in orangutans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 167: 684-690.
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Hammond AS, Almécija S, Libsekal Y, Rook L, Macchiarelli R. 2018. A partial Homo pelvis from the Early Pleistocene of Eritrea.  Journal of Human Evolution 123: 109-128.

Alba DM, Hammond AS, Vinuesa V, Casanovas-Vilar I. 2018. First record of a Miocene pangolin (Pholidota: Manoidea) from the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1424716.

Hammond AS, Royer D, Fleagle JG. 2017. The Omo-Kibish I pelvis. Journal of Human Evolution 108: 199-219.

Hammond AS, Almécija S.  2017. Lower ilium evolution in apes and humans. Anatomical Record 300: 828-844.

Middleton ER, Winkler ZJ, Hammond AS, Plavcan JM, Ward CV. 2017. Determinants of iliac blade orientation in anthropoid primates. Anatomical Record 300: 810-827.

Hammond AS, Johnson VP, Higham JP. 2017
. Hip joint mobility in free-ranging rhesus macaques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162: 377-384.
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​Claxton, AG, Hammond AS, Romano J, Oleinik E, DeSilva JM.  2016. Virtual reconstruction of the Australopithecus africanus pelvis Sts 65 with implications for obstetrics and locomotion.  Journal of Human Evolution 99: 10-24. 

Hammond AS, Plavcan JM, Ward CV. 2016. A validated method for modeling anthropoid hip abduction in silico. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 

​Ward CV, Hammond AS. 2016. Australopithecus and Kin. Nature Education Knowledge 7 (31): 1.
[Online Article: http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/australopithecus-and-kin-145077614]

Hammond AS. 2016.  The anthropoid crista trochanterica and the hip joint capsule. Anatomical Record 299: 60-69. 

Ward CV, Feibel CS, Hammond AS, Leakey LN, Moffett EA, Plavcan JM, Skinner MM, Spoor F, Leakey MG. 2015.  Associated ilium and femur from Koobi Fora, Kenya, and postcranial diversity in early Homo.  Journal of Human Evolution 81: 48-67.

**See some press on this article here and here

Plavcan JM, Meyer V, Hammond AS, Courture C, Madelaine S, Holliday TW, Maureille B, Ward CV, Trinkaus E. 2015. The Regourdou 1 Neandertal body size. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 13: 747-754.
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​Plavcan JM, Hammond AS, Ward CV. 2014. Calculating hominin and non-human anthropoid femoral head diameter from acetabular size. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 155: 469-475.

Hammond AS.  2014.  In vivo baseline measurements of hip joint range of motion in suspensory and nonsuspensory anthropoids.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153: 417-434.
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Hammond AS, Alba DM, Almécija S, Moyá-Solá S.  2013. Middle Miocene Pierolapithecus provides a first glimpse into early hominid pelvic morphology.  Journal of Human Evolution 64: 658-666. 
**See some press on this article here and here

​Hammond AS, Plavcan MJ, Ward CV.  2013.  Precision and accuracy of acetabular size measures in fragmentary hominin pelves obtained using sphere-fitting techniques.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150:565-578.

Hammond AS, Ward CV.  2013.  Australopithecus and Kenyanthropus.  In: Begun DR (ed): Companion to Paleoanthropology.  New York: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 434-456.

​Congdon KA, Hammond AS, Ravosa MJ.  2012.  
Differential limb loading in domestic pigs (Sus scrofus domesticus): A test of chondral modeling theory.  Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 1472-1483.
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Hammond AS, Dumont ER, McCarthy RC.  2011. 
 The effect of embedded permanent tooth crowns on the distribution of masticatory stress in children.  PLoS ONE 6 (12): e29121.
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Hammond AS, Ning J, Ward CV, Ravosa MJ.  2010.  Mammalian limb loading and chondral modeling during ontogeny.  Anatomical Record 293: 658-670. 
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