W alker, P hillip L.

Phillip Lee Walker (1947–2009) was a biological anthropologist whose research focused on theoretical and methodological questions in bioarchaeology and dental anthropology. A member of the anthropology faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1974 until his death in 2009, he made significant contributions to the field in the areas of Chumash prehistory, age and sex estimation, the cause(s) of porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia, and skeletal evidence for violence. He was a longstanding member of several research projects, including Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, A History of Health in Europe, and the Mosfell Archaeological Project, and served as the president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists from 2003 to 2005.