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Research by geographic area: United States and Other Regions
(since 1990; please see C.V. for full details.)

Articles and Chapters     
(includes selected recent refereed abstracts):

• 1991 Expert Systems (sr. author with Edward Brent, Louanna Furbee), Sage Press, Newbury Park, CA. MONOGRAPH.
  
  
• 2001 Bootstrap methods for sex determination from the Os coxae using the ID3 algorithm (last author with McBride DG, Dietz MJ, Vennemeyer MT, Meadors SA), Journal of Forensic Sciences 46:427-431.
  
  
• 1999 A test of methods for sex determination for the os coxae using the ID3 algorithm (jr. author with D.G. McBride, M.T. Vennemeyer, M.J. Dietz, and S.A. Meadors), Amer. J. of Phys. Anthrop. Supplement 24:74.28:194.
  
  
• 1996 The Emergence of color Cognition from Color Perception (fourth author with N. Louanna Furbee, Kelly Maynard, J. Jerome Smith, Sarah Quick, and Larry Ross) J. of Linguistic Anthropology 6:1-18.
  
  
• 1996 Expert Systems and the Representation of Knowledge (senior author with Louanna Furbee and Edward E. Brent Jr.) American Ethnologist 23:416-420.
  
  
• 1996 Science and Antiscience, Anthropology Newsletter April:75-76.
  
  
• 1996 Can Indigenous Knowledge be Brokered without Scientific Understanding of the Community Structure and Distribution of that Knowledge? (senior author with Louanna Furbee), Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor 4:29-30.
  
  
• 1994 Program Congruence, Fortran Program, is now available in Anthropac 4.7X, Professional Edition, Irvine, Analytic Technologies. (Abstract). Note: This algorithm was earlier modified to become part of Gowerplot (3), by S. E. Hartman.
  
  
• 1994 A Beginning Guide to Expert Systems: II. Implicit Knowledge (junior author with Louanna Furbee), CAM 6:3-4.
  
  
• 1993 A Beginning Guide to Expert Systems: I. Knowledge Trees (senior author with Louanna Furbee), CAM 5:10-12.
  
  
• 1991 Leaf Music (poem) Anthropology and Humanism 16:107.
  
  
• 1991 Cognitive Factors Influencing Women to Seek Care during Pregnancy (third author with Fisher, Mary Jo, Bernard Ewigman, James Campbell, Louanna Furbee, and Steven Zweig), Family Medicine 23:443-426 (with Editorial).
  
  
• 1990 Knowledge Acquisition—Lessons from Anthropology (senior author with L. Furbee; reprint of Benfer and Furbee 1989) AI Applications in Natural Resource Management 4:19-26 .

Field Work      

• October, 2000 Test Excavations at Paje Site, Boone County, Missouri.
  

Research Support     

• 1997 Oneota Diet in Missouri: the Utz Site, with Ekaterina Pechonkina, State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources, $2,000.
  
  
• 1996 MU Computer Spectrum: Technology Teaching Grant for the Department of Anthropology, f96,w96, $ 5,864, Robert A. Benfer, Jr..
  
  
• 1996 MU General Education Program: Information Technology for the Social Sciences (with Gail S. Ludwig and Edward Brent), $12,000 total of which $6,000 assigned to RAB.
  
  
• 1991 Postdoctoral Fellowship (Eileen Jackson), C-5-32671, Expert System Simulation of Nursing Home Care, NIH, $21,600.
  
  
• 1990-1992 Collaborative Basic Research Towards the Development and Maturation of Phytolith Analysis in Archaeology (Sr. Faculty Associate, Deborah Pearsall, PI), NSF, $25,905.
  
  
• 1990-1991 MU Agronomy Integrated Pest Management: An Expert System, School of Agriculture, MU, co-project director with Louanna Furbee, $16,000.