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Mary Spink Neumann
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MARY SPINK NEUMANN(nee Mary L. Spink taught Anthropology as an instructor and served as an archaeometric laboratory technician at the Pennsylvania State University. She worked as a field assistant or senior technician in Pennsylvania cultural resources firms. At the behest of the Honduran government, she conducted research on the country’s prehistoric ground stone tools as a U.S. Agency for International Development Academic Specialist and as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar. Between 1987 and 2018, she was employed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a Behavioral Scientist in infectious diseases. Neumann is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Consulting Archaeologist at the Pocket Park—Wentworth Analytical Facility. She has published articles on archaeology ranging from Yaxkin to the Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, and on public health and safety in PLoS ONE, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Reports, and the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), amongst others.