Lucile E. St. Hoyme

Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme (September 8, 1924 – November 15, 2001) was an American biological anthropologist who conducted research related to human variation, bioarcheology, and paleopathology. St. Hoyme served as an Assistant Curator in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History.

Early life and education Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme was born at the Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on September 8, 1924, to Guy L. and Helen Bailey Hoyme. In the 1960s, St. Hoyme worked under anthropology curator, J. Lawrence Angel, who advocated for her and encouraged her to remain active in publishing and teaching.

As an assistant curator, St. Hoyme worked with human skeletal collections, adding accessions, managing inventory and catalogue activity of the incoming specimens, searching the history of the acquisition and its excavation, conducting skeletal biological analysis for cataloguing purposes, and authoring reports related to the collection. After Angel's death, St. Hoyme wrote his obituary for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. St. Hoyme analyzed human remains from the Kerr Reservoir between 1947 and 1951 and documented evidence of scalping with noted defleshing marks.

As part of her research, St. Hoyme utilized four categories of osteological changes associated with increasing pathology, and St. Hoyme used macroscopic and radiographic illustrations to study modifications in the cortical and endosteal bone, noting inflammation of the tibiae. and Yucatán, Mexico. Beyond her biological and ethnological research, St. Hoyme was also knowledgeable in botany and herbal medicine.

Later life Even after her retirement in September 1982, St. Hoyme remained active at the National Museum of Natural History as an emeritus Curator and continued to pursue her research related to comparative skeletal anatomy. For example, the zoological collection records recognize her donation of a Felis catus specimen on October 30, 1978, to the National Museum of Natural History.

Later in life, St. Hoyme experienced health problems, including a colon resection, metabolic imbalances from ovarian tumors, and adult onset diabetes. As a staff member in the Anthropology Department at the Natural Museum of Natural History, there are also records related to Lucile St. Hoyme's fieldwork and travel in the Anthropology Department records at the National Anthropological Archives. The National Anthropological Archives houses photographs taken by St. Hoyme at the Congress of the Czechoslovak Anthropological Society in August and September 1969.

Selected bibliography 1957. The earliest use of indices for sexing pelves. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 15:434. 1959. Sex differentiation in the human pelvis in early adult life. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anthropologie 6:66–67. 1962. Human skeletal remains from the John H. Kerr Reservoir Basin, Virginia. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 182:329–400. 1969. On the origins of New World Paleopathology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 31:295–302. 1970. Unusual dental pathology in an Illinois Indian Dental Digest 76: 386–387. (co-authored with RT Koritzer) 1971. Significance of canine wear in pongid evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 35:145–148. (co-authored with RT Koritzer) 1976. Ecology of dental disease. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 45:673–685. (co-authored with RT Koritzer) 1979. Extensive caries in early man years before present. Journal of American Dental Association 99:624–643. (co-authored with RT Koritzer) 1980. Caries and elemental composition of the Rhodesian Man dentition. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 70:74–79. (co-authored with RT Koritzer) 1980. A simple statistical method for estimating sex distribution and dimensions in dissociated long bone series. International Journal of Skeletal Research 7:119–128. 1984. Sex determination in the posterior pelvis. Collegium Antropologicum 8:139–153. 1989. Determination of Sex and Race: Accuracy and Assumption. In İşcan MY, Kennedy, KAR editors. Reconstruction of Life from the Skeleton. New York: Alan R. Liss. P53–93. (co-authored with MY İşcan).