Anne C. Stone is an American anthropological geneticist and a Regents' Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

[2] In 1992, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to spend a year at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich working with the famous paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo.

[2] Stone graduated with her doctoral degree in 1996 and joined the University of Arizona as a National Institutes of Health NRSA postdoctoral scholar to work alongside Michael Hammer.

[3] In 2014, Stone co-led a study, along with paleogeneticist Johannes Krause, bioarchaeologist Jane Buikstra, and others, which found that prehistoric Native American people were infected by a strain of M. tuberculosis transmitted by pinnipeds, such as seals, sometime between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago.

[7] In 2018, Stone led a study describing how strains of Mycobacterium leprae, the pathogen that causes leprosy, can be passed from humans to nonhuman primates and vice versa.