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Professor Siân Halcrow

PositionProfessor
DepartmentDepartment of Anatomy
QualificationsBA(Hons) PhD(Otago)
Research summaryInfant and child health and disease in the past
Teaching
  • BIOA 101 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
  • BIOA 201 Biocultural Human Skeletal Biology
  • BIOA 301 Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton
  • BIOA 401 Advanced Biological Anthropology
  • ANAT 458 Current Topics in Anatomical Science
Memberships

Professional affiliations (appointed through invitation and/or vote):

  • Committee of the Society of the Study of Childhood in the Past (2016–)
  • University of Otago O-zone Research Group member (since 2009) and Co-Convenor (2014–2015)
  • Royal Society of New Zealand Early Career Researcher's Working Group and Interim Committee (2015)
  • Royal Society of New Zealand Early Career Researcher Committee (2015–), Vice Chair (Social Science)
  • Fulbright NZ Alumni Association (2009–)
  • ASIA:NZ Foundation Young Leaders Network (Dunedin Cluster Member) (2005–)
  • New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women committee member (2007–2014) (National Executive and Otago Branch President) (2009–2014)

Research

Siân’s research interests lie in understanding major human transitions in the past through the experiences of the most vulnerable people in the population: infants and children. Her work interrogates central archaeological questions of the intensification of agriculture and human responses to this seminal time in prehistoric Southeast Asia, East Asia and South America. She also contributes to topical issues in her discipline through her work on the ethics of the study of human remains.

Since 2007, Siân has had more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, and has gained grants from the Marsden Fund, Australian Research Council, FONDOCYT, Fullbright NZ, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and National Geographic. She is the Co-Editor-In Chief for Bioarchaeology International, and her co-edited book, The Mother-Infant Nexus in the Past: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (Springer) has been used for the Research Excellence Framework (UK). Siân was the recipient of the Rowheath Trust Award and Carl Smith Research Medal, and the NZ Association of Scientists Hill Tinsley Medal.

Additional details

Editorial roles

  • Co-Editor in Chief for Bioarchaeology International (2020-)
  • Co-editor of special issue: Pandemics in the Past for Bioarchaeology International (2020-2021)
  • Managing Board of Peer Community Reviews (2020-)
  • Editorial Board of the Springer series entitled Bioarchaeology and Social Theory (2020-)
  • Book Review Editor for Childhood in the Past: an International Journal (2020-)
  • Editor for PLOS ONE (2014-)
  • Editorial Board for the SPAFA Journal (2018-)

Departmental service

  • Biological Anthropology Research Group Leader (2020-)
  • Department of Anatomy Executive (2019-)
  • Department of Anatomy Research Committee (2012-2014, 2017-2019)
  • Department of Anatomy Seminar Committee (2011-)
  • Department of Anatomy Teaching Management Committee (2013-2016)
  • Department of Anatomy Postgraduate Student Committee (2012-2013)

University service

  • Summer School and Continuing Education Board (2019-2021) Health Science representative
  • Summer School and Continuing Education Board (2018-2019) Health Science representative substitute
  • Staff Women’s Caucus (2018-)
  • University of Otago Performance Based Research Funding Steering Committee (2015-2018)
  • OSMS Māori Strategic Framework Group (2015-2019)
  • I have started working with Dr Jonathan Broadbent (Dentistry) to appropriately curate the Faculty’s Museum collection (2015-)
  • University of Otago kōiwi tangata policy working group (2015-2019)
  • University of Otago Research Committee (2015-2016)
  • Division of Health Sciences Research Committee (2015-2016)
  • Voted position as co-convener of the O-zone Research Group (2014-2016)
  • Division of Health Sciences Research Forum Organising Committee (2012)

Publications

Robbins Schug, G., Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Baker, B. J., Berger, E., Buzon, M. R., … Halcrow, S. E., … Zakrzewski, S. R. (2023). Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene. PNAS, 120(4), e2209472120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209472120

Halcrow, S. E., & Robbins Schug, G. (2023). Theoretical approaches to the paleopathology of infants, children, and adolescents: Structural violence as a holistic interpretive tool in paleopathology. In A. L. Grauer (Ed.), Routledge handbook of paleopathology. (pp. 417-434). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003130994-26

Halcrow, S. E. (2022). [Review of the book The archaeology of childhood, 2nd ed]. Childhood in the Past. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/17585716.2022.2102756

Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Agarwal, S. C., Baker, B. J., Bartelink, E. J., Berger, E., … Halcrow, S. E., … Zakrzewski, S. R. (2022). Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24494

Robbins Schug, G., & Halcrow, S. E. (2022). Building a bioarchaeology of pandemic, epidemic, an syndemic diseases: Lessons for understanding COVID-19. Bioarchaeology International, 6(1-2), 1-22. doi: 10.5744/bi.2022.6000

Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (Eds.). (2020). The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 284p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4

Edited Book - Research

Halcrow, S. E., & Robbins Schug, G. (2023). Theoretical approaches to the paleopathology of infants, children, and adolescents: Structural violence as a holistic interpretive tool in paleopathology. In A. L. Grauer (Ed.), Routledge handbook of paleopathology. (pp. 417-434). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003130994-26

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Halcrow, S. E., Miller, M. J., Pechenkina, K., Dong, Y., & Fan, W. (2022). The bioarchaeology of infant feeding. In S. Han & C. Tomori (Eds.), Routledge handbook of anthropology and reproduction. (pp. 541-558). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003216452

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Adams, A. B., Halcrow, S. E., King, C. L., Miller, M. J., Vlok, M., Millard, A. R., … Buckley, H., … Oxenham, M. F. (2021). We’re all in this together: Accessing the maternal-infant relationship in prehistoric Vietnam. In E. J. Kendall & R. Kendall (Eds.), The family in past perspective: An interdisciplinary exploration of familial relationships through time. (pp. 191-221). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429355912

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Halcrow, S. E., Gowland, R. L., & Sudron, E. (2021). Afterword. In E. J. Kendall & R. Kendall (Eds.), The family in past perspective: An interdisciplinary exploration of familial relationships through time. (pp. 222-228). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429355912

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Snoddy, A. M. E., King, C. L., Halcrow, S. E., Millard, A. R., Buckley, H. R., Standen, V. G., & Arriaza, B. T. (2021). Living on the edge: Climate-induced micronutrient famines in the ancient Atacama Desert? In G. Robbins Schug (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of the bioarchaeology of climate and environmental change. (pp. 60-82). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351030465

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Buckley, H. R., Domett, K., Halcrow, S., Pedersen, L., Ward, S., & Ling, N. (2020). An initial report on health and disease at Non Ban Jak. In C. F. W. Higham & A. Kijngam (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. 7): The excavation of Non Ban Jak. (pp. 469-492). Bangkok, Thailand: Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (2020). Introduction: The mother-infant nexus in archaeology and anthropology. In R. Gowland & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. (pp. 1-15). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_1

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Halcrow, S. (2020). Infants in the bioarchaeological past: Who cares? In R. Garland & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. (pp. 19-38). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_2

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Halcrow, S. E., Domett, K., & Chang, N. (2020). Nancy Tayles. In C. Smith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (Online ed.) Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3502-1

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Halcrow, S., & Gowland, R. (2020). Concluding thoughts: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. In R. Gowland & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. (pp. 275-277). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_15

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Higham, C. F. W., Buckley, H. R., & Halcrow, S. (2020). The eastern mound excavation: Square M-N. In C. F. W. Higham & A. Kijngam (Eds.), The excavation of Non Ban Jak: The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. 7). (pp. 67-109). Bangkok, Thailand: Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Higham, C. F. W., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S., & Domett, K. (2020). The eastern mound burials. In C. F. W. Higham & A. Kijngam (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. 7): The excavation of Non Ban Jak. (pp. 111-169). Bangkok, Thailand: Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Higham, C. F. W., Chang, N., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S., & Domett, K. (2020). The human burials: Mortuary phase 1. In C. F. W. Higham & A. Kijngam (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. 7): The excavation of Non Ban Jak. (pp. 229-262). Bangkok, Thailand: Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Higham, C. F. W., Chang, N., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S., & Domett, K. (2020). The human burials: Mortuary phase 4. In C. F. W. Higham & A. Kijngam (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. 7): The excavation of Non Ban Jak. (pp. 363-385). Bangkok, Thailand: Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Higham, C. F. W., Chang, N., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S., & Domett, K. (2020). The human burials: Mortuary phase 2. In C. F. W. Higham & A. Kijngam (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. 7): The excavation of Non Ban Jak. (pp. 263-308). Bangkok, Thailand: Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Higham, C. F. W., Chang, N., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S., & Domett, K. (2020). The human burials: Western mound mortuary phase 3. In C. F. W. Higham & A. Kijngam (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. 7): The excavation of Non Ban Jak. (pp. 309-362). Bangkok, Thailand: Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Higham, C. F. W., Manly, B. F. J., Thosarat, R., Buckley, H. R., Chang, N., Halcrow, S. E., Ward, S., … Domett, K. (2020). Summary and conclusions. In C. F. W. Higham & A. Kijngam (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. 7): The excavation of Non Ban Jak. (pp. 493-510). Bangkok, Thailand: Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Gilmore, H. F., & Halcrow, S. E. (2019). Melding the past and the present: Using bioarchaeology to understand death in Aotearoa New Zealand. In R. McManus, J. Cornwall & S. Raudon (Eds.), Death down under: Twenty-first century dying, death, disposal and memorialisation in the Antipodes. (pp. 9-22). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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Gilmore, H., Aranui, A., & Halcrow, S. E. (2019). Ethical issues of bioarchaeology in New Zealand-Aotearoa: Relationships, research, and repatriation. In K. Squires, D. Errickson & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), Ethical approaches to human remains: A global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. (pp. 431-445). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_19

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Halcrow, S. E., Crozier, R., Domett, K. M., Lertcharnrit, T., Newton, J. S., & Shewan, L. G. (2019). Ethical issues of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia. In K. Squires, D. Errickson & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), Ethical approaches to human remains: A global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. (pp. 465-484). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_21

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Halcrow, S. E., & Ward, S. M. (2018). Children in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. In C. Smith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (2nd ed.) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_143-2

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Halcrow, S. E., King, C. L., Millard, A. R., Snoddy, A. M. E., Scott, R. M., Elliott, G. E., … Buckley, H. R., … Arriaza, B. T. (2018). Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings: Breastfeeding and weaning in the past. In C. Tomori, A. E. L. Palmquist & E. A. Quinn (Eds.), Breastfeeding: New anthropological approaches. (pp. 155-169). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Inglis, R. M., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). The bioarchaeology of childhood: Theoretical development in the field. In P. Beauchesne & S. C. Agarwal (Eds.), Children and childhood in bioarchaeology. (pp. 33-60). Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.

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Ward, S. M., Halcrow, S. E., Buckley, H. R., Higham, C. F. W., O’Reilly, D. J. W., Shewan, L., & Domett, K. M. (2018). Developing a new project: The impact of social change on health at the late Iron Age site of Non Ban Jak in Northeast Thailand. In N. H. Tan (Ed.), Advancing Southeast Asian archaeology 2016: Selected papers from the second SEAMEO SPAFA international conference on Southeast Asian archaeology. (pp. 259-275). Bangkok, Thailand: SEAMEO SPAFA Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts.

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Halcrow, S. E., Tayles, N., & Elliott, G. E. (2017). The bioarchaeology of fetuses. In S. Han, T. K. Betsinger & A. B. Scott (Eds.), The anthropology of the fetus: Biology, culture, and society. (pp. 83-111). New York: Berghahn Books.

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Halcrow, S., & Ward, S. (2017). Bioarchaeology of childhood. In H. Montgomery (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies: Childhood studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199791231-0178

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Domett, K., Newton, J., Colbert, A., Chang, N., & Halcrow, S. E. (2016). Frail, foreign or favoured? A contextualized case study from Bronze Age northeast Thailand. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 68-94). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Halcrow, S. E., Tayles, N., & King, C. L. (2016). Infant and child health and disease with agricultural intensification in mainland Southeast Asia. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of boarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 158-186). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Harris, N. J., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S. E., Kinaston, R. L., Foster, A., Simanjantuk, T., & Galipaud, J.-C. (2016). Field anthropology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: Initial steps toward a regional overview and the Pain Haka case study. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 289-310). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Tayles, N., & Halcrow, S. E. (2016). Age-at-death estimation in a sample of prehistoric Southeast Asian adolescents and adults. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 220-238). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Tayles, N., Halcrow, S., & Clark, A. (2015). Ban Non Wat: Current research on late prehistoric people in the Upper Mun River Valley, Northeast Thailand. In N. H. Tan (Ed.), Advancing Southeast Asian archaeology 2013: Selected papers from the first SEAMEO SPAFA international conference on Southeast Asian archaeology. (pp. 279-288). Bangkok, Thailand: SEAMEO SPAFA Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts.

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Gilmore, H. F., & Halcrow, S. E. (2014). Sense or sensationalism? Approaches to explaining high perinatal mortality in the past. In J. L. Thompson, M. P. Alfonso-Durruty & J. J. Crandall (Eds.), Tracing childhood: Bioarchaeological investigations of early lives in antiquity. (pp. 123-138). Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

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Halcrow, S., & Boonlop, K. (2014). Report on the human remains from the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project [Collaborator report]. In J. C. White (Ed.), Strengthening the future of Southeast Asian archaeology: Investigating prehistoric settlement of the Middle Mekong Basin [Final report]. (pp. 23-42). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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Clark, A., Tayles, N., & Halcrow, S. (2012). Sexual dimorphism in adult skeletal remains at Ban Non Wat, Thailand, during the intensification of agriculture in early prehistoric Southeast Asia. In P. D. Mitchell & J. Buckberry (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. (pp. 17-28). Oxford, UK: Archaeopress.

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Tayles, N., Halcrow, S., & Pureepatpong, N. (2012). Regional developments: Southeast Asia. In J. E. Buikstra & C. A. Roberts (Eds.), The global history of paleopathology: Pioneers and prospects. (pp. 528-540). Oxford University Press.

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Halcrow, S. E., & Tayles, N. (2011). Human diversity in mainland Southeast Asia: The contribution of bioarchaeology. In N. J. Enfield (Ed.), Dynamics of human diversity: The case of mainland Southeast Asia. (pp. 47-61). Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics.

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Halcrow, S. E., & Tayles, N. (2011). The bioarchaeological investigation of children and childhood. In S. C. Agarwal & B. A. Glencross (Eds.), Social bioarchaeology. (pp. 333-360). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Halcrow, S., Tayles, N., Pureepatpong, N., & Boonlop, K. (2011). Thailand. In N. Márquez-Grant & L. Fibiger (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of archaeological human remains and legislation: An international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains. (pp. 623-631). London: Routledge.

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Tayles, N., & Halcrow, S. (2011). New Zealand/Aotearoa. In N. Márquez-Grant & L. Fibiger (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of archaeological human remains and legislation: An international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains. (pp. 647-655). London: Routledge.

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Tayles, N., Domett, K., & Halcrow, S. (2009). Can dental caries be interpreted as evidence of farming? The Asian experience. In T. Koppe, G. Meyer & K. W. Alt (Eds.), Comparative dental morphology: Selected papers of the 14th International Symposium on Dental Morphology. (pp. 162-166). Basel, Switzerland: Karger. doi: 10.1159/000242411

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Tayles, N., Halcrow, S., & Domett, K. (2007). The people of Noen U-Loke. In C. F. W. Higham, A. Kijngam & S. Talbot (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. II): The excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao. (pp. 244-304). Bangkok, Thailand: The Thai Fine Arts Department.

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Buckley, H. R., Domett, K., Halcrow, S. E., & Oxenham, M. (2016). A dedication. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. xxv-xxviii). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Agarwal, S. C., Baker, B. J., Bartelink, E. J., Berger, E., … Halcrow, S. E., … Zakrzewski, S. R. (2022). Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24494

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Kinaston, R. L., Koesbardiati, T., Suriyanto, R. A., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S. E., Foster, A., … Galipaud, J.-C. (2022). Ritual tooth ablation and the Austronesian expansion: Evidence from eastern Indonesia and the Pacific Islands. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 17(1), 65-96. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2020.1754971

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McAllister, T. G., Naepi, S., Dombroski, K., Halcrow, S. E., & Painting, C. J. (2021). Parity during parenthood: Comparing paid parental leave policies in Aotearoa/New Zealand's universities. Women's Studies Journal, 35(1), 4-20.

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Shewan, L., O'Reilly, D., Armstrong, R., Toms, P., Webb, J., Beavan, N., … Halcrow, S., … Chang, N. (2021). Dating the megalithic culture of laos: Radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence and U/Pb zircon results. PLoS ONE, 16(3), 0247167. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247167

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Halcrow, S. E., Miller, M. J., Snoddy, A. M. E., Fan, W., & Pechenkina, K. (2020). Growing up different in Neolithic China: A contextualised case study and differential diagnosis of a young adult with skeletal dysplasia. International Journal of Paleopathology, 28, 6-19. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.11.001

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Halcrow, S., Warren, R., Kushnick, G., & Nowell, A. (2020). Care of infants in the past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, e47. doi: 10.1017/ehs.2020.46

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Matsumura, H., Hung, H., Higham, C., Zhang, C., Yamagata, M., Nguyen, L. C., … Halcrow, S., … Reinecke, A. (2020). 颅骨测量数据揭示欧亚大陆东部史前 人群扩散的" 二层" 模式 [Skull measurement data reveals the 'two-tier' model of prehistoric population spread in eastern Eurasia]. Nanfang Wenwu, 2, 226-241.

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Miller, M. J., Dong, Y., Pechenkina, K., Fan, W., & Halcrow, S. E. (2020). Raising girls and boys in early China: Stable isotope data reveal sex differences in weaning and childhood diets during the eastern Zhou era. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172, 567-585. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24033

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Shewan, L., Armstrong, R., O’Reilly, D., Halcrow, S., Beavan, N., & Sokha, T. (2020). Isotopic insights into the jar-and-coffin mortuary ritual of the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia. Antiquity, 94(378), 1575-1591. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2020.201

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Higham, C. F. W., Manly, B. F. J., Thosarat, R., Buckley, H. R., Chang, N., Halcrow, S. E., Ward, S., … Domett, K. (2019). Environmental and social change in Northeast Thailand during the Iron Age. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 29(4), 549-569. doi: 10.1017/S0959774319000192

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Matsumara, H., Hung, H.-C., Higham, C., Zhang, C., Yagamata, M., Nguyen, L. C., … Halcrow, S., … Reinecke, A. (2019). Craniometrics reveal "two layers" of prehistoric human dispersal in eastern Eurasia. Scientific Reports, 9, 1451. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35426-z

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O'Reilly, D., Shewan, L., Domett, K., Halcrow, S. E., & Luangkhoth, T. (2019). Excavating among the megaliths: Recent research at the 'Plain of Jars' site 1 in Laos. Antiquity, 93(370), 970-989. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2019.102

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Pedersen, L. T., Domett, K. M., Chang, N. J., Halcrow, S. E., Buckley, H. R., Higham, C. F. W., … Shewan, L. (2019). A bioarchaeological study of trauma at Late Iron Age to protohistoric Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. Asian Perspectives, 58(2), 220-249. doi: 10.1353/asi.2019.0014

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Ward, S. M., Halcrow, S., Buckley, H. R., Gray, A. R., Higham, C. F. W., Domett, K., … Shewan, L. G. (2019). Social status and its relationship to non-specific stress at Late Iron Age Non Ban Jak, northeast Thailand. Bioarchaeology International, 3(4), 283-304. doi: 10.5744/bi.2019.1017

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King, C. L., Arriaza, B. T., Standen, V. G., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D. R., Muñoz, I., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). Estudio isotópico del consumo de recursos marítimos y terrestres en la prehistoria del desierto de Atacama [Isotopic study of marine and terrestrial resources in the prehistory of the Atacama desert]. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena, 50(3), 369-396. doi: 10.4067/S0717-73562018005000802

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King, C. L., Halcrow, S. E., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D. R., Standen, V. G., Portilla, M., & Arriaza, B. T. (2018). Let's talk about stress, baby! Infant-feeding practices and stress in the ancient Atacama desert, Northern Chile. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 166(1), 139-155. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23411

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King, C. L., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D. R., Standen, V. G., Arriaza, B. T., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). Marine resource reliance in the human populations of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile: A view from prehistory. Quaternary Science Reviews, 182, 163-174. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.009

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King, C. L., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D. R., Standen, V. G., Arriaza, B. T., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). A comparison of using bulk and incremental isotopic analyses to establish weaning practices in the past. STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research [2017], 3(1), 126-134. doi: 10.1080/20548923.2018.1443548

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King, C. L., Snoddy, A. M., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D. R., Standen, V. G., Arriaza, B. T., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). A multi‐faceted approach towards interpreting early life experience and infant feeding practices in the ancient Atacama Desert, Northern Chile. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 28(5), 599-612. doi: 10.1002/oa.2671

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McFadden, C., Buckley, H., Halcrow, S. E., & Oxenham, M. F. (2018). Detection of temporospatially localized growth in ancient Southeast Asia using human skeletal remains. Journal of Archaeological Science, 98, 93-101. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.08.010

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Snoddy, A. M. E., Buckley, H. R., Elliott, G. E., Standen, V. G., Arriaza, B. T., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). Macroscopic features of scurvy in human skeletal remains: A literature synthesis and diagnostic guide. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 167, 876-895. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23699

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Clark, A. L., King, C. L., Buckley, H. R., Collins, C. J., Dhavale, N., Elliott, G. E., Gosling, A., Halcrow, S. E., … Matisoo-Smith, E., … Tromp, M., Ward, S., & West, K. (2017). Biological anthropology in the indo-pacific region: New approaches to age-old questions. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, 41, 78-94.

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Dhavale, N., Halcrow, S. E., Buckley, H. R., Tayles, N., Domett, K. M., & Gray, A. R. (2017). Linear and appositional growth in infants and children from the prehistoric settlement of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand: Evaluating biological responses to agricultural intensification in Southeast Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 11, 435-446. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.12.019

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King, C. L., Halcrow, S. E., Tayles, N., & Shkrum, S. (2017). Considering the palaeoepidemiological implications of socioeconomic and environmental change in Southeast Asia. Archaeological Research in Asia, 11, 27-37. doi: 10.1016/j.ara.2017.05.003

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Mays, S., Gowland, R., Halcrow, S., & Murphy, E. (2017). Child bioarchaeology: Perspectives on the past 10 years. Childhood in the Past, 10(1), 38-56. doi: 10.1080/17585716.2017.1301066

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Scott, R. M., & Halcrow, S. E. (2017). Investigating weaning using dental microwear analysis: A review. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 11, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.11.026

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Snoddy, A. M. E., Halcrow, S. E., Buckley, H. R., Standen, V. G., & Arriaza, B. T. (2017). Scurvy at the agricultural transition in the Atacama desert (ca 3600–3200 BP): Nutritional stress at the maternal-foetal interface? International Journal of Paleopathology, 18, 108-120. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2017.05.011

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Farah, R. A., Painuthara, L., Broadbent, J. M., Buckley, H. R., & Halcrow, S. E. (2016). Physiological insult of the burial environment: Differentiating developmental defects from post-mortem stained enamel in deciduous dentition from the Chiefdom Period of Tonga, Polynesia. Matters Select. Retrieved from https://www.sciencematters.io/articles/201605000005

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Galipaud, J.-C., Kinaston, R., Halcrow, S., Foster, A., Harris, N., Simanjuntak, T., … Buckley, H. (2016). The Pain Haka burial ground on Flores: Indonesian evidence for a shared Neolithic belief system in Southeast Asia. Antiquity, 90(354), 1505-1521. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2016.185

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Halcrow, S., & Millard, A. (2016). Challenging the agricultural transition models of prehistoric human health change: Insights from infants and children from diverse environments. Quaesitum, (II), 30-32.

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Snoddy, A. M. E., Buckley, H. R., & Halcrow, S. E. (2016). More than metabolic: Considering the broader paleoepidemiological impact of vitamin D deficiency in bioarchaeology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 160, 183-196. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22968

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Tayles, N., Halcrow, S. E., Sayavongkhamdy, T., & Souksavatdy, V. (2015). A prehistoric flexed human burial from Pha Phen, Middle Mekong Valley, Laos: Its context in Southeast Asia. Anthropological Science, 123(1), 1-12. doi: 10.1537/ase.141013

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Buckley, H. R., Kinaston, R., Halcrow, S. E., Foster, A., Spriggs, M., & Bedford, S. (2014). Scurvy in a tropical paradise? Evaluating the possibility of infant and adult vitamin C deficiency in the Lapita skeletal sample of Teouma, Vanuatu, Pacific islands. International Journal of Paleopathology, 5, 72-85. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2014.03.001

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Clark, A. L., Tayles, N., & Halcrow, S. E. (2014). Aspects of health in prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: Indicators of stress in response to the intensification of rice agriculture. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 153(3), 484-495. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22449

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Halcrow, S. E., Harris, N. J., Beavan, N., & Buckley, H. R. (2014). First bioarchaeological evidence of probable scurvy in Southeast Asia: Multifactorial etiologies of vitamin C deficiency in a tropical environment. International Journal of Paleopathology, 5, 63-71. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2014.01.004

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Halcrow, S. E., Rooney, J., Beavan, N., Gordon, K. C., Tayles, N., & Gray, A. (2014). Assessing Raman spectroscopy as a prescreening tool for the selection of archaeological bone for stable isotopic analysis. PLoS ONE, 9(7), e98462. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098462

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Higham, C., Cameron, J., Chang, N., Castillo, C., Halcrow, S., O'Reilly, D., … Shewan, L. (2014). The excavation of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand: A report on the first three seasons. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, 34, 1-41.

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Gilmore, H., Schafer, C., & Halcrow, S. (2013). Tapu and the invention of the "death taboo": An analysis of the transformation of a Polynesian cultural concept. Journal of Social Archaeology, 13(3), 331-349. doi: 10.1177/1469605313503229

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Halcrow, S. E., Harris, N. J., Tayles, N., Ikehara-Quebral, R., & Pietrusewsky, M. (2013). From the mouths of babes: Dental caries in infants and children and the intensification of agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150(3), 409-420. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22215

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Kinaston, R. L., Walter, R. K., Jacomb, C., Brooks, E., Tayles, N., Halcrow, S. E., Stirling, C., Reid, M., Gray, A. R., Spinks, J., Shaw, B., … Buckley, H. R. (2013). The first New Zealanders: Patterns of diet and mobility revealed through isotope analysis. PLoS ONE, 8(5), e64580. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064580

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McKay, S., Farah, R., Broadbent, J. M., Tayles, N., & Halcrow, S. E. (2013). Is it health or the burial environment: Differentiating between hypomineralised and post-mortem stained enamel in an archaeological context. PLoS ONE, 8(5), e64573. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064573

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Beavan, N., Halcrow, S., McFadgen, B., Hamilton, D., Buckley, B., Sokha, T., … Chhem, K. R. (2012). Radiocarbon dates from jar and coffin burials of the Cardamom Mountains reveal a unique mortuary ritual in Cambodia's late-to post-Angkor period (15th-17th centuries AD). Radiocarbon, 54(1), 1-22.

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Halcrow, S., Tayles, N., Inglis, R., & Higham, C. (2012). Newborn twins from prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: Birth, death and personhood. Antiquity, 86(333), 838-852. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00047955

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Perkins, A., & Halcrow, S. E. (2012). Drumming up Asian awareness in Otago primary schools: Leading an educational performance to connect children with their wider community. Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy & Practice, 27(1), 74-81.

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Halcrow, S., Tayles, N., Pureepatpong, N., & Boonlop, K. (2011). Human remains from archaeological sites in Thailand: Legislative and ethical issues (in Thai). Murang Boran Journal, 37(3), 143-148.

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Buckley, H. R., Tayles, N., Halcrow, S. E., Robb, K., & Fyfe, R. (2010). The people of Wairau Bar: A re-examination. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 1(1), 1-20.

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Halcrow, S. E., & Tayles, N. (2010). Talon cusp in a deciduous lateral incisor from prehistoric Southeast Asia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 20(2), 240-247. doi: 10.1002/oa.1020

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Halcrow, S. E., & Tayles, N. (2010). The archaeological infant in biological and social context: A response to Mike Lally and Traci Ardren 2008. Little artefacts: Rethinking the constitution of the archaeological infant Childhood in the Past 1, 62-77. Childhood in the Past, 3, 123-130.

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Kinaston, R. L., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S. E., Spriggs, M. J. T., Bedford, S., Neal, K., & Gray, A. (2009). Investigating foetal and perinatal mortality in prehistoric skeletal samples: A case study from a 3000-year-old Pacific Island cemetery site. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(12), 2780-2787. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.004

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Halcrow, S. E., & Tayles, N. (2008). Stress near the start of life? Localised enamel hypoplasia of the primary canine in late prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(8), 2215-2222. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.02.002

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Halcrow, S. E., & Tayles, N. (2008). The bioarchaeological investigation of childhood and social age: Problems and prospects. Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory, 15(2), 190-215. doi: 10.1007/s10816-008-9052-x

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Halcrow, S. E., Tayles, N., & Livingstone, V. (2008). Infant death in late prehistoric Southeast Asia. Asian Perspectives, 47(2), 371-404. doi: 10.1353/asi.0.0007

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Halcrow, S. E., Tayles, N., & Buckley, H. R. (2007). Age estimation of children from prehistoric Southeast Asia: Are the dental formation methods used appropriate? Journal of Archaeological Science, 34, 1158-1168.

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Robbins Schug, G., Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Baker, B. J., Berger, E., Buzon, M. R., … Halcrow, S. E., … Zakrzewski, S. R. (2023). Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene. PNAS, 120(4), e2209472120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209472120

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Halcrow, S. E. (2022). [Review of the book The archaeology of childhood, 2nd ed]. Childhood in the Past. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/17585716.2022.2102756

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Robbins Schug, G., & Halcrow, S. E. (2022). Building a bioarchaeology of pandemic, epidemic, an syndemic diseases: Lessons for understanding COVID-19. Bioarchaeology International, 6(1-2), 1-22. doi: 10.5744/bi.2022.6000

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Halcrow, S. (2021). Introduction. Childhood in the Past, 14(2), 75-79. doi: 10.1080/17585716.2021.1956058

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