Red X iconGreen tick iconYellow tick icon

Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 5775
Email
hallie.buckley@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Anatomy
Qualifications
BA(Auck) PhD PGDipSci(Otago)
Research summary
Bioarchaeology, Asia–Pacific, health and disease, forensic anthropology

Research

Patterns of prehistoric health and disease in the Asia–Pacific region as evidence of adaptation to the environment. This research has focused on Lapita-associated skeletal samples from Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. Professor Buckley is also co-ordinating and collaborating on projects on diet and disease in Island and Mainland Southeast Asia skeletal samples and human skeletal remains from New Zealand (kōiwi tangata).

Research interests

Professor Buckley's interests focus on the effect of different cultural and ecological environments on the health and disease of prehistoric peoples in the Asia–Pacific region. This research is conducted by the analysis of museum-curated Pacific Island human skeletal remains and recently-excavated samples from Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Publications

Kavale-Henderson, L. A., Buckberry, J., Buckley, H., Cameron, C., King, C., Koon, H., … Loch, C. (2026). “An injurious and utterly unfit environment”: A case study comparing dental evidence of childhood stress in nineteenth century working-class peoples from British and colonial New Zealand contexts. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 190, e70315. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.70315 Journal - Research Article

Vlok, M., Minh, T. T., Czaplinski, N., Buckley, H., Domett, K., Trinh, H. H., … Oxenham, M. (2026). Dental stigmata and skeletal lesions of congenital treponematosis in early agricultural Vietnam (4000–3500 bp). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/oa.70096 Journal - Research Article

Tran, M. T., Plomp, K. A., Trinh, H. H., Nguyen, T. A., Truong, N. H., Nguyen, H. M. T., … Buckley, H., … Vlok, M. (2026). Craniometric analysis of thalassemic individuals from Neolithic Northern Vietnam (4000–3500 BP). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/oa.70092 Journal - Research Article

Rutten, K. A., Buckley, H. R., & Woodley, S. J. (2026). Gold for cash and an inflamed rash: An archival study of syphilis and gonorrhoea in the gold mining era of Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56, e70021. doi: 10.1002/snz2.70021 Journal - Research Article

Kavale-Henderson, L. A., Loch, C., Buckley, H., Petchey, P., King, C., Cameron, C., & Snoddy, A. M. E. (2026). Reflections of their homelands: Early life enamel formation disruption in nineteenth century settlers of Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56, e70022. doi: 10.1002/snz2.70022 Journal - Research Article

Back to top