Siân Halcrow
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Researcher in childhood bioarchaeology at the University of Otago in New Zealand
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Siân Halcrow's Degrees
- PhD Bioarchaeology University of New Zealand
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Siân Ellen Halcrow is a New Zealand academic in the field of biological anthropology, specialising in infant and child health and disease in the past. She is a professor in the department of anatomy at the University of Otago.
Siân Halcrow's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Childhood and Social Age: Problems and Prospects (2008) (137)
- The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Children and Childhood (2011) (79)
- Investigating foetal and perinatal mortality in prehistoric skeletal samples: a case study from a 3000-year-old Pacific Island cemetery site (2009) (59)
- Child Bioarchaeology: Perspectives on the Past 10 Years (2017) (56)
- The First New Zealanders: Patterns of Diet and Mobility Revealed through Isotope Analysis (2013) (53)
- 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. (2014) (50)
- The People of Wairau Bar: a Re-examination (2010) (48)
- Craniometrics Reveal “Two Layers” of Prehistoric Human Dispersal in Eastern Eurasia (2019) (47)
- Macroscopic features of scurvy in human skeletal remains: A literature synthesis and diagnostic guide (2018) (47)
- First bioarchaeological evidence of probable scurvy in Southeast Asia: Multifactorial etiologies of vitamin C deficiency in a tropical environment. (2014) (45)
- More than metabolic: Considering the broader paleoepidemiological impact of vitamin D deficiency in bioarchaeology. (2016) (42)
- Paleopathology of Children: Identification of Pathological Conditions in the Human Skeletal Remains of Non-Adults (2018) (39)
- From the mouths of babes: dental caries in infants and children and the intensification of agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia. (2013) (39)
- Age estimation of children from prehistoric Southeast Asia: are the dental formation methods used appropriate? (2007) (39)
- Can dental caries be interpreted as evidence of farming? The Asian experience. (2009) (39)
- Let's talk about stress, baby! Infant-feeding practices and stress in the ancient Atacama desert, Northern Chile. (2018) (38)
- Stress near the start of life? Localised enamel hypoplasia of the primary canine in late prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia (2008) (35)
- 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) (2012) (35)
- A comparison of using bulk and incremental isotopic analyses to establish weaning practices in the past (2017) (34)
- Infant Death in Late Prehistoric Southeast Asia (2009) (34)
- The Bioarchaeology of Fetuses (2016) (31)
- The people of Noen U-Loke (2007) (28)
- Aspects of health in prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: Indicators of stress in response to the intensification of rice agriculture. (2014) (27)
- Scurvy at the agricultural transition in the Atacama desert (ca 3600-3200 BP): nutritional stress at the maternal-foetal interface? (2017) (25)
- Marine resource reliance in the human populations of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile - A view from prehistory (2018) (24)
- The Pain Haka burial ground on Flores: Indonesian evidence for a shared Neolithic belief system in Southeast Asia (2016) (24)
- Assessing Raman Spectroscopy as a Prescreening Tool for the Selection of Archaeological Bone for Stable Isotopic Analysis (2014) (24)
- Investigating weaning using dental microwear analysis: A review (2017) (22)
- Correction: The First New Zealanders: Patterns of Diet and Mobility Revealed through Isotope Analysis (2013) (19)
- The Bioarchaeology of Childhood (2018) (15)
- Newborn twins from prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: birth, death and personhood (2012) (12)
- Detection of temporospatially localized growth in ancient Southeast Asia using human skeletal remains (2018) (12)
- Sensationalism and speaking to the public: Scientific rigour and interdisciplinary collaborations in palaeopathology. (2020) (12)
- Excavating among the megaliths: recent research at the ‘Plain of Jars’ site 1 in Laos (2019) (12)
- Care of Infants in the Past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches (2020) (11)
- Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings : breastfeeding and weaning in the past. (2017) (11)
- Considering the palaeoepidemiological implications of socioeconomic and environmental change in Southeast Asia (2017) (11)
- The Archaeology of Childhood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Archaeological Enigma (2017) (11)
- Is It Health or the Burial Environment: Differentiating between Hypomineralised and Post-Mortem Stained Enamel in an Archaeological Context (2013) (10)
- 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 (2010) (9)
- Sense or Sensationalism (2014) (9)
- On engagement with anthropology: A critical evaluation of skeletal and developmental abnormalities in the Atacama preterm baby and issues of forensic and bioarchaeological research ethics. Response to Bhattacharya et al. "Whole-genome sequencing of Atacama skeleton shows novel mutations linked with (2018) (9)
- Talon cusp in a deciduous lateral incisor from prehistoric Southeast Asia (2010) (9)
- Tapu and the invention of the “death taboo”: An analysis of the transformation of a Polynesian cultural concept (2013) (9)
- Raising girls and boys in early China: Stable isotope data reveal sex differences in weaning and childhood diets during the eastern Zhou era (2020) (9)
- A prehistoric flexed human burial from Pha Phen, Middle Mekong Valley, Laos: its context in Southeast Asia (2015) (9)
- 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 (2017) (8)
- A multifaceted approach towards interpreting early life experience and infant feeding practices in the ancient Atacama Desert, Northern Chile (2018) (8)
- Environmental and Social Change in Northeast Thailand during the Iron Age (2019) (7)
- Infants in the Bioarchaeological Past: Who Cares? (2019) (7)
- Infant and child health and disease with agricultural intensification in mainland Southeast Asia (2015) (7)
- Dating the megalithic culture of laos: Radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence and U/Pb zircon results (2021) (7)
- Bioarchaeology of Childhood (2017) (6)
- Age-at-death estimation in a sample of prehistoric Southeast Asian adolescents and adults (2015) (6)
- BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION: NEW APPROACHES TO AGE-OLD QUESTIONS (2017) (6)
- Frail, foreign or favoured? A contextualized case study from Bronze Age northeast Thailand (2015) (5)
- Building a Bioarchaeology of Pandemic, Epidemic, and Syndemic Diseases (2022) (4)
- FROM JAR AND COFFIN BURIALS OF THE CARDAMOM MOUNTAINS REVEAL A UNIQUE MORTUARY RITUAL IN CAMBODIA ’ S LATE-TO POST-ANGKOR PERIOD ( 15 TH – 17 TH CENTURIES AD ) (2012) (4)
- Social Status and Its Relationship to Non-specific Stress at Late Iron Age Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand (2020) (4)
- Isotopic insights into the jar-and-coffin mortuary ritual of the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia (2020) (3)
- Comment on Charlier et al., 2019: "The Mandible of Saint-Louis (1270 AD): Retrospective Diagnosis and Circumstances of Death". (2020) (3)
- Children in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology (2020) (2)
- Ethical Issues of Bioarchaeology in New Zealand-Aotearoa: Relationships, Research, and Repatriation (2019) (2)
- Growing up different in Neolithic China: A contextualised case study and differential diagnosis of a young adult with skeletal dysplasia. (2019) (2)
- Moving beyond Weiss and Springer’s Repatriation and Erasing the Past: Indigenous values, relationships, and research (2021) (2)
- Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene (2023) (2)
- We’re all in this together: accessing the maternal-infant relationship in prehistoric Vietnam (2021) (2)
- Teeth are for chewing: a critical review of the conceptualisation and ethics of a controversial intraoral weight-loss device (2021) (2)
- Introduction: The Mother-Infant Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology (2019) (2)
- A Bioarchaeological Study of Trauma at Late Iron Age to Protohistoric Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand (2019) (2)
- Field anthropology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific (2015) (2)
- Ritual tooth ablation and the Austronesian expansion: Evidence from eastern Indonesia and the Pacific Islands (2020) (2)
- Early Europeans bottle-fed babies with animal milk (2019) (2)
- Ethical Issues of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia (2019) (1)
- Drumming up Asian awareness in Otago primary schools: Leading an educational performance to connect children and their wider community (2012) (1)
- Critical Review of Brown and Thomas “The First New Zealanders? An Alternative Interpretation of the Stable Isotope Data from Wairau Bar” (2015) (1)
- The bioarchaeology of infant feeding (2021) (1)
- Physiological insult or the burial environment: Differentiating developmental defects from post-mortem stained enamel in deciduous dentition from the Chiefdom Period of Tonga, Polynesia (2016) (1)
- New Zealand/Aotearoa (2011) (1)
- Developing a new project: the impact of social change on health at the late Iron Age site of Non Ban Jak in Northeast Thailand (2018) (1)
- Identifying treponemal disease in early East Asia (2022) (1)
- Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. (2022) (1)
- New bioarchaeological approaches to care in the past (2017) (1)
- Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, vol. 2C: The Metal Remains in Regional Context ed. by Joyce C. White and Elizabeth G. Hamilton (review) (2021) (0)
- Living on the edge (2020) (0)
- Agriculture in the Atacama Desert: Implications for Human Health and Development (2017) (0)
- Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings (2017) (0)
- Ill-health or the burial environment: differentiating developmental defects from postmortem stained enamel in deciduous dentition, prehistoric Tonga, Polynesia (2016) (0)
- List of referees (1982) (0)
- Author Correction: Craniometrics Reveal “Two Layers” of Prehistoric Human Dispersal in Eastern Eurasia (2019) (0)
- Secondary burial practice at megalithic jar site 1, Plain of Jars Laos (2023) (0)
- A multi-faceted approach towards interpreting early life experience and infant feeding practices in the ancient Atacama Desert, Northern Chile (2019) (0)
- Osteoimmunology: The effect of autoimmunity on fracture healing and skeletal analysis. (2023) (0)
- Nutritional Stress and the Maternal-Infant Nexus: Insights from Isotopes and Paleopathology in the Ancient Chilean Atacama (ca 9000–1500 BP) (2018) (0)
- Craniometrics Reveal “Two Layers” of Prehistoric Human Dispersal in Eastern Eurasia (2019) (0)
- VIKINGS IN ORKNEY, GENOCIDE OR INTEGRATION?: OSTEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIEVAL POPULATION OF ORKNEY. Ceilidh Lerwick *** 2.35 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PERIMORTEM TRAUMA IN A FRAGMENTED, DISARTICULATED, AND COMMINGLED SKELETAL SAMPLE: SUCCESS AND FAILURE AT SMITH’S KNOLL (2017) (0)
- The Archaeology of Childhood, 2nd ed. (2022) (0)
- VIKINGS IN ORKNEY, GENOCIDE OR INTEGRATION?: OSTEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIEVAL POPULATION OF ORKNEY. Ceilidh Lerwick *** 2.35 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PERIMORTEM TRAUMA IN A FRAGMENTED, DISARTICULATED, AND COMMINGLED SKELETAL SAMPLE: SUCCESS AND FAILURE AT SMITH’S KNOLL (2017) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- Diet and Social Complexity in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile (AD 700 – 1100) (2017) (0)
- The Editors' Corner (2009) (0)
- WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS FROM MYANMAR (2015) (0)
- Mouths to Feed: Subsistence Transition and Childhood Health in the Ancient Atacama Desert, Northern Chile (ca 5,500 – 1,500 BP) (2017) (0)
- Isotopic Insights into Mortuary Ritual in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia (2021) (0)
- Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley & Gillian Shepherd (ed.). The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of childhood. 2018. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-967069-7 £110. (2019) (0)
- Skeletal growth over the period of intensification of agriculture at the late prehistoric site of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand (2016) (0)
- Children of the Atacama Desert: The complex interactions between breastfeeding, weaning and environmental stress in one of the world’s harshest environments. (2017) (0)
- Architecture of head and neck soft tissues and associated entheses: An exploration of sexual dimorphism in, and population differences between, New Zealand and Thai individuals. (2023) (0)
- Bioarchaeological Conservation and Ethics in Mainland Southeast Asia (2017) (0)
- When to wean? The complex interaction between weaning behaviour, physiological stress and individual decision-making in the children of the Atacama Desert (2017) (0)
- Chronology, Duration, and Periodicity of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia at the Late Iron Age Site Non Ban Jak, Thailand: A Quantitative Microscopic Analysis (2023) (0)
- Concluding Thoughts: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (2019) (0)
- Bioarcheology and paleopathology of infants and children (2020) (0)
- Author Correction: Craniometrics Reveal “Two Layers” of Prehistoric Human Dispersal in Eastern Eurasia (2019) (0)
- From the Mouths of Babes: Weaning, Diet, and Stress in Neolithic Northern Vietnam (2019) (0)
- Interpreting Increments – What Can Isotopic Evidence Tell Us about Care in the Past? (2018) (0)
- Catriona J. McKenzie, Eileen M. Murphy & Colm J. Donnelly (ed.). The science of a lost medieval Gaelic graveyard: the Ballyhanna Research Project (TII Heritage 2). 2015. x+219 pages, numerous colour and bw 978-0-9932315-2-0 paperback €25. (2016) (0)
- Don’t Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater: New Insights into Palaeodemographic Change with the Intensification of Agriculture in Southeast Asia (2019) (0)
- Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders) ed. by Vincent Stephan and George Gill (review) (2018) (0)
- Nancy Tayles (2020) (0)
- Crawford, S., Hadley, D. M. & Shepherd, G. (eds.) (2018). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood (2019) (0)
- Afterword (0)
- Early Childhood Diet during the Bronze Age Eastern Zhou Dynasty (China): Evidence from Stable Isotope Analysis (2019) (0)
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