Bioarchaeologist https://xitter.cf/t.co/wEjdYLGSys | https://xitter.cf/t.co/JH4FOUSdSb | British Academy Global Professor at Durham University and Otago Uni
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Our new #openaccess book on bioarchaeology and social justice released last week already has over 11K downloads. @SpringerAnthro @SpringerNature Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice link.springer.com/book/10.10…
Pathways Out of Marginalization:
Women in Chinese Archaeology on the National and International Academic Scenes muse.jhu.edu/article/1004295
The presence of scurvy in Early Medieval (9th-10th centuries) Barcelon… sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professorship of Material Culture at University of Cambridge jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB276/direct…
"Fragments of the Past, Lives of the Little: An Archaeological Perspectives on Children and Childhood in South Asia of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License" — Read it on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…
Post-medieval child labor left Dutch children with damaged spines before adulthood archaeologymag.com/2026/08/c…
"The invisible evidence of birth: evaluating the relationship between pelvic shape and parity with a pelvic pattern index" — Read it on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…
Neanderthal hips challenge long-standing hypothesis of a trade-off between childbirth and bipedal walking phys.org/news/2026-08-neande… via @physorg_com
Navigating Academic Motherhood
The Possibilities of Effective Mentorship for Tenured Faculty Mothers taylorfrancis.com/books/edit…
Check out my review of Laurie A. Wilkie & Katherine M. Kinkopf. 2026. An introduction to crip archaeology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. A must read for all bioarchaeologists engaging with disability and care. Antiquity | Cambridge Core - cup.org/4xw6r1l
Today has felt a bit like Academic Valentine's Day. ❤️ Nothing beats receiving a paper decision with very minor revisions, alongside comments about its importance to the field and how beautifully written it is. Even more special, this is my first autoethnography. #feminism
Check out this latest podcast that Alison Carter invited me to be part of on the Myth of the Gay Caveman.
"How did a Neolithic burial in Prague become a viral "gay caveman?"
thisancientlife.com/the-myth…
Assessing Violence in a Museum Collection of Human Remains | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core - cup.org/4wXnOb9
Siân Halcrow 👩🏻💻💀 retweeted
'Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice,' an #OpenAccess volume, is the first dedicated to action within #bioarchaeology and cognate disciplines, with the aim of fostering social and political change. spklr.io/6013EuruR
Full article: A New Model for Identifying and Interpreting Evidence for Child Abuse and Neglect in the Archaeological Record tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Full article: A New Model for Identifying and Interpreting Evidence for Child Abuse and Neglect in the Archaeological Record tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Siân Halcrow 👩🏻💻💀 retweeted
Medical museums often display infant remains: how they were acquired was frequently harrowing and involved eugenic thinking theconversation.com/medical-… via @ancientchildren et al
How male anatomy became the default in medicine – and why that’s a problem theconversation.com/how-male… via @ConversationUK
Forgotten infants in museum collections reflect past and present injustices - Durham University durham.ac.uk/news-events/lat…