Siân Halcrow
@ancientchildren.bsky.social
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Bioarchaeologist http://childhoodbioarchaeology.org | http://facebook.com/childhoodanth/ | Co-Editor of Bioarchaeology International. Mother.
British Academy Global Professor at Durham University and Professor at University of Otago | Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka
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Siân Halcrow
@ancientchildren.bsky.social
· Aug 16
Biocultural Perspectives of Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence in the Past: Challenges, Complexities, and Interdisciplinarity
This article offers an introduction to this special issue which focusses on emerging biocultural insights into non-adult lives. The five papers included in this issue are deliberately temporally, g...
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Siân Halcrow
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· Aug 16
The Non-Adult Burials of Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge (Portugal): Recent Discoveries and New Insights into Mesolithic Funerary Practices
Cabeço da Amoreira, a key Mesolithic shell mound in the Muge region (central Portugal) provides critical insights into the funerary and socio-cultural practices of Western Europe’s last hunter-gath...
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Siân Halcrow
@ancientchildren.bsky.social
· Aug 10
Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland
The assessment of sex is fundamental in osteoarcheological analysis, yet traditional morphological methods are less reliable for children due to the incomplete development of sexually dimorphic trait....
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Siân Halcrow
@ancientchildren.bsky.social
· Jun 30
Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...
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Siân Halcrow
@ancientchildren.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Children of Svodín: An Insight Into the Lives of Late Neolithic (4800–4115 bc) Subadults From Slovakia
Despite the allegedly high proportion of subadults, limited attention has been paid to children and understanding their role and position in prehistoric communities. By investigating the skeletal rem...
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