Siân Halcrow

Motherhood and Feminism are not Dirty Words: Reimagining Archaeological Practice For International Women’s Day, I wanted to reflect on some of my old and new writings on the intersection of motherhood and archaeology. Gendered and intersectional inequities shape access, s…

Motherhood and Feminism are not Dirty Words: Reimagining Archaeological Practice childhoodbioarchaeology.org/2026/03/08/m...

National award for Melsonby Hoard project - Durham University

Melsonby Hoard wins Current Archaeology’s Rescue Project of The Year - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

A geometric morphometrics approach to sex estimation of infants from 0 to 6 years using the auricular surface
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Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. Despite historical records saying otherwise, Roman babies were mourned at death, research into unique plaster burials from York reveals.

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A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

A large mass grave with selective violence towards women and children www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Melancholy of Anatomy | Mike Jay Almost every day between 1703 and 1730, Frederik Ruysch’s home at Bloemgracht 15, a narrow, four-story townhouse on a canal in Amsterdam’s Jordaan

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More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universities New Zealand universities are slowly closing the pay gap, but men are still more likely to fill senior leadership roles in the highest pay brackets.

More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universities
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As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Children on fieldwork: how two scientist mothers made it happen We both struggled with the idea of juggling our families and field teams — but we found good reasons to keep pursuing our goals.

Children on fieldwork: how two scientist mothers made it happen www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

hmmmm. Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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Assessing Biological Mortality Bias From Deciduous Tooth Emergence Objectives Traits found in a skeletal sample are frequently used to infer qualities of the living population from which the skeletons were drawn. However, traits observed in a mortality sample may e...

Assessing Biological Mortality Bias From Deciduous Tooth Emergence - Holman - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Adjusting the Aperture: Decolonizing Time in Studies of Human Behavior and Evolution Biological anthropology has long positioned foraging and often pastoralist populations as the most appropriate referent communities for the rigorous study of human behavior and evolution. With this, ...

Adjusting the Aperture: Decolonizing Time in Studies of Human Behavior and Evolution - Nelson - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Field Methods for Investigating Onset and Progression of Middle Childhood Physical, Hormonal, Cognitive and Social Development - Helfrecht - 2025 - American Journal of Human Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Parents don’t need to try harder – to ease parenting stress, forget self-reliance and look for ways to share the care A paradigm shift toward more social support is in order. It may sound countercultural, but really it’s a return to how people have raised children for thousands of years.

Parents don’t need to try harder – to ease parenting stress, forget self-reliance and look for ways to share the care
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Evolved birth physiology meets modern birth practice: Sustained effects of planned cesarean delivery on child hair cortisol in Brazil | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Ba...

Full article: Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents An anthropologist compares her early motherhood in London with child care experiences in a hunter-gatherer community of Central Africa.

To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents
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Continued Metacarpal Cortical Bone Growth in Mid to Late Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study of Cortical Bone Acquisition in a Documented Sample of 16‐ to 20‐Year‐Olds Cortical bone of the second and third metacarpals continues to grow in thickness in the years immediately following epiphyseal fusion.

Continued Metacarpal Cortical Bone Growth in Mid to Late Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study of Cortical Bone Acquisition in a Documented Sample of 16‐ to 20‐Year‐Olds - Schneider - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

References: Life and Death During Childhood in Late Holocene Hunter-Gatherers from the Lower Paraná Wetlands (Argentina) www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...

New partnership to showcase Māori treasure in Aotearoa New Zealand - Durham University

New partnership to showcase Māori treasure in Aotearoa New Zealand - www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Small Adults or Big Kids?: Exploring Archaeological and Bioarcheological Approaches to Adolescence | Berghahn Books url:https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AverySmall

News - Hunter-Gatherer Childcare Studied - Archaeology Magazine CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Cambridge, evolutionary anthropologist Nikhil Chaudhary […]

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Were there female gladiators in ancient Rome? Rome is famous for its gladiators, but were any of these fighters women?

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Precious People: Indigenous Medical-Spiritual Relations in the Archaeology of Maya Childhood Previous studies of bodily ornaments from burial contexts have often fixated on notions of wealth, social inequality, and prestige. Although such considerations are often pertinent, our work provid...

Precious People: Indigenous Medical-Spiritual Relations in the Archaeology of Maya Childhood: Childhood in the Past www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Anatomical Basis of Skeletal Robusticity in Sex Estimation: Testing the Relationships Between Soft Tissue and Enthesis Size Objectives In skeletal sex estimation, some morphological methods assume relationships between soft tissue (muscle/ligament) size, skeletal robusticity (enthesis size), and sexual dimorphism, where .....

The Anatomical Basis of Skeletal Robusticity in Sex Estimation: Testing the Relationships Between Soft Tissue and Enthesis Size - De La Paz - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...