Siân Ellen Halcrow is a

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academic in the field of

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, specialising in infant and child health and disease in the past. She is a professor in the department of anatomy at the

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Academic career

Halcrow began a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in

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at the

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and transferred to the University of Otago for her third year and honours year. Halcrow completed a

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at the University of Otago in 2006; her thesis was titled ''Subadult health and disease in late prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia.'' In 2010, she was appointed to a lecturing position at the University of Otago. She has led and worked on archaeological projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Chile and New Zealand.

Awards and recognition

In 2018, Halcrow won the Hill Tinsley Medal from the

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. In the same year, she received the University of Otago's Rowheath Trust Award and Carl Smith Medal for outstanding scholarly achievement of researchers in the early stages of their careers.

Selected works

* Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (Eds.). (2020). ''The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes''. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4 * Halcrow, S.E., Tayles, N. "The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Childhood and Social Age: Problems and Prospects". '' Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory'' 15, 190–215 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-008-9052-x

References

External links

University profile
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