Publications – Chapters and Books

I have published over 30 chapters and co-edited one book. Please contact me sian.halcrow@otago.ac.nz if you would like a copy of any of these works.

Edited Books

Gowland, R.*, & Halcrow, S.* (Eds.). (2020). The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 284p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4

*editors contributed equally.

Chapter in Book

Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (2020). Introduction: The mother-infant nexus in archaeology and anthropology. In R. Gowland & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. (pp. 1-15). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_1

Halcrow, S., & Gowland, R. (2020). Concluding thoughts: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. In R. Gowland & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. (pp. 275-277). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_15

Halcrow, S. (2020). Infants in the bioarchaeological past: Who cares? In R. Garland & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology: Small beginnings, significant outcomes. (pp. 19-38). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_2

Halcrow, S. E., Crozier, R., Domett, K. M., Lertcharnrit, T., Newton, J. S., & Shewan, L. G. (2019). Ethical issues of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia. In K. Squires, D. Errickson & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), Ethical approaches to human remains: A global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. (pp. 465-484). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_21

Gilmore, H., Aranui, A., & Halcrow, S. E. (2019). Ethical issues of bioarchaeology in New Zealand-Aotearoa: Relationships, research, and repatriation. In K. Squires, D. Errickson & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), Ethical approaches to human remains: A global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. (pp. 431-445). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_19

Gilmore, H. F., & Halcrow, S. E. (2019). Melding the past and the present: Using bioarchaeology to understand death in Aotearoa New Zealand. In R. McManus, J. Cornwall & S. Raudon (Eds.), Death down under: Twenty-first century dying, death, disposal and memorialisation in the Antipodes. (pp. 9-22). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Inglis, R. M., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). The bioarchaeology of childhood: Theoretical development in the field. In P. Beauchesne & S. C. Agarwal (Eds.), Children and childhood in bioarchaeology. (pp. 33-60). Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.

Halcrow, S. E., & Ward, S. M. (2018). Children in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. In C. Smith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (2nd ed.) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_143-2

Ward, S. M., Halcrow, S. E., Buckley, H. R., Higham, C. F. W., O’Reilly, D. J. W., Shewan, L., & Domett, K. M. (2018). Developing a new project: The impact of social change on health at the late Iron Age site of Non Ban Jak in Northeast Thailand. In N. H. Tan (Ed.), Advancing Southeast Asian archaeology 2016: Selected papers from the second SEAMEO SPAFA international conference on Southeast Asian archaeology. (pp. 259-275). Bangkok, Thailand: SEAMEO SPAFA Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts.

Halcrow, S., & Ward, S. (2017). Bioarchaeology of childhood. In H. Montgomery (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies: Childhood studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199791231-0178

Halcrow, S. E., Tayles, N., & Elliott, G. E. (2017). The bioarchaeology of fetuses. In S. Han, T. K. Betsinger & A. B. Scott (Eds.), The anthropology of the fetus: Biology, culture, and society. (pp. 83-111). New York: Berghahn Books.

Halcrow, S. E., King, C. L., Millard, A. R., Snoddy, A. M. E., Scott, R. M., Elliott, G. E., … Buckley, H. R., … Arriaza, B. T. (2017). Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings: Breastfeeding and weaning in the past. In C. Tomori, A. E. L. Palmquist & E. A. Quinn (Eds.), Breastfeeding: New anthropological approaches. (pp. 155-169). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Buckley, H. R., Domett, K., Halcrow, S. E., & Oxenham, M. (2016). A dedication. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. xxv-xxviii). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Halcrow, S. E., Tayles, N., & King, C. L. (2016). Infant and child health and disease with agricultural intensification in mainland Southeast Asia. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 158-186). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Harris, N. J., Buckley, H. R., Halcrow, S. E., Kinaston, R. L., Foster, A., Simanjantuk, T., & Galipaud, J.-C. (2016). Field anthropology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: Initial steps toward a regional overview and the Pain Haka case study. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 289-310). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Tayles, N., & Halcrow, S. E. (2016). Age-at-death estimation in a sample of prehistoric Southeast Asian adolescents and adults. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 220-238). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Domett, K., Newton, J., Colbert, A., Chang, N., & Halcrow, S. E. (2016). Frail, foreign or favoured? A contextualized case study from Bronze Age northeast Thailand. In M. Oxenham & H. Buckley (Eds.), Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 68-94). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Tayles, N., Halcrow, S., & Clark, A. (2015). Ban Non Wat: Current research on late prehistoric people in the Upper Mun River Valley, Northeast Thailand. In N. H. Tan (Ed.), Advancing Southeast Asian archaeology 2013: Selected papers from the first SEAMEO SPAFA international conference on Southeast Asian archaeology. (pp. 279-288). Bangkok, Thailand: SEAMEO SPAFA Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts.

Halcrow, S., & Boonlop, K. (2014). Report on the human remains from the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project [Collaborator report]. In J. C. White (Ed.), Strengthening the future of Southeast Asian archaeology: Investigating prehistoric settlement of the Middle Mekong Basin [Final report]. (pp. 23-42). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Gilmore, H. F., & Halcrow, S. E. (2014). Sense or sensationalism? Approaches to explaining high perinatal mortality in the past. In J. L. Thompson, M. P. Alfonso-Durruty & J. J. Crandall (Eds.), Tracing childhood: Bioarchaeological investigations of early lives in antiquity. (pp. 123-138). Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

Tayles, N., Halcrow, S., & Pureepatpong, N. (2012). Regional developments: Southeast Asia. In J. E. Buikstra & C. A. Roberts (Eds.), The global history of paleopathology: Pioneers and prospects. (pp. 528-540). Oxford University Press.

Clark, A., Tayles, N., & Halcrow, S. (2012). Sexual dimorphism in adult skeletal remains at Ban Non Wat, Thailand, during the intensification of agriculture in early prehistoric Southeast Asia. In P. D. Mitchell & J. Buckberry (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. (pp. 17-28). Oxford, UK: Archaeopress.

Tayles, N., & Halcrow, S. (2011). New Zealand/Aotearoa. In N. Márquez-Grant & L. Fibiger (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of archaeological human remains and legislation: An international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains. (pp. 647-655). London: Routledge.

Halcrow, S. E., & Tayles, N. (2011). The bioarchaeological investigation of children and childhood. In S. C. Agarwal & B. A. Glencross (Eds.), Social bioarchaeology. (pp. 333-360). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Halcrow, S., Tayles, N., Pureepatpong, N., & Boonlop, K. (2011). Thailand. In N. Márquez-Grant & L. Fibiger (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of archaeological human remains and legislation: An international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains. (pp. 623-631). London: Routledge.

Halcrow, S. E., & Tayles, N. (2011). Human diversity in mainland Southeast Asia: The contribution of bioarchaeology. In N. J. Enfield (Ed.), Dynamics of human diversity: The case of mainland Southeast Asia. (pp. 47-61). Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics.

Tayles, N., Domett, K., & Halcrow, S. (2009). Can dental caries be interpreted as evidence of farming? The Asian experience. In T. Koppe, G. Meyer & K. W. Alt (Eds.), Comparative dental morphology: Selected papers of the 14th International Symposium on Dental Morphology. (pp. 162-166). Basel, Switzerland: Karger. doi: 10.1159/000242411

Tayles, N., Halcrow, S., & Domett, K. (2007). The people of Noen U-Loke. In C. F. W. Higham, A. Kijngam & S. Talbot (Eds.), The origins of the civilization of Angkor (Vol. II): The excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao. (pp. 244-304). Bangkok, Thailand: The Thai Fine Arts Department.