Dr. H.l. Mickleburgh Mphil
Researcher
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Hayley L. Mickleburgh is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. She holds a BA and MA (hons.) in Archaeology (2005, 2007), and a PhD in Archaeology from Leiden University (2013). Her main research interests are bioarchaeology, funerary archaeology and archaeothanatology, and Caribbean archaeology.
Research Interest
Hayley’s PhD research project was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) within their ‘Toptalent’ program for ‘young creative talent’. For her PhD dissertation Reading the Dental Record. A Dental Anthropological approach to foodways, health and disease, and crafting in the pre-Columbian Caribbean she studied patterns of human dental wear and pathology in pre-colonial circum-Caribbean skeletal remains, in order to investigate foodways, health and disease, and craft activities.
Publications
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Mickleburgh H.L. & Pagan-Jimenez J.R. (2012), New insights into the consumption of maize and other food plants in the pre-Columbian Caribbean from starch grains trapped in human dental calculus, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 39(7): 2468-2478.
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Mickleburgh H.L. (26 September 2013), Reading the Dental Record. A dental anthropological approach to foodways, health and disease, and crafting in the pre-Columbian Caribbean (PhD thesis, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Leiden. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s):Prof. Dr. C.L. Hofman Dr. M.L.P. Hoogland Dr. D.A. Weston.
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Mickleburgh H.L. (2015), Skeletons in the closet: future avenues for the curation of archaeological human skeletal remains in the Dutch Caribbean and the rest of the region. In: Hofman C.L., Haviser J.B. (Eds.) Managing our Past into the Future. Archaeological Heritage Management in the Dutch Caribbean.. Taboui : collection d'archéologie CaraiÍ̈be no. 3 Leiden: Sidestone Press. 113-130.
