Dr Belinda Tibbetts
Department: Archaeology
Discipline: Archaeology
Project Summary
My doctoral research investigated fetal, perinatal and infant palaeopathology and its relationship with maternal health and population stress. This was set within the broader context of improving the current understanding of past population dynamics and informing modern responses to maternal health and developmental pathology.
Supervisory Team
Primary Supervisor: Professor Christopher Knüsel / Dr Catriona McKenzie
Secondary Supervisor: Professor Alan Outram
Wider Research Interests
Human Pathology and Palaeopathology
Bioarchaeology of individuals and communities
Cultural responses to infant mortality and population stress, including conflict
Human skeletal development
Authored Publications/Reports
Radcliffe, D., Wilson, H., Powell, D., Tibbetts, B. (2009) Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Outcomes by design.
Tibbetts, B. (2008) Infant Burials in Iron Age Britain, Babies Reborn: Infant/Child Burials in Pre- and Protohistory., BAR International Series 1832, 189-194
Scott Haddow, Christopher Knüsel, Belinda Tibbetts, Marco Milella, Barbara Betz (February 2016) Chapter 5: Human Remains, Çatalhöyük 2015 Archive Report, 85-101
Tibbetts, B (August 2017) Perinatal Death and Cultural Buffering in a Neolithic Community, Children, Death and Burial: Archaeological Discourses, 35-42
Haddow, S.D., Milella, M., Tibbetts, B., Schotsmans, Knüsel, C.J. (October 2017) Human Remains, Çatalhöyük 2017 Archive Report, 103-141
Haddow, S.D., Schotsmans, E.M.J., Milella, M., Pilloud, M.A., Tibbetts, B., Knüsel, C.J. (2018) From Parts to a Whole? Exploring changes in funerary practices at Çatalhöyük
