Miss Katie Faillace

Overview

I am a dental anthropologist and bioarchaeologist, studying human remains using macroscopic and molecular methods. My research focuses broadly on mobility, diet, and lifeways in the past. I also have an interest in methodological studies, interrogating and developing the techniques used for analysing human and animal remains. I have worked on projects ranging from the Neolithic to Post-Medieval period. Specific themes I'm interested in include:

• The application of multi-isotope analysis (carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, oxygen, strontium, lead) on osseous remains for investigating diet and mobility
• Dental morphological (ASUDAS) and metrical analysis for investigating population affinity
• Macroscopic osteological analysis for investigating past lifeways, with a specialist interest in social and biological age
• Innovations in isotopic analyses

Current projects include:

Biodistance in Britain: A dental morphometric analysis of migration in Wessex from the Iron Age to Early Medieval Period (ongoing PhD thesis)

The Medieval Population of Haverfordwest: Osteological and Isotopic Investigations of Medieval Welsh Lifeways

Passage Tomb People