Staff Profiles

Rebecca (BA, MSc, PhD, FSA) joined the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology at the Museum of London in 2008.  Before then, she was the Curator of Physical Anthropology at The British Museum, and had worked for Museum of London Archaeology as a human osteologist on The Spitalfields Project from 2003 to 2007. Rebecca was elected to be a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2011 and in 2012, was awarded the RM Baguley Award by The Prehistoric Society for her paper on the bioarchaeology of Maiden Castle hillfort. Between 2016-18, she was an Honorary Research Associate at Durham University. 

https://museumoflondon.academia.edu/RebeccaRedfern

My current research interests focus on three areas: the ethics of human remains, ancestry in Roman and Medieval populations, and enslavement. 

https://museumoflondon.academia.edu/RebeccaRedfern

• Redfern RC, Austin A. Ankylosis of a knee joint from Medieval London: Trauma, congenital anomaly or osteoarthritis?. International Journal of Paleopathology 2020, 20, 69-87.
• Klunk J, Duggan AT, Redfern R, Gamble J, Boldsen JL, Golding GB, Walter BS, Eaton K, Stangroom J, Rouillard J-M, Devault A, DeWitte SN, Poinar HN. Genetic resiliency and the Black Death: No apparent loss of mitogenomic diversity due to the Black Death in medieval London and Denmark. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2019, 169(2), 240-252.
• Redfern RC, DeWitte SN, Beaumont J, Millard AR, Hamlin C. A new method for investigating the relationship between diet and mortality: hazard analysis using dietary isotopes. Annals of Human Biology 2019, 46(5), 378-387.
• Redfern RC, Roberts CA. Chapter 9 - Trauma. In: Buikstra,JE, ed. Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains (Third Edition). London: Elsevier, 2019, pp.211-284. In Preparation.
• Redfern RC, Hefner J. "Officially absent but actually present": bioarchaeological evidence for population diversity in London during the Black Death, AD 1348-50. In: Mant A; Holland A, ed. Bioarchaeology of Marginalized People. London: Elsevier, 2019, pp.69-114.
• Redfern RC. Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Violence in Past Lives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Clegg M, Redfern RC, Bekvalac J, Bonney H, ed. Global perspectives: understanding the shared humanity of our ancestors. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2013.