Rebecca Redfern
Curator of physical anthropology
Department: Ancient Egypt and Sudan
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8311
Email: egyptian @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Rebecca Redfern has responsibility for analysing human
remains, particularly those from excavations in Sudan, to prepare
them for cataloguing, publication and research access.
She provides advice on appropriate
storage and conservation requirements and implements a program of
registration in liaison with other curators in the
department. Rebecca also analyses, creates inventories and
produces reports on the collections curated by the department, and
identifies their research potential.
Before joining the British Museum, Rebecca
worked for the Museum of London Archaeology Service as a human
osteologist on ‘The Spitalfields Project’ from 2003 to 2007.
Her special interests
include palaeopathology, bioarchaeology, the archaeologies of
ageing and gender, and medical practices. Areas of expertise: Iron
Age and Roman Britain, bioarchaeology, and palaeopathology.
Current British Museum projects
Previous British Museum projects
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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
American Association of Physical
Anthropologists
Paleopathology Association
British Association of Biological Anthropology
and Osteoarchaeology
Publications
Most recent publications
B Connell, A Gray Jones, R C Redfern, and D
Walker, Spitalfields: a bioarchaeological study of
health and disease from a medieval
Londoncemetery. Archaeological excavations at
Spitalfields Market 1991–2007, volume 3 (London,
MoLAS Monograph) - in review
P D Mitchell and R C Redfern, 'The prevalence of dislocation in
developmental dysplasia of the hip in Britain over the past
thousand years', in Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
(accepted for publication)
P D Mitchell and R C Redfern, 'Diagnostic
criteria for developmental dislocation of the hip in human skeletal
remains', in International Journal of
Osteoarchaeology, (Published online 16/05/2007).
R C Redfern, 'A bioarchaeological analysis of
violence in Iron Age females: a perspective from Dorset England
(mid to late seventh century BC to the first century
AD)', in, O P Davis, N M Sharples and K E Waddington
(eds.), Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium B.C.
(Oxford, Oxbow Books, in press)
R C Redfern, 'The influence of culture upon childhood: an
osteological study of Iron Age and Romano-British Dorset, England',
in, M. Harlow and R. Laurence (eds.), Age and Ageing in the
Roman Empire: Approaches to the Roman Life Course, Journal of
Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, 64, (2007), pp.171-190