Dr H.L. (Hayley) Mickleburgh
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Archeologie
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
Postal address
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Postbus 94203
1090 GE Amsterdam
Contact details
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About me
I am an archaeologist and a certified 3D modelling and animation specialist, with research/teaching experience in forensic archaeology, mortuary archaeology and digital archaeology. Besides teaching digital and scientific archaeology, I am the Director of the 4D Research Lab (4DRL). My research interests and expertise cover the archaeology of death and burial, forensic archaeology, forensic taphonomy, mass graves, 3D visualization in achaeology, sensory archaeology, ethics regarding human remains in archaeology and museum contexts, and Caribbean archaeology.
I have developed and currently lead an innovative, interdisciplinary program of human decomposition experiments at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS). This research combines actualistic taphonomic experiments with 3D visualization methods, and a variety of biomolecular, biogeochemical, geophysical and remote sensing techniques to improve methods, models and interpretations in mortuary archaeology (especially archaeothanatology) and forensic archaeology.
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Publications
2025
Brooks, J., Jantzi, A., Brown, K., Birch, W., Lijcklama a Nijeholt, L., Rogers, C., Mickleburgh, H., Randolph-Quinney, P., Kootker, L., Aalders, M., Oostra, R. J., Williams, A., Hiley, C., Everett, J., & Cassella, J. P. (2025). Establishing a Pan-European, multi-disciplinary taphonomic research Infrastructure: The ‘UK-Netherlands decomposition experimental research (UNDER) Group’. Science and Justice, 65(1), 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2024.12.007 [details]- Mickleburgh, H. L., Procopio, N., Bonicelli, A., Ogbanga, N., Sguazzi, G., Gino, S., van der Hulst, R., Doro, K., Gocha, T. P., Wescott, D. J., Kootker, L. M., & Ammer, S. T. M. (2025). The Mass Grave Project: Advancing Mass Grave Investigation Through an Interdisciplinary Program of Actualistic Taphonomic Research. In P. M. Barone, & W. J. M. Groen (Eds.), Forensic Archaeology and New Multidisciplinary Approaches: Topics Discussed During the 2018-2023 European Meetings on Forensic Archaeology (EMFA) (pp. 111-134). (Soil Forensics). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86308-0_8 [details]
2024
- Kootker, L. M., Ammer, S. T. M., Wescott, D. J., Davies, G. R., & Mickleburgh, H. L. (2024). Sr–Pb isotope differences in pre- and post-burial human bone, teeth, and hair keratin: implications for isotope forensics. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 138(1), 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-02976-5 [details]
- Mickleburgh, H. L. (2024). The Mass Grave Project: An interdisciplinary approach to the archaeology of mass graves. In I. Saloul, S. Berrebi, N. Munawar, & M. Panico (Eds.), AHM Conference 2024: 'Heritage, Memory and Material Culture' (Vol. 3, pp. 109-116). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048567638/AHM.2024.018 [details]
2023
- Hanson, I., Klinkner, M., Cheetham, P., Barker, C., & Mickleburgh, H. L. (2023). Mass Graves. In M. M. Houck (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (3rd ed., Vol. 3, pp. 452-463). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823677-2.00176-8 [details]
- Ogbanga, N., Nelson, A., Gino, S., Wescott, D. J., Mickleburgh, H. L., Gocha, T. P., & Procopio, N. (2023). The impact of freezing on the post-mortem human microbiome. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, Article 1151001. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1151001 [details]
- Pagán-Jiménez, J. R., & Mickleburgh, H. L. (2023). Caribbean Deep-Time Culinary Worlds Revealed by Ancient Food Starches: Beyond the Dominant Narratives. Journal of Archaeological Research, 31, 55–101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09171-3
2022
- Bonicelli, A., Mickleburgh, H. L., Chighine, A., Locci, E., Wescott, D. J., & Procopio, N. (2022). The 'ForensOMICS' approach for postmortem interval estimation from human bone by integrating metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics. eLife, 11, Article e83658. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.29.510059, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83658 [details]
- Doro, K. O., Emmanuel, E. D., Adebayo, M. B., Bank, C. G., Wescott, D. J., & Mickleburgh, H. L. (2022). Time-Lapse Electrical Resistivity Tomography Imaging of Buried Human Remains in Simulated Mass and Individual Graves. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, Article 882496. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.882496
- Doro, K. O., Kolapkar, A. M., Bank, C. G., Wescott, D. J., & Mickleburgh, H. L. (2022). Geophysical imaging of buried human remains in simulated mass and single graves: Experiment design and results from pre-burial to six months after burial. Forensic Science International, 335, Article 111289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111289
- Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Robinson, M., Burn, M., Gosling, W. D., Mickleburgh, H., Walters, S., & Beier, Z. (2022). The legacy of 1300 years of land use in Jamaica. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2022.2078448
- Mickleburgh, H. L., Wescott, D. J., Gluschitz, S., & Klinkenberg, M. V. (2022). Exploring the use of actualistic forensic taphonomy in the study of (forensic) archaeological human burials: An actualistic experimental research programme at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS), San Marcos, Texas. In C. J. Knüsel, & E. M. J. Schotsmans (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Behaviour (pp. 542-562). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030625-33 [details]
- Peyroteo-Stjerna, R., Nilsson Stutz, L., Mickleburgh, H. L., & Cardoso, J. L. (2022). Mummification in the Mesolithic: New Approaches to Old Photo Documentation Reveal Previously Unknown Mortuary Practices in the Sado Valley, Portugal. European Journal of Archaeology, 25(3), 309-330. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.3 [details]
- Sguazzi, G., Mickleburgh, H. L., Ghignone, S., Voyron, S., Renò, F., Migliario, M., Sellitto, F., Lovisolo, F., Camurani, G., Ogbanga, N., Gino, S., & Procopio, N. (2022). Microbial DNA in human nucleic acid extracts: Recoverability of the microbiome in DNA extracts stored frozen long-term and its potential and ethical implications for forensic investigation. Forensic Science International: Genetics, 59, Article 102686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2022.102686
2021
- Mickleburgh, H. L., Schwalbe, E. C., Bonicelli, A., Mizukami, H., Sellitto, F., Starace, S., Wescott, D. J., Carter, D. O., & Procopio, N. (2021). Human Bone Proteomes before and after Decomposition: Investigating the Effects of Biological Variation and Taphonomic Alteration on Bone Protein Profiles and the Implications for Forensic Proteomics. Journal of Proteome Research, 20(5), 2533-2546. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00992
- Mickleburgh, H. L., Stutz, L. N., & Fokkens, H. (2021). Virtual Archaeology of Death and Burial: A Procedure for Integrating 3D Visualization and Analysis in Archaeothanatology. Open Archaeology, 7, 540-555. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0152
- Opgenhaffen, L., Revello Lami, M., & Mickleburgh, H. (2021). Art, Creativity and Automation. From Charters to Shared 3D Visualization Practices. Open Archaeology, 7, 1648-1659. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0162 [details]
2020
- Kootker, L. M., von Holstein, I. C. C., Broeders, J., Wescott, D. J., Davies, G. R., & Mickleburgh, H. L. (2020). Reprint of: The effects of decomposition and environment on antemortem H-Pb-Sr isotope compositions and degradation of human scalp hair: Actualistic taphonomic observations. Forensic Science International, 317, Article 110463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110463
- Kootker, L. M., von Holstein, I. C. C., Broeders, J., Wescott, D. J., Davies, G. R., & Mickleburgh, H. L. (2020). The effects of decomposition and environment on antemortem H-Pb-Sr isotope compositions and degradation of human scalp hair: Actualistic taphonomic observations. Forensic Science International, 312, Article 110336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110336
- Mickleburgh, H. L., Nilsson Stutz, L., & Fokkens, H. (2020). Digital Archaeology of Death and Burial. Using 3D Reconstruction, Visualization and Simulation to Frame Past Experience. In J. Hansson , & J. Svensson (Eds.), Digital Humanities: Concepts, Approaches, Cases (pp. 121-145). Linnaeus University Press.
2019
- Mickleburgh, H. L., Hoogland, M. L. P., Laffoon, J., Weston, D. A., Valcárcel Rojas, R., van Duijvenbode, A., & Mol, A. A. A. (2019). Defining non-normative practices in a variable funerary record: insights from the Caribbean. In T. Betsinger, A. Scott, & A. Tsaliki (Eds.), The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange. : Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials (pp. 114-132). The University Press of Florida (UPF).
- Mickleburgh, H. L., Laffoon, J. E., Pagán Jiménez, J. R., Mol, A. A. A., Walters, S., Beier, Z. J. M., & Hofman, C. L. (2019). Precolonial/early colonial human burials from the site of White Marl, Jamaica: New findings from recent rescue excavations. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(1), 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2707
2018
- Laffoon, J. E., Espersen, R., & Mickleburgh, H. L. (2018). The Life History of an Enslaved African: Multiple Isotope Evidence for Forced Childhood Migration from Africa to the Caribbean and Associated Dietary Change. Archaeometry, 60(2), 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12354
- Mickleburgh, H. L. (2018). Actualistic experimental taphonomy of inhumation burial. In P. M. Barone, & W. J. M. Groen (Eds.), Forensic Archaeology and Human Remains (pp. 105-115). (Springer Soil Forensics; Vol. 2). Springer.
- Mickleburgh, H. L., & Laffoon, J. E. (2018). Assessing dietary and subsistence transitions on prehistoric Aruba: Preliminary bioarchaeological evidence. In The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC - AD 1500) (pp. 288-306). Taylor and Francis Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351169202-13
- Mickleburgh, H. L., & Wescott, D. J. (2018). Controlled experimental observations on joint disarticulation and bone displacement of a human body in an open pit: Implications for funerary archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 20, 158-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.022
2016
- Mickleburgh, H. L. (2016). Dental Wear and Pathology in the Precolonial Caribbean: Evidence for Dietary Change in the Ceramic Age. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 26(2), 290-302. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2421
2015
- Mickleburgh, H. L. (2015). DENTAL ANALYSIS. In Archaeology of Food: an Encyclopedia (pp. 130-132). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
- Mickleburgh, H. L. (2015). Dental Analysis. In K. Bescherer, & M. Beaudry (Eds.), The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia Rowman & Littlefield.
2014
- Rojas, R. V., Iglesias, L. P., Rodríguez, E. G., Hofman, C., Knight, V. J., Hoogland, M., Martinón-Torres, M., Weston, D., Laffoon, J. E., Bayliss, A., Newsom, L. A., Mickleburgh, H. L., Van Duijvenbode, A., Persons, A. B., Cooper, J., Rodríguez, J. G., & Ramírez, J. A. C. (2014). NUEVAS INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLÓGICAS EN EL CHORRO DE MAÍTA: DE ESPACIO INDÍGENA A ESCENARIO DE DOMINACIÓN COLONIAL. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba , 4(2).
- Valcárcel Rojas, R., Pérez Iglesias, L., Guarch Rodríguez, E., Martinon Torres, M., Weston, D. A., Laffoon, J. E., Bayliss, A., Newsom, L., Mickleburgh, H. L., van Duijvenbode, A., Persons, A. B., Cooper, J., Guarch Rodríguez, J., & Cruz Ramírez, J. (2014). Nuevas Investigaciones Arqueológicas en El Chorro de Maíta: De espacio Indígena a escenario de dominación colonial. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba , 4(2), 1-9. http://www.revistaccuba.cu/index.php/revacc/article/view/167
2013
- Crespo Torres, E., Mickleburgh, H. L., & Valcárcel Rojas, R. (2013). The Study of Pre-Columbian Human Remains in the Caribbean Archipelago. From Descriptive Osteology to a Bioarchaeological Approach. In W. Keegan, C. Hofman, & R. Rodriguez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology (pp. 436-451)
2012
- Hofman, C. L., Hoogland, M. L. P., Mickleburgh, H. L., Laffoon, J. E., Weston, D. A., & Field, M. H. (2012). Life and death at precolumbian Lavoutte, Saint Lucia, lesser antilles. Journal of Field Archaeology, 37(3), 209-225. https://doi.org/10.1179/0093469012Z.00000000020
- Mickleburgh, H. L., & Pagán-Jiménez, 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.02.020
2011
- Valcárcel Rojas, R., Weston, D. A., Mickleburgh, H. L., Laffoon, J. E., & van Duijvenbode, A. (2011). El Chorro de Maíta: A diverse approach to a context of diversity. In C. Hofman, & A. van Duijvenbode (Eds.), Communities in Contact: Essays in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean (pp. 225-251). Sidestone Press. https://www.sidestone.com/books/communities-in-contact
2023
- Mickleburgh, H. L., Baetsen, W., Dijkstra, A., Edens, E., Eeltink, N., Fricke, F., de Jonge, L., Kootker, L. M., Schats, R., Schrader, S., & Seferidou, E. (2023). NVFA Ethical Guidelines on Human Remains. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24081387.v1
2016
- Mickleburgh, H. L. (2016). Dental wear and pathology at Chorro de Maita, Cuba. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159, 228-228.
Prize / grant
- Mickleburgh, H. (2021). EMFA Best presentation award.
- Mickleburgh, H. (2019). THANATOS. Exploring new directions in archaeoTHANatology and the Archaeology of death and burial: integrating meThods, methodology and theOretical approacheS.
- Mickleburgh, H. (2017). National Postdoc Prize. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2017/11/first-dutch-national-post-doc-prize-awarded-to-dr.-hayley-mickleburgh
- Mickleburgh, H. (2008). Teeth Tell Tales.
Media appearance
- Mickleburgh, H. (22-03-2025). Virtueel massagraf leert ons lugubere maar waardevolle lessen: ‘Diverse lichamen tezamen laten een heel andere, tragere ontbinding zien’ [Print] Het Parool. Virtueel massagraf leert ons lugubere maar waardevolle lessen: ‘Diverse lichamen tezamen laten een heel andere, tragere ontbinding zien’. https://www.parool.nl/wereld/virtueel-massagraf-leert-ons-lugubere-maar-waardevolle-lessen-diverse-lichamen-tezamen-laten-een-heel-andere-tr…
- Mickleburgh, H. & Aalders, M. (21-03-2025). Het Misdaadbureau over 'groene getuigen' [Radio] NPO Radio 1. Het Misdaadbureau over 'groene getuigen'. https://www.nporadio1.nl/uitzendingen/het-misdaadbureau/9dd736c7-e0d1-4145-ac46-5115fd21ce59/2025-03-21-het-misdaadbureau
- Mickleburgh, H. (18-03-2025). Bezuinigingen bedreigt onderzoek naar massagraven: ‘Opgraven kan maar één keer’ [Web] Folia. Bezuinigingen bedreigt onderzoek naar massagraven: ‘Opgraven kan maar één keer’. https://www.folia.nl/nl/wetenschap/165366/bezuinigingen-bedreigt-onderzoek-naar-massagraven-opgraven-kan-maar-een-keer
- Mickleburgh, H. (25-01-2017). Waarom wetenschappers lijken in een veld leggen [Radio] NPO radio 1. Nieuws en Co. wetenschap interview on forensic archaeological research. https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/wetenschap-techniek/aa247c7a-4e33-4db0-91bd-e65b909c9498/waarom-wetenschappers-lijken-in-een-veld-leggen
Others
- Mickleburgh, H. (examiner) (11-6-2025). Exhibiting human remains: an issue at the intersection of ethics, museology, archaeology, and law (examination).
- de Rooy, L. (chair), Wolff Mitchell, P. (organiser), Mickleburgh, H. (organiser), de Gelder, L. (organiser) & M'charek, A. (organiser) (27-3-2025). Menselijke resten in museumcollecties: zorg, verantwoordelijkheid en zorgen, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Mickleburgh, H. (host) (24-3-2025 - 6-4-2025). Liv Nilsson Stutz (hosting a visitor).
- Mickleburgh, H. (host) (1-3-2025 - 30-6-2025). Sarah Gluschitz (hosting a visitor).
- Slootjes, D. (organiser), Stocks, C. (organiser) & Mickleburgh, H. (organiser) (21-11-2024). Games at the Edge of Empire: a Digital Games Workshop, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Mickleburgh, H. (examiner) (13-6-2024). How to stop time: shedding light on spontaneous mummification while developing a method for postmortem interval estimation on mummified bodies. (examination).
- Mickleburgh, H. (host) (15-1-2024 - 15-7-2024). Andrea Gonzalez Martinez (hosting a visitor).
- Mickleburgh, H. (host) (8-1-2024 - 8-3-2024). Marco Mion (hosting a visitor).
- Mickleburgh, H. (examiner) (19-9-2023). The use of drones equipped with LIDAR and multispectral analysis for the detection of concealed tombs. (examination).
- Opgenhaffen, L. (organiser), Revello Lami, M. (organiser) & Mickleburgh, H. (organiser) (20-2-2020 - 22-2-2020). Archon Winter School Sharing Practices, Amersfoort. The 2020 Archon Winter School Sharing Practices: Archaeological 3D Visualisation in the Netherlands aims to move beyond traditional research (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Brooks, J., Jantzi, A., Brown, K., Birch, W., Lijcklama a Nijeholt, L., Rogers, C., Mickleburgh, H., Randolph-Quinney, P., Kootker, L., Aalders, M., Oostra, R. J., Williams, A., Hiley, C., Everett, J., & Cassella, J. P. (2025). Establishing a Pan-European, multi-disciplinary taphonomic research Infrastructure: The ‘UK-Netherlands decomposition experimental research (UNDER) Group’. Science and Justice, 65(1), 62-69.