Malin Holst
Lecturer in Osteoarchaeology

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Biography

Malin Holst joined the Department of Archaeology in 2003 and is a Senior Lecturer in Osteoarchaeology. Malin focuses on demography, palaeopathology and funerary practices in Britain to develop a better insight into health, diet, migration and cultural practices in the past. Malin's research interests include peri-mortem trauma and evidence for stress in populations from the early Neoltihic to the early 21st century.

Malin has worked in archaeology since 1987, including at high-profile sites such as the Raunds Area Project, Sutton Hoo and the Battle of Towton mass grave. Malin completed an HND in Practical Archaeology at the Dorset Institute of Higher Education, a BA in Archaeology at the University of Leicester and an MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology at the Universities of Bradford and Sheffield.

Malin combines her lectureship at the University of York with her role as the managing director of York Osteoarchaeology, which specialises in the excavation, analysis and reporting of human remains. She is thus at the cutting edge of commercial archaeology and has an up-to-date understanding of the law affecting archaeology, current practices and projects, as well as generating further research on recently excavated skeletal populations. Her commercial role is also helpful in her departmental position as Archaeological Careers Officers, helping students to gain employment in the commercial archaeological sector.

Malin is a director of the Federation of Archaeological Managers and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Publications

Selected publications

Speed, G. and Holst, M. (eds) 2018. A1 Leeming to Barton. Death, Burial and Identity, 3000 Years of Death in the Vale of Mowbray, NAA Monograph Series Volume 4 (Barnard Castle)

Gowland, R.L., Caffell, A., Newman, S., Levene, A. and Holst, M. 2018. 'Broken childhoods: rural and urban non-adult health during the Industrial Revolution in Northen England (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries), Bioarchaeology International 2 (1): 44-62

Holst, M. & Alexander, M. (eds). 2018 Trends in Biological Anthropology, Volume 2 (Oxford)

Hendy, J., Warinner, C., Bouwman, A., Collins, M. J., Fiddyment, S., Fischer, R., Hagan, R., Hofman, C., Holst, M. R., Chaves, E., Klaus, L., Larson, G., Mackie, M., McGrath, K., Mundorff, A., Radini, A., Rao, H., Trachsel, C., Velsko, I. & Speller, C. F. 2018. ‘Proteomic evidence of dietary sources in ancient dental calculus’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Holst, M. 2018. ‘Response to the paper by Redfern and Clegg by Malin Holst’, World Archaeology 49:5, 588-593, DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2017.1411825

Mackie, M., Hendy, J. R., Lowe, A. D., Sperduti, A., Holst, M., Collins, M. J. & Speller, C. F. 2017.
‘Preservation of the metaproteome: Variability of protein preservation in ancient dental calculus, STAR: Science Technology of Archaeological Research

Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M., Hunter-Mann, K., Montgomery, J., Müldner, G., McLaughlin, R.L., Teasdale, M.D., van Rheenen, W., Veldink, J.H., van den Berg, L.H.,Hardiman, O., Carroll, M., Roskams, S., Oxley, J., Morgan, C., Thomas, M.G., Barnes, I., McDonnell, C., Collins, M.J. & Bradley, D.G. 2016. ‘Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons’, Nature Communications

Buckberry, J., Montgomery, J., Towers, J., Müldner, G., Holst, M., Evans, J., Gledhill, A., Neale, N. and Lee-Thorp, J. 2014. ‘Finding Vikings in the Danelaw’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 33(4): 413–434

Richardson, J. and Weston, P., with contributions by Alldritt, D., Carrott, J., Disbury, P., Foster, A., Holst, M., Makey, P., Manby, T. & Walker, A., 2014. ‘Earlier Prehistoric Activity and a later Iron Age and Roman Field System at Beacons Lagoons, Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 86: 3-32

Caffell, A. & Holst, M. 2013. ‘Human remains’, in L. Martin, J. Richardson & I. Roberts (eds), Iron Age and Roman Settlements at Wattle Syke (Leeds)

Bouwman, A.S., Kennedy, S.L., Müller, R., Stephens, R.H., Holst, M., Caffell, A.C., Roberts, C.A. & Brown, T.A. 2012. ‘The genotype of a historic strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109: 18511-18516

Caffell, A. & Holst, M. 2011. 2011. ‘Osteological analysis’, in Fenton-Thomas, C., Where Sky and Yorkshire and Water Meet, On-Site Archaeology Monograph 2 (York): 323-332

Richardson, J. with contributions byAlldritt, D., Barclay, C., Brooks, I., Carrott, I., Chernery, C., Cool, H., Cowgill, J., Didsbury, P., Evans, J., Fern, C., Gaunt, G., Hartley, K. Heslop, D., Holst, M. Manby, T., Morris, E., Wild, F. & Williams, D. 2011. ‘Bronze Age Cremations, Iron Age and Roman Settlement and Early Medieval Inhumations at the Langeled Receiving Facilities, Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire’, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 83 (1): 59-100

Holst, M. 2009. ‘The human remains’ in Ian Roberts, ‘Late Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement at High Wold, Bempton Lane, Bridlington, East Yorkshire’, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 81:47-137

Holst, M. 2009. ‘The human remains’, in J. Hart and E.R. McSloy, ‘Prehistoric and early historic activity, settlement and burial at Walton Cardiff, near Tewkesbury: Excavations at Rudgeway Lane in 2004-2005, in N. Holbrook (eds), Iron Age and Romano-British Agriculture in North Gloucestershire Severn Vale, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report 6: 48-54

Luke, M. with major contributions by Allen, C., Bates, S., Duncan, H., Holst, M., Macphail, R., Maltby, M., Pelling, R., Robinson, M., Slowikowski, A. & Wells, J. 2008. Life in the Loop: Investigation of a Prehistoric and Romano-British Landscape at Biddenham Loop, Bedfordshire, East Anglian Archaeology 125

Mays, S. & Holst, M. 2006. ‘Palaeo-otology of cholesteatoma’, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 16: 1-15

Holst, M. 2005. ‘Human Remains’, in I. Roberts (eds) Ferrybridge Henge. The Ritual Landscape, Archaeological Services WYAS, Yorkshire Archaeology 10 (Leeds): 167-175

Holst, M. & Coughlan, J., 2000. ‘Dental Health and Disease’, in V. Fiorato, A Boylston and C. Knüsel (eds), Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Medieval Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton 1461, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 77-89

Coughlan, J. & Holst, M. 2000. ‘Health Status’, in V. Fiorato, A Boylston & C. Knüsel (eds), Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Medieval Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton 1461, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 60-76

Boylston, A., Holst, M. & Coughlan, J.2000. ‘Physical Anthropology’, in V. Fiorato, A Boylston & C. Knüsel (eds), Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Medieval Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton 1461, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 45-59

Holst, M. 1999. ‘Schlacht um Englands Thron’, in Archäologie in Deutschland, 1/99, 58

Boylston, A., Holst, M., Coughlan, J., Novak, S., Sutherland, T. & Knüsel, C. 1997. ‘Recent Excavations of a Mass Grave from Towton’, in Yorkshire Medicine, 9 (3), 25-6

Full publications list

2023 Chidimuro, B., Doherty, S., Finch, J., Ponce, P., Eggington, J., Delaney, S., Speller, C., Collins, M.J., Holst, M. and Alexander, M. ‘North and South: Exploring isotopic analysis of bone carbonates and collagen to understand post‐medieval diets in London and northern England’, American Journal of Biological Anthropology

2023 Newman, S., Keefe, K., Heyerdahl,-King, I., Holst, M., Caffell, A. and Gowland, R.L. (forthcoming). ‘Growing Old in the Industrial Age: ageing, health, and social identity in elderly women (AD 18th -19^th C)’, Bioarchaeology International

2023 Gowland, R.L., Caffell, A.C., Quade, L., Levene, A., Millard, A.R., Holst, M., Yapp, P., Delaney, S., Brown, C., Nowell, G. and McPherson, C. ‘The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour’, PloS one, 18(5), p.e0284970

2023 Newman, S., Keefe, K., Holst, M.R., Caffell, A. and Gowland, R.L., 2018. ‘Growing Old in the Industrial Age: ageing, health, and social identity in elderly females (18th19th C)’, Bioarchaeology International

2022 Caffell, A., Ponce, P. and Holst, M. ‘Osteological analysis, Burnby Lane and The Mile’, in M. Stephens, Chariots, Swords and Spears, Iron Age Burials at the Foot of the East Yorkshire Wolds (Oxford): 168-191

2022 Keefe, K., Petersone-Gordina, E. and Holst, M. ‘Chapter 6. Human Bone’, in A Richmond, K. Francis and G Coates, Waterlands: Prehistoric Life at Bar Pasture, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough (Oxford): 237-248

2022 Chidimuro, B., Mundorff, A., Speller, C., Radini, A., Boudreault, N., Lucas, M., Holst, M., Lamb, A., Collins, M. and Alexander, M. ‘Isotope analysis of human dental calculus δ13CO32: investigating a potential new proxy for sugar consumption’, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, e9286

2021 MacKenzie, L., Speller, C.F., Holst, M., Keefe, K. and Radini, A. ‘Dental calculus in the industrial age: Human dental calculus in the Post-Medieval period, a case study from industrial Manchester’, Quaternary International https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.09.020

2021 Caffell, A. and Holst, M. ‘Human Remains’, in W. A. Boismier, E. Taylor, and Y. Wolframm-Murray (eds) Excavations at Stanground South, Peterborough: Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Medieval Settlement Along the Margins of the Fens (Oxford): 165-216

2021 Daniel, P., with contributions by Andrews, P., Caffell, A. Challinor, D., Dunne, J., Evershed, R.P., Gillard, T., Holst, M., Keefe, K., Leivers, M., López-Dóriga, I., Mepham, L., Petersone-Gordina, E. and Quinn, P.S. ‘“What are the dead for?” Bronze Age burials in a multi-period landscape at Bucklow Hill, Cheshire, Archaeological Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2021.1921413

2021 Keefe, K. and Holst, M. ‘Chapter 13, Human Bone’, in J. Philips and P. Wilson, Life, Death and Rubbish Disposal in Roman Norton, Norton Yorkshire: Excavations at Brooklyn House 2015-2016 (Oxford): 237-247

2020 Dodd, L., Ball, M., Ní Challanáin, M., Holst, M., Huckerby, E., Ingrem, C., Mason, D., Robinson, D. and Shotter, D. Excavations at Chester. The Northern and Eastern Roman Extramural Settlements: Excavations 1990-2019 and Other Investigations (Summertown)

2020 Siozos, P., Hausmann, N., Holst, M. and Anglos, D. ‘Application of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and neural networks on archaeological human bones for the discrimination of distinct individuals’, arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.14470

2019 Mace, T., with contributions by Vyner, B., Keefe, K., Holst, M., Walker, A., Elsworth, D.W. and Fitzpatrick, A. ‘A Bronze Age cremation cemetery at Jack Hill, Allithwaite’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 19: 1-22

2018 Hendy, J., Warinner, C., Bouwman, A., Collins, M. J., Fiddyment, S., Fischer, R., Hagan, R., Hofman, C. A., Holst, M., Chaves, E., Klaus, L., Larson, G., Mackie, M., McGrath, K., Mundorff, A. Z., Radini, A., Rao, H., Trachsel, C., Velsko, I. M. and Speller, C. F. ‘Proteomic evidence of dietary sources in ancient dental calculus‘, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, 1883

2018 Speed, G. and Holst, M. (eds). A1 Leeming to Barton. Death, Burial and Identity, 300 Years of Death in the Vale of Mowbray, NAA Monograph Volume 4 (Barnard Castle)

2018 Speed, G., Holst, M., Keefe, K. and Newman, S. ‘Death, burial, identity and beyond’, in G. Speed and M. Holst, A1 Leeming to Barton. Death, Burial and Identity, 300 Years of Death in the Vale of Mowbray, NAA Monograph Volume 4 (Barnard Castle): 600-656

2018 Holst, M., Keefe, K. and Newman, S. ‘Human remains’, in G. Speed and M. Holst, A1 Leeming to Barton. Death, Burial and Identity, 300 Years of Death in the Vale of Mowbray, NAA Monograph Volume 4 (Barnard Castle): 372-466

2018 Speed, G., Fell, D., Holst, M., Keefe, K. and Newman, S. ‘The prehistoric burials’, in G. Speed and M. Holst, A1 Leeming to Barton. Death, Burial and Identity, 300 Years of Death in the Vale of Mowbray, NAA Monograph Volume 4 (Barnard Castle): 22-40

2018 Gowland, R.L., Caffell, A., Newman, S., Levene, A. & Holst, M. ‘Broken childhoods: rural and urban non-adult health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (eighteenth – nineteenth centuries), Bioarchaeology International 2(1): 44-62

2018 Holst, M. & Alexander, M. (eds). Trends in Biological Anthropology, Volume 2 (Oxford)

2018 Holst, M. ‘Response to the paper by Redfern and Clegg by Malin Holst’, World Archaeology 49:5, 588-593, DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2017.1411825

2018 Keefe, K. and Holst, M. ‘Human remains’, in C. Ambrey, D. Fell, R. Fraser, S. Ross, G. Speed, and P. N. Wood, A Roman Roadside Settlement at Healam Bridge: The Iron Age to Early Medieval Evidence, Volume 1, Archaeological Narrative, Environmental Evidence, and Human Remains (Barnard Castle): 157-200

2017 Mackie, M., Hendy, J. R., Lowe, A. D., Sperduti, A., Holst, M., Collins, M. J. & Speller, C. F.
‘Preservation of the metaproteome: Variability of protein preservation in ancient dental calculus, STAR: Science Technology of Archaeological Research

2017 Alexander, M., Austick, J., Buglass, J., Caffell, A., Fackrell, M., Fackrell, K., French, M., Goodall, C., Gowland, R., Hart, M., Holst, M., Heyworth, B., Lister, A., Lister, M., Monaghan, C., Monaghan, M., Neal, S., Power, D., Robinson, C., Robinson, S., Speller, C., Waters, G. The Fewston Assemblage: Churchyard Secrets Revealed. Washburn Heritage Centre

2017 Jones, A.M., Brunning, R., Keefe, K. and Holst, M. ‘Recent radiocarbon dating and skeletal analysis of two log coffin burials from Yorkshire: Willie Howe and Towthorpe 139’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 89 (1): 61-74

2017 Fotaki, A. and Holst, M. 'Human Remains', in Burn, Z., Stephens, M. and Ware P., A Roman Military Camp at Jack Berry House, Injured Jockey Rehabilitation Centre, Old Malton Road, Malton, North Yorkshire, MAP Archaeological Practice Publications

2017 Holst, M, Caffell, A., Keefe, K., Newman, S. and Löffelmann, T. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in R. Power (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2016, 18:40-41

2017 Thomas, J., with contributions by Addison, H., Beamish, M., Browning, J., Buckley, R., Cooper, L., Cooper, N.J., Holst, M., Johnson, E., Keefe, K., Monckton, A., Morgan, G., Radini, A., Sawday, D. and Small, R. ‘New light on Leicester’s Roman southern cemetery: Recent excavations at the junction of Oxford Street and Newarke Street, Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 91: 45-96

2016 Fotakis, A. & Holst, M. ‘Human bone’, in D. Williams, Excavations of the Onshore Cable Route for Westernmost Rough Offshore Windfarm East Riding Archaeologist 16: 91-94

2016 Keefe, K. & Holst, M. ‘Human remains’, in G. Glover, P. Flintoft, and R. Moore, A Mersshy Contree Called Holdernesse’: Excavations on the Route of a National Grid Pipeline in Holderness, East Yorkshire, Archaeopress (Oxford): 224-229

2016 Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M., Hunter-Mann, K., Montgomery, J., Müldner, G., McLaughlin, R.L., Teasdale, M.D., van Rheenen, W., Veldink, J.H., van den Berg, L.H., Hardiman, O., Carroll, M., Roskams, S., Oxley, J., Morgan, C., Thomas, M.G., Barnes, I., McDonnell, C., Collins, M.J. & Bradley, D.G.. ‘Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons’, Nature Communications

2016 Holst, M., Caffell, A., Keefe, K. & Ní Challanáin, M. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in R. Power (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2015, 17:18-19

2014 Holst, M. & Sutherland, T., ‘Towton Revisited – analysis of the human remains from the Battle of Towton 1461’, in S. Eickhoff and F. Schopper (eds), Schlachtfeld und Massengrab: Spektren Interdisziplinärer Auswertung von Orten der Gewalt (Wünsdorf): 97-129

2014 Sutherland, T. & Holst, M. ‘Demonstrating the value of battlefield archaeology - war graves on ‘Towton field’: their location and excavation’, in S. Eickhoff and F. Schopper (eds), Schlachtfeld und Massengrab: Spektren Interdisziplinärer Auswertung von Orten der Gewalt (Wünsdorf): 87-95

2014 Buckberry, J., Montgomery, J., Towers, J., Müldner, G., Holst, M., Evans, J., Gledhill, A., Neale, N. & Lee-Thorp, J. ‘Finding Vikings in the Danelaw’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 33(4): 413–434

2014 Richardson, J. & Weston, P., with contributions by Alldritt, D., Carrott, J., Disbury, P., Foster, A., Holst, M., Makey, P., Manby, T. & Walker, A., ‘Earlier Prehistoric Activity and a later Iron Age and Roman Field System at Beacons Lagoons, Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 86: 3-32

2014 Martiniano, R., Holst, M., McDonnell, C., Hunter-Mann, K., Collins, M. & Bradley, D. ‘Genetic Snapshot of Roman Britain Supports Diverse Ancestral Origins’, Poster Presentation for Biological Sequence Analysis, Oxford, July 2014

2014 Holst, M., Caffell, A., Keefe, K. & Fotakis, A. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in J. Appleby (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2013

2013 Murphy, K. & Murphy, F. with contributions from Gibson, A., Davis, M., Keefe, K., Holst, M., Caseldine, A.E. & Griffiths, C.J. ‘The excavation of two Bronze Age round barrows at Pant y Butler, Llangoedmor, Ceredigion, 2009–10’, Archaeologia Cambrensis 162: 33–66

2013 Schlee, D, with contributions by Austin, L., Caseldine, A.E., Gibson, A., Holst, M., Parkes, P., Foster, A., Foster, L., Walker, A. & Carrott, J. ‘The excavation of Fan round barrow, near Talsarn, Ceredigion, 2010–11’, Archaeologia Cambrensis 162: 67-104

2013 Caffell, A. & Holst, M. ‘Human remains’, in L. Martin, J. Richardson & I. Roberts (eds), Iron Age and Roman Settlements at Wattle Syke (Leeds): 201-227

2013 Holst, M. & Caffell, A. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in J. Appleby (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2012

2012 Bouwman, A.S., Kennedy, S.L., Müller, R., Stephens, R.H., Holst, M., Caffell, A.C., Roberts, C.A. & Brown, T.A. ‘The genotype of a historic strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109: 18511-18516

2012 Holst, M., Caffell, A. & Keefe, K. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in J. Appleby (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2011

2012 Keefe, K. and Holst, M. ‘Human bone’, in J. Richardson, Iron Age and Roman Settlement Activity at Newbridge Quarry, Pickering, North Yorkshire, Archaeological Services WYAS Publication 12: 59-62

2011 Caffell, A. & Holst, M. ‘Osteological analysis’, in Fenton-Thomas, C., Where Sky and Yorkshire and Water Meet, On-Site Archaeology Monograph 2 (York): 323-332

2011 Richardson, J. with contributions by Alldritt, D., Barclay, C., Brooks, I., Carrott, I., Chernery, C., Cool, H., Cowgill, J., Didsbury, P., Evans, J., Fern, C., Gaunt, G., Hartley, K. Heslop, D., Holst, M. Manby, T., Morris, E., Wild, F. & Williams, D. ‘Bronze Age Cremations, Iron Age and Roman Settlement and Early Medieval Inhumations at the Langeled Receiving Facilities, Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire’, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 83 (1): 59-100,

2011 Holst, M., Caffell, A. & Keefe, K. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in J. Appleby (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2010 12: 19-22

2010 Holst, M. ‘A comparative study of ‘continuity’ cemeteries in Yorkshire’, CBA Yorkshire Forum: 15-16

2010 Holst, M. & Caffell, A. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in J. Appleby (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2009 11: 22-24

2009 Holst, M. ‘The human remains’ in Ian Roberts, ‘A late Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement at High Wold, Bempton Lane, Bridlington, East Yorkshire’, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 81:47-137

2009 Holst, M. ‘The human remains’, in J. Hart & E.R. McSloy, ‘Prehistoric and early historic activity, settlement and burial at Walton Cardiff, near Tewkesbury: Excavations at Ridgeway Lane in 2004-2005, in N. Holbrook (eds), Iron Age and Romano-British Agriculture in North Gloucestershire Severn Vale, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report 6: 48-54

2009 Holst, M. & Caffell, A. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in J. Buckberry (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2008 10: 34-35

2009 Roberts, C., Betsinger, T., RH Steckel, C.S. Larsen, P.L. Walker, J. Blondiaux, G. Grupe, G. Maat, G. McGlynn, A. Papathanasiou, M. Teschier-Nicola, U. Wittwer-Backofen, A. Agnew, S. Assis, Z. Bereczki, B. Bertrand, TK.. Betsinger, M. Binder, S. Boulter, C. Bourbou, A. Boylston, M. Brickley, L. Buerli, C. Cooper, A. Coppa, J. Coughlan, A. Drozd, E. During, C. Eliopoulos, J. Eng, F. Engel, S. Fox, M. Furtado, G. Gerhards, S. Groves, K. Harkins, P. Holck, M. Holst, G. Hotz, R. Ives, T. Jakob, R. Jankauskas, J. Jennings, H. Justus, K. Kaminska, A. Kjellstrom, C.J. Knüsel, T. Kozlowski, A. Lagia, C. Lopes, S. Manolis, A. Marcsik, C. Marques, C. Moenke, C. Niel, S.A. Novak, F. Novotny, J. Peck, I. Potiekhina, B. Rega, R. Richman, F. Rijpma, J. Rose, J. Ruiz, P. Sannen, P. Sciulli, M. Smith, A. Soficaru, M. Spannagl, R. Storm, G. Stroud, E. Subira, D. Swales, V. Tristaroli, E. Tyler, S. Ulrich-Bochsler, S Vatteoni, V Villar, R. Wiggins, L.L. Williams,. ‘The history of European infectious diseases: skeletal evidence of tuberculosis, leprosy, and treponematosis’, in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138: 222-223

2008 Holst, M. ‘Human bone: osteological assessment’ in M. Carver (ed) Wasperton Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/wasperton_eh_2008/overview.cfm

2008 Luke, M. with major contributions by Allen, C., Bates, S., Duncan, H., Holst, M., Macphail, R., Maltby, M., Pelling, R., Robinson, M., Slowikowski, A. & Wells, J. Life in the Loop: Investigation of a Prehistoric and Romano-British Landscape at Biddenham Loop, Bedfordshire, East Anglian Archaeology 125

2008 Holst, M. & Caffell, A. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in J. Buckberry (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2007 9: 34-43

2007 Cullen, K., Holbrook, N., Watts, M., Caffell, A. & Holst, M. ‘A Post-Roman cemetery at Hewlett Packard, Filton, South Gloucestershire: Excavations in 2005’ in M. Watts (ed) Two Cemeteries from Bristol’s Northern Suburbs. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report 4: 51-96

2006 Holst, M. ‘Human Bone Report’, Roman Occupation at the Former Starting Gate Public House, Dringhouses, York.

2006 Mays, S. & Holst, M. ‘Palaeo-otology of cholesteatoma’, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 16: 1-15

2006 Holst, M. & Caffell, A. ‘York Osteoarchaeology Ltd’, in J. Buckberry (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2005 7: 40-41

2005 Sutherland, T.L. & Holst, M. Battlefield Archaeology – Guide to the Archaeology of Conflict, http://www.bajr.org/DocumentsBAJRBattleGuide.pdf

2005 Holst, M. Fishergate House Artefacts and Environmental Evidence: The Human Bone, http://www.mgassocs.com/mono/001/arch_ost.html

2005 Holst, M. ‘Human Remains’, in I. Roberts (eds) Ferrybridge Henge. The Ritual Landscape, Archaeological Services WYAS, Yorkshire Archaeology 10 (Leeds): 167-175

2004 Boylston, A., Novak, S., Sutherland, T., Holst, M., Coughlan, J. & Knüsel, C. ‘Archaeology and anthropology of medieval warfare: an investigation of burials from the Battle of Towton AD 1461’, Medieval History 10: 50-57

2004 Holst, M., ‘Human skeletal remains excavated or analysed by Field Archaeology Specialists Ltd in 2003’, in R. Gowland (eds), British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Annual Review 2003 5: 27-28

2004 Dickinson, T. ‘An early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Quarrington, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire: Report on excavations, 2000-2001’, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology 39: 24-45, with contributions by M. Holst

2003 Holst, M. Health in Medieval York: New Perspectives into Medieval Health through the Analysis of further Cemetery Populations, Poster Presentation at the Fifth Annual Conference of the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology

2000 Holst, M. & Coughlan, J., ‘Dental Health and Disease’, in V. Fiorato, A Boylston & C. Knüsel (eds), Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Medieval Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton 1461, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 77-89

2000 Coughlan, J. & Holst, M., ‘Health Status’, in V. Fiorato, A Boylston & C. Knüsel (eds), Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Medieval Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton 1461, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 60-76

2000 Boylston, A., Holst, M. & Coughlan, J., ‘Physical Anthropology’, in V. Fiorato, A Boylston & C. Knüsel (eds), Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Medieval Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton 1461, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 45-59

1999 Holst, M., ‘Schlacht um Englands Thron’, in Archäologie in Deutschland, 1/99, 58

1997 Boylston, A., Holst, M., Coughlan, J., Novak, S., Sutherland, T. & Knüsel, C., ‘Recent Excavations of a Mass Grave from Towton’, in Yorkshire Medicine, 9 (3), 25-6

1997 Boylston, A., Novak, S., Sutherland, T., Holst, M. & Coughlan, J. ‘Burials from the Battle of Towton’, Royal Armouries Yearbook 2: 26-36

Research

Overview

Malin's research focuses on bioarchaeology, especially palaeopathology, with particular emphasis on weapon-related trauma. Malin has examined numerous battle-victims, including those from the battles of Heronbridge 613 and Towton 1461. Her research interests also include burial ritual, particularly multi-period cemeteries, which often span millennia.

Projects

Multi-disciplinary analysis of a large disarticulated middle Neolithic human bone assemblage from the Midlands
Late Anglo-Saxon demography and health
Analysis of two medieval nunneries, one urban nunnery from Chester and a rural nunnery from North Yorkshire
Comparative analysis of childhood stress indicators in rural and urban post-medieval skeletal populations from different social classes

Key research interests

Peri-mortem trauma and medieval conflict
Stress indicators in post-medieval populations
Roman health and migration
Roman burial ritual
Iron Age Arras cemeteries
Burial continuity from prehistory to the Anglo-Saxon period

Teaching

Postgraduate

The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton

Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past

Other teaching

Dissertation - Malin has supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on a range of topics relating to funerary archaeology, palaeopathology and osteology. These include:

Roman Migration - Introducing Archaeology to the Key Stage 3 Curriculum using Cross-Curricular Links
Malignant tumours in the Mediterranean Sea during the Roman and Byzantine period
Analysing taphonomic processes in a Punico-Roman Maltese rock-cut tomb from Triq il-Fejġel, Rabat
An Investigation into the Presence of Individuals of African Ancestry in England during the Medieval and Post-Medieval Periods
Testing the Tuberculosis Hot-Spot Hypothesis in Roman Britain
Multiple myeloma Was this a rare disease in the United Kingdom before the post-medieval period?
Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy: A study in Predilection Patterns and Guidelines for Archaeological Identification
Stature, skeletal stress, and the link with status in post-medieval Britain
Intimate Partner Violence in Romano-British Populations
Dissecting the Past: How the Development of Forensic Anthropology Has Affected the Concept of Race and Ancestry in Osteoarchaeology
Death on a Pilgrimage: An Osteological Analysis of a Medieval Hospital Population with Pilgrimage Connections
Can Non-Detsructive Techniques be Used to Identify Areas of Increased Tuberculosis Prevalence?
To Burn or To Bury: A Critical Exploration of the Issues of Sex and Gender Identification in Cremation Burials from Roman Britain
Funerary Rites in the Northern Frontier of Roman Britain
An Evaluation of three Methods of Osteological Non-Adilt Sex Determination

External activities

Memberships

Fellow, Society of Antiquaries
Director, Federation of Archaeological Managers
Member of the British Association of Biological Anthropologists and Osteoarchaeologists
Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MIfA)
Member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Member of the Palaeopathology Association

Malin Holst Lecturer in Osteoarchaeology