Current Team

Malin Holst

Anwen Caffell

Katie Keefe

Meet The Team

Malin Malin Holst, Director

Malin Holst is the director of York Osteoarchaeology Ltd, which she founded in 2003. Malin started to excavate in Britain in 1987 at the Raunds Area Project. One of the most famous sites Malin worked on was the mass grave from the Battle of Towton (1461), which she excavated and analysed in 1996. Research is still ongoing at the battlefield and on further skeletons excavated subsequently at Towton. Malin is particularly interested in 'continuity' sites - areas, where sporadic burial has taken place for hundreds, or even thousands of years and occasionally a repetition of very specific burial rituals can be seen over time. Malin has been teaching bioarchaeology at the University of York since 2003.
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/staff/Holst.htm


Anwen Anwen Caffell, Osteoarchaeologist

Anwen Caffell has been working for York Osteoarchaeology Ltd since 2005, following the completion of her PhD on dental caries in early and late medieval Britain. Anwen takes a particular interest in post-medieval skeletal remains and has analysed the post-medieval assemblages from Priory Yard in Norwich, St George's Crypt in Leeds and Fewston in North Yorkshire. Anwen located the diary of the son of two of the skeletons she analysed from Fewston, which Anwen is currently transcribing. This provides invaluable information on lifestyle and diet, which is contributing to research projects on the assemblage. Anwen has also been involved in teaching osteology and palaeopathology at the University of Durham since 2001.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/?id=8441


Katie Katie Keefe, Osteoarchaeologist

Katie has been working for York Osteoarchaeology Ltd since 2010. She has been excavating in Britain, Ireland, Eastern Europe and the Near East since 2004 and has been the site osteologist on a number of cemetery sites. Katie has worked for York Osteoarchaeology on the post-medieval skeletal assemblage from Rotherham Minster, which dates to the nineteenth century. The skeletons from Rotherham illustrate graphically the hardship the lower classes faced in the towns of northern England during the industrial revolution.