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I received my PhD (2022) in Anthropology at McMaster University, focusing on the bioarchaeological analysis of adolescents from the Roman Empire.
I also work in cultural resource management (CRM) as an osteoarchaeologist, supporting excavations that include human remains from archaeological contexts.
My research aims to understand when kids became adults in the past. Exploring both the physical and social transitions, I incorporate morphological and biochemical analyses of human remains, including dietary stable isotopes and peptide analysis.
Currently, my research focuses on the Late Roman Empire in modern-day Italy and France. Upcoming research will expand into Ancient Egypt and looking at mummified remains.
I am interested in supervising students through Work Study programs and Research Assistantships, in the areas of bioarchaeology, osteology, and relevant laboratory methods.
- Avery, Creighton, & Thacher, Dana (Eds.). 2026. Small Adults or Big Kids? Exploring Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Approaches to Adolescence. Berghahn Books Inc.
- Avery, Creighton. 2026. “Tale of Two Cities: Exploring the Biological and Social Transitions Adolescence in the Roman Empire”. In C. Avery and D. Thacher (Eds.), Small Adults or Big Kids? Exploring Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Approaches to Adolescence. Berghahn Books. Pp. 50-69.
- Avery, Creighton, & Thacher, Dana. 2026. “The (Bio)Archaeology of Adolescence”. In C. Avery and D. Thacher (Eds.), Small Adults or Big Kids? Exploring Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Approaches to Adolescence. Berghahn Books. Pp. 1-10.
- Avery, L. Creighton. 2025. Bioarchaeology of Infants and Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Avery, L. Creighton, & Lewis, Mary. Emerging Adolescence: Current status and potential advances in bioarchaeology. Bioarchaeology International. 7(2): 103-110. .
- Avery, L. Creighton, Prowse, Tracy L., Findlay, Sheri, Chapelain de Seréville-Niel, Cecile, & Brickley, Megan. 2023. Pubertal timing as an indicator of early life stress in Roman Italy and Roman Gaul. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 180(3): 548-560. .
- Avery, L. Creighton, Brickley, Megan B., Findlay, Sheri, Bondioli, Luca, Sperdutti, Alessandra, & Prowse, Tracy L. 2023. Eating like Adults: An investigation of dietary change in childhood and adolescence at Portus Romae (Italy, 1-4th centuries C.E.). Bioarchaeology International 7(2): 130-145. .
- Avery, L. Creighton, Prowse, Tracy L., Findlay, Sheri, & Brickley, Megan B. 2022. Bioarchaeological approaches to the study of adolescence. Childhood in the Past 15(1): 3-14. .
- Avery, L. Creighton, Brickley, Megan B., Findlay, Sheri, Chapelain de Seréville-Niel, Cecile, & Prowse, Tracy L. 2021. Child and adolescent diet in Late Roman Gaul: An investigation of incremental dietary stable isotopes in tooth dentine. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 31(6): 1226-1236. .
- AR101 Invitation to Archaeology
- AR332 Children in the Ancient World
- AR370 Introduction to Osteology
- AR373 Advanced Bioarchaeology