College of Medicine and Dentistry Bachelor of Science (University of Otago) (1994) in Anatomy and Structural Biology. PhD (University of Otago) (2000) in Biological Anthropology. Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching (James Cook University) (2007)

I am trained in biological and forensic anthropology as well as human anatomy. I specialise in paleopathology (the study of disease in the past). I have a particular interest in age-related mortality, growth during childhood and associated growth disturbances, joint disease especially osteoarthritis, trauma, dental health and other pathologies such as infectious diseases. My research is predominantly conducted in mainland Southeast Asia and I currently have projects in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. On these projects I work closely with archaeologists to uncover human skeletal remains from ancient cemeteries dated between 1000 to 5000 years ago.

Domett, K., Newton, J., Colbert, A., Chang, N., & Halcrow, S. (2016). Frail, foreign or favoured? A contextualized case study from Bronze Age northeast Thailand. In M. F. Oxenham & H. Buckley, R. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific pp. 68-94. O'Reilly, D. J. W., Shewan, L., Domett, K., Newton, J., Evans, D., Vuthy, V., & Beavan, N. (2015). The Excavation of Phum Sophy 2009-2010: An Iron Age Site in Northwest Cambodia. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, 39, 57-72. Domett, K., Newton, J., O'Reilly, D. J. W., Tayles, N., Shewan, L., & Beavan, N. (2013). Cultural Modification of the Dentition in Prehistoric Cambodia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 23, 274-286. doi: DOI: 10.1002/oa/1245 Domett, K., & Buckley, H., R. (2012). Large Lytic Cranial Lesions: a differential diagnosis from Pre-Angkorian Cambodia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 22, 731-739. doi: DOI: 10.1002/oa.1234 Domett, K., O'Reilly, D. J. W., & Buckley, H., R. (2011). Bioarchaeological Evidence of Conflict in Iron Age, Northwest Cambodia. Antiquity, 85(328), 441-458. Newton, J., Domett, K., O'Reilly, D. J. W., & Shewan, L. (2013). Dental health in Iron Age Cambodia: temporal variations with rice agriculture. International Journal of Paleopathology, 3, 1-10. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2013.01.003