Dr Justyna Miszkiewicz
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Social Science
Researcher biography
I am a Polish-Australian biological anthropologist (someone who studies humans from both social and biological perspectives), although I specialise in hard tissue (bone and tooth) microscopy which I apply to understand the biology and function of humans and other mammals. I work with modern, archaeological, and palaeontological samples. I am based in Brisbane, Australia and currently conduct research predominantly affiliated with the University of Queensland (Honorary Senior Lecturer since 2021). I am also a Correspondent Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (The Netherlands), and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK). I have 55 peer-reviewed publications and have so far secured >$580k in research grants as a PI, including a 2019–2022 ARC DECRA (DE190100068). As a CI/AI, I have featured on ~$1.7 million worth of research grants, including a 2019–2021 Marsden Fund Project Grant (18-UOO-028) and a 2023–2025 ARC DP (DP230100440).
Between September and November 2022, I was a Martin & Temminck Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in The Netherlands. Until September 2022, I spent almost 7 years at the Australian National University in Canberra working as an ARC DECRA Fellow (2019–2022), Senior Lecturer (promoted in 2019), and Lecturer. Between 2015 and 2016 I was a Research Assistant in medicine at Imperial College in London. Until 2014, I spent about 8 years at the University of Kent in Canterbury completing a BSc (2010), PhD (2014), and PGCHE (2014), and working in various teaching roles, including tutoring, lab demonstration, sessional lecturing, and lecturing. I was previously Treasurer of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, and Honorary Editor (2022) of The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland (PRSQ). I am currently Editorial Board Member of Anthropological Review and Scientific Reports, and Honorary Associate Editor (2023) of PRSQ.
Book Chapters
DeMars, Lily J.D., Torres-Tamayo, Nicole, Hirst, Cara Stella and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2023). Bone biology and microscopic changes in response to behaviour. Behaviour in our bones: how human behaviour influences skeletal morphology. (pp. 7-38) edited by Cara Stella Hirst, Rebecca J. Gilmour, Kimberly A. Plomp and Francisca Alves Cardoso. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-821383-4.00009-7
Kinaston, Rebecca, Willis, Anna, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Tromp, Monica and Oxenham, Marc F. (2019). The dentition. Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. (pp. 749-797) London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-809738-0.00021-1
Brennan-Olsen, Sharon L., Riancho, Jose A. and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2019). The Social Context of Bone Health: Conclusions and Future Directions. Bone Health. (pp. 177-181) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7256-8_10
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2019). Medieval English Social Inequality and Bone Health: What Lessons are There to be Learnt for the Living?. Bone Health. (pp. 3-15) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7256-8_1
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Stewart, Tahlia J., Deter, Chris A., Fahy, Geraldine E. and Mahoney, Patrick (2019). Skeletal health in medieval societies: insights from ancient bone collagen stable isotopes and dental histology. Bone health: a reflection of the social mosaic. (pp. 17-34) edited by Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen and Jose A. Riancho. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7256-8_2
Walker, Meg M., Street, Emma M., Pitfield, Rosie, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Brennan-Olsen, Sharon L. and Mahoney, Patrick (2019). Ancient human bone microstructure case studies from medieval England. Bone health: a reflection of the social mosaic. (pp. 35-52) edited by Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen and Jose A. Riancho. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7256-8_3
Wyatt, Bronwyn and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2019). Skeletal markers of health and disease in the Northern Moluccas. The Spice Islands in Prehistory: Archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. (pp. 201-209) edited by Bellwood, Peter. Canberra, ACT Australia: Australian National University. doi: 10.22459/TA50.2019
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. and Mahoney, Patrick (2017). Human bone and dental histology in an archaeological context. Human remains: another dimension: the application of imaging to the study of human remains. (pp. 29-43) edited by David Errickson and Tim Thompson. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-804602-9.00004-7
Mahoney, Patrick and Miszkiewicz, Justyna (2015). Formation Times in Thermally Altered Enamel. The Analysis of Burned Human Remains: Second Edition. (pp. 355-363) London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800451-7.00020-6
Journal Articles
Walker, Meg M., Oxenham, Marc F., Vlok, Melandri, Matsumura, Hirofumi, Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen, Trinh, Hoang Hiep, Minh, Tran T and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2023). Human femur morphology and histology variation with ancestry and behaviour in an ancient sample from Vietnam. Annals of Anatomy, 247 152054, 152054. doi: 10.1016/j.aanat.2023.152054
Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Ferguson, Kyle, Kemp, Justine, Wood, Rachel, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Dias Guimarães, Nathalia R., Higgins, Pennilyn, Travouillon, Kenny J., Hocknull, Scott A., Webb, Gregory E. and Price, Gilbert J. (2023). Interim report on the vertebrate deposits recovered from the Capricorn Caves, Rockhampton, Queensland. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 1-28. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2022.2157486
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Buckley, Hallie R., Feldman, Michal, Kiko, Lawrence, Carlhoff, Selina, Naegele, Kathrin, Bertolini, Emilie, Guimarães, Nathalia R. Dias, Walker, Meg M., Powell, Adam, Posth, Cosimo and Kinaston, Rebecca L. (2022). Female bone physiology resilience in a past Polynesian Outlier community. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 18857, 1-16. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-23171-3
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Louys, Julien and Mahoney, Patrick (2022). Cartesian coordinates in two-dimensional bone histology images for quaternary bone remodelling research. Open Quaternary, 8 (1) 12. doi: 10.5334/oq.117
Basilia, Pauline, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Nganvongpanit, Korakot, Zaim, Jahdi, Rizal, Yan, St, Aswan, Puspaningrum, Mika R., Trihascaryo, Agus, Price, Gilbert J., van der Geer, Alexandra A.E. and Louys, Julien (2022). Bone histology in a fossil elephant (Elephas maximus) from Pulau Bangka, Indonesia. Historical Biology, 1-12. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2092850
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Stewart, Tahlia J., Naseri, Reza and Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz (2022). The lifestyles of Bronze Age Zagros highlanders at Deh Dumen, Iran: insights from midshaft femur cross‐sectional geometry and histology. Archaeometry, 64 (5), 1270-1287. doi: 10.1111/arcm.12781
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. and Van Der Geer, Alexandra A. E. (2022). Inferring longevity from advanced rib remodelling in insular dwarf deer. Linnean Society. Biological Journal, 136 (1), 41-58. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blac018
Snoddy, Anne Marie, Miszkiewicz, Justyna, Cooke, Karen, Petchey, Peter and Buckley, Hallie (2022). Bone remodeling changes in an individual with tuberculosis-induced, left-sided femoroacetabular joint destruction, from nineteenth-century Milton, New Zealand. Bioarchaeology International. doi: 10.5744/bi.2021.0010
Walker, Meg M., Oxenham, Marc F., Nguyen, Thi Mai Huong, Trinh, Hiep Hoang, Minh, Tran Thi, Nguyen, Lan Cuong, Matsumura, Hirofumi and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2022). Primary bone retention in a young adult male with limb disuse: a bioarchaeological case study. Historical Biology, 35 (2), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2032027
Snoddy, Anne Marie, King, Charlotte, Petchey, Peter, Miszkiewicz, Justyna, Kinaston, Rebecca and Buckley, Hallie (2021). Disability and difference on the New Zealand frontier: possible skeletal dysplasia in nineteenth-century Milton, Otago. Bioarchaeology International, 157-174. doi: 10.5744/bi.2021.0004
Mahoney, Patrick, McFarlane, Gina, Smith, B. Holly, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Cerrito, Paola, Liversidge, Helen, Mancini, Lucia, Dreossi, Diego, Veneziano, Alessio, Bernardini, Federico, Cristiani, Emanuela, Behie, Alison, Coppa, Alfredo, Bondioli, Luca, Frayer, David W., Radovčić, Davorka and Nava, Alessia (2021). Growth of Neanderthal infants from Krapina (120–130 ka), Croatia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 (1963) 20212079, 20212079. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2079
Cooke, Karen M., Mahoney, Patrick and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2021). Secondary osteon variants and remodeling in human bone. The Anatomical Record: advances in integrative anatomy and evolutionary biology, 305 (6) ar.24646, 1299-1315. doi: 10.1002/ar.24646
Vlok, Melandri, Buckley, Hallie R., Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Walker, Meg M., Domett, Kate, Willis, Anna, Trinh, Hiep H., Minh, Tran T., Mai Huong T Nguyen, , Lan Cuong Nguyen, , Matsumura, Hirofumi, Wang, Tianyi, Nghia, Huu T. and Oxenharn, Marc F. (2021). Forager and farmer evolutionary adaptations to malaria evidenced by 7000 years of thalassemia in Southeast Asia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 5677, 5677. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83978-4
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Valentin, Frederique, Vrahnas, Christina, Sims, Natalie A., Vongsvivut, Jitraporn, Tobin, Mark J. and Clark, Geoffrey (2021). Bone loss markers in the earliest Pacific Islanders. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 3981, 3981. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83264-3
Stewart, Tahlia J., Louys, Julien and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2021). Intra-skeletal vascular density in a bipedal hopping macropod with implications for analyses of rib histology. Anatomical Science International, 96 (3), 386-399. doi: 10.1007/s12565-020-00601-8
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth A. and Weisler, Marshall I. (2021). Behavior and intra-skeletal remodeling in an adult male from 1720 BP Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 17 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2020.1837305
Campbell, Bryce, Price, Gilbert J., Louys, Julien and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2021). Crocodile tooth hstology from a Pliocene deposit in Chinchilla, Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 129. doi: 10.53060/prsq.2021.2
Westaway, Michael C., Williams, Douglas, Lowe, Kelsey, Wright, Nathan J., Kerkhove, Ray, Silcock, Jennifer, Gorringe, Joshua, Miszkiewicz, Justina, Wood, Rachel, Adams, Richard, Manne, Tiina, Adams, Shaun, Miscamble, Tony, Stout, Justin, Wrobel, Gabriel D., Kemp, Justine, Hendry, Brooke, Gorringe, Max, Gorringe, Betty, Lander, Keiron, Gorringe, Shawnee, Andrews, Ian and Collard, Mark (2021). Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland. Antiquity, 95 (382), 1-18. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2021.31
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Rider, Claire, Kealy, Shimona, Vrahnas, Christina, Sims, Natalie A., Vongsvivut, Jitraporn, Tobin, Mark J., Bolunia, Mary Jane Louise A., De Leon, Alexandra S., Penalosa, Antonio L., Pagulayan, Pablo S., Soriano, Adan V., Page, Ruth and Oxenham, Marc F. (2020). Asymmetric midshaft femur remodeling in an adult male with left sided hip joint ankylosis, Metal Period Nagsabaran, Philippines. International Journal of Paleopathology, 31, 14-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2020.07.003
Drew, Elizabeth R., Mahoney, Patrick and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2020). Osteocyte lacuno‐canalicular microstructure across the mid‐shaft femur in adult males from medieval England. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31 (2), 176-187. doi: 10.1002/oa.2937
Snoddy, Anne Marie E., Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Loch, Carolina, Tromp, Monica and Buckley, Hallie R. (2020). An image analysis protocol for the quantification of interglobular dentine in anthropological tooth sections. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 174 (1), 144-148. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24143
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2020). The importance of open access software in the analysis of bone histology in biological anthropology. Evolutionary Anthropology, 29 (4), 165-167. doi: 10.1002/evan.21859
Mahoney, Patrick, McFarlan, Gina, Pitfiel, Rosie, O'Hara, Mackie C., Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Deter, Chris, Seal, Hannah and Guatelli-Steinberg, Debbie (2020). A structural biorhythm related to human sexual dimorphism. Journal of Structural Biology, 211 (2) 107550, 107550. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107550
Walker, Meg M., Louys, Julien, Herries, Andy I. R., Price, Gilbert J. and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2020). Humerus midshaft histology in a modern and fossil wombat. Australian Mammalogy, 43 (1), 30-39. doi: 10.1071/AM20005
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Louys, Julien, Beck, Robin M. D., Mahoney, Patrick, Aplin, Ken and O'Connor, Sue (2020). Island rule and bone metabolism in fossil murines from Timor. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 129 (3), 570-586. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz197
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. and Cooke, Karen M. (2019). Socio-economic Determinants of Bone Health from Past to Present. Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 17 (3-4), 109-122. doi: 10.1007/s12018-019-09263-1
Behie, Alison M. and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2019). Enamel neonatal line thickness in deciduous teeth of Australian children from known maternal health and pregnancy conditions. Early Human Development, 137. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2019.07.004
Dempsey, Nicholas, Gilbert, Felicity Maria, Miszkiewicz, Justyna and Oxenham, Marc F. (2019). Biomechanical analysis of controlled tibial blunt force trauma. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 51 (5), 538-548. doi: 10.1080/00450618.2018.1429017
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Louys, Julien and O'Connor, Sue (2019). Microanatomical Record of Cortical Bone Remodeling and High Vascularity in a Fossil Giant Rat Midshaft Femur. The Anatomical Record, 302 (11), 1934-1940. doi: 10.1002/ar.24224
Miszkiewicz, Justyna (2019). How adapting to research setbacks can pave the way to greater outcomes. Nature. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01916-x
Pitfield, Rosie, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. and Mahoney, Patrick (2019). Microscopic markers of an infradian biorhythm in human juvenile ribs. Bone, 120, 403-410. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2018.11.019
Miszkiewicz, Justyna Jolanta and Mahoney, Patrick (2019). Histomorphometry and cortical robusticity of the adult human femur. Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 37 (1), 90-104. doi: 10.1007/s00774-017-0899-3
Bridge, Ashley L., Oxenham, Marc F. and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2018). Estimating stature using human forearm and leg anthropometric data in an Australian female sample. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 52 (1), 83-95. doi: 10.1080/00450618.2018.1484162
Mahoney, Patrick, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Chapple, Simon, Le Luyer, Mona, Schlecht, Stephen H., Stewart, Tahlia J., Griffiths, Richard A., Deter, Chris and Guatelli-Steinberg, Debbie (2018). The biorhythm of human skeletal growth. Journal of Anatomy, 232 (1), 26-38. doi: 10.1111/joa.12709
Fahy, G. E., Deter, C., Pitfield, R., Miszkiewicz, J. J. and Mahoney, P. (2017). Bone deep: Variation in stable isotope ratios and histomorphometric measurements of bone remodelling within adult humans. Journal of Archaeological Science, 87, 10-16. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2017.09.009
Pitfield, Rosie, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. and Mahoney, Patrick (2017). Cortical Histomorphometry of the Human Humerus During Ontogeny. Calcified Tissue International, 101 (2), 148-158. doi: 10.1007/s00223-017-0268-1
Mahoney, Patrick, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Pitfield, Rosie, Deter, Chris and Guatelli-Steinberg, Debbie (2017). Enamel biorhythms of humans and great apes: the Havers-Halberg Oscillation hypothesis reconsidered. Journal of Anatomy, 230 (2), 272-281. doi: 10.1111/joa.12551
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2016). Investigating histomorphometric relationships at the human femoral midshaft in a biomechanical context. Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 34 (2), 179-192. doi: 10.1007/s00774-015-0652-8
Mahoney, Patrick, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Pitfield, Rosie, Schlecht, Stephen H., Deter, Chris and Guatelli-Steinberg, Debbie (2016). Biorhythms, deciduous enamel thickness, and primary bone growth: a test of the Havers-Halberg Oscillation hypothesis. Journal of Anatomy, 228 (6), 919-928. doi: 10.1111/joa.12450
Mahoney, Patrick, Schmidt, Christopher W., Deter, Chris, Remy, Ashley, Slavin, Philip, Johns, Sarah E., Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. and Nystrom, Pia (2016). Deciduous enamel 3D microwear texture analysis as an indicator of childhood diet in medieval Canterbury, England. Journal of Archaeological Science, 66, 128-136. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.007
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. and Mahoney, Patrick (2016). Ancient Human Bone Microstructure in Medieval England: Comparisons between Two Socio-Economic Groups. Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, 299 (1), 42-59. doi: 10.1002/ar.23285
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2015). Histology of a Harris line in a human distal tibia. Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 33 (4), 462-466. doi: 10.1007/s00774-014-0644-0
Miszkiewicz, Justyna Jolanta (2015). Linear Enamel Hypoplasia and Age-at-Death at Medieval (11th-16th Centuries) St. Gregory's Priory and Cemetery, Canterbury, UK. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 25 (1), 79-87. doi: 10.1002/oa.2265