Mary Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6224-0278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 534 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Investigating beta-thalassaemia in micro-CT scans of deciduous teeth
OBJECTIVE: To assess if 'iris-like' changes to deciduous incisors are a consistent feature associated with archaeological cases of beta-thalassaemia. MATERIALS: Deciduous teeth from three individuals from the Romano-British cemetery of Poundbury Camp, Dorchester, England, and one individual from the contemporary site of Butt Road, Colchester, England, identified as having transfusion dependent thalassaemia with varying degrees of confidence were …
Lost or overused: Legal, ethical and research imperatives for a centralised human-remains database in the UK
The skeletal remains of almost 25 700 people excavated in the UK between 1869 and 2008 are unaccounted for. Although their existence is recorded in a human-remains database, their current location is unknown. Here, the authors explore the research, legal and ethical implications of this missing heritage, arguing that difficulties in accessing human remains from smaller sites or under-represented regions stifle research into past lives and contrib…
An assessment of puberty status in adolescents from the European Upper Paleolithic
Childhood and adolescence are two life-history stages that are either unique to humans, or significantly expanded in the human life course relative to other primates. While recent studies have deepened our knowledge of childhood in the Upper Paleolithic, adolescence in this period remains understudied. Here, we use bioarchaeological maturational markers to estimate puberty status of 13 Upper Paleolithic adolescents from sites in Russia, Czechia, …
Growing up Avar: Osteological and Historical Evidence on the Transition into Adulthood in the Avar Empire and the Plasticity of Development
This study investigates adolescence in the early medieval period in Austria by combining historical, archaeological, genetic, and osteological data. To better understand adolescence in the Avar period (650-800 CE), we consulted early medieval inscriptions and historical sources on steppe peoples and correlated them to the osteological findings on the timing of development and the pubertal growth spurt from two Austrian sites. We found that non-sp…
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia
This paper presents the results of the first large-scale study of children from early modern northern Estonia. A total of 191 non-adults (<17 years) from the 16th-18th century Tõnismägi cemetery in the suburbs of Tallinn were analyzed to gain a better understanding of the health and living environment of these low-status children. This was achieved through growth analysis and palaeopathological investigation of metabolic and respiratory diseases …
Emerging Adolescence: Current Status and Potential Advances in Bioarchaeology
Adolescence is marked by a wide range of biological, social, and neurological changes. Adolescents are stereotypically viewed as reckless, impulsive, and troubled, but research across the social and biomedical sciences is demonstrating that this is a narrow view of a dynamic period of life. Now, research is showing that adolescents are frequently responsible for the creation and transmission of new ideas and practices and for the creation of new …
Association of extreme precipitation with hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction in Beijing, China: A time-series study
Extreme precipitation is correlated with a higher risk of AMI hospitalizations. The elderly (≥65 years) and females are more susceptible to AMI triggered by extreme precipitation
Youth Mobility, Migration, and Health Before and After the Black Death
Migration is driven by the young but despite this, few isotope studies focus on adolescent migrants or the intricatenature of their movement. Using a multi-analytical approach, the authors explore this mobility and the impact of urban living on the diet and health of adolescents from the pre-and post-Black Death periods of Northern England. Isotope analysis (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium) and lead concentrations were measured in 63 adol…
The potential for over diagnosis of Paget’s disease of bone using macroscopic analysis
OBJECTIVE: This study explores the validity of Paget's disease of bone (PDB) reported in unpublished skeletal reports, based on macroscopic analysis alone. MATERIALS: The high prevalence of 'suspected' Paget's disease (10.7%) in an early modern sample from St John's the Evangelist Church in Redhill, Surrey is reassessed. METHODS: Signs of PDB were examined in 53 well-preserved adults aged 35 + years using macroscopic, radiographic and histologica…
Medieval menarche: Changes in pubertal timing before and after the Black Death
OBJECTIVES: Bioarcheological evidence suggests stature increased in males but decreased in females after the Black Death (1348-1350 CE). Because tradeoffs between growth and reproduction can result in earlier ages at menarche and lower limb length, we assess menarcheal age between 1120 and 1540 CE to better understand the health of medieval adolescent females before and after the plague. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Our sample comprises 74 adolescent f…
Prosocial Behavior
Dental Caries as a Measure of Diet, Health, and Difference in Non-Adults from Urban and Rural Roman Britain
Dental disease in childhood has the potential to inform about food availability, social status, andfeeding practices, in addition to contributing to a child’s overall health status. This paper presents the first comprehensiveoverview of carious lesion frequencies in 433 non-adults (1-17 years), and 6,283 erupted permanentand deciduous teeth from 15 urban and rural Romano-British settlements. Pooled deciduous and permanentcaries rates were signifi…
Poundbury Camp in Context—a new Perspective on the Lives of Children from urban and rural R oman E ngland
OBJECTIVES: The current understanding of child morbidity in Roman England is dominated by studies of single sites/regions. Much of the data are derived from third to fifth century AD Poundbury Camp, Dorchester, Dorset, considered an unusual site due to high levels of non-adult morbidity. There is little understanding of children in rural areas, and whether Poundbury Camp was representative of Romano-British childhood. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The s…
The influence of chronic conditions and the environment on pubertal development. An example from medieval England
On the threshold of adulthood: A new approach for the use of maturation indicators to assess puberty in adolescents from medieval E ngland
OBJECTIVES: This study provides the first large scale analysis of the age at which adolescents in medieval England entered and completed the pubertal growth spurt. This new method has implications for expanding our knowledge of adolescent maturation across different time periods and regions. METHODS: In total, 994 adolescent skeletons (10-25 years) from four urban sites in medieval England (AD 900-1550) were analyzed for evidence of pubertal stag…
Guidance for organisational strategy on knowledge to action from conceptual frameworks and practice
This paper aims to provide public health organisations involved in chronic disease prevention with conceptual and practical guidance for developing contextually sensitive knowledge-to-action (KTA) strategies. Methods involve an analysis of 13 relevant conceptual KTA frameworks, and a review of three case examples of organisations with active KTA agendas. From this analysis, this paper identifies and discusses four key principles for enhancing org…
Children, Spaces and Identity
Work and the Adolescent in Medieval England ad 900–1550: The Osteological Evidence
WHAT WAS IT LIKE to be a teenager in medieval England? Despite the fact that medieval society often singled young apprentices and workers out for comment, their study has been largely neglected in medieval archaeology. The skeletal remains of 4940 children and adolescents (6.6–25 years) from 151 sites in medieval England were compiled from a combination of primary data collection and secondary data from published and unpublished skeletal reports …
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Social Work Students’ Perceptions, Knowledge, and Attitudes About Human Trafficking Questionnaire (PKA-HTQ): An Exploratory Study
Objective: This study sought to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a tool designed to assess social work students’ knowledge of and perceptions and attitudes toward human trafficking. To achieve this aim, the Perceptions, Knowledge, and Attitudes toward Human Trafficking Questionnaire (PKA-HTQ) was developed and its psychometric properties were evaluated. Specifically, the factor structure and the internal consistency of the PKA-…
The Lives and Deaths of Young Medieval Women: The Osteological Evidence
WRITTEN SOURCES FROM the medieval period focus mainly on the activities of adults, particularly males and often those from the wealthier sections of society. Recent scholarship has attempted to redress this balance by giving attention to medieval women and children, but we are still limited by what we can learn about the daily lives of all members of medieval English society. Osteology, the study of human skeletal remains, suffers from no such bi…
Childhood trauma: Methods for the identification of physeal fractures in nonadult skeletal remains
OBJECTIVES: Today, fractures at the growth plate (or physis) are common injuries in children, but provide challenges of identification in skeletonized remains. Clinical studies provide detailed information on the mechanisms, locations, age of occurrence, and complications associated with physeal fractures, enabling the development of new criteria for identifying this injury in nonadults. To test these criteria, skeletal remains from five rural an…
Brief communication: A proposed method for the assessment of pubertal stage in human skeletal remains using cervical vertebrae maturation
The assessment of age‐at‐death in non‐adult skeletal remains is under constant review. However, in many past societies an individual's physical maturation may have been more important in social terms than their exact age, particularly during the period of adolescence. In a recent article (Shapland and Lewis: Am J Phys Anthropol 151 (2013) 302–310) highlighted a set of dental and skeletal indicators that may be useful in mapping the progress of th…
People on the move in Roman Britain
Levels of mobility in the Roman Empire have long been assumed to be relatively high, as attested by epigraphy, demography, material culture and, most recently, isotope analysis and the skeletons themselves. Building on recent data from a range of Romano-British sites (Poundbury in Dorset, York, Winchester, Gloucester, Catterick and Scorton), this article explores the significance of the presence of migrants at these sites and the impact they may …
Children of the Golden Minster: St. Oswald’s Priory and the Impact of Industrialisation on Child Health
This study explores the disease experience of children buried within the cemetery of St. Oswald’s Priory, Gloucester from AD1153 to 1857. Evidence for ages-at-death, infant mortality, and the prevalence of stress indicators, trauma, and pathology were compared between the early and postmedieval periods. The skeletal remains of these children provide evidence for child health spanning the economic expansion of Gloucester at St. Oswald’s, from a mo…
Brief communication: A proposed osteological method for the estimation of pubertal stage in human skeletal remains
Puberty forms an important threshold between childhood and adulthood, but this subject has received little attention in bioarchaeology. The new application of clinical methods to assess pubertal stage in adolescent skeletal remains is explored, concentrating on the development of the mandibular canine, hamate, hand phalanges, iliac crest and distal radius. Initial results from the medieval cemetery of St. Peter's Church, Barton‐upon‐Humber, Engla…
Strontium and stable isotope evidence for diet and mobility in Roman Gloucester, UK
Impact of industrialization: Comparative study of child health in four sites from medieval and postmedieval England (A.D. 850–1859)
The morbidity and mortality profiles of 831 non‐adult skeletons from four contrasting sites in medieval and postmedieval England were compared to assess whether urbanization and later industrialization, had a detrimental effect on the health of the inhabitants. Failure in the population's ability to adapt to these environments should be evident in the higher rates of mortality, retarded growth, higher levels of stress, and a greater prevalence of…
The Bioarchaeology of Children: Perspectives from Biological and Forensic Anthropology
This book is entirely devoted to the study of children's skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts. It provides an extensive review of the osteological methods and theoretical concepts of their analysis. Non-adult skeletons provide a wealth of information on the physical and social life of the child from their growth, diet and age at death, to factors that expose them to trauma and disease at different stages of their lives. This book c…
A Lady of York: Migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain
Modern methods of analysis applied to cemeteries have often been used in our pages to suggest generalities about mobility and diet. But these same techniques applied to a single individual, together with the grave goods and burial rite, can open a special kind of personal window on the past. Here, the authors of a multidisciplinary project use a combination of scientific techniques to illuminate Roman York, and later Roman history in general, wit…
People on the move in Roman Britain
Levels of mobility in the Roman Empire have long been assumed to be relatively high, as attested by epigraphy, demography, material culture and, most recently, isotope analysis and the skeletons themselves. Building on recent data from a range of Romano-British sites (Poundbury in Dorset, York, Winchester, Gloucester, Catterick and Scorton), this article explores the significance of the presence of migrants at these sites and the impact they may …
Brief communication: A proposed osteological method for the estimation of pubertal stage in human skeletal remains
Puberty forms an important threshold between childhood and adulthood, but this subject has received little attention in bioarchaeology. The new application of clinical methods to assess pubertal stage in adolescent skeletal remains is explored, concentrating on the development of the mandibular canine, hamate, hand phalanges, iliac crest and distal radius. Initial results from the medieval cemetery of St. Peter's Church, Barton‐upon‐Humber, Engla…
Work and the Adolescent in Medieval England ad 900–1550: The Osteological Evidence
WHAT WAS IT LIKE to be a teenager in medieval England? Despite the fact that medieval society often singled young apprentices and workers out for comment, their study has been largely neglected in medieval archaeology. The skeletal remains of 4940 children and adolescents (6.6–25 years) from 151 sites in medieval England were compiled from a combination of primary data collection and secondary data from published and unpublished skeletal reports …
Migration and diversity in Roman Britain: A multidisciplinary approach to the identification of immigrants in Roman York, England
Previous anthropological investigations at Trentholme Drive, in Roman York identified an unusual amount of cranial variation amongst the inhabitants, with some individuals suggested as having originated from the Middle East or North Africa. The current study investigates the validity of this assessment using modern anthropological methods to assess cranial variation in two groups: The Railway and Trentholme Drive. Strontium and oxygen isotope evi…
Comparative study of the prevalence of maxillary sinusitis in later Medieval urban and rural populations in Northern England
Six hundred sixty‐three Medieval individuals from Wharram Percy, a rural settlement in the Yorkshire Wolds, and 1,042 individuals from St. Helen‐on‐the‐Walls, a poor parish in the Medieval city of York, were examined in order to test the hypothesis that maxillary sinusitis would be more prevalent in an urban population due to social and environmental conditions characteristic of an industrialized settlement. The results showed that the individual…
Comparison of child morbidity in two contrasting medieval cemeteries from Denmark
This study compares associations between demographic profiles, long bone lengths, bone mineral content, and frequencies of stress indicators in the preadult populations of two medieval skeletal assemblages from Denmark. One is from a leprosarium, and thus probably represents a disadvantaged group (Næstved). The other comes from a normal, and in comparison rather privileged, medieval community (Æbelholt). Previous studies of the adult population i…
Endocranial lesions in non-adult skeletons: Understanding Their Aetiology
Reactive new bone on the endocranial surface of the skull in non-adults has recently received a lot of attention in the palaeopathological literature. These features appear as layers of new bone on the original cortical surface, expanding around meningeal vessels, as isolated plaques, 'hair-on-end' extensions of the diploë or, as 'capillary' impressions extending into the inner lamina of the cranium. These lesions are commonly found on the occipi…
Brief communication: A proposed method for the assessment of pubertal stage in human skeletal remains using cervical vertebrae maturation
The assessment of age‐at‐death in non‐adult skeletal remains is under constant review. However, in many past societies an individual's physical maturation may have been more important in social terms than their exact age, particularly during the period of adolescence. In a recent article (Shapland and Lewis: Am J Phys Anthropol 151 (2013) 302–310) highlighted a set of dental and skeletal indicators that may be useful in mapping the progress of th…
Life and death in a civitas capital: Metabolic disease and trauma in the children from late Roman Dorchester, Dorset
The impact that “Romanization” and the development of urban centers had on the health of the Romano‐British population is little understood. A re‐examination of the skeletal remains of 364 nonadults from the civitas capital at Roman Dorchester (Durnovaria) in Dorset was carried out to measure the health of the children living in this small urban area. The cemetery population was divided into two groups; the first buried their dead organized withi…
Brief and precarious lives: Infant mortality in contrasting sites from medieval and post‐medieval England (AD 850–1859)
This study compares the infant mortality profiles of 128 infants from two urban and two rural cemetery sites in medieval England. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of urbanization and industrialization in terms of endogenous or exogenous causes of death. In order to undertake this analysis, two different methods of estimating gestational age from long bone lengths were used: a traditional regression method and a Bayesian method. The r…
Thalassaemia: Its diagnosis and interpretation in past skeletal populations
The diagnosis of thalassaemia in archaeological populations has long been hindered by a lack of pathogonomic features, and the non-specific nature of cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis. In fact, clinical research has highlighted more specific diagnostic criteria for thalassaemia major and intermedia based on changes to the thorax ('rib-within-a-rib' and costal osteomas). A recent re-examination of 364 child skeletons from Romano-British Po…
The Lives and Deaths of Young Medieval Women: The Osteological Evidence
WRITTEN SOURCES FROM the medieval period focus mainly on the activities of adults, particularly males and often those from the wealthier sections of society. Recent scholarship has attempted to redress this balance by giving attention to medieval women and children, but we are still limited by what we can learn about the daily lives of all members of medieval English society. Osteology, the study of human skeletal remains, suffers from no such bi…
Dental Caries as a Measure of Diet, Health, and Difference in Non-Adults from Urban and Rural Roman Britain
Dental disease in childhood has the potential to inform about food availability, social status, andfeeding practices, in addition to contributing to a child’s overall health status. This paper presents the first comprehensiveoverview of carious lesion frequencies in 433 non-adults (1-17 years), and 6,283 erupted permanentand deciduous teeth from 15 urban and rural Romano-British settlements. Pooled deciduous and permanentcaries rates were signifi…
Poundbury Camp in Context—a new Perspective on the Lives of Children from urban and rural R oman E ngland
OBJECTIVES: The current understanding of child morbidity in Roman England is dominated by studies of single sites/regions. Much of the data are derived from third to fifth century AD Poundbury Camp, Dorchester, Dorset, considered an unusual site due to high levels of non-adult morbidity. There is little understanding of children in rural areas, and whether Poundbury Camp was representative of Romano-British childhood. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The s…
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Social Work Students’ Perceptions, Knowledge, and Attitudes About Human Trafficking Questionnaire (PKA-HTQ): An Exploratory Study
Objective: This study sought to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a tool designed to assess social work students’ knowledge of and perceptions and attitudes toward human trafficking. To achieve this aim, the Perceptions, Knowledge, and Attitudes toward Human Trafficking Questionnaire (PKA-HTQ) was developed and its psychometric properties were evaluated. Specifically, the factor structure and the internal consistency of the PKA-…
Childhood trauma: Methods for the identification of physeal fractures in nonadult skeletal remains
OBJECTIVES: Today, fractures at the growth plate (or physis) are common injuries in children, but provide challenges of identification in skeletonized remains. Clinical studies provide detailed information on the mechanisms, locations, age of occurrence, and complications associated with physeal fractures, enabling the development of new criteria for identifying this injury in nonadults. To test these criteria, skeletal remains from five rural an…
A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire
Analysis of a set of bones redeposited in a medieval abbey graveyard showed that the individual had been beheaded and chopped up, and this in turn suggested one of England's more gruesome execution practices. Since quartering was generally reserved for the infamous, the author attempts to track down the victim and proposes him to be Hugh Despenser, the lover of King Edward II
An assessment of puberty status in adolescents from the European Upper Paleolithic
Childhood and adolescence are two life-history stages that are either unique to humans, or significantly expanded in the human life course relative to other primates. While recent studies have deepened our knowledge of childhood in the Upper Paleolithic, adolescence in this period remains understudied. Here, we use bioarchaeological maturational markers to estimate puberty status of 13 Upper Paleolithic adolescents from sites in Russia, Czechia, …
Growing up Avar: Osteological and Historical Evidence on the Transition into Adulthood in the Avar Empire and the Plasticity of Development
This study investigates adolescence in the early medieval period in Austria by combining historical, archaeological, genetic, and osteological data. To better understand adolescence in the Avar period (650-800 CE), we consulted early medieval inscriptions and historical sources on steppe peoples and correlated them to the osteological findings on the timing of development and the pubertal growth spurt from two Austrian sites. We found that non-sp…
Foster-Family Care: Has It Fulfilled Its Promise
Foster-family care seems to promise children who must leave their own home for some type of foster care the closest approximation to normal life in their own home. The close and continuing relationship with responsible adults and the opportunities to participate in family and community life should provide a corrective and growth experience for the children in care. Casework services with parents should enable them to re-establish a home for their…
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia
This paper presents the results of the first large-scale study of children from early modern northern Estonia. A total of 191 non-adults (<17 years) from the 16th-18th century Tõnismägi cemetery in the suburbs of Tallinn were analyzed to gain a better understanding of the health and living environment of these low-status children. This was achieved through growth analysis and palaeopathological investigation of metabolic and respiratory diseases …
Confidentiality of Public Assistance Records . Margaret Greenfield
Annual Report of the Federal Security Agency, 1952
Social Work Year Book 1954 . Russell H. Kurtz
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Children of the Caribbean: Their Mental Health Needs
Foster-Family Care: Has It Fulfilled Its Promise
Foster-family care seems to promise children who must leave their own home for some type of foster care the closest approximation to normal life in their own home. The close and continuing relationship with responsible adults and the opportunities to participate in family and community life should provide a corrective and growth experience for the children in care. Casework services with parents should enable them to re-establish a home for their…
Changing Services for Changing Clients . National Association of Social Workers
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Trade Unions and the Labour Party: Changes in the Group of Trade Union Sponsored MPs
Comparative study of the prevalence of maxillary sinusitis in later Medieval urban and rural populations in Northern England
Six hundred sixty‐three Medieval individuals from Wharram Percy, a rural settlement in the Yorkshire Wolds, and 1,042 individuals from St. Helen‐on‐the‐Walls, a poor parish in the Medieval city of York, were examined in order to test the hypothesis that maxillary sinusitis would be more prevalent in an urban population due to social and environmental conditions characteristic of an industrialized settlement. The results showed that the individual…
Growing pains: The interpretation of stress indicators
An emphasis on the study of stress indicators in biological anthropology represents a move away from the identification of specific diseases to a more general analysis of malnutrition and infection in past populations. This paper reviews the current literature and discusses the methodological problems behind scoring and recording these conditions. Suggestions are made on how these problems may be addressed in the future. © 1997 by John Wiley & So…
Growing pains: The interpretation of stress indicators
An emphasis on the study of stress indicators in biological anthropology represents a move away from the identification of specific diseases to a more general analysis of malnutrition and infection in past populations. This paper reviews the current literature and discusses the methodological problems behind scoring and recording these conditions. Suggestions are made on how these problems may be addressed in the future. © 1997 by John Wiley & So…
Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-1569: A Descriptive Bibliography and Historical Study, 1550-1559
This outstanding third volume complete the catalogue of Antonio Gardano's publications in his lifetime, publications that are among the most important sources of sixteenth-century music. A full catalogue section covers all of Gardano's known publications from the sixties and provides full titles, bibliographical information, contents with concordant sources for each piece, and locations of individual copies with notes on their bindings, owners' m…
Impact of industrialization: Comparative study of child health in four sites from medieval and postmedieval England (A.D. 850–1859)
The morbidity and mortality profiles of 831 non‐adult skeletons from four contrasting sites in medieval and postmedieval England were compared to assess whether urbanization and later industrialization, had a detrimental effect on the health of the inhabitants. Failure in the population's ability to adapt to these environments should be evident in the higher rates of mortality, retarded growth, higher levels of stress, and a greater prevalence of…
A teacher's schoolyard tale: Illuminating the vagaries of practicing participatory action research (par) pedagogy
This single case study, situated within a larger narrative inquiry project, closely examines the professional stories told by one Project Grow teacher. Project Grow is a 10‐year‐old collaborative i
Endocranial lesions in non-adult skeletons: Understanding Their Aetiology
Reactive new bone on the endocranial surface of the skull in non-adults has recently received a lot of attention in the palaeopathological literature. These features appear as layers of new bone on the original cortical surface, expanding around meningeal vessels, as isolated plaques, 'hair-on-end' extensions of the diploë or, as 'capillary' impressions extending into the inner lamina of the cranium. These lesions are commonly found on the occipi…
Comparison of child morbidity in two contrasting medieval cemeteries from Denmark
This study compares associations between demographic profiles, long bone lengths, bone mineral content, and frequencies of stress indicators in the preadult populations of two medieval skeletal assemblages from Denmark. One is from a leprosarium, and thus probably represents a disadvantaged group (Næstved). The other comes from a normal, and in comparison rather privileged, medieval community (Æbelholt). Previous studies of the adult population i…
The Bioarchaeology of Children: Perspectives from Biological and Forensic Anthropology
This book is entirely devoted to the study of children's skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts. It provides an extensive review of the osteological methods and theoretical concepts of their analysis. Non-adult skeletons provide a wealth of information on the physical and social life of the child from their growth, diet and age at death, to factors that expose them to trauma and disease at different stages of their lives. This book c…
Development and implementation of the Ontario Stroke System: The use of evidence
This study provides guidance to support the development and implementation of evidence-based models of integrated service delivery
Brief and precarious lives: Infant mortality in contrasting sites from medieval and post‐medieval England (AD 850–1859)
This study compares the infant mortality profiles of 128 infants from two urban and two rural cemetery sites in medieval England. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of urbanization and industrialization in terms of endogenous or exogenous causes of death. In order to undertake this analysis, two different methods of estimating gestational age from long bone lengths were used: a traditional regression method and a Bayesian method. The r…
A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire
Analysis of a set of bones redeposited in a medieval abbey graveyard showed that the individual had been beheaded and chopped up, and this in turn suggested one of England's more gruesome execution practices. Since quartering was generally reserved for the infamous, the author attempts to track down the victim and proposes him to be Hugh Despenser, the lover of King Edward II
Strontium and stable isotope evidence for diet and mobility in Roman Gloucester, UK
Migration and diversity in Roman Britain: A multidisciplinary approach to the identification of immigrants in Roman York, England
Previous anthropological investigations at Trentholme Drive, in Roman York identified an unusual amount of cranial variation amongst the inhabitants, with some individuals suggested as having originated from the Middle East or North Africa. The current study investigates the validity of this assessment using modern anthropological methods to assess cranial variation in two groups: The Railway and Trentholme Drive. Strontium and oxygen isotope evi…
Life and death in a civitas capital: Metabolic disease and trauma in the children from late Roman Dorchester, Dorset
The impact that “Romanization” and the development of urban centers had on the health of the Romano‐British population is little understood. A re‐examination of the skeletal remains of 364 nonadults from the civitas capital at Roman Dorchester (Durnovaria) in Dorset was carried out to measure the health of the children living in this small urban area. The cemetery population was divided into two groups; the first buried their dead organized withi…
A Lady of York: Migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain
Modern methods of analysis applied to cemeteries have often been used in our pages to suggest generalities about mobility and diet. But these same techniques applied to a single individual, together with the grave goods and burial rite, can open a special kind of personal window on the past. Here, the authors of a multidisciplinary project use a combination of scientific techniques to illuminate Roman York, and later Roman history in general, wit…
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