Hannah J O''Regan

Biographic Data

ID635107
NAMEHannah J O''Regan
GIVEN NAMESHannah J
FAMILY NAMEO''Regan
SIGNATUREREGAN H J O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nottingham
ORCID0000-0001-6293-5475
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS58
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • The Origins of Bear-Baiting

    Open AccessLiam Lewis, Hannah J O''ReganARTICLESociety and Animals2026

    Bear-baiting, the act of setting dogs on tethered bears to fight, was an important social and economic activity in early modern England. It has been suggested that baiting was practiced in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, but the evidence for such claims has largely been restricted to images of bears in manuscript marginalia. For the first time, this article presents an interdisciplinary overview of the literary, archival, archaeological, a…

  • Bear journeys in early modern England

    Open AccessCallan Davies, Anna Bloxam et al.ARTICLEThe Seventeenth Century2025References: 24

    This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record. We plot roadways taken and the lengths and times via GIS mapping, offering a fresh spatial humanities methodology to explore commercial life on the road and its consequences. Together, these sources an…

  • What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern 'sport

    Open AccessE Wright, Elizabeth Cox Wright et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025References: 24

    Bear baiting was a popular form of entertainment in Shakespearean England that was staged across the country but formalised in the Early Modern entertainment hub on Bankside, London. Here, the authors bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope and archival evidence in the examination of faunal assemblages from nine archaeological sites on Bankside to elucidate characteristics indicative of bear baiting. In doing so, they present criteria fo…

  • Why so high?’ Examining discrepancies between the Sr biosphere map and archaeological tooth data from the Peak District, England

    Open AccessHannah J O''Regan, David M Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2023Cited by: 1References: 3

    The analysis of 87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in human and nonhuman tooth enamel is used worldwide for archaeological and forensic purposes to establish if an individual is likely to have grown up in the area from which their remains were excavated. The English Peak District has produced an unusually high proportion of archaeological humans who, based on Sr isotope ratios, appear to have come from elsewhere. We have used modern plant samples from the …

  • Rural Life, Roman Ways? Examination of Late Iron Age to Late Romano-British Burial Practice and Mobility at Dog Hole Cave, Cumbria

    Open AccessHannah J O''Regan, Keith Bland et al.ARTICLEBritannia2020

    The scarcity of Romano-British human remains from north-west England has hindered understanding of burial practice in this region. Here, we report on the excavation of human and non-human animal remains 1 and material culture from Dog Hole Cave, Haverbrack. Foetal and neonatal infants had been interred alongside a horse burial and puppies, lambs, calves and piglets in the very latest Iron Age to early Romano-British period, while the mid- to late…

  • The missing mushrooms

    Open AccessHannah J O''Regan, Angela L Lamb et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2016Cited by: 7References: 3

  • Hominin home ranges and habitat variability

    Open AccessHannah J O''Regan, David M Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2016Cited by: 3References: 11

  • Zoogeography

    Open AccessAlan Turner, Hannah J O''Regan et al.CHAPTERHandbook of Paleoanthropology2015

  • Zoogeography

    Open AccessAlan Turner, Hannah J O''Regan et al.CHAPTERHandbook of Paleoanthropology2013

  • An ecological reassessment of the southern African carnivore guild

    Open AccessHannah J O''Regan, H J O''Regan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2009Cited by: 10References: 58

  • Theropithecus and 'Out of Africa' dispersal in the Plio-Pleistocene

    Open AccessJohn K Hughes, Sarah Elton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2008Cited by: 25References: 66

  • Modern macaque dietary heterogeneity assessed using stable isotope analysis of hair and bone

    Open AccessHannah J O''Regan, H Oregan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2008Cited by: 6

  • Afro-Eurasian mammalian fauna and early hominin dispersals

    Alan Turner, Hannah J O''Regan et al.CHAPTERThe Evolution and History of…2007

  • Zoogeography

    Alan Turner, Hannah J O''Regan et al.CHAPTERHandbook of paleoanthropology2007

  • Where are the Non-Human Bog Bodies

    Open AccessDavid M Wilkinson, Hannah J O''Regan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Wetland Archaeology2006Cited by: 2References: 2

    We draw attention to the rarity of non-human bog bodies, reviewing the small number from Britain and Ireland of which we are aware. We use this absence to argue that there is more to becoming a bog body than merely dying on a bog (or falling into a bog pool). Given the potential importance of non-human bog bodies to the interpretation of the human remains we stress the importance of the publication of any examples

  • Medieval big cat remains from the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London

    Open AccessH O''Regan, Hannah J O''Regan et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2006Cited by: 4References: 4

    Big cats have been regarded as a symbol of power in different cultures throughout history. Here we present a study of the only known big cat remains from the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London. They were excavated in 1937 but have not previously been published. Our radiocarbon dating has established that they range in date from the 13th-17th centuries, making them the earliest post-Pleistocene big cat remains in Britain. We provide a descript…