Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology

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This book includes papers from the seventh annual conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), held at the Museum of London in 2005.

Author(s): Sonia R. Zakrewski, William White (eds.)
Series: BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 1712
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Year: 2007

Language: English

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Introduction
An overview of human osteology at the Museum of London
Cracking the Code: biography and (reconstructed) stratigraphy at St Pancras burial ground
Recent Excavations in the ‘Southern Cemetery’ of Roman Southwark
The funerary behaviour and the social value of children in a proto-industrial urban population from London during the 18th and 19th centuries
The ‘French Disease’: Syphilis and the burial ground of St Pancras
Industrial accident or deliberate amputation? Three case studies from a Victorian population in Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Unusual Neck Pathology in a Nevisian prehistoric individual
The Search for Rosa Pike: Congenital Syphilis in 1880s London
Burial Rites, Death & Disease in the Late Gallinazo/Moche Period
Overweight and the Human Skeleton
A New Method for Recording Tooth Wear
Intra-Community Variation in Uptake of a New Staple Crop in the Eastern Woodlands of North America
The Stressful Revolution: A Rise in Fluctuating Asymmetry from Medieval to Victorian England
Radiography in Palaeopathology: Where next?