List of works - Christopher Knüsel

A Girardian Framework for Violent Injuries at Neolithic Çatalhöyük in Their Western Asian Context

scientific article

A Neolithic case of fibrous dysplasia from Çatalhöyük (Turkey)

scientific article published on 24 September 2016

A foot deformity from a Romano-British cemetery at Gloucester, England, and the current evidence fortalipes in palaeopathology

article

A medieval sculpture of leprosy in the Cistercian Abbaye de Cadouin

scientific article

Activity-related skeletal change in medieval humeri: cross-sectional and architectural alterations

scientific article published in November 2005

Aging Well: Treherne's ‘Warrior's Beauty’ Two Decades Later

scholarly article by Catherine Frieman published in January 2017

Avulsion fractures of the transverse processes of the first thoracic vertebra: an archaeological case study from Raunds

scholarly article by B. R. Upex published in January 2009

Baastrup's sign (kissing spines): A neglected condition in paleopathology

article published in 2011

Bio-cultural effects in medieval populations

scientific article

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük: Lives and Lifestyles of an Early Farming Society in Transition

scientific article

Bioarchaeology: a synthetic approach

Bones of the ancestors: the archaeology and osteobiography of the Moatfield Ossuary. R. F. Williamson & S. Pfeiffer (eds). Mercury Series Archaeology Paper 163, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, PQ, 2003. ISBN 0 660 190 77 X

article

Brief communication: When Adam delved ... An activity‐related lesion in three human skeletal populations

Clark Spencer Larsen Bioarchaeology: interpreting behaviour from the human skeleton. xii+461 pages, 59 illustrations. 1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-49641-1 hardback £65 & $85

Comment on Mallegni and Valassina's secondary bone changes to a cranium trepanation in a Neolithic man discovered at Trasano, south Italy

article

Comment on “Musculoskeletal stress marker (MSM) differences in the modern American upper limb and pectoral girdle in relation to activity level and body mass index (BMI)” by K. Godde and R. Wilson Taylor

scientific article published on 08 November 2011

Courteous Knights and Cruel Avengers: A Consideration of the Changing Social Context of Medieval Warfare from the Perspective of Human Remains

chapter published in 2014

Crouching in fear: Terms of engagement for funerary remains

article by Christopher Knüsel published February 2014 in Journal of Social Archaeology

DEATH, DECAY, AND RITUAL RECONSTRUCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF CADAVERIC SPASM

article

Death, Decapitation and Display? The Bronze and Iron Age Human Remains from the Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, North-east Scotland

article

Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record, edited by E.M. Murphy, 2008. (Studies in Funerary Archaeology 2.) Oxford: Oxbow Books; ISBN 978-1-84217-338-1 paperback £30 & US$60; xvii+244 pp., 72 figs., 14 tables

scholarly article by Christopher Knüsel published in May 2009

Do bone geometric properties of the proximal femoral diaphysis reflect loading history, muscle properties, or body dimensions?

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Enthesopathies as occupational stress markers: evidence from the upper limb

scientific article

Evidence for Remedial Medical Treatment of a Severe Knee Injury from the Fishergate Gilbertine Monastery in the City of York

article

Fragmentation: The Zonation Method Applied to Fragmented Human Remains from Archaeological and Forensic Contexts

article by Christopher Knüsel & Alan Outram published April 2004 in Environmental Archaeology

From Parts to a Whole? Exploring Changes in Funerary Practices at Çatalhöyük

Funerary taphonomy: An overview of goals and methods

Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined

scholarly article by Nigel Melton published in September 2010

Investigation of a Romano-British Rural Ritual in Bedford, England

article

Iron Age breastfeeding practices in Britain: isotopic evidence from Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire

scientific article published in July 2008

More Circe than Cassandra: the Princess of Vix in ritualized social context

scholarly article by Christopher Knüsel published in December 2002

New insights on commemoration of the dead through mortuary and architectural use of pigments at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

scientific article published on 8 March 2022

On the biomechanical and osteoarthritic differences between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists

scholarly article by Christopher Knüsel published August 1993 in American Journal of Physical Anthropology

On the significance of the crania from the River Thames and its tributaries

scientific article published in March 1995

PALEOPATHOLOGY

article in Encyclopedia of Archaeology

Paleodemographic comparison of a catastrophic and an attritional death assemblage

scientific article published on October 2002

Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Patterns of Irregular Burials in Western Europe (1st-5th Century A.D.).

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Population density and developmental stress in the Neolithic: A diachronic study of dental fluctuating asymmetry at Çatalhöyük (Turkey, 7,100-5,950 BC)

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Prevalence rates of spondylolysis in British skeletal populations

article

Probable carpometacarpal and tarsal coalition from Baousso da Torre Cave (Italy): implications for burial selection during the Gravettian

scientific article published on 23 March 2011

Reconstructing visual manifestations of disease from archaeological human remains

scientific article

Short Reviews

Skull Retrieval and Secondary Burial Practices in the Neolithic Near East: Recent Insights from Çatalhöyük, Turkey ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Slipped proximal femoral epiphysis in a priest from the medieval period ⬇️

scientific article published in June 1992

Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest, edited by Deborah L. Nichols & Patricia L. Crown, 2008. Tucson (AZ): The University of Arizona Press; ISBN 978-0-8165-2621-5 hardback £42 & US$60; vi+273 pp., b&w pls., 24 figs., 9 tables

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis and dietary reconstruction through the life course at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

scholarly article by Jessica Pearson published in June 2015

The Archaeology of Human Bones. By Simon Mays. 250mm. Pp xi + 242, ills. London: Routledge, 1998. ISBN 0-4151740-7-4. £19.99

scholarly article by Christopher Knüsel published in September 2000

The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach

article by Christopher Knüsel et al published November 2010 in Medieval Archaeology

The age of Stonehenge

scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in September 2007

The cross-sectional area of the gluteus maximus muscle varies according to habitual exercise loading: Implications for activity-related and evolutionary studies

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

The relationship between loading history and proximal femoral diaphysis cross-sectional geometry

scientific article published on 5 February 2017

The throwing hypothesis and hominid origins

Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory. R. Arnott, S. Finger & C.U.M. Smith(eds). Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, Lisse, The Netherlands 2003. 408+ XIIpp. ISBN 90 265 1923 0. ?67/$99

Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward

Understanding Entheseal Changes: Definition and Life Course Changes

Understanding complex fragmented assemblages of human and animal remains: a fully integrated approach

scientific article published in December 2005

Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes

publication published on 14 April 2021

Variations in hunter-gatherer skeletal health in prehistoric Australia

article

Warfare and Violence in Prehistoric Europe: an Introduction

scholarly article by Ian Armit published in October 2006

We cannot change the past, but we can learn from it.

scientific article published on 24 January 2012

List of works by Christopher Knüsel

A Girardian Framework for Violent Injuries at Neolithic Çatalhöyük in Their Western Asian Context

A Neolithic case of fibrous dysplasia from Çatalhöyük (Turkey)

A foot deformity from a Romano-British cemetery at Gloucester, England, and the current evidence fortalipes in palaeopathology

A medieval sculpture of leprosy in the Cistercian Abbaye de Cadouin

Activity-related skeletal change in medieval humeri: cross-sectional and architectural alterations

Aging Well: Treherne's ‘Warrior's Beauty’ Two Decades Later

Avulsion fractures of the transverse processes of the first thoracic vertebra: an archaeological case study from Raunds

Baastrup's sign (kissing spines): A neglected condition in paleopathology

Bio-cultural effects in medieval populations

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük: Lives and Lifestyles of an Early Farming Society in Transition

Bioarchaeology: a synthetic approach

Bones of the ancestors: the archaeology and osteobiography of the Moatfield Ossuary. R. F. Williamson & S. Pfeiffer (eds). Mercury Series Archaeology Paper 163, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, PQ, 2003. ISBN 0 660 190 77 X

Brief communication: When Adam delved ... An activity‐related lesion in three human skeletal populations

Clark Spencer Larsen Bioarchaeology: interpreting behaviour from the human skeleton. xii+461 pages, 59 illustrations. 1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-49641-1 hardback £65 & $85

Comment on Mallegni and Valassina's secondary bone changes to a cranium trepanation in a Neolithic man discovered at Trasano, south Italy

Comment on “Musculoskeletal stress marker (MSM) differences in the modern American upper limb and pectoral girdle in relation to activity level and body mass index (BMI)” by K. Godde and R. Wilson Taylor

Courteous Knights and Cruel Avengers: A Consideration of the Changing Social Context of Medieval Warfare from the Perspective of Human Remains

Crouching in fear: Terms of engagement for funerary remains

DEATH, DECAY, AND RITUAL RECONSTRUCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF CADAVERIC SPASM

Death, Decapitation and Display? The Bronze and Iron Age Human Remains from the Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, North-east Scotland

Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record, edited by E.M. Murphy, 2008. (Studies in Funerary Archaeology 2.) Oxford: Oxbow Books; ISBN 978-1-84217-338-1 paperback £30 & US$60; xvii+244 pp., 72 figs., 14 tables

Do bone geometric properties of the proximal femoral diaphysis reflect loading history, muscle properties, or body dimensions?

Enthesopathies as occupational stress markers: evidence from the upper limb

Evidence for Remedial Medical Treatment of a Severe Knee Injury from the Fishergate Gilbertine Monastery in the City of York

Fragmentation: The Zonation Method Applied to Fragmented Human Remains from Archaeological and Forensic Contexts

From Parts to a Whole? Exploring Changes in Funerary Practices at Çatalhöyük

Funerary taphonomy: An overview of goals and methods

Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined

Investigation of a Romano-British Rural Ritual in Bedford, England

Iron Age breastfeeding practices in Britain: isotopic evidence from Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire

More Circe than Cassandra: the Princess of Vix in ritualized social context

New insights on commemoration of the dead through mortuary and architectural use of pigments at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

On the biomechanical and osteoarthritic differences between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists

On the significance of the crania from the River Thames and its tributaries

PALEOPATHOLOGY

Paleodemographic comparison of a catastrophic and an attritional death assemblage

Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük

Patterns of Irregular Burials in Western Europe (1st-5th Century A.D.).

Population density and developmental stress in the Neolithic: A diachronic study of dental fluctuating asymmetry at Çatalhöyük (Turkey, 7,100-5,950 BC)

Prevalence rates of spondylolysis in British skeletal populations

Probable carpometacarpal and tarsal coalition from Baousso da Torre Cave (Italy): implications for burial selection during the Gravettian

Reconstructing visual manifestations of disease from archaeological human remains

Short Reviews

Skull Retrieval and Secondary Burial Practices in the Neolithic Near East: Recent Insights from Çatalhöyük, Turkey ⬇️

Slipped proximal femoral epiphysis in a priest from the medieval period ⬇️

Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest, edited by Deborah L. Nichols & Patricia L. Crown, 2008. Tucson (AZ): The University of Arizona Press; ISBN 978-0-8165-2621-5 hardback £42 & US$60; vi+273 pp., b&w pls., 24 figs., 9 tables

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis and dietary reconstruction through the life course at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

The Archaeology of Human Bones. By Simon Mays. 250mm. Pp xi + 242, ills. London: Routledge, 1998. ISBN 0-4151740-7-4. £19.99

The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach

The age of Stonehenge

The cross-sectional area of the gluteus maximus muscle varies according to habitual exercise loading: Implications for activity-related and evolutionary studies

The relationship between loading history and proximal femoral diaphysis cross-sectional geometry

The throwing hypothesis and hominid origins

Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory. R. Arnott, S. Finger & C.U.M. Smith(eds). Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, Lisse, The Netherlands 2003. 408+ XIIpp. ISBN 90 265 1923 0. ?67/$99

Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward

Understanding Entheseal Changes: Definition and Life Course Changes

Understanding complex fragmented assemblages of human and animal remains: a fully integrated approach

Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes

Variations in hunter-gatherer skeletal health in prehistoric Australia

Warfare and Violence in Prehistoric Europe: an Introduction

We cannot change the past, but we can learn from it.

‘Not All That Is White Is Lime’-White Substances from Archaeological Burial Contexts: Analyses and Interpretations ⬇️

‘Shared principles’: the scientists' reply