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List of works by Sharon N. DeWitte

A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain

scientific article published in 2018

A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

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A new approach to the study of Romanization in Britain: a regional perspective of cultural change in late iron age and roman dorset using the siler and gompertz-makeham models of mortality

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A new method for investigating the relationship between diet and mortality: hazard analysis using dietary isotopes

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Age Patterns of Mortality During the Black Death in London, A.D. 1349-1350

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Ancient pathogen DNA in archaeological samples detected with a Microbial Detection Array

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Ancient pathogens provide a window into health and well-being

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Archaeological Evidence of Epidemics Can Inform Future Epidemics

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Assessment of nutritional stress in famine burials using stable isotope analysis

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Between Famine and Death: England on the Eve of the Black Death—Evidence from Paleoepidemiology and Manorial Accounts

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Bioarchaeology and the Ethics of Research Using Human Skeletal Remains

scholarly article by Sharon N DeWitte published January 2015 in History Compass

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Skeleton (2nd edition). By Clark Spencer Larsen. 654 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015. $149.99 (cloth), $64.99 (paper), $52.00 (e-book)

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Black Death Bodies

article published in 2017

Book review: Demography in Archaeology

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Calculus and survivorship in medieval London: The association between dental disease and a demographic measure of general health

scientific article published on 05 January 2019

Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene

scientific article published in 2023

Demographic and Evolutionary Consequences of Pandemic Diseases

scientific article published on 2 December 2021

Demographic anthropology

article by Sharon N DeWitte published 25 March 2018 in American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Demography Part 1: Mortality and Migration

scholarly article published 6 April 2012

Dietary Variation in an Urbanizing City: A Temporal Analysis of Diet in Late Medieval London Using Stable Isotope Analysis

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Differential survival among individuals with active and healed periosteal new bone formation

Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America. DALE H. HUTCHINSON. 2016. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xviii + 249 pp. $84.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6269-3

Disease epidemics: lessons for resilience in an increasingly connected world

scientific article published on 25 May 2016

Do leprosy and tuberculosis generate a systemic inflammatory shift? Setting the ground for a new dialogue between experimental immunology and bioarchaeology

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

Erratum: A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

scientific article published in Nature

Examining resilience in bioarcheology

Femur Length and Famine Mortality in Medieval London

scientific article published in 2017

Frailty and famine: Patterns of mortality and physiological stress among victims of famine in medieval London

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

Genetic resiliency and the Black Death: No apparent loss of mitogenomic diversity due to the Black Death in medieval London and Denmark

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Health in post-Black Death London (1350-1538): age patterns of periosteal new bone formation in a post-epidemic population

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Household ecology and out-migration among ethnic Karen along the Thai-Myanmar border

scholarly article by Daniel Parker et al published 9 April 2014 in Demographic Research

Introduction to the Bioarchaeology of Urbanization

scientific article published in 2020

Medieval menarche: Changes in pubertal timing before and after the Black Death

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

Medieval monastic mortality: hazard analysis of mortality differences between monastic and nonmonastic cemeteries in England

scientific article published on 7 September 2013

Misconceptions About the Bioarchaeology of Plague

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

Modeling the Second Epidemiologic Transition in London

Mortality risk and survival in the aftermath of the medieval Black Death

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Oral health and frailty in the medieval English cemetery of St Mary Graces

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Palaeoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past by Tony Waldron

Patterns of frailty in non-adults from medieval London

Pubertal Timing as a Measure of Health and Well-Being and a Bridge Between Past and Present

scientific article published on 20 July 2022

Selectivity of black death mortality with respect to preexisting health

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Setting the stage for medieval plague: Pre-black death trends in survival and mortality

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Sex differences in adult famine mortality in medieval London

scientific article published on 06 October 2019

Sex differences in periodontal disease in catastrophic and attritional assemblages from medieval London

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

Sex differentials in caries frequencies in Medieval London

scientific article published on 2 December 2015

Sex differentials in frailty in medieval England

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Sexual stature difference fluctuations in pre- and post-Black Death London as an indicator of living standards

Stature and frailty during the Black Death: the effect of stature on risks of epidemic mortality in London, A.D. 1348-1350.

scientific article published on May 2012

Status and health in Roman Dorset: the effect of status on risk of mortality in post-conquest populations

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Stress, sex, and plague: Patterns of developmental stress and survival in pre- and post-Black Death London

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Survivorship and the second epidemiological transition in industrial‐era London

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Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

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The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries

article published in 2014

The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries

scientific article published on 18 January 2021

The Osteological Paradox 20 Years Later: Past Perspectives, Future Directions

The association between periodontal disease and periosteal lesions in the St. Mary Graces cemetery, London, England A.D. 1350-1538.

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The effect of sex on risk of mortality during the Black Death in London, A.D. 1349-1350.

scientific article published on June 2009

The temporal dynamics of the fourteenth-century Black Death: new evidence from English ecclesiastical records

scientific article published on August 2003

Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

Trends in mortality and biological stress in a medieval polish urban population

scientific article published on 04 September 2017

Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward

Urban and rural mortality and survival in Medieval England.

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Urban-rural differences in Roman Dorset, England: A bioarchaeological perspective on Roman settlements

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Using spatial analysis to estimate depopulation for Native American populations in northeastern North America, AD 1616–1645

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Was the Black Death yersinial plague?

scientific article published on August 2004

Was the Black Death yersinial plague?

scientific article published on June 2003

Wealth, health and frailty in industrial-era London

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

What do we know about the agricultural demographic transition?

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Yersinia pestis and the plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: a genomic analysis.

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Yersinia pestis: new evidence for an old infection

scientific article published in 2012