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A Discussion of Some Recent Methodological Developments in the Osteoarchaeology of Childhood

journal article; published in 2013

A new approach to recording nasal fracture in skeletonized individuals

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

A test of a recently devised method of estimating skeletal age at death using features of the adult acetabulum

scientific article

A test of a skeletal ageing method based on resorption of the alveolar crest following tooth loss using a skeletal population of documented age at death

scientific article published on 16 March 2017

Absent cervical spine pedicle: report of a case in a mediaeval skeleton

scientific article published on 14 February 2007

Age-associated reduction in cortical bone in males, trends from the third century AD to the present day.

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

An investigation of diet in early Anglo-Saxon England using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of human bone collagen

article

An investigation of skeletal indicators of vitamin D deficiency in adults: effective markers for interpreting past living conditions and pollution levels in 18th and 19th century Birmingham, England

scientific article published on January 2007

Analysis of patterning in the occurrence of skeletal lesions used as indicators of vitamin D deficiency in subadult and adult skeletal remains

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Ancient DNA study of the remains of putative infanticide victims from the Yewden Roman villa site at Hambleden, England

scholarly article by Naglaa Abu-Mandil Hassan et al published March 2014 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Ancient genomes reveal a high diversity of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Europe.

scientific article

Archaeological skeletons support a northwest European origin for Paget's disease of bone

scientific article published on August 2010

Bone stable isotope evidence for infant feeding in Mediaeval England

article

Bone-formers and bone-losers in an archaeological population

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Child Bioarchaeology: Perspectives on the Past 10 Years

scientific article published on 2 January 2017

Comment on ‘A Bayesian approach to ageing perinatal skeletal material from archaeological sites: implications for the evidence for infanticide in Roman Britain’ by R.L. Gowland and A.T. Chamberlain

scientific article published in December 2003

Comparative genomic and phylogeographic analysis of Mycobacterium leprae

article

Effects of age and body proportions on stature estimation

scientific article published on 27 December 2018

Erratum: Corrigendum: Comparative genomic and phylogeographic analysis of Mycobacterium leprae

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

How should we diagnose disease in palaeopathology? Some epistemological considerations

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Infanticide in Roman Britain

Latitude, urbanization, age, and sex as risk factors for vitamin D deficiency disease in the Roman Empire

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

Letter to the editor: was tuberculosis present in Homo erectus in Turkey?

scientific article

Medicine, Healing and Performance, edited by Effie Gemi-Iordanou, Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, Ellen McInnes & Rhiannon Pettitt. Oxford: Oxbow; ISBN 978-1-78297-158-0 paperback £36.00, $60.00; iv+191 pp., 35 figs., 3 tables; ISBN 978-1-78297-170-

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Middle Neolithic pits and a burial at West Amesbury, Wiltshire

scientific article

Mycobacterium leprae genotype amplified from an archaeological case of lepromatous leprosy in Central Asia

article

Nasal septal deviation in a mediaeval population

scientific article published on May 4, 2012

Oxygen isotope analysis of human bone phosphate evidences weaning age in archaeological populations

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Resorption of mandibular alveolar bone following loss of molar teeth and its relationship to age at death in a human skeletal population

scientific article

Septal aperture of the humerus in a mediaeval human skeletal population

scientific article published in August 2008

Sex Identification in Some Putative Infanticide Victims from Roman Britain Using Ancient DNA

Skeletal manifestations of rickets in infants and young children in a historic population from England

scientific article

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of bone and teeth reflect weaning age at the Medieval Wharram Percy site, Yorkshire, UK.

scientific article published in November 2002

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope variations in tooth dentine serial sections from Wharram Percy

The Archaeology of Human Bones

The Early Field Systems of the Stonehenge Landscape

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

The Ghostly Child in Medieval North-west Europe

The Relationship Between Molar Wear and Age in an Early 19th Century AD Archaeological Human Skeletal Series of Documented Age at Death

scientific article published in August 2002

The archaeology of osteoporosis

scholarly article by Gordon Turner-Walker published in January 2001

The effect of factors other than age upon skeletal age indicators in the adult

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

The effects of socioeconomic status on endochondral and appositional bone growth, and acquisition of cortical bone in children from 19th century Birmingham, England

scientific article

The living and the dead at Wharram Percy: recent reanalysis of some human remains from the medieval settlement

scientific article published in January 2017

Two probable cases of treponemal disease of Medieval date from England

scientific article published in February 2003

Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds XI: The Churchyard

book published in 2007