Title: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology /
Authors: British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology.; Brickley, Megan.; Smith, Martin,; British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology.
Date: 2008
Publisher: Archaeopress,
Physical description: iv, 120 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Introduction / Martin Smith and Megan Brickley -- The geographical epicentre of the 1918 influenza pandemic / D. Ann Herring and Janet Padiak -- Combining palaeopathological and historical evidence for health in the Crusades / Piers D. Mitchell -- When hard work is disease: the interpretation of enthesopathies / Charlotte Henderson -- Determination of useful incision mark characteristics for microscopic forensic analysis / Catherine Tennick, Jennie Robinson and Micheal Wysocki -- "All the outward tinsel which distinguishes man from man will have then vanished ..." an assessment of the value of post-medieval human remains to migration studies / Natasha Powers -- Periapical voids in human jaw bones / Alan R. Ogden -- Great Chesterford: a catalogue of burials / Sarah Inskip -- Rickets in Victorian London: why treatment was ineffective for so long / Lisa Brent and Piers D. Mitchell -- A morphometric approach to body mass estimation / Lisa Cashmore -- Lacunae to fill: combining palaeopathological and documentary research in investigations of individuals from a post-medieval Swedish cemetery / Caroline Arcini -- Tuberculosis of the shoulder in a Victorian girl: how the invention of radiographs overturned a diagnosis of hysteria / Amna Suliman and Piers D. Mitchell -- External auditory exostosis "at the end of the world": the southernmost evidence according to the latitudinal hypothesis / Paola Ponce, Gabriela Ghidini, Rolando González-José -- West Butts Street cemetery, Poole: a small 18th century Baptist community / Jacqueline I. McKinley.
Notes: "The papers ... are a sample of those given at the eighth annual meeting of BABAO, held at the University of Birmingham between 15th and 17th September 2006"--p. iii.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bones--Analysis--Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology)--Congresses.; Human remains (Archaeology)--Congresses.; Physical anthropology--Congresses.