Proceedings of the Eight Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology
By: edited by Megan Brickley, Martin Smith.
Contributors: Brickley, Megan.; Smith, Martin.; British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology.
Series: BAR international series -- 1743
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781407301853
Subjects: Physical anthropology -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Congresses; Bones -- Analysis -- Congresses; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
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.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Martin Smith and Megan Brickley; title: 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; title: When hard work is disease: the interpretation of enthesopathies / Charlotte Henderson; title: Determination of useful incision mark characteristics for microscopic forensic analysis / Catherine Tennick, Jennie Robinson and Micheal Wysocki; title: "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; title: Periapical voids in human jaw bones / Alan R. Ogden; title: Great Chesterford: a catalogue of burials / Sarah Inskip; title: Rickets in Victorian London: why treatment was ineffective for so long / Lisa Brent and Piers D. Mitchell; title: A morphometric approach to body mass estimation / Lisa Cashmore; title: Lacunae to fill: combining palaeopathological and documentary research in investigations of individuals from a post-medieval Swedish cemetery / Caroline Arcini; title: Tuberculosis of the shoulder in a Victorian girl: how the invention of radiographs overturned a diagnosis of hysteria / Amna Suliman and Piers D. Mitchell; title: External auditory exostosis "at the end of the world": the southernmost evidence according to the latitudinal hypothesis / Paola Ponce, Gabriela Ghidini, Rolando González-José; title: West Butts Street cemetery, Poole: a small 18th century Baptist community / Jacqueline I. McKinley.