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Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester) (2016)
Journal Article
Filipek-Ogden, K. L., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Gowland, R., & Tucker, K. (2016). Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester). American journal of physical anthropology, 159(s62), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22955

Leprosy is one of the few specific infectious diseases that can be studied in bioarchaeology due to its characteristic debilitating and disfiguring skeletal changes. Leprosy has been, and continues to be, one of the most socially stigmatising disease... Read More about Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester).

Foundations and approaches to the study of care in the past (2016)
Book Chapter
Southwell-Wright, W., Gowland, R., & Powell, L. (2016). Foundations and approaches to the study of care in the past. In W. Southwell-Wright, L. Powell, & R. Gowland (Eds.), Care in the past : archaeological and interdisciplinary perspectives (1-19). Oxbow Books

Experimental abrasion of water submerged bone: The influence of bombardment by different sediment classes on microabrasion rate (2016)
Journal Article
Griffith, S., Thompson, C., Thompson, T., & Gowland, R. (2016). Experimental abrasion of water submerged bone: The influence of bombardment by different sediment classes on microabrasion rate. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.09.001

Data presented here demonstrates the utility of quantitative analysis of sediment-induced microabrasion on bone's surface. Fresh sheep (Ovis aries) bone, acting as a human analogue, was bombarded by mobile sediments from silt, sand and gravel classes... Read More about Experimental abrasion of water submerged bone: The influence of bombardment by different sediment classes on microabrasion rate.

Immaculate conceptions: Micro-CT analysis of diagenesis in Romano-British infant skeletons (2016)
Journal Article
Booth, T., Redfern, R., & Gowland, R. (2016). Immaculate conceptions: Micro-CT analysis of diagenesis in Romano-British infant skeletons. Journal of Archaeological Science, 74, 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.08.007

Most histological analyses of bone diagenesis are destructive and limited to the inspection of a cross-section that may not be representative of the whole. X-ray microtomography (Micro-CT) may provide a non-destructive means of investigating taphonom... Read More about Immaculate conceptions: Micro-CT analysis of diagenesis in Romano-British infant skeletons.

Growing Old: Biographies of Care and Disability in Later Life (2016)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R. (2016). Growing Old: Biographies of Care and Disability in Later Life. In L. Tilley, A. Schrenk, & D. Martin (Eds.), New developments in the bioarchaeology of care : further case studies and expanded theory (237-251). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39901-0_12

The elderly are the most neglected demographic in archaeology and have also been overlooked in studies of disability and care in the past. This is in part because impairment and frailty have been regarded as normalised facets of later life. This chap... Read More about Growing Old: Biographies of Care and Disability in Later Life.

Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England (2016)
Journal Article
Newman, S., & Gowland, R. (2016). Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(2), 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2531

The 18th and 19th centuries in England were characterised by a period of increasing industrialisation of its urban centres. It was also one of widening social and health inequalities between the rich and the poor. Childhood is well-documented as bein... Read More about Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England.

Death on the frontier: military cremation practices in the north of Roman Britain (2016)
Journal Article
Thompson, T., Szigeti, J., Gowland, R., & Witcher, R. (2016). Death on the frontier: military cremation practices in the north of Roman Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 828-836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.020

The study of cremated human remains from archaeological contexts has traditionally been viewed as less valuable than the study of inhumed bodies. However, recent methodological and theoretical developments regarding the taphonomic processes that tran... Read More about Death on the frontier: military cremation practices in the north of Roman Britain.

‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, C., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K., Gowland, R., & Jakob, T. (2016). ‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England. International Journal of Paleopathology, 13, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.12.001

This paper describes the pathological changes observed on the skeleton of a c.12–14 year old person buried in a north-east England Quaker cemetery dated to AD 1711–1857. Bone formation (woven and lamellar) and destruction are present mainly on the ma... Read More about ‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England.