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Pilgrimage and Procession: Temporary gatherings and journeys between the tangible and intangible through the archaeology of South Asia (2018)
Journal Article
Davis, C., & Coningham, R. (2018). Pilgrimage and Procession: Temporary gatherings and journeys between the tangible and intangible through the archaeology of South Asia. World Archaeology, 50(2), 347-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1490199

South Asia is home to many of the world’s major religions, and over a century of archaeological enquiry has documented the sites associated with these traditions. Although textual scholarship, augmented by art historical and architectural studies of... Read More about Pilgrimage and Procession: Temporary gatherings and journeys between the tangible and intangible through the archaeology of South Asia.

Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses (2018)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R. (2018). Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses. In S. Crawford, D. Hadley, & G. Shepherd (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of childhood (104-121). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199670697.013.6

There is a burgeoning interest in the variable ways in which past and present societies construct the notion of foetal and infant entities and the beginnings of personhood. The newborn baby has often been conceptualized as a tabular rasa, a blank sla... Read More about Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses.

“Curst Dunbar” and Durham (2018)
Book Chapter
Graves, C. (2018). “Curst Dunbar” and Durham. In C. Gerrard, C. Graves, A. Millard, R. Annis, & A. Caffell (Eds.), Lost lives, new voices : unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar. Oxbow Books

Multivariate and Spatial Visualisation of Archaeological Assemblages (2018)
Journal Article
Sterry, M. (2018). Multivariate and Spatial Visualisation of Archaeological Assemblages. Internet Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.15

Multivariate analyses, in particular correspondence analysis (CA), have become a standard exploratory tool for analysing and interpreting variance in archaeological assemblages. While they have greatly helped analysts, they unfortunately remain abstr... Read More about Multivariate and Spatial Visualisation of Archaeological Assemblages.

Eating In and Dining Out in Roman Leicester: Exploring pottery consumption patterns across the town and its suburbs (2018)
Journal Article
Cooper, N., Johnson, E., & Sterry, M. (2018). Eating In and Dining Out in Roman Leicester: Exploring pottery consumption patterns across the town and its suburbs. Internet Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.10

This article presents an analysis of three dining-related assemblages of pottery from Roman Leicester (Ratae Corieltavorum) and compares them to the patterns already established for pottery supply and vessel use derived from other rubbish deposits ac... Read More about Eating In and Dining Out in Roman Leicester: Exploring pottery consumption patterns across the town and its suburbs.

Excavating ancient Kapilavastu: the childhood home of Lord Buddha (2018)
Book Chapter
Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Kunwar, R., Davis, C., Manuel, M., Simpson, I., …Lafortune-Bernard, A. (2018). Excavating ancient Kapilavastu: the childhood home of Lord Buddha. In P. Gunawardhana, & R. Coningham (Eds.), Buddha Rashmi Vesak Volume 2018: Essays in Buddhism and Buddhist Monastic Archaeology (8-25). Colombo, Sri Lanka : Central Cultural Fund, Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka,

A multifaceted approach towards interpreting early life experience and infant feeding practices in the ancient Atacama Desert, Northern Chile (2018)
Journal Article
King, C., Snoddy, A., Millard, A., Grocke, D., Standen, V., Arriaza, B., & Halcrow, S. (2018). A multifaceted approach towards interpreting early life experience and infant feeding practices in the ancient Atacama Desert, Northern Chile. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 28(5), 599-612. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2671

Interpreting early life experience in the past is of considerable interest to archaeologists, yet remains fraught with difficulty. Children are sensitive barometers of population health in general. In addition, infant feeding practices, and stresses... Read More about A multifaceted approach towards interpreting early life experience and infant feeding practices in the ancient Atacama Desert, Northern Chile.