All Outputs (6)

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).

Applying the “Index of care” to a person who experienced leprosy in late Medieval Chichester, England (2016)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2017). Applying the “Index of care” to a person who experienced leprosy in late Medieval Chichester, England. In L. Tilley, & A. Schrenk (Eds.), New developments in the bioarchaeology of care (101-124). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39901-0_6

Based on the bioarchaeological record, leprosy, a bacterial infectious disease, has challenged human populations for several thousands of years. It also remains a challenge for management today in certain parts of the world. This socially fascinating... Read More about Applying the “Index of care” to a person who experienced leprosy in late Medieval Chichester, England.

Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy) (2016)
Journal Article
Sparacello, V., Roberts, C., Canci, A., Moggi-Cecchi, J., & Marchi, D. (2016). Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy). International Journal of Paleopathology, 15, 50-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.08.003

The aim of this research is to gain insights on the progression timeline of osteoarticular tuberculosis (TB) in people from the Neolithic period by using skeletal traits that are independent of the bony lesions. The body proportions and postcranial m... Read More about Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy).

Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains (2016)
Journal Article
Müller, R., Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2016). Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains. Journal of Archaeological Science, 68, 5-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.03.002

There are many reports of ancient DNA from bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) being present in skeletons with and without osteological indications of tuberculosis. A possible complication in these studies is that extracts might... Read More about Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains.

Palaeopathology and its relevance to understanding health and disease today: the impact of the environment on health, past and present (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. (2016). Palaeopathology and its relevance to understanding health and disease today: the impact of the environment on health, past and present. Anthropological Review, 79(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1515/anre-2016-0001

This paper considers the discipline of palaeopathology, how it has developed, how it is studied, and what limitations present challenges to analysis. The study of disease has a long history and has probably most rapidly developed over the last 40-50... Read More about Palaeopathology and its relevance to understanding health and disease today: the impact of the environment on health, past and present.

‘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.