All Outputs (10)

Juggling the evidence: the purported 'acrobat' from Tell Brak (2008)
Journal Article
Jurmain, R., & Roberts, C. (2008). Juggling the evidence: the purported 'acrobat' from Tell Brak. Antiquity, 82(318),

We are responding to the submission by Oates et al., 'Equids and an "acrobat": closure rituals at Tell Brak' (http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ant/082/ant0820390.htm). The paper describes the interpretation of a partially preserved skeleton with bone chang... Read More about Juggling the evidence: the purported 'acrobat' from Tell Brak.

Using ancient DNA analysis in palaeopathology: a critical analysis of published papers with recommendations for future work (2008)
Journal Article
Roberts, C., & Ingham, S. (2008). Using ancient DNA analysis in palaeopathology: a critical analysis of published papers with recommendations for future work. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 18(6), 600-613. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.966

Despite an observable increase in the number of studies using ancient DNA analysis to diagnose disease in human remains, there remain issues to be addressed about the quality of the resulting publications. This paper describes the qualitative analysi... Read More about Using ancient DNA analysis in palaeopathology: a critical analysis of published papers with recommendations for future work.

Understanding health: past and present (2008)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2008). Understanding health: past and present. In C. Panter-Brick, & A. Fuentes (Eds.), Health, risk and adversity (13-25). Berghahn Journals

The bioarchaeology of tuberculosis. A global view on a reemerging disease (2008)
Book
Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2008). The bioarchaeology of tuberculosis. A global view on a reemerging disease. (Paperback ed.). University Press of Florida

Book Review of: St Peter’s, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire. A Parish Church and its community. Volume 2. The human remains. By Tony Waldron, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007 (2008)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. (2008). Book Review of: St Peter’s, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire. A Parish Church and its community. Volume 2. The human remains. By Tony Waldron, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007. Medieval Archaeology, 52, 428-430. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581708x335549

Book review of ‘Backbone of history. Health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere’ edited by JC Rose and RH Steckel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 (2008)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. (2008). Book review of ‘Backbone of history. Health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere’ edited by JC Rose and RH Steckel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Social History of Medicine, 19(2), 345-346. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl014

Book review of 'Counting the Dead. The epidemiology of skeletal populations' by T. Waldron, Chichester : John Wiley, 1994 (2008)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. (2008). Book review of 'Counting the Dead. The epidemiology of skeletal populations' by T. Waldron, Chichester : John Wiley, 1994. Journal of Human Evolution, 29(2), 194-197

Book review of 'The churchyard : Wharram, a study of settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds' by S. Mays, C. Harding, C. Heighway, York University Archaeological Publications : York, 2007 (2008)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. (2008). Book review of 'The churchyard : Wharram, a study of settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds' by S. Mays, C. Harding, C. Heighway, York University Archaeological Publications : York, 2007. Journal of Archaeological Science, 2083-2084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.01.004

The history of tuberculosis from earliest times to the development of drugs (2008)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2008). The history of tuberculosis from earliest times to the development of drugs. In P. Davies, P. Barnes, & S. Gordon (Eds.), Clinical tuberculosis (3-19). (4th). Hodder Arnold

Health, healing and disease (2008)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2008). Health, healing and disease. In D. Pearsall (Ed.), Encylopedia of archaeology (1417-1426). Academic Press