All Outputs (14)

Health Inequality Trends in Britain Since the Roman Period: An Analysis of Bioarchaeological Data (2025)
Book Chapter
Kendall, E., Brown, A., Doran, T., Gowland, R., Kendall, R., Montgomery, J., Skarda, I., & Cookson, R. (n.d.). Health Inequality Trends in Britain Since the Roman Period: An Analysis of Bioarchaeological Data. In A. Moles, R. Gowland, & S. Schrader (Eds.), Advancing a Bioarchaeology of Health Inequality : Recent Developments and Future Directions. Springer Nature.

Reducing health inequality is a policy priority for health systems and governments globally. Here, we take a long view and present a novel interdisciplinary approach to understanding health inequality, through an analysis of bioarchaeological data sp... Read More about Health Inequality Trends in Britain Since the Roman Period: An Analysis of Bioarchaeological Data.

Marginalisation in life and death: Moving towards re-humanisation of archaeological bodies. (2025)
Book Chapter
Sohler-Snoddy, A.-M., & Kendall, E. (n.d.). Marginalisation in life and death: Moving towards re-humanisation of archaeological bodies. In S. Halcrow, S. Agarwal, C. de Cova, R. Gowland, & G. Robbins-Schug (Eds.), Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice : Equitable and Sustainable Global Futures. Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/9783032103536

In recent decades, pressure has grown for bioarchaeologists to recognize the roles archaeology has played, and may continue to play, in leveraging power inequalities against marginalized people. Conversely, where applied thoughtfully and ethically—wi... Read More about Marginalisation in life and death: Moving towards re-humanisation of archaeological bodies..

Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology (2024)
Journal Article
Stantis, C., Schaefer, B. J., Correia, M. A., Alaica, A. K., Huffer, D., Plomp, E., Di Giusto, M., Chidimuro, B., Rose, A. K., Nayak, A., & Kendall, E. J. (2025). Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 186(1), e24992. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24992

This synthesis explores specific ethical questions that commonly arise in isotopic analysis. For more than four decades, isotope analysis has been employed in archeological studies to explore past human and animal dietary habits, mobility patterns, a... Read More about Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology.

Isotopes in Paleopathology (2023)
Book Chapter
Stantis, C., & Kendall, E. J. (2023). Isotopes in Paleopathology. In A. L. Grauer (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology. (pp. 118-135). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003130994-8

'Buried with his boots on': An integrated life course case-study of a liminal burial from the New Zealand goldrushes (2022)
Journal Article
Buckley, H., Petchey, P., Ritchie, N., Kinaston, R., King, C., Geber, J., Matisoo-Smith, E., Snoddy, A. M., Stantis, C., Kendall, E., Nowell, G., & Grocke, D. (2022). 'Buried with his boots on': An integrated life course case-study of a liminal burial from the New Zealand goldrushes. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 12(2), 92-109. https://pacificarchaeology.org/index.php/journal/article/view/335

Mother-love in the time of malaria: the politics of internal colonisation, endemic disease, and parent-child relations in Britain (2021)
Book Chapter
Kendall, E. J., & Kendall, R. (2021). Mother-love in the time of malaria: the politics of internal colonisation, endemic disease, and parent-child relations in Britain. The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time. (pp. 95-115). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355912-6

Family as a unifying framework for understanding past networks of cooperation and interdependence (2021)
Book Chapter
Kendall, E., & Kendall, R. (2021). Family as a unifying framework for understanding past networks of cooperation and interdependence. In E. Kendall, & R. Kendall (Eds.), The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time. (pp. 1-12). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355912-1

Health inequality in Britain before 1750 (2021)
Journal Article
Kendall, E. J., Brown, A. T., Doran, T., Gowland, R., & Cookson, R. (2021). Health inequality in Britain before 1750. SSM - Population Health, 16, 100957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100957

Background This study examines the claim that social inequality in health in European populations was absent prior to 1750. This claim is primarily based on comparisons of life expectancy at birth in England between general and ducal (elite aristocra... Read More about Health inequality in Britain before 1750.

The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time (2021)
Book
E. J. Kendall, & R. Kendall. (Eds.). (2021). The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355912

The “weanling’s dilemma” revisited: Evolving bodies of evidence and the problem of infant paleodietary interpretation (2021)
Journal Article
Kendall, E. J., Millard, A. R., & Beaumont, J. (2021). The “weanling’s dilemma” revisited: Evolving bodies of evidence and the problem of infant paleodietary interpretation. American journal of physical anthropology, 175(S72), 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24207

Breastfeeding is known to be a powerful mediator of maternal and childhood health, with impacts throughout the lifecourse. Paleodietary studies of the past thirty years have accordingly taken an enduring interest in the health and diet of young child... Read More about The “weanling’s dilemma” revisited: Evolving bodies of evidence and the problem of infant paleodietary interpretation.

What Doesn’t Kill You: Early Life Health and Nutrition in Early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia (2020)
Book Chapter
Kendall, E. J., Millard, A., Beaumont, J., Gowland, R., Gorton, M., & Gledhill, A. (2020). What Doesn’t Kill You: Early Life Health and Nutrition in Early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. (pp. 103-123). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_6

The "Terrible Tyranny of the Majority": Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices (2016)
Book Chapter
Kendall, E. (2016). The "Terrible Tyranny of the Majority": Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices. In L. Powell, W. Southwell-Wright, & R. Gowland (Eds.), Care in the Past: Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (pp. 39-51). Oxbow Books.

An unusual exostotic lesion of the maxillary sinus from Roman Lincoln (2015)
Journal Article
Kendall, R., Kendall, E., Macleod, I., Gowland, R. L., & Beaumont, J. (2015). An unusual exostotic lesion of the maxillary sinus from Roman Lincoln. International Journal of Paleopathology, 11, 45-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.09.001

This report provides a differential diagnosis of an exostotic bony lesion within the left maxillary sinus of a Romano-British (3rd to 4th century AD) adult male from Newport, Lincoln. Macroscopic, radiographic, and cone beam computed tomography (CBCT... Read More about An unusual exostotic lesion of the maxillary sinus from Roman Lincoln.

Mobility, Mortality, and the Middle Ages: Identification of Migrant Individuals in a 14th Century Black Death Cemetery Population (2013)
Journal Article
Kendall, E., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Stantis, C., & Mueller, V. (2013). Mobility, Mortality, and the Middle Ages: Identification of Migrant Individuals in a 14th Century Black Death Cemetery Population. American journal of physical anthropology, 150(2), 210-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22194

Mobility and migration patterns of groups and individuals have long been a topic of interest to archaeologists, used for broad explanatory models of cultural change as well as illustrations of historical particularism. The 14th century AD was a tumul... Read More about Mobility, Mortality, and the Middle Ages: Identification of Migrant Individuals in a 14th Century Black Death Cemetery Population.