All Outputs (3)

That 'tattered coat upon a stick' the ageing body: evidence for elder marginalisation and abuse in Roman Britain (2016)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R. (2016). That 'tattered coat upon a stick' the ageing body: evidence for elder marginalisation and abuse in Roman Britain. In L. Powell, W. Southwell-Wright, & R. Gowland (Eds.), Care in the past : archaeological and interdisciplinary perspectives. Oxbow Books

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

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.