All Outputs (8)

At the world’s edge: reconstructing diet and geographic origins in medieval Iceland using isotope and trace element analyses (2019)
Journal Article
Walser, J. W. I., Kristjánsdóttir, S., Gröcke, D. R., Gowland, R., Jakob, T., Nowell, G., …Montgomery, J. (2020). At the world’s edge: reconstructing diet and geographic origins in medieval Iceland using isotope and trace element analyses. American journal of physical anthropology, 171(1), 142-163. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23973

Objectives. A multi-isotope study was conducted on individuals buried at Skriðuklaustur monastery (AD 1493–1554) to investigate their geographic origins and dietary composition. Comparative material from individuals excavated from Skeljastaðir, an in... Read More about At the world’s edge: reconstructing diet and geographic origins in medieval Iceland using isotope and trace element analyses.

The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (2019)
Book
Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (Eds.). (2020). The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4

Over the past 20 years there has been increased research traction in the anthropology of childhood. However, infancy, the pregnant body and motherhood continue to be marginalised. This book will focus on the mother-infant relationship and the variabl... Read More about The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes.

Concluding Thoughts. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (2019)
Book Chapter
Halcrow, S., & Gowland, R. (2019). Concluding Thoughts. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (275-277). Springer Verlag

What Doesn't Kill you: Early Life Health and Nutrition in Anglo-Saxon East Anglia (2019)
Book Chapter
Kendall, E. J., Millard, A., Beaumont, J., Gowland, R., Gorton, M., & Gledhill, A. (2019). What Doesn't Kill you: Early Life Health and Nutrition in Anglo-Saxon East Anglia. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology and Archaeology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (103-124). Springer Verlag

Introduction: The Mother-Infant Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology (2019)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (2019). Introduction: The Mother-Infant Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (1-18). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_1

Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course in Archaeology (2019)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R. (2019). Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course in Archaeology. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology : small beginnings, significant outcomes (257-274). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_14

The concept of the bounded body is powerfully resonant within the post-industrialised Western world; it is performed and reinforced through cultural practices which observe the maintenance of bodily space and the delineation of individual bodies. Rec... Read More about Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course in Archaeology.

Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London (2019)
Book Chapter
Hodson, C. M., & Gowland, R. L. (2019). Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology : small beginnings, significant outcomes (39-64). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_3

Post-Medieval London (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) was a stressful environment for the poor. Overcrowded and squalid housing, physically demanding and risky working conditions, air and water pollution, inadequate diet and exposure to infectious di... Read More about Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London.

North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England (2019)
Journal Article
Newman, S. L., Gowland, R. L., & Caffell, A. C. (2019). North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England. American journal of physical anthropology, 169(1), 104-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23817

Objective Stark health inequalities exist in the present day between the North and South of England, with people in the South, overall, experiencing better health across a range of parameters (e.g., life expectancy and number of years spent in good h... Read More about North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England.