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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Human Growth and Stature (2018)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R., & Walther, L. (2018). Human Growth and Stature. In W. Scheidel (Ed.), The Science of Roman History Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past. Princeton University Press

Volcanoes, medicine, and monasticism: Investigating mercury exposure in medieval Iceland (2018)
Journal Article
Walser, J. W., Kristjánsdóttir, S., Gowland, R., & Desnica, N. (2019). Volcanoes, medicine, and monasticism: Investigating mercury exposure in medieval Iceland. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(1), 48-61. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2712

This study aimed to evaluate the possible use of mercury as a medical treatment at the medieval monastic hospital Skriðuklaustur (ad 1494–1554) in eastern Iceland. The individuals excavated from Skriðuklaustur exhibited a wide range of pathological c... Read More about Volcanoes, medicine, and monasticism: Investigating mercury exposure in medieval Iceland.

Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) (2018)
Journal Article
Gowland, R., Caffell, A., Newman, S., Levene, A., & Holst, M. (2018). Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries). Bioarchaeology international, 2(1), 44-62. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2018.1015

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, England underwent a period of rapid urbanization and industrialization. The detrimental effects of urban living conditions and child factory labor on the health of children during this time has been the... Read More about Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries).

Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses (2018)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R. (2018). Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses. In S. Crawford, D. Hadley, & G. Shepherd (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of childhood (104-121). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199670697.013.6

There is a burgeoning interest in the variable ways in which past and present societies construct the notion of foetal and infant entities and the beginnings of personhood. The newborn baby has often been conceptualized as a tabular rasa, a blank sla... Read More about Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses.

A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Redfern, R., DeWitte, S., Montgomery, J., & Gowland, R. (2018). A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain. Bioarchaeology international, 2(1), 20-43. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2018.1014

Migration continues to be a central theme in archaeology, and bioarchaeology has made significant contributions toward understanding the disease and demographic consequences of migration in different periods and places. These studies have been enhanc... Read More about A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain.

Overview: Archaeology and the Medieval Life-Course (2018)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R., & Penny-Mason, B. (2018). Overview: Archaeology and the Medieval Life-Course. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of later medieval archaeology in Britain (759-773). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.52

Historical evidence has provided a rich source of information concerning the structure and experience of the medieval life-course. Archaeology has also contributed to these debates, through the material remains associated with different age groups an... Read More about Overview: Archaeology and the Medieval Life-Course.

Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel (2017)
Journal Article
Andre Stewart, N., Fernanda Gerlach, R., Gowland, R. L., Gron, K., & Montgomery, J. (2017). Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(52), 13649-13654. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714926115

The assignment of biological sex to archaeological human skeletons is a fundamental requirement for the reconstruction of the human past. It is conventionally and routinely performed on adults using metric analysis and morphological traits arising fr... Read More about Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel.

‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium) (2017)
Journal Article
Redfern, R., Gowland, R., Millard, A., Powell, L., & Gröcke, D. (2018). ‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium). Journal of Archaeological Science, 19, 1030-1040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.015

Londinium (48–410 CE) was the focus for Roman administration and trade in Britain; it was established and inhabited by people from across the Empire who continued to practice their diverse food-ways. Roman London was a unique settlement, whose fluctu... Read More about ‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium).

Child Bioarchaeology: Perspectives on the Past 10 Years (2017)
Journal Article
Mays, S., Gowland, R., Halcrow, S., & Murphy, E. (2017). Child Bioarchaeology: Perspectives on the Past 10 Years. Childhood in the Past, 10(1), 38-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2017.1301066

This article aims to provide an overview of some of the more important developments in the bioarchaeology of childhood over the past decade. Analysis of publication trends in the major osteoarchaeology and physical anthropology journals demonstrated... Read More about Child Bioarchaeology: Perspectives on the Past 10 Years.

Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach (2017)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. (2017). Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 48, 175-194. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x17000125

Human skeletal remains from Roman Britain are abundant and provide a rich repository of social as well as biological information concerning health, migration, diet and body/society interactions. At present, skeletal remains tend to be marginalised in... Read More about Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach.

Towards a best practice for the use of active non-contact surface scanning to record human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts (2017)
Journal Article
Errickson, D., Grueso, I., Griffith, S., Setchell, J., Thompson, T., Thompson, C., & Gowland, R. (2017). Towards a best practice for the use of active non-contact surface scanning to record human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(4), 650-661. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2587

Active surface scanners emit light or a laser stripe to record the exterior surface of an object or landscape, providing results in three dimensions. The use of active surface scanners to record anthropological and archaeological contexts has increas... Read More about Towards a best practice for the use of active non-contact surface scanning to record human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts.