All Outputs (58)

Elder abuse: evaluating the potentials and problems of diagnosis in the archaeological record (2015)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. (2015). Elder abuse: evaluating the potentials and problems of diagnosis in the archaeological record. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 26(3), 514-523. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2442

The elderly are the most neglected demographic in archaeology. In today's youth-obsessed society, the elderly are consistently denigrated, particularly those perceived to be physically or mentally frail. A related and growing concern in contemporary... Read More about Elder abuse: evaluating the potentials and problems of diagnosis in the archaeological record.

The Children of the Reformation: Childhood Palaeoepidemiology in Britain, ad 1000–1700 (2014)
Journal Article
Penny-Mason, B. J., & Gowland, R. L. (2014). The Children of the Reformation: Childhood Palaeoepidemiology in Britain, ad 1000–1700. Medieval Archaeology, 58(1), 162-194. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609714z.00000000035

CHILDHOOD IS A TIME of rapid biological growth and development, and a stage of the life course during which bodies are particularly sensitive to social and environmental stressors. As a consequence, events which may impact upon a child’s care and tre... Read More about The Children of the Reformation: Childhood Palaeoepidemiology in Britain, ad 1000–1700.

On the brink of being: re-evaluating infanticide and infant burial in Roman Britain (2014)
Journal Article
Gowland, R., Chamberlain, A., & Redfern, R. (2014). On the brink of being: re-evaluating infanticide and infant burial in Roman Britain. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 96, 69-88

A comparison of surface features on submerged and non-submerged bone using scanning electron microscopy (2013)
Journal Article
DeBattista, R., Thompson, T., Thompson, C., & Gowland, R. (2013). A comparison of surface features on submerged and non-submerged bone using scanning electron microscopy. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 20(6), 770-776

La sante des enfants sous l'Empire romain (2013)
Journal Article
Redfern, R., Gowland, R., & Powell, L. (2013). La sante des enfants sous l'Empire romain. Les Dossiers d'archéologie (Dijon), 356, 80-83

Occupational mobility in 19th Century rural England: the interpretation of entheseal changes (2013)
Journal Article
Henderson, C., Craps, D., Caffell, A., Millard, A., & Gowland, R. (2013). Occupational mobility in 19th Century rural England: the interpretation of entheseal changes. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 23(2), 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2286

Morbidity in the Marshes: Using Spatial Epidemiology to Investigate Skeletal Evidence for Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England (AD410-1050) (2012)
Journal Article
Gowland, R., & Western, A. (2012). Morbidity in the Marshes: Using Spatial Epidemiology to Investigate Skeletal Evidence for Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England (AD410-1050). American journal of physical anthropology, 147(2), 301-311. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21648

The abrasion of modern and archaeological bone by mobile sediments: the importance of transport modes (2011)
Journal Article
Thompson, C., Ball, S., Thompson, T., & Gowland, R. (2011). The abrasion of modern and archaeological bone by mobile sediments: the importance of transport modes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 784-793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.11.001

Childhood health in the Roman World: perspectives from the centre and margin of the Empire. (2010)
Journal Article
Gowland, R., & Redfern, R. (2010). Childhood health in the Roman World: perspectives from the centre and margin of the Empire. Childhood in the Past, 3(1), 15-42. https://doi.org/10.1179/cip.2010.3.1.15

Very few studies to date have presented contextualised interpretations of bioarchaeological evidence from Roman urban environments. This paper compares and contrasts the osteological data for childhood health from two urban centres, one at the centre... Read More about Childhood health in the Roman World: perspectives from the centre and margin of the Empire..

Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past (2010)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. (2010). Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past. Medical History, 54(3), 407-408. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300004750

Children, Identity, and the Past. Edited by Liv Helga Dommasnes and Melanie Wrigglesworth. (2009)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. (2009). Children, Identity, and the Past. Edited by Liv Helga Dommasnes and Melanie Wrigglesworth. Childhood in the Past, 2(1), 182-184. https://doi.org/10.1179/cip.2009.2.1.179

Brief and precarious lives: infant mortality in contrasting sites from medieval and post-medieval England (AD 850-1859) (2007)
Journal Article
Lewis, M., & Gowland, R. (2007). Brief and precarious lives: infant mortality in contrasting sites from medieval and post-medieval England (AD 850-1859). American journal of physical anthropology, 134(1), 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20643

This study compares the infant mortality profiles of 128 infants from two urban and two rural cemetery sites in medieval England. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of urbanization and industrialization in terms of endogenous or exogenous... Read More about Brief and precarious lives: infant mortality in contrasting sites from medieval and post-medieval England (AD 850-1859).

Estimation of adult skeletal age-at-death: statistical assumptions and applications (2007)
Journal Article
Samworth, R., & Gowland, R. (2007). Estimation of adult skeletal age-at-death: statistical assumptions and applications. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 17(2), 174-188. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.867

We examine the statistical assumptions underlying different techniques of estimating the age-at-death of a skeleton from one or more age indicators. The preferred method depends on which property of the distribution of the data in the reference sampl... Read More about Estimation of adult skeletal age-at-death: statistical assumptions and applications.

Age, ageism and osteological bias: the evidence from late Roman Britain (2007)
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Gowland, R. (2007). Age, ageism and osteological bias: the evidence from late Roman Britain. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 65, 153-169

Beyond ethnicity: symbols of identity in fourth to sixth century AD England (2007)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. (2007). Beyond ethnicity: symbols of identity in fourth to sixth century AD England. Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history, 14, 56-65

Detecting plague: palaeodemographic characterisation of a catastrophic death assemblage (2005)
Journal Article
Gowland, R., & Chamberlain, A. (2005). Detecting plague: palaeodemographic characterisation of a catastrophic death assemblage. Antiquity, 79(303), 146-157. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00113766

The archaeological definition of a plague should be possible from skeletal populations, because the age profile of a population afflicted by a catastrophe will be different to that of a community exposed to a more normal mortality. The authors show h... Read More about Detecting plague: palaeodemographic characterisation of a catastrophic death assemblage.

Review of 'Burial in early medieval England and Wales', edited by Sam Lucy and Andrew Reynolds (2002)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. (2002). Review of 'Burial in early medieval England and Wales', edited by Sam Lucy and Andrew Reynolds. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 14(2), 145-147. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.699

A Bayesian Approach to Ageing Perinatal Skeletal Material from Archaeological Sites: Implications for the Evidence for Infanticide in Roman-Britain (2002)
Journal Article
Gowland, R., & Chamberlain, A. (2002). A Bayesian Approach to Ageing Perinatal Skeletal Material from Archaeological Sites: Implications for the Evidence for Infanticide in Roman-Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science, 29(6), 677-685. https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.2001.0776

The skeletal remains of substantial numbers of perinatal human infants have been excavated from within a variety of archaeological contexts dating to the Romano-British period. It has been argued that the distribution of ages at death of these infant... Read More about A Bayesian Approach to Ageing Perinatal Skeletal Material from Archaeological Sites: Implications for the Evidence for Infanticide in Roman-Britain.