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Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711–1857) (2024)
Journal Article
Snoddy, A. M. E., Shaw, H., Newman, S., Miszkiewicz, J. J., Stewart, N. A., Jakob, T., …Gowland, R. (2024). Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711–1857). PLoS ONE, 19(1), Article e0296203. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296203

Objectives: The post-medieval period in Europe saw a dramatic increase in metabolic bone disease related to vitamin D deficiency (VDD). Recent paleopathological work has utilized interglobular dentin (IGD) as a proxy for poor vitamin D status during... Read More about Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711–1857).

The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour (2023)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Quade, L., Levene, A., Millard, A. R., Holst, M., …Alexander, M. M. (2023). The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour. PLoS ONE, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284970

Child labour is the most common form of child abuse in the world today, with almost half of child workers employed in hazardous industries. The large-scale employment of children during the rapid industrialisation of the late 18th and early 19th cent... Read More about The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour.

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.

Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650 (2018)
Book
Gerrard, C., Graves, C., Millard, A., Annis, R., & Caffell, A. (2018). Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Oxbow Books

In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced together by a team of archaeologists to establish the id... Read More about Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650.

‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, C., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K., Gowland, R., & Jakob, T. (2016). ‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England. International Journal of Paleopathology, 13, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.12.001

This paper describes the pathological changes observed on the skeleton of a c.12–14 year old person buried in a north-east England Quaker cemetery dated to AD 1711–1857. Bone formation (woven and lamellar) and destruction are present mainly on the ma... Read More about ‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England.

Human remains (2013)
Book Chapter
Caffell, A., & Holst, M. (2013). Human remains. In L. Martin, J. Richardson, & I. Roberts (Eds.), Iron Age and Roman Settlements at Wattle Syke: Archaeological Investigations During the A1 Bramham to Wetherby Upgrading Scheme (Yorkshire Archaeology 11) (201-227). Archaeological Services WYAS

Plant macrofossils, charcoal, burnt bone and snails (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, C., Elliott, L., Henderson, C., Caffell, A., & Gidney, L. (2013). Plant macrofossils, charcoal, burnt bone and snails. In A. O'Connell (Ed.), Harvesting the Stars: A Pagan Temple at Lismullin, Co. Meath (171-175). The National Roads Authority

The General Baptists of Priory Yard, Norwich (2011)
Book Chapter
Caffell, A., & Clarke, R. (2011). The General Baptists of Priory Yard, Norwich. In C. King, & D. Sayer (Eds.), The Archaeology of Post-Medieval Religion (249-270). Boydell Press

Osteological analysis (2011)
Book Chapter
Caffell, A., & Holst, M. (2011). Osteological analysis. In C. Fenton-Thomas (Ed.), Where Sky and Yorkshire and Water Meet (323-332). On-Site Archaeology

Human skeletal collections: the responsibilities of project managers, physical anthropologists and conservators, and the need for standardized condition assessment (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Janaway, R., Wilson, A., Caffell, A., & Roberts, C. (2001). Human skeletal collections: the responsibilities of project managers, physical anthropologists and conservators, and the need for standardized condition assessment. In E. Williams (Ed.), Human remains conservation, retrieval and analysis : Proceedings of a conference held in Williamsburg, VA, Nov 7-11th 1999 (199-208)

Pressures on osteological collections: the importance of damage limitation (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Caffell, A., Roberts, C., Janaway, R., & Wilson, A. (2001). Pressures on osteological collections: the importance of damage limitation. In E. Williams (Ed.), Human remains conservation, retrieval and analysis : Proceedings of a conference held in Williamsburg, VA, Nov 7-11th 1999 (187-197)