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Charlotte Roberts' Outputs (226)

A 6500-year-old Middle Neolithic child from Pollera Cave (Liguria, Italy) with probable multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis (2017)
Journal Article
Sparacello, V. S., Roberts, C. A., Kerudin, A., & Müller, R. (2017). A 6500-year-old Middle Neolithic child from Pollera Cave (Liguria, Italy) with probable multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis. International Journal of Paleopathology, 17, 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2017.01.004

Clear skeletal evidence of prehistoric tuberculosis (TB) is rare, especially in children. We describe and differentially diagnose the pathological changes displayed by a five-year-old child, Pollera 21 (PO21) dated to the Middle Neolithic of Liguria... Read More about A 6500-year-old Middle Neolithic child from Pollera Cave (Liguria, Italy) with probable multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis.

Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester) (2016)
Journal Article
Filipek-Ogden, K. L., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Gowland, R., & Tucker, K. (2016). Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester). American journal of physical anthropology, 159(s62), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22955

Leprosy is one of the few specific infectious diseases that can be studied in bioarchaeology due to its characteristic debilitating and disfiguring skeletal changes. Leprosy has been, and continues to be, one of the most socially stigmatising disease... Read More about Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester).

Applying the “Index of care” to a person who experienced leprosy in late Medieval Chichester, England (2016)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2017). Applying the “Index of care” to a person who experienced leprosy in late Medieval Chichester, England. In L. Tilley, & A. Schrenk (Eds.), New developments in the bioarchaeology of care (101-124). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39901-0_6

Based on the bioarchaeological record, leprosy, a bacterial infectious disease, has challenged human populations for several thousands of years. It also remains a challenge for management today in certain parts of the world. This socially fascinating... Read More about Applying the “Index of care” to a person who experienced leprosy in late Medieval Chichester, England.

Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy) (2016)
Journal Article
Sparacello, V., Roberts, C., Canci, A., Moggi-Cecchi, J., & Marchi, D. (2016). Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy). International Journal of Paleopathology, 15, 50-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.08.003

The aim of this research is to gain insights on the progression timeline of osteoarticular tuberculosis (TB) in people from the Neolithic period by using skeletal traits that are independent of the bony lesions. The body proportions and postcranial m... Read More about Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy).

Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains (2016)
Journal Article
Müller, R., Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2016). Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains. Journal of Archaeological Science, 68, 5-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.03.002

There are many reports of ancient DNA from bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) being present in skeletons with and without osteological indications of tuberculosis. A possible complication in these studies is that extracts might... Read More about Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains.

Palaeopathology and its relevance to understanding health and disease today: the impact of the environment on health, past and present (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. (2016). Palaeopathology and its relevance to understanding health and disease today: the impact of the environment on health, past and present. Anthropological Review, 79(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1515/anre-2016-0001

This paper considers the discipline of palaeopathology, how it has developed, how it is studied, and what limitations present challenges to analysis. The study of disease has a long history and has probably most rapidly developed over the last 40-50... Read More about Palaeopathology and its relevance to understanding health and disease today: the impact of the environment on health, past and present.

‘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.

Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary (2015)
Journal Article
Gilmour, R., Gowland, R., Roberts, C., Bernert, Z., Klara Kiss, K., & Lassanyi, G. (2015). Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary. International Journal of Paleopathology, 11, 75-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.08.004

It was hypothesized that men and women living in the border provinces of the Roman Empire may have encountered different risks associated with their different occupations and activities. Limb bone trauma data were used to assess sex-based differences... Read More about Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary.

Paleopathology. (2015)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C., & Gowland, R. (2015). Paleopathology. In K. Metheny, & M. Beaudry (Eds.), Archaeology of food (385-398). Rowman & Littlefield

Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets (2015)
Journal Article
Bradbury, J., Davies, D., Jay, M., Philip, G., Roberts, C., & Scarre, C. (2016). Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23(2), 561-591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-015-9251-1

There can be few “bigger” questions than the nature and development of human experience and self-awareness and few better ways to study it than through the changing treatment of the dead over time. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the ‘Invisi... Read More about Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets.

Does the correlation between Schmorl’s nodes and vertebral morphology extend into the lumbar spine? (2015)
Journal Article
Plomp, K., Roberts, C., & Strand Viðarsdόttir, U. (2015). Does the correlation between Schmorl’s nodes and vertebral morphology extend into the lumbar spine?. American journal of physical anthropology, 157(3), 526-534. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22730

Schmorl's nodes are depressions on vertebrae due to herniation of the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc into the vertebral body. This study provides an extension of our previous study which analyzed the shape of the lower thoracic spine and... Read More about Does the correlation between Schmorl’s nodes and vertebral morphology extend into the lumbar spine?.

Tuberculosis: a biosocial study of admissions to a children’s sanatorium (1936-1954) in Stannington, Northumberland, England (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, C., & Bernard, M. (2015). Tuberculosis: a biosocial study of admissions to a children’s sanatorium (1936-1954) in Stannington, Northumberland, England. Tuberculosis, 95(Supplement 1), S105-S108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2015.02.012

This study considers the biosocial profile of children admitted to the Philipson Children's Sanatorium at Stannington, Morpeth, Northumberland, England (1936–1954). The objective was to understand the differential impact of TB on male and female admi... Read More about Tuberculosis: a biosocial study of admissions to a children’s sanatorium (1936-1954) in Stannington, Northumberland, England.

Old World tuberculosis: evidence from human remains with a review of current research and future prospects (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. (2015). Old World tuberculosis: evidence from human remains with a review of current research and future prospects. Tuberculosis, 95(Supplement 1), S117-S121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2015.02.018

The evidence for TB in archaeological human remains for the Old World is reviewed in published and some unpublished sources. The evidence of Pott's disease was considered specific for TB, with other bone changes, such as rib lesions, as non-specific.... Read More about Old World tuberculosis: evidence from human remains with a review of current research and future prospects.

Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: non-specificity of IS6110 PCRs (2015)
Journal Article
Müller, R., Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2015). Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: non-specificity of IS6110 PCRs. Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 1(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1179/2054892314y.0000000002

The insertion sequence IS6110 is frequently used as a marker for the presence of ancient DNA (aDNA) derived from bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in human archaeological remains. The specificity of polymerase chain reactions... Read More about Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: non-specificity of IS6110 PCRs.

Human remains (2014)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2014). Human remains. In J. Balme, & A. Paterson (Eds.), Archaeology in practice. A student guide to archaeological analyses (300-335). (2nd ed.). Wiley

Pathological conditions and anomalies in archaeological investigations. (2014)
Book Chapter
Roberts, C. (2014). Pathological conditions and anomalies in archaeological investigations. In S. Blau, & D. Ubelaker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (5823-5829). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_145

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” This definition has not been amended since 1948 (http://​www.​who.​int/​suggestions/​faq/... Read More about Pathological conditions and anomalies in archaeological investigations..