Outputs (4)

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)
Journal Article
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