Dr Anwen Caffell's Outputs (19)

Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain (2025)
Journal Article
Thompson, T. J. U., Errickson, D., McDonnell, C., Holst, M., Caffell, A., Pearce, J., & Gowland, R. L. (2025). Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain. PLoS ONE, 20(4), Article e0319847. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319847

Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary (2024)
Journal Article
Terpstra, E. J., Price, M., & Caffell, A. C. (2025). Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 35(1), Article e3364. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3364

This study evaluated correlations between poor dental health and craniomandibular morphology for the Radcliffe Infirmary population buried between 1770 and 1855. The Radcliffe Infirmary is situated in Oxford, 90 km northwest of London, in what used t... Read More about Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary.

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., Yapp, P., Delaney, S., Brown, C., Nowell, G., Macpherson, C., Shaw, H. A., Stewart, N. A., Robinson, S., Montgomery, J., & 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.

The Dunbar Diaspora: Background to the Battle of Dunbar, and the Aftermath of the Battle (2016)
Report
Graves, C., Annis, R., Caffell, A., Gerrard, C., & Millard, A. (2016). The Dunbar Diaspora: Background to the Battle of Dunbar, and the Aftermath of the Battle. [No known commissioning body]

‘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.

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

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

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

Genotype of a historic strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (2012)
Journal Article
Bouwman, A., Kennedy, S., Muller, R., Stephens, R., Holst, M., Caffell, A., …Brown, T. (2012). Genotype of a historic strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(45), 18511-18516. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1209444109

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

Further finds and human remains from the cemetery outside South Shields Roman fort (2010)
Journal Article
Croom, A., & Caffell, A. (2010). Further finds and human remains from the cemetery outside South Shields Roman fort

A post-Roman cemetery at Hewlett Packard, Filton, South Gloucestershire: Excavations in 2005 (2007)
Book Chapter
Cullen, K., Holbrook, N., Watts, M., Caffell, A., & Holst, M. (2007). A post-Roman cemetery at Hewlett Packard, Filton, South Gloucestershire: Excavations in 2005. In M. Watts (Ed.), Two Cemeteries from Bristol's Northern Suburbs (Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report 4) (51-96). Cotswold Archaeology

Human remains from South Shields Roman fort and its cemetery (2005)
Journal Article
Croom, A., & Caffell, A. (2005). Human remains from South Shields Roman fort and its cemetery

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. (1999, November). Human skeletal collections: the responsibilities of project managers, physical anthropologists and conservators, and the need for standardized condition assessment. Presented at Human remains : conservation, retrieval and analysis., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

Pressures on osteological collections: the importance of damage limitation (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Caffell, A., Roberts, C., Janaway, R., & Wilson, A. (1999, November). Pressures on osteological collections: the importance of damage limitation. Presented at Human remains : conservation, retrieval and analysis., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA