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Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex (2017)
Journal Article
Needham, S., Kenny, J., Cole, G., Montgomery, J., Jay, M., and, M. D., & Marshall, P. (2017). Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex

A previously unresearched Early Bronze Age dagger-grave found in 1989 at Racton, West Sussex, is profiled here through a range of studies. The dagger, the only grave accompaniment, is of the ‘transitional’ Ferry Fryston type, this example being of br... Read More about Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex.

Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel (2017)
Journal Article
Andre Stewart, N., Fernanda Gerlach, R., Gowland, R. L., Gron, K., & Montgomery, J. (2017). Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(52), 13649-13654. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714926115

The assignment of biological sex to archaeological human skeletons is a fundamental requirement for the reconstruction of the human past. It is conventionally and routinely performed on adults using metric analysis and morphological traits arising fr... Read More about Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel.

A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK) (2017)
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Pettitt, P., Rowley-Conwy, P., Montgomery, J., & Richards, M. (2017). A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK). https://doi.org/10.7485/qu64_8

Since its excavation in the 1970s the Allerød, period adult male elk from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire (UK) has been interpreted as a Lateglacial hunting episode, presumably by Federmessergruppen hunter-gatherers, albeit in the absence of typological... Read More about A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK).

An isotopic investigation into the origins and husbandry of Mid-Late Bronze Age cattle from Grimes Graves, Norfolk (2017)
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Towers, J., Bond, J., Evans, J., Mainland, I., & Montgomery, J. (2017). An isotopic investigation into the origins and husbandry of Mid-Late Bronze Age cattle from Grimes Graves, Norfolk. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 15, 59-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.07.007

Bioarchaeological evidence suggests that the site of Grimes Graves, Norfolk, characterised by the remains of several hundred Late Neolithic flint mineshafts, was a permanently settled community with a mixed farming economy during the Mid-Late Bronze... Read More about An isotopic investigation into the origins and husbandry of Mid-Late Bronze Age cattle from Grimes Graves, Norfolk.

Land use and mobility during the Neolithic in Wales explored using isotope analysis of tooth enamel (2017)
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Neil, S., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Cook, G. T., & Scarre, C. (2017). Land use and mobility during the Neolithic in Wales explored using isotope analysis of tooth enamel. American journal of physical anthropology, 164(2), 371-393. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23279

Objectives: The nature of land use and mobility during the transition to agriculture has often been debated. Here, we use isotope analysis of tooth enamel from human populations buried in two different Neolithic burial monuments, Penywyrlod and Ty Is... Read More about Land use and mobility during the Neolithic in Wales explored using isotope analysis of tooth enamel.

Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK (2017)
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Roffey, S., Tucker, K., Filipek-Ogden, K., Montgomery, J., Cameron, J., O’Connell, T., …Taylor, G. M. (2017). Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(1), Article e0005186. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005186

We have examined the remains of a Pilgrim burial from St Mary Magdalen, Winchester. The individual was a young adult male, aged around 18–25 years at the time of death. Radiocarbon dating showed the remains dated to the late 11th–early 12th centuries... Read More about Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK.