Christopher Knüsel is Associate Professor in Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter. He holds degrees from Wisconsin (1984), York (1986), and Simon Fraser (1991). Formerly Leverhulme Research Fellow at Bradford, he lectured there from 1992-2008, receiving the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching (2002). He currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, writing Funerary Archaeology: A Bioarchaeological Synthesis (CUP). He is co-editor of and contributor to Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from Towton, A.D 1461 and Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, and co-author of Velim: Violence and Death in Bronze Age Bohemia. He convenes Exeter's MSc. Bioarchaeology.
Piers Mitchell SecretaryPiers D Mitchell is based at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has trained in paleopathology and medical history, and is also an orthopaedic surgeon.
Research interests focus on health and disease in the crusades to the medieval Middle East, and on the health consequences of parasites in ancient civilizations. He is on the editorial board of five international journals in the fields of paleopathology, forensic anthropology, and medical history.
Mitchell, P.D., Stern, E., Tepper, Y. (2008) Dysentery in the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem: an ELISA analysis of two medieval latrines in the city of Acre (Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(7): 1849-53.
Mitchell, P.D., Redfern, R. (2008) Diagnositic criteria for developmental
dislocation of the hip in excavated human skeletal remains. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 18(1): 61-71.
Mitchell, P.D., Nagar, Y., Ellenblum, R. (2006) Weapon injuries in the 12th century crusader garrison of Vadum Iacob castle, Galilee. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 16 (2): 145-55.
Mitchell, P.D. (2006) Child health in the crusader period inhabitants of Tel Jezreel, Israel. Levant, 38: 37-44.
Mitchell, P.D. (2004) Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tina is currently a teaching fellow at Durham University where she is teaching modules in Anatomy and Osteology, as well as Palaeopathology. In 2004, she obtained her PhD from Durham with a comparative study of health and disease patterns from early medieval English and German skeletal populations. Tina has worked on excavations and survey projects in Germany, Turkey and recently in Jordan and northern Sudan.
Jacqueline McKinley Representative from a professional organisation
Over the last almost 3 decades since graduating from the University of Bradford (Archaeological Sciences), I have deliberately chosen to remain active in both field archaeology (in which I have had extensive experience on sites across the British Isles ) and osteoarchaeology (having have had the privilege of examining and reporting on human remains - cremated >5000 and unburnt >1500 - from more than 300 sites across the UK). Cremation has long been, and remains, my main area of interest, partly due to the inextricable link between the osteology and the archaeology.
Rebecca Redfern Representative from a museumRebecca is a research osteologist at the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London. In 2006, she obtained her PhD from Birmingham with a study of health in Iron Age and Romano-British samples from Dorset (England), focusing upon the relationship between health and Romanization. Rebecca worked for MoL Archaeology from 2003-2007 on the Spitalfields Market Project and other commercial projects; from 2007-2008 she was the curator of physical anthropology in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The British Museum. Her research interests include: trauma, Iron Age and Roman Britain, bioarchaeology, the archaeologies of ageing and gender, and medical practices.
Her recent publications include:
Redfern, R.C.accepted. A regional examination of surgery and fracture treatment in Iron Age and Roman Britain, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
Connell, B., Gray Jones, A., Redfern, RC., and Walker, D. in review.Spitalfields: a bioarchaeological study of health and disease from a medieval London cemetery. Archaeological excavations at Spitalfields Market 1991–2007, Volume 3. London: MoLA Monograph.
Redfern, R.C. 2008. A bioarchaeological investigation of cultural change in Dorset, England (mid-to-late fourth century B.C. to the end of the fourth century A.D.), Britannia XXXIX, 161-191.
Redfern, R.C. 2008.New evidence for Iron Age secondary burial practice and bone modification from Gussage All Saints and Maiden Castle (Dorset, England), Oxford Journal of Archaeology 27.3, 281-301.
Mitchell, P.D., and Redfern, R.C.2008.Diagnostic criteria for developmental dislocation of the hip in human skeletal remains, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 18.1, 61-71.
Mitchell, P.D., and Redfern, R.C. 2007. The prevalence of dislocation in developmental dysplasia of the hip in Britain over the past thousand years', in Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics 27.8, 890-2.
Redfern, R.C. 2007. A bioarchaeological analysis of violence in Iron Age females: a perspective from Dorset England (mid to late seventh century BC to the first century AD). In O.P. Davis, N.M. Sharples, and K.E. Waddington (eds.), Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium B.C. (Oxford, Oxbow Books).
Redfern, R.C. 2007.The influence of culture upon childhood: an osteological study of Iron Age and Romano-British Dorset, England. In M. Harlow and R. Laurence (eds.), Age and Ageing in the Roman Empire: Approaches to the Roman Life Course, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, 64, 171-190.
Louise Loe Representative from a unit
I completed my PhD in Biological Anthropology at the University of Bristol in 2003. Between 2002 and 2006 I held a post-doctoral position and, latterly, a lectureship in Forensic and Bioarchaeological Sciences at Bournemouth University. In April 2006 I joined Oxford Archaeology as Head of Heritage Burial Services where I manage a department that deals with all aspects of burial archaeology. I am responsible for the management of a wide portfolio of burial projects, dating from all periods, from fieldwork to post excavation analysis and publication. My research interests include peri- and post-mortem modification, health in early Medieval Wales and skeletal indicators of socio-economic status.
Martin Smith Publicity Secretary
After obtaining his PhD on human skeletal assemblages from Neolithic Britain at the University of Birmingham, Martin worked on a three year postdoctoral research project at Birmingham funded by the Leverhulme Trust. His current position is as Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology at Bournemouth University. His research interests encompass a broad range of issues in relation to prehistoric populations as well as the forensic applications of biological anthropology and the archaeology of conflict.
Selected Publications:
Smith, M.J. and Brickley, M.B. (in press) People of the Long Barrows: Life, Death and Burial in the earlier Neolithic. Stroud: Tempus.
Smith, M.J., Brickley M.B. and Leach S.L. (2007) "Experimental evidence for lithic projectile injuries: Improving identification of an under-recognised phenomenon" Journal of Archaeological Science 34, 540-553.
Brickley M.B. and Smith M.J. (2006) “Culturally Determined Patterns of Violence: Biological Anthropological Investigations at a Historic Urban Cemetery” American Anthropologist. 108, 163-177.
Smith M.J. (2006) “Bones chewed by canids as evidence for human excarnation: a British case study” Antiquity 80, 1-15.
Smith, M.J. and Brickley M.B. (2006) "The date and sequence of use of Neolithic funerary monuments: Evidence from the Cotswold Severn region" Oxford Journal of Archaeology 25, 335-355.
Smith M.J. and Brickley M.B. (2004) “Analysis and Interpretation of Flint Toolmarks on Bones from West Tump Long Barrow, Gloucestershire” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14, 18-33.
Kirsty McCarrison Student Member
Having graduated from Birmingham University in 2005 with first class honours in Ancient History and Archaeology I took a year out to work in the role of a Careers Assistant whilst choosing and preparing for a Masters degree. I have recently completed the MSc in Palaeopathology at Durham University. In October 2007 I started a NERC funded 3 year PhD Studentship joint with Durham and Manchester Universities involving osteological and biomolecular study of prehistoric tuberculosis in Britain. My research interests include the origins and spread of infectious disease, British and Greek archaeology, ethics, disability and the history of medicine.
Mary Lewis Non-executive Member
Mary Lewis obtained her BA in Archaeology from the University of Leicester in 1992, and an MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology (1993) and PhD (1999), from the University of Bradford. After several years running the MSc in Forensic Archaeology at Bournemouth, Mary is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading. Mary specialises in non-adult skeletal pathology and in the personal identification of children in forensic anthropology. She examines the changing pattern of disease in children in relation to socio-economic transitions in the past (Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon; urban to industrial) with particular focus on metabolic and infectious diseases. Her other research interests include the use of stable isotope and trace element analysis in reconstructing past migratory patterns in the UK. Mary’s recent publications include The Bioarchaeology of Children (CUP, 2007), and anthropological contributions to The Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves by Cox et al. (2008). She regularly publishes in journals such as the American Journal of Physical Anthropology has contributed to books on leprosy, environmental archaeology and forensic anthropology.
Selected publications:
Lewis ME (2008) A Traitor's Death: the identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire. Antiquity 82: 113-124.
Lewis ME (2007) The Bioarchaeology of Children. Current Perspectives in Biological and Forensic Anthropology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
Lewis ME and 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
Bennike P, Lewis ME, Schutkowski H & Valentin F (2005) A comparison of childhood morbidity and mortality in two late medieval cemeteries from Denmark. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128(4):734-746
Lewis, ME (2004) Endocranial lesions: their distribution and aetiology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14(2): 82-97.
Lewis ME & Rutty G (2003) Endangered Children: the personal identification of children in forensic anthropology. Science and Justice 43(4): 201-209
Lewis, M.E. (2002) The impact of industrialisation: comparative study of child health in four sites from medieval and post-medieval England (850-1859). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119 (3): 211-223.
Lewis ME (2002) Urbanisation and Child Health in Medieval and Post-Medieval England. BAR British Series 339
Roberts CA, Lewis ME and Manchester K eds. (2002) ‘The Past and Present of Leprosy.’ BAR International Research Series S1054. Archaeopress: Oxford
Jo Buckberry Non-executive Member
Jo completed her PhD entitled 'A Cultural and Anthropological Study of Conversion Period and Later Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire' at the University of Sheffield in 2004. She joined the Biological Anthropology Research Centre, Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford later that year, where she curates the BARC collection, teaches and undertakes research and contract osteology. She has edited the BABAO Annual Review since autumn 2005, and joined the committee in 2007. Recent publications include:
Buckberry, J. L. 2007. On sacred ground: social identity and churchyard burial in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, c.700-1100 AD. In H. Williams and S. Semple (ed.) Anglo- Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 14: 120-132.Buckberry, J. L. & D. M. Hadley 2007. An Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 26: 309-329.
Hadley, D. M. & J. Buckberry 2005. Caring for the dead in late Anglo-Saxon England. In F. Tinti (ed.) Pastoral care in late Anglo-Saxon England: 121-147. Woodbridge: Boydell
Buckberry, J. L. & A. T. Chamberlain 2002. Age estimation from the auricular surface of the ilium: a revised method.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119: 231- 239.
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