BABAO 2014
Programme Overview
Friday 12th September
11:00
Registration Opens (Department of Archaeology, Dawson Building,
D104)
12:45
Welcome to BABAO 2014 (Professor Charlotte Roberts), Dawson
Building, D110
12.50
Tribute to Jenny Wakely (Malin Holst)
Session 1: The Body and Society: Past Perspectives on the Present
13:00
Keynote: Dr Pamela Geller (University of Miami)
Bioarchaeology and bio-power: past bodies and present challenges.
13:30
William Southwell-Wright
Impairment & disability in the archaeological record: a wide-scale
comparative study of Late Romano-British burial treatment.
13:45
Rebecca Gowland
Elder abuse: a ‘modern violence phenomenon’?
14:00
*Brittany Hill
To eat or not to eat: animal status within Romano-British co-burials.
14:15
Nivien Speith
Mobile lives, mobile biologies: tracing social ranking in the
bioarchaeological record.
14:30
*Christian Meyer, K Wirth and K Alt
The bioarchaeology of a large Merovingian cemetery from Mannheim,
Germany: selected results.
14:45
Refreshments and Linked Posters
15:45
*Mauricio Hernandez
Health and the archaic state – investigating possible links between
nutritional stress and government control in early dynastic China.
16:00
Anwen Caffell, M Holst and K Keefe
‘To prove I’m not forgot’: giving a voice to the urban poor through
analysis of skeletal populations from Rotherham and Leeds, Northern
England.
16:15
*Ceridwen Boston
‘Jack Nastyface’: osteological and historical evidence for
disfigurement, disability and surgical treatment in the British Royal
Navy of the late 18th- to early 19th centuries.
16:30
Luis Rios, Z Kerangat and F Ferrándiz
Afterlives of corpses of political violence: the Spanish Civil War mass
graves.
16:45
Discussion
17:00-18:00
Publication Workshop run by Ilaria Meliconi (International
Journal of Paleopathology, Piers Mitchell (BABAO President), and
Naomi Sykes (International Journal of Osteoarchaeology)
18:30-20:00
Evening Wine Reception in the Cloisters of the Cathedral
Saturday 13th September
8:30
Registration Desk Open
Session 2: Biological anthropology and infectious disease: new
developments from bioarchaeology, palaeoanthropology,
primatology, and archaeozoology
9:00
Keynote: Professor Niels Lynnerup (University of Copenhagen)
Paleopathology and genomics: from diagnostics to informatics.
9:30
Verena Schuenemann, A Alexander, GM Taylor, P Singh, ST Cole, S
Inskip, S Mays, S Zakrzewski, K Krause
Insights into the evolutionary history of leprosy in Europe from an
early medieval Mycobacterium leprae genome.
9:45
*Kori Filipek-Ogden
Ill-Fated?: Exploring links between non-specific indicators of
childhood stress and leprosy immunity in Medieval England.
10:00
David Minnikin, HHT Wu, OY-C Lee, GS Besra, A Bhatt, BM
Rothschild, R Laub, HD Donoghue
Zoonotic aspects of really ancient tuberculosis.
10:15
Houdini HT Wu, OY-C Lee, DE Minnikin, GS Besra, A Bhatt, HD
Donoghue
The developing value of lipid biomarkers in the diagnosis of ancient
tuberculosis and leprosy.
10:30
*Annelise Binois
The silence of the lambs. A paleoepidemiological approach to the
identification and diagnosis of mass mortalities among archaeological
livestock.
10:45
Refreshments and Linked Posters
11:45
*Michaela Binder, C A Roberts
Climate change and respiratory disease at Amara West, in Sudan – A
bioarchaeological perspective.
12:00
*Anna Rohnbogner
Dying young. Palaeopathological analysis of child health in Roman
Britain.
12:15
*Rachel Schats, MLP Hoogland
Rural-urban divide? Differences in infectious disease and non-specific
stress markers between rural and urban skeletal assemblages from
Medieval Netherlands.
12:30
*Hui-Yuan (Ivy) Yeh, K Prag, C Clamer, J-B Humbert, PD Mitchell
Human intestinal parasites from a Mamluk Period cesspool in the
Christian quarter of Jerusalem, Israel: Evidence for long distance
contact in the 15th century AD.
12:45
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
Session 3: New developments in biomolecular methods
14:00
Keynote Speaker: Professor Matthew Collins (University of York)
BABAO'mics 2024: will new developments in biomedicine really
change everything?
14:30
Anna Fotakis, B Triozzi, C D. Kelstrup, J V. Olsen, R Boano, M T. P.
Gilbert, E Cappellini
Proteomics on a pre-Hispanic mummy head: results and future
perspectives.
14:45
Alice Mora, B T. Arriaza, V G. Standen, C Smith
New methodological developments and perspectives in amino acid
δ13C analysis of hair.
15:00
*Jessica Hendy, E Johannesdottir, K Robson-Brown, M Collins
Oral pathologies and dental modification from 19th century enslaved
Africans.
15:15
Julia Beaumont, J Montgomery
A closer examination of childhood diet and physiology using stable
isotope analysis of incremental human dentine.
15:30
Mandy Jay, J Beaumont, J Montgomery
Past questions, future answers: how incremental dentine sampling
might be applied to answer some existing questions raised by δ13C and
δ15N data.
15:45
Refreshments and Linked Posters
16:45
*Esther Plomp, L Font, J M. Koornneef, J E. Laffoon, G R. Davies
The application of neodymium isotope analysis to human
provenancing.
17:00
*Heidi Shaw, J Montgomery, R Redfern, R Gowland, J Evans
Migration in Roman London: Identification using lead and strontium
isotopes.
17:15
Jason E. Laffoon, C L. Hofman, G R. Davies
Application of a multivariate stable isotope model for dietary
assessment in the precolonial Caribbean.
17:30
*Zahra Afshar, A Millard, C Roberts, D Gröcke
Dietary evolution and cultural change during the 5th to 2nd millennium
B.C. at Tepe Hissar, Iran.
17:45
*Maria Lahtinen, J Montgomery, D Gröcke, P Rowley-Conwy
Use of aquatic resources in the Bothnian Bay, North Baltic Sea – A
case study of the Iin Hamina.
18:00-19:00
BABAO AGM
19:30-0:00
Conference Dinner, Quiz and Ceilidh at St Aidan’s College
Sunday 14th September
8:30
Registration Desk Open
Session 4: Open Session
9:00
*Petra Verlinden
Child’s play: the identification of skeletal trauma in immature remains.
9:15
*Sophie Newman, R Gowland
Dedicated Followers of Fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on
socio-economic status and health in urban children from the Industrial
Revolution.
9:30
*Barbara Veselka, M L. P. Hoogland, A L. Waters-Rist
Gender-related vitamin D deficiency in a Dutch post-Medieval farming
community.
9:45
*Davina Craps, R Gowland
Stable versus mobile: patterns of degeneration in ball-and-socket
joints.
10:00
*A. Jay van der Reijden
A renewed classification system for cultural dental modification.
10:15
Refreshments and Linked Posters
11:15
Sarah A. Lacy
Health and old age in the late Pleistocene: Changes in oral pathological
condition prevalence over time in older Neandertal and modern human
adults in Europe.
11:30
Tina Jakob, J W. Walser III
Dental disease at Meroitic Al Khiday 2, Central Sudan: challenging
common concepts.
11:45
Marie Louise S. Jørkov
Diet and dental health during the 19th and 20th Century Copenhagen.
An investigation of the Assistens Cemetery.
12:00
Nicholas Márquez-Grant, K Cooper, Charlotte Willis, Charlotte
Osborn, S Beckett, D Piombino-Mascali
Non-metric Trait and Palaeopathological Analysis of Individuals from
the Capuchin Catacomb Collection, Palermo, Sicily.
12:15
Thomas J. Booth, L White
Immaculate Conceptions? The histological preservation of
archaeological neonatal human remains.
12:30
Velissaria Vanna, Nicholas Márquez-Grant, K Moraitis
Dry-bone manifestation of malignant tumours: cancer in a modern
skeletal collection of known sex, age and cause of death from Athens,
Greece.
12:30-13:00
Close and Announcement of Prizes
*BABAO Student Prize entrant
BABAO 2014
Posters
Earth Sciences ES 228, ES 229 and ES230 (opposite the Dawson Building,
Department of Archaeology)
Friday 12th September
Session 1: The Body and Society: Past Perspectives on the Present
14:45-15:45
Pedro Andrade, J Urrea, D Salazar, M Berríos, K Codjambassis, C Aravena, F Lira
Women hunter-gatherer from the Archaic VI Period (~3500-1500 cal BP) of
Interfluvial Coast of Northern Chile: first approaches to a reconstruction of gender
bioarchaeology.
Jelena Bekvalac, G Western, M Farmer
The impact of industrialisation on female health: understanding the aetiology of
hyperostosis frontalis interna.
Trisha M Biers
Bridging the Gap between Elite and Non-elite: Identifying the Artisan in the
Archaeological Record.
Charlotte Henderson
Entheseal changes: youth and work.
*Laura Herbert, I De Groote,
The effect of evulsion on tooth wear.
*Jessica McCoy
Up with Downs: identifying Trisomy 21 in the archaeological record.
Justyna Miszkiewicz, P Mahoney
The clue is in the osteons: reconstructing medieval lifestyles from femoral histology.
Rebecca Redfern, A Austin, M Judd
Living with the consequences of injury: a medieval perspective from London.
*Victoria A Richards, N Márquez-Grant
An overview of how drugs affect the skeleton: implications for forensic anthropology.
Charlotte Roberts, A Caffell, K Filipek-Ogden, R Gowland, T Jakob, D Tancock
An occupationally related disease in a 19th century skeleton from north-east England?
The past and present of “phossy jaw”.
Joanna Rogóż, A Reszczyńska
Anthropological Analysis and Interpretation of Cremation Burials of the Przeworsk
Culture: an Example from Zamiechów, site 1, in South-Eastern Poland.
Anne MW Snaaijer, MLP Hoogland, AL Waters-Rist
A case-study of severe congenital scoliosis and brachial plexus injury from the 19th
century Netherlands.
Katie Tucker
The search for Alfred the Great: solving the mystery of the unmarked grave at St
Bartholomew’s, Hyde, Winchester.
*Anne van Duijvenbode, Michele E Morgan, OJ Herschensohn,
Unilateral congenital aural atresia in an adult male from prehistoric Venezuela.
*Anne van Duijvenbode
Transforming Identities: Investigating the impact of intercultural contact on
intentional cranial modification in early colonial Cuba.
Saturday 13th September
Session 2: Biological anthropology and infectious disease: new developments
from bioarchaeology, palaeoanthropology, primatology, and archaeozoology
10:45-11:45
*Alison Atkin
The attritional mortality myth: a catastrophic error with demography.
Laura Castells-Navarro, K Manchester, J Buckberry
Positional club foot and bilateral asymmetry related to cerebral palsy or paralytic
poliomyelitis in the Romano-British cemetery of Kingsholm, Gloucester, England.
*Jannine Forst, TA Brown
Using whole genome amplification to characterise Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA
in 18th- 19th century AD archaeological skeletal remains from England.
*Claire M Hodson
Life in the Womb: Realising the potential of perinatal skeletal remains in England.
Erika Kessler-Ison, Emily Layton, G King, T Jakob, R Jankauskas
Infested? A parasite’s perspective of medieval Lithuanian health and hygiene
Francesca B M Migliaccio, K Robson-Brown, J Fleisher, S Wynne-Jones
Searching for malaria in 14th- 16th century Eastern Africa: biomolecular analysis of
dental samples from Song Mnara, Tanzania.
Romy Müller, CA Roberts, TA Brown
Mycobacteria are everywhere. Implications for the study of tuberculosis in
archaeological skeletal remains.
Charlotte Primeau, P Homøe, N Lynnerup
Childhood illnesses recorded in adult skeletons from medieval Denmark: infectious
middle ear disease, Harris lines and linear enamel hypoplasia.
Katie Tucker
The skeletal evidence for leprosy at St. Mary Magdalen Hospital, Winchester,
England.
Session 3: New developments in biomolecular methods
14.45-15.45
*Carole AL Davenport, SR Rennie, JC Ohman
Digging Up Dirt: How Using Geological Techniques Can Support Osteological
Analyses.
Dana Fialová, E Drozdová, R Skoupý, P Mikulík
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis of ancient human dental calculus
treated by chemical conservation.
Laura Font, G Jonker, PA van Aalderen, EF Schiltmans, GR Davies
Isotope analysis on human remains from WWII casualties.
*Hannah Haydock
Post-medieval breastfeeding and weaning practices: Redcross Way, London.
*Ross Kendall, RL Gowland, AR Millard
Archaeological Antibodies: Problems and Prospects.
Olalla López-Costas, O Lantes-Suárez, A Martínez Cortizas
Premortem vs Postmortem signals: diet and diagenesis in the Roman-Post Roman
cemetery of A Lanzada (NW Spain).
*Ciara Mannion, K Britton, M Hutchison, M Richards
Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen from the late Neolithic Stalled Cairn of
Knowe of Rowiegar, Rousay, Orkney.
*Poiyun Marr
Investigation of heat-treated bones and teeth and affect on stable isotope ratios.
Sunday 14th September
Claudine Abegg, J Desideri
A case of multiple myeloma in a female Individual from the Simon Identified Skeletal
Collection from the late 19th century.
*Tom Atterton, I De Groote
Sex assessment using stepwise discriminant function analysis of the clavicle: a
medieval British population.
*Anna Bauer
How did cattle break their noses? Evidence for fractured nasal bones in cattle.
Megan Brickley, A-M Dragomir, L Lockau
Possibilities and Challenges: Determination of age-at-death in disarticulated,
fragmentary and co-mingled human remains.
*Carla Burrell, ER Dove, JC Ohman
Biological age estimation of subadult human skeletal remains: A review of diaphyseal
long bone growth.
*Michelle Cameron
A prospective study on postcranial variation among herder-foragers from semi-arid
southern Africa.
*Vanessa Campanacho, AT Chamberlain, P Nystrom, E Cunha
Acetabulum metamorphosis rate in two identified skeletal collections from Portugal
and USA.
*Gina Carroll, S Inskip, A Waters-Rist, M Hoogland
Unilateral hypoglossal canal obstruction: a socio-cultural approach for contextualising
skull-base lesions and extra-cranial pathologies in the Post Medieval period.
*Kayleigh Cooper, S Beckett, N Márquez-Grant, D Piombino-Mascali
A quantitative method for dental calculus analysis? Method, testing and conclusion.
*Davina Craps, R Gowland
A common feature? The proximal ulna in advanced rheumatoid arthritis.
*Julie Debard, F Mariéthoz, M Besse
A late Iron Age case of mucopolysaccharidosis in a young adult male from a
necropolis in Valais (Switzerland).
*Sarah Louise Decrausaz
Parturition scarring – is it really that simple? A re-examination of the causes of
parturition scarring in a modern and archaeological sample.
*Jenna Dittmar, PD Mitchell
New criteria for identifying and differentiating human dissection and autopsy in
archaeological assemblages.
Eleanor Dove, CL Burrell, JD Irish, JC Ohman
Relative proximal and distal growth in juvenile tibiae.
*Andreas Düring
The Population & Cemetery simulator.
*Jessica Fisher, J Buckberry, AS Wilson, L Ryall-Stockton
Cut mark analysis of post-medieval medical instruments on bone.
Almudena García Rubio, B Martínez, L Ríos
Osteological and palaeopathological study of burials from San Millán de la Cogolla,
Spain.
*Donna Harrison
An evaluation of the methods used in sex estimation.
Hiroko Hashimoto
Mating systems of the Jomon people from Japan indicated by dental traits.
Gordon le Roux, T Jakob
Long bone fracture deformities: a comparison of macroscopic and radiographic
recording methods.
Mario Novak
Deliberate incidents or unexpected accidents? Osteoarchaeological study of skeletal
trauma in early medieval Ireland.
Bennjamin Penny-Mason
A bioarchaeological matrix retrospective: Quantifying the value of post-excavation
Harris Matrix reconstruction of skeletal assemblages.
*Elina Petersone-Gordina, G Gerhards, T Jakob, CA Roberts, G Zarina
Differential diagnoses of bending deformities in a non-adult skeleton from St Peter’s
Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia.
Paola Ponce, J Dittmar, K Grant
Cranial autopsies at the Queen’s Chapel Savoy (London).
Charlotte Primeau, C Boyer, SO Arge, N Lynnerup
A test of inter- and intra-observer error for an atlas method of combined histological
data for the evaluation of linear enamel hypoplasia.
*Yun Ysi Siew, JT Stock
A test of ecogeographic expectations using Holocene Chinese skeletons.
Jagmahender Singh, RK Pathak
Forensic anthropological investigation of sexual dimorphism in human clavicle
collected from autopsied Northwest Indian cadavers.
Norman Sullivan
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis in a Skeletal Sample from a Late Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth Century Almshouse Cemetery.
Alice Toso, AL Santos
It’s a 3D world! A preliminary assessment of intra-observer error in 3D models of
distal humeri.
Don Walker
Sticks and bones and ‘parry’ fractures: the vanishing injury?
*Rebecca Watts
The long-term impact of brief and chronic illnesses during development. Evidence
from archaeological British populations (AD950-1855).
Helen Webb, L Loe, M Gibson, A Rose
Violence, execution or anatomisation? Peri-mortem sharp force modification in intramural burials from Medieval Britain – New evidence from Stoke Quay, Ipswich.
*Emily Wilson, N Márquez-Grant, M Bofill Martínez, P Ponce, C Springs Pacelli, H
Ventre, A Pujol, V Villalba Mouco, M Colomar, A Ferrer
Study of human remains from a 20th Century population in Formentera, Spain.
*BABAO Student Prize entrant