The cemetery of St Mary Graces, East Smithfield

Publications

Antoine, D.M. and Hillson, S.W. 2005.  Famine, Black Death and health in fourteenth century London,  Archaeology International 8, 26-28.

Antoine, D.M., Hillson, S.W., Keene, D., Dean, M.C. and Milne, G. 2005. Using growth standards in teeth from victims of the Black Death to investigate effects of the Great Famine (1315-17). American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 125.

Bekvalac, J. and Kausmally, T. In prep. Human Bone.  In, Grainger, I. and Phillpotts, C. (eds.),  Excavations at the Abbey of St Mary Graces, East Smithfield, London. MoLAS Monograph Series, Museum of London Archaeology.

Cowal, L. and Mikulski, R.  2008. Human Bone.  In, Grainger, I., Hawkins, D., Cowal, L. and Mikulski, R. (eds.), The Black Death Cemetery, East Smithfield, London.  MoLAS Monograph 43

Clement, A. 2007. A New Method for Recording Tooth Wear.  In White, W. and Zakrewski, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Annual BABAO Conference.  Oxford, BAR International Series 1712, 72-81.

de Witte, S.N. in press. The effect of sex on risk of mortality during the Black Death in London, A.D. 1349-1350.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

de Witte, S.N. and Wood, J.A. 2008. Selectivity of Black Death mortality with respect to preexisting health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105.5, 1436-1441. 

Gilchrist, R. and Sloane, B. 2005. Requiem: The Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain. London, MoLAS and English Heritage.

Gowland, R.L.  and Chamberlain, A.T. 2005. Detecting Plague: The Palaeodemographic Characterisation of a Catastrophic Burial Assemblage. Antiquity 79, 146-158.

Grainger, I., Hawkins, D., with Falcini, P. and Mills, P. 1988.
Excavations at the Royal Mint site 1986-1988. London Archaeologist 5, 429-36.

Grainger, I,, Hawkins, D. and  Waldron, T. no date. Excavations at the Abbey of St Mary Graces, East Smithfield, London. MoLAS mono unpub.

Patrick, P. 2007. Overweight and the human skeleton.  In White, W. and Zakrewski, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Annual BABAO Conference.  Oxford, BAR International Series 1712, 62-71.

Patrick, P. 2002. Creaking in the Cloisters: Observations on Prevalence and Distribution of Osteoarthritis in Monks from Medieval London. In, Helmig, G. Scholkmann, B. and Untermannm, M. (eds.), Centre, Region, Periphery: Medieval Europe.  Basel, Hertingen: folio-verlag, 89-93.

Thompson, A., Westman, A., and Dyson, T. (Eds.), 1998. Archaeology in Greater London 1965-1990: a guide to records of excavations by the Museum of London.

The Archaeological Gazetteer Series Vol 2, 243-244.
1987 London Archaeologist 5, 277-8
1987  Medieval Archaeology 31, 133
1988 London Archaeologist 5, 415
1989 London Archaeologist 6, 79

Previous research

Agarwal, S. 2002. Osteoporosis in medieval London.  McMaster University, Post-doc.

Antoine, D. 2000 Evaluating the periodicity of incremental structures as a means of studying growth in children from past human populations.  Institute of Archaeology,  UCL. PhD.

Antoine, D. 2006. Interdisciplinary study of human growth in London over the past 1500 years. Institute of Archaeology,  UCL.  Post-doc.

Bayliss, A. 1999. Calibration of dating techniques using ’known age’ samples. English Heritage, PhD.

Bentley, A.M.  2006. Are men a lost cause: sex determination of juvenile archaeological remains and the possible variance of MTDNA copy number between juveniles and adults . Bournemouth University, MSc/PhD.

Caffell, A. 2004. Dental caries in medieval Britain (AD 450-1540). Temporal, geographical and contextual patterns. University of Durham, PhD.

Clement, A. 2006 A New Method for Recording Tooth Wear. Institute of Archaeology,  UCL, PhD.

de Witte, S.N. 2003. Health, Diet and Disease in the later Black Death victims.  Penn State University, PhD.

De La Rosa, C.E. 2007. Prevalence of carious lesions in Medieval and Post Medieval London skeletons and its relationship to diet. Institute of Archaeology,  UCL. MSc.

Gowland, R. 2002-3 Palaeodemography of catastrophic  cemeteries. University of Sheffield, Post-doc.

LoPinto, A. 2006. Cervical measurements of permanent dentition in attempt to estimate sex from mixed dentition via discriminant function. Institute of Archaeology,  UCL. MSc.

Patrick, P. 2004. Greed, Gluttony and Intemperance”? Testing the stereotype of the ‘Obese Medieval Monk’. Institute of Archaeology, UCL, PhD.

Piyaratna, M. 2007. The relationship between spondylolysis, spina bifida occulta and transitional vertebrae: a case-referent study of archaeological human skeletal remains. Institute of Archaeology, UCL, MSc.

Poinar, H. Commencing 2007. aDNA analysis of teeth for Yersinia pestis. McMaster University, Post-doc.

Prentice, M. 1999.  aDNA detection of Yersinia pestis in plague teeth. St Bartholomew Medical School, Post-doc.

Rando, C. 2007. Temporomandibular joint disorders and dental attrition in medieval and post-medieval British assemblages. Institute of Archaeology, UCL, MSc.

Sabieh, A. 1999. Cephalometric changes in shape of faces over time. Birmingham University Dental School, PhD.

Spencer, R.  in prep. Testing hypotheses about diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) using stable isotopes and other methods. University of Durham, PhD.

Taylor, G.M. 2000. aDNA distinction between Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. bovis and Brucella abortus infection in human skeletons. Imperial College London, Post-doc.

Tryzelaar, L. 2003. Histological study of the destruction of bone at the Royal Mint.  University of Sheffield, MSc.

Waldron, A.H. 1988. Palaeodemography at a Black Death site. UCL.

Waldron, A.H.1992. Osteoarthritis in a Black Death cemetery in London. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2, 235–240.

White, K. 2007.  Diagnosing osteoarthritis in skeletal material: a study of methodology. Institute of Archaeology, UCL, MSc.

Williams, G.J. 2009. Survivors and non-survivors: investigating juvenile growth in catastrophic and attritional cemetery populations.  University of Bradford, MSc.



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