Product Description: 13 papers from the BABAO conference in 2006. Topics vary considerably from Anglo-Saxon times to the early twentieth century, and from specific skeletal samples to methodological issues with the subjects discussed including anthropometrics, palaeopathology, the history and development of medicine, identifying immigration in archaeological populations and modern forensics...read more

Product Description: Human remains can answer all sorts of questions about our ancestors—what sort of diet they ate, what age they lived to, what sort of living conditions they experienced, and how they died. The Neolithic is the earliest period from which significant numbers of human burials survive in Britain...read more

Product Description: This important new text contains the first collection of forensic anthropology case studies to be published from Europe. Forensic Anthropology: Case Studies From Europe aims to highlight recent developments in the discipline within Europe, and to allow comparisons to be made between work done in various European countries and the Americas...read more

Product Description: The archaeological excavations at St. Martin's churchyard, Birmingham uncovered 857 burials dating to the late 18th and the 19th century. The burials represent a cross-section of Birmingham's population during the peiod of the Industrial Revolution...read more