Past Palaeopathology MSc Projects
2000-1 |
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| Glade, A | A study of long bone fracture patterns in the Robert J. Terry anatomical skeletal collection, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC |
| Groves, S | Bilateral asymmetry of the upper limb in a skeletal population from Hanging Ditch, Manchester |
| Kilpatrick, M | Indoor air pollution, respiratory disease and a biocultural approach to investigations |
| Redfern, R | Romano-British urban health: a biocultural investigation of the 2nd-4th centuries AD |
2001-2 |
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| Arce, A | Furniture and spinal disease: a study of the relationship between furniture and spinal joint disease during the late and post-Medieval times |
| Bostock, K | Plague in the British Isles. A gazetteer and study of plague related sites and monuments |
| Gilmore, T | ‘Monsters or touched by God’: the prevalence and significance of certain congenital conditions in past populations |
| Henderson, C | Are the presence or absence of postcranial non-metric traits linked to occupation and lifestyle? |
| James, S | Osteoporosis in a late Medieval population from York, England |
| Lotherington, R | A comparative study of military and civilian medical provision in Roman Britain |
| McCormick, E | A comparison of two techniques for the estimation of age at insult of linear enamel hypoplasia: an analysis of the standard method and of a histological method using skeletal material from a late Medieval site |
| Spencer, R | Sex and health in Medieval York |
| Tsang, A | The impact of socioeconomic and environmental status on metabolic and environmental indicators of stress in non-adult skeletons from two post-Medieval sites in London |
2002-3 |
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| Mawe, A | Disabling consequences of chronic conditions today and in Late Medieval England |
| Papapalekanos, A | Living in an urban environment: lifestyle implications on a late Medieval population from York with a focus on maxillary sinusitis |
2003-4 |
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| Bukowski, J | The biomechanics and palaeopathology of handwriting: a Medieval monastic example |
| Chapman, L | Metabolic disease and stress indicators in Medieval Manchester |
| Fan, J | Implications for occupational stress and gendered division of labour in a late Medieval population from York |
| Gelman, A | Family size in late Medieval Britain and increased incidence of skeletal manifestations of anaemia in women |
| Giannakopoulou, P |
Rickets and scurvy in the sub-adult population of Fishergate House in York |
| Hurst, J | Morbidity and diet in early medieval Britain: a comparison between a coastal population and an inland population |
| Macfarlane, H | The beginner’s guide to the adult human skeleton. The creation and evaluation of an identification manual specifically designed for those with no previous osteological experience |
| Thomas, J | Maxillary sinusitis in the context of porotic hyperostosis. A new perspective on Fishergate House and Castledyke South populations |
| Vincent, S | Investigating child abuse in the archaeological record |
2004-5 |
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| Crompton, R | An investigation into ‘degenerative’ conditions across the skeleton |
| Heath, Y | Battle of the sexes? Evidence of possible female directed interpersonal violence in Medieval York |
| Ingham, S | Ancient DNA: a critical analysis of published palaeodisease papers, with recommendations for future work |
| Horn, R | The neurological and social implications of cranial trauma in the Medieval Period |
| Rennie, C | An assessment of the health of Post-Medieval Hanging Ditch, Manchester |
| Scott, G | Four mummified heads at the Hancock: an investigation using palaeopathological methods to draw new light on the Hancock Museum’s Egyptian human remains collection |
| Welsh, J | Naval health and medicine under the Tudors: the palaeopathological perspective |
| Zygouri, V | Human skeletal remains from Kafali of Katelli Pediados, Central Crete: study and comparative analysis of health status |
2005-6 |
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| Bernofsky, K | The effects of environment on respiratory health in early Medieval northeast England |
| Boyd, J | Josefov: Presence of metabolic disease in Great Moravia |
| Haddon, J | European expansion and infectious disease in sub-Saharan Africa: How Colonialism affected health status, past and present |
| Hemer, K | City life: The effect of an urban lifestyle on the respiratory health of non-adults from Fishergate House, York |
| Hudson, B | Stable isotope analysis and paleopathology in prehistoric Thailand: Correlations and potential |
| Feeley, R | Age distributions of metabolic disease in the Roman and Medieval periods |
| Jennings, J | Hair or bone? The impact of preservation on stable isotope analysis methods and dietary profiles |
| Jones, R | Nutritional and environmental stress in the subadult population of Fishergate House, York |
| Park, V | Palaeopathology in professional and popular media – a current review |
| Pliska, J | You are what you eat: A multilateral look at the nutrition of the ancient Maya and methodological commentary |
| Roberts, N | The iceman: homicide or accident? |
| Robinson, F | Investigating changes of diet in a late medieval and post-medieval population. Does the dental evidence support what is suggested by historical and archaeological sources? |
| Rogers, K | What is Paget’s disease of bone? Why is it considered a disease of the Northwest of England? |
| Whitaker, K | Tuberculosis in the past: Should visceral surface rib lesions be added to the diagnostic criteria? |
2006-7 |
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| Applegate, H | Digging up the dead: Standards for the excavation of human remains within contract archaeology |
| Armitage, C | A critical review of the diagnostic criteria for the identification of tubercular bone changes in earlier human populations |
| Highsmith, S | Standing on the shoulders of giants: Early skeletal reports of Anglo-Saxon burials and their significance |
| McCarrison, K | Ethics on display? Human remains in English and Greek museums: Present guidelines regarding display and suggestions for the future |
| Moore, D | Dental disease as evidence for diet and social status in early Medieval Northumbria: A comparison of cemetery populations from Norton and Bamburgh |
2007-8 |
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| Lazlo, O | A study of influence of stress on skeletal growth in non-adults - comparative analysis of a subadult population from the medieval Hungarian cemetery of Kana |
| Reusch, K | Eunuchs and Castrati: Skeletal Effects of Pre-pubertal Castration |
| Self, J | Skeletons in the Closet: The British Contribution to the History of Paleopathology |
| Taylor, R | Relationship between health and geological location and its changes over time in early Medieval England |
| Tynan, S | The application of skeletal trauma in archaeology explored through the comparison of culturally different population |
| Watts, R | Non-specific indicators of stress and their association with age at death at Fishergate House, York |
2008-9 |
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| Arnett, J | Late submission |
| Braham, M | The Jamaican Taino: an analysis of artificial cranial deformation and population variants |
| Cataroche, J | The funerary archaeology of La Varde, Guernsey: an osteological analysis |
| Chapman, E | Investigating mobility at the Iron Age site of Bredon Hill: an isotopic and dental non-metric trait analysis |
| Ferrari, R | Japanese dental morphology: a critique |
| Gernay, M | Social status in skeletons from the church and graveyard of the medieval church of St Veerle, Gent, Flanders, Belgium |
| Gilmour, R | Broken Romans: long bone trauma in a civilian population at Aquincum, Budapest, Hungary. |
| King, J | A report on the disarticulated skeletal remains from a 16th to 18th century Spanish Hospitaller church in Ambel, Zaragoza. |
| Macgregor, S | The untouchable crypts of the Continent: bone churches and the reburial issue in America, Britain and the Continent |
| Mapplethorpe, K | Elder abuse in the past: is it possible to create a criteria for identifying elder abuse in human skeletal remains |
| Peacock, J | The identification and management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and disability in modern and medieval populations: AD1066-AD1600 |
| Stuart, LM | Questioning the public on the treatment of human skeletal remains and the issue of reburial |
| Thorn, C | An investigation into the relationship between social status, sex and metabolic disease in post-medieval London |
| Tsempera, T | Dental health of human skeletal remains from Ancient Corinth: implications for diet and lifestyle |
| Watson, R | Infection and social status in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria |
2009-10 |
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| Blundell, C | Academia and ancient trepanations:to what extent has study progressed since the late 19th century |
| Bolster, S | Long-term curation of human remains |
| Bradley, O | Metrical v Morphological: A review of different cranial metrical analyses of sexual dimorphism and a test of the acoustic meatus and petrous portion |
| Butler, R | Public consultation on the use and abuse of human remains in England |
| Chinnock, C | A comparative study on the stature of the Welsh people and their English counterparts in the early medieval period |
| George, E | The remains of Ivan Denisovich: the potential for future bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, and forensic archaeology/anthropology on osteological remains dating from 1917-1958 in the former Soviet Union |
| Goodall, K | An investigation of dental non-metric traits and genetic relationships of a medieval population |
| Jedrzejewski, H | Presence of metabolic disease in Roman London |
| Kase, D | The frequency of congenital defects in late and post-medieval Great Britain (1050-1850 AD) |
| LaCoss, E | A re-examination of skeletal scars of parturition in the Chelsea Old Church population |
| Lloyd, B | Prevalence and patterns of disease in the late-Roman cemetery population of Frilford, Oxfordshire |
| Mant, M | Diet, sex and status in post-medieval London |
| Menzel, E | Aalborg grabrodrekloster and gammel grena kirke: A comparative study between urban and rural medieval Denmark |
| Moon, C | Childhood growing in changing times: A comparative study in childhood growth and health between Visigoth and late medieval Spain |
| Peterston-Gordina, E | Nutritional-related health problems in a 17th-18th century German community from Jelgava, Latvia |
| Saper, L | Comparison of traumatic injuries in late medieval urban and rural contexts |
| Whitley, L | The blight of England: the effects of the potato famine on the working class in England |
2010-11 |
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| Barrows, K |
Comparing prevalence rates and possible causes of dental caries at Fewston and Coach Lane |
| Brown, P | The palaeopathology of deviant burials in Anglo-Saxon southeast Kent |
| Colquhoun, L | History and analysis of etiological research on cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis: questioning progress |
| Cornish, N | Long bone trauma in post-medieval England: a comparison of the human remains from contemporary coastal , rural and urban settlements |
| Craps D | Identifying joint disease in the post-medieval rural population from the church of St Michael and St Lawrence, Fewston, North Yorkshire |
| Grybowkska, M | Investigating health stress in non-adults from an urban post-medieval population |
| Kendall, E | Climate, mobility and status in a 14th century Black Death cemetery populatio |
| Kozakaite, J | Trauma patterns in the Alytus community, Lithuania (14th-17th century AD) |
| Roderick, L | Respiratory health in post-medieval England: chronic maxillary sinusitis and rib periostitis in the Coach Lane and Fewston skeletal collections |
| Slotten, C | Difference in domestic abuse prevalence in urban and rural populations |
| Sohler, A | A possible relationship between low body mass index and susceptibiity to tuberculosis: evidence from the english archaeological record |
| Stantis, C | Reconstructing a catastrophic climate: exploring climate change in 14th century London using stable oxygen isotopes |
| Vagene, A | Dental and mtDNA relatedness among post-medieval human remains from Fewston, Yorkshire |
| Wright, G | Evaluating the utility of digital photography as an analytical tool in palaeopathological studies of degenerative joint disease |
2011-12 |
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| Alesczyk, J | Mesoamerican iconography: fact or fiction? |
| Demello, M | An answer to the historical and osteological paradoxes: a new theoretical model for historical analysis in osteological research |
| Garcia-Collado, M | Diet as a social marker: stable isotopes and palaeopathological analysis on an early medieval rural community in Spain |
| Garrett, B | Norman or Saxon? Investigating the Norman presence at Hereford Cathedral Close |
| Gharfoor, R | Assessing adult craniofacial variation and sexual dimorphism within a medieval and post-medieval population |
| LeRoux, G | Methodology for recording long bone fracture angulation and overlap as an indirect sign of medical intervention |
| Newman, S | Cortical thickness as an indicator of stress: a comparative study of growth in rural Fewston and urban Coach Lane |
| Penny-Mason, B | Childhood health as a barometer of social change pre and post-Reformation |
| Rose, A | An isotopic study of six probable Roman individuals from Musselburgh, East Lothian |
| Schultz, A | The relationship betwen osteoarthritis and humeral asymmetry and its relationship to occupational stress |
| Shields, B | A differential diagnosis of endocranial bone deposition: infectious, metabolic, or traumatic? |
| Simpson, E | Health of Children from the Post-Medieval Rural Community of Fewston, North Yorkshire |
| Toso, A | The medieval cemeteries of Asti: stress markers as indicators of a population's health |
| Twist, A | Examining the sexual dimorphism of two British populations using geometric morphometrics |
| Walser, J | Seeing the Past: An Archaeology of Vision |
| Walther, L | Strontium and oxygen isotope analysis of burials recovered from an early Medieval site at Portmahomack, Scotland |
| Weinstein, S | Cleft neural arch defects in the sacrum - a differential diagnosis |
| Wright, K | Analysing dentition to uncover culture and health status in Middle to Late Mississippian Native Americans from Tennessee |