Medieval bioarchaeology is the study of human remains recovered from medieval archaeological sites. Bioarchaeology aims to understand populations through the analysis of human skeletal remains and this application of bioarchaeology specifically aims to …

2021年1月29日 · The bones in the study came from ordinary people in medieval Cambridge in the United Kingdom, from between the 10th and 14th century. The researchers found that you can often guess who was working class, and who had more …

Skeletal trauma was highest in All Saints parish burial ground, indicating that the poor, whether working urban or rurally, had the highest risk of injury. The pattern and types of fractures observed suggests that males experienced more severe traumatic events than females.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created the website ‘After the Plague: Health and History in Medieval England’ that makes use of skeletal remains to detail everyday lives during the era of the Black Death and its aftermath.

Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire could help rewrite history after revealing they were affected by an unusual ancient form of the bone disorder, Paget’s disease.

2019年6月29日 · The most direct surviving biological evidence for a medieval individual is their skeleton, gross examination of which can provide insights into anatomical variation with sex, age, diet, disease, physical activity, environmental constraints, and pressures .

2015年9月15日 · Like an episode of "Bones," the mangled skeleton of a medieval teenager was found when a 215-year-old birch tree uprooted during a storm in Ireland. The upper body of the remains, entangled in...

This perspective is fully evident in medieval images of the skeleton that emphasize its ability to shape the body. Look below to see how the skeleton appears in the late Middle Ages.

We investigate the short and long term biological and social consequences of this catastrophe on the medieval people of Cambridge. After the Plague takes a multi-disciplinary bioarchaeological approach, with subprojects in skeletal studies, palaeopathology, geometric morphometrics, genetics, and isotopic analyses.

2022年10月25日 · Archaeologists in Wales have unearthed the skeletal remains of more than 240 people — about half of which were children — in a cemetery that they believe was once part of a medieval friary.