Running order of talks TBC - Details forthcoming
Day 1 - 15th September 2023
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PODIUM SESSION 1: HUMAN REMAINS AND THE MUSEUM
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Dr Rebecca Whiting
Keynote Address
Dr Katie White-Iribhogbe, Melisch C
Dissecting the Destitute: Investigating Anatomised Human Remains from the Armenfriedhöfe of Berlin
Dr Katrien Van de Vijver, De Groote I, Massage L, et al.
Memor: creating an inventory and guidelines for handling collections of archaeological human remains in Flanders, Belgium
Ms Indigo Reeve, Knight M
Revealing the history of collecting Scottish archaeological human remains at National Museums Scotland
Dr Abeer Eladany
The ethics of displaying Ancient Egyptian Mummified People in museums: an Egyptian perspective
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Dr Heather Bonney, Jackson J, Long S, et al.
Demystifying repatriation; the complexities of returning human remains from a National Museum collection
PODIUM SESSION 2: OPEN SESSION
Dr Annsofie Witkin, Gibson M, Loe L, et al.
New Insights into the 19th-century Anatomy Trade from Trinity Burial Ground, Hull, UK
Dr Samantha Tipper, Wilson P, Roberts, C
The impact of socio-political, cultural and environmental factors on spinal health in ancient Nubia
Dr Veronica Tamorri, Schrader S
A taphonomy-based analysis of disturbed tombs in the Nile Valley
Dr Miriam Saqqa Carazo
Forensic science at the service of the Spanish dictatorship
Miss Ellen Green
Fragmented Ritual: The potential of disarticulated remains for understanding minority mortuary treatment in Roman Britain
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Dr Elena Fiorin
The bioarchaeology of communal health in medieval and early modern Verona, Italy. Preliminary results of the BioComm project
Ms Sharon Clough
The Roman Eastern (Barton) cemetery of Gloucester
Day 2 - 16th September 2023
PODIUM SESSION 3: FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY: STRENGTHENING THE DISCIPLINE IN THE UK
Dr Rachael Carew
Keynote
Dr Diana Swales, Hackman L, Davies C, et al.
Fatal Fires: The Value of a Combined Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology Approach
Dr Charlotte Primeau, Goia S, Norman D, et al.
Forensic Anthropology and the use of micro-CT
Mx Jem Pilling
From the Bronze Age to the 19th Century: Secular Change in European Dental Trait Frequencies and Ancestry Estimation
Ms Hayden S. McKee-Zech, Fatula S, Devlin JB, et al.
Technical note on recovery and processing of burned human remains
Ms Nicole Mantl, Nakhaeizadeh S, Morgan R
Increasing Transparency in Sex Estimation from the Skull by Monitoring Variation in Decision-Making Patterns
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Miss Karina Andersson, Rando C, Nakhaeizadeh S, et al.
Applicability of artificial intelligence in forensic anthropology: an example using cranial CT scans for sex estimation
Dr Helen Langstaff, Swales D, Davis C, et al.
Review of the use of a VACs service in Scotland and Northern Ireland 2018 – 2023
PODIUM SESSION 4: SOCIAL BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Miss Megan McGrath, Curtis-Summers S
A Case for Care: A Case Study of Long-term Health-related Care in Roman Britain
Mr Giacomo Tocco, Serritella A, Giuffra, V, et al.
(Dis)abled people in pre-Roman times: a case study from Pontecagnano (southern Italy, 4th century BCE)
Prof John Robb
Osteobiography, the next generation: ontology, politics and multiple narratives
Laura Rindlisbacher, Flatscher E, Pichler SL
Male privilege? Bioarchaeological analysis of Early modern male life experiences using the "Stadtcasino" skeletal sample from Basel (Switzerland)
Ms Shanna Kang
Bioarchaeology and Postmortem Embodiment
PODIUM SESSION 5: NEW APPROACHES AND METHODS IN BIOARCHAEOLOGY AND FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Dr Christopher Aris, Nechyparenka O, Beaumont J
From the womb to the workhouse: a novel multi-method multi-hard tissue approach to tracking health from pre-natal development to adulthood
Dr Marija Edinborough, Al-Dujaili Z, Ahvah J, et al.
On the limits of bioarchaeological inference: Age estimation and life history parameters from tooth cementum
Ms Rebecca Reid, Davies C, Cunningham C
The developing human distal tibia: Insights from trabecular ontogenetic patterns
Dr Lisa Monetti
Decomposition as a stage of the funerary process
Miss Lucy Koster, Beckett S, Richardson E, et al.
Sex estimation of early medieval sub-adult skeletons from Sedgeford, Norfolk using tooth measurements
Day 3 - 17th September 2023
PODIUM SESSION 6: BIOMOLECULAR APPROACHES TO BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS
Dr Tamsin O’Connell
Keynote
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Ms Kyriaki Anastasiadou, Silva M, Booth T, et al.
Chromosome chronicles: Five cases of aneuploidy in Britain detected with ancient DNA
Dr Anna Davies-Barrett, Badillo Sanchez D, Serrano Ruber M, et al.
The archaeometabolomic identification of tobacco users: Improving understanding of tobacco-associated disease prevalence in post-medieval England
Dr Kori Lea Filipek, Moore J, Stanciu I, et al.
Uncovering the Wedding of the Dead: Biomolecular investigations of Transylvanian children with s(Cu)rvy
Miss Lucy Koster, Britton K, Czére O, et al.
Reconstructing early medieval life histories through multi-proxy biomolecular and isotopic analyses at Lochhead Quarry (Angus, Scotland)
Dr Sam Leggett, Martínez Jiménez J, Checa Herráiz J
Understanding Iberian Transitions – Diet and Mobility in Azuqueca de Henares throughout the first millennium AD
Miss Mackenzie Masters, Soficaru AD, Holst M, et al.
Untangling Fragments: An interdisciplinary study of a mass grave at Ibida, Romania
Miss Bryony Rogers, Kendall E, Moore J, et al.
The Multi-Isotope, Trace Element and Amelogenin Peptide Analysis of the Industrial Period Trinity Burial Ground, Hull
Dr Alice Rose, Montgomery J, Gröcke DR, et al.
Integrating a biomolecular approach to identify foodways In Early Modern Ireland (c.1550-1650 AD)
PODIUM SESSION 7: NEW HORIZONS IN PALAEOPATHOLOGY: PAPERS IN HONOUR OF PROF TONY WALDRON
Dr Carolyn Rando
Memorial Address
Miss Lotte Nagelhout, Schats R, Braekmans DJG, et al.
One night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury: Investigating syphilis and mercury treatment at St. Gertrude’s infirmary (1382 – ca. 1611) in Kampen, the Netherlands
Ms Alex Tutwiler, Schats R
Small Spines, Big Changes: A Novel Approach to Spinal Joint Disease in Non-Adults
Dr Samantha L Purchase, Craig-Atkins E, Ray J
Point and Shoot: A non-destructive and accessible method to visualise mastoiditis
Ms Maia Casna, Roelofs JJH, Schats R
Reliability of Cochlear Promontory Observation in Studying Ear Infections in Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains