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Osteology at MOLA

23 May 2013

The MOLA osteology team work on some of the most intriguing and exciting assemblages in the country. In the last decade we have assessed over 12000 inhumations, 250 cremations and huge quantities of faunal remains both in-house and for external clients.

You can find out more in our blog and on academia.

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Exciting discoveries in Farringdon made the news!

The team are continuing their work for the Digitised Diseases project at the Royal College of Surgeons. They have completed 3D scans of a number of interesting specimens, including several cases of congenital syphilis, giant cell tumours, trepanation, and osteopetrosis (where your bones almost literally turn to stone!).

Some recent publications:

Walker, D, 2012 Disease in London, 1st–19th centuries: an illustrated guide to diagnosis, MOLA monograph 56

Fowler L and Powers N, 2012 Doctors, dissection and resurrection men: excavations in the 19th-century burial ground of the London Hospital, 2006, MOLA Monograph 62 SOLD OUT

Connell B, A Gray Jones, R Redfern and D Walker, 2012 Spitalfields: a bioarchaeological study of health and disease from a medieval London cemetery: Archaeological excavations at Spitalfields Market 1991–2007, volume 3, MOLA Monograph 60

Miles A with Connell B, 2012, New Bunhill Fields burial ground, Southwark: excavations at Globe Academy, 2008, Archaeology Studies Series 24

Beaumont J, Geber J, Powers N, Wilson A, Lee-Thorp J and Montgomery J, 2013, Victims and survivors: stable isotopes used to identify migrants from the Great Irish Famine to 19th Century London, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150, 87-98

Henderson M, and Walker D, 2012 Smoking may seriously affect your skeleton, The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9818, 796-797

If you are interested in MOLA 'grey' literature, please contact Natasha Powers, Head of Osteology.

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This volume reports on over 1350 burials from Baptist, Roman Catholic and Nonconformist burial grounds excavated by MOLA between 2004-2010. It examines the archaeological, historical and osteological evidence placing the three populations within the wider context of 19th-century Britain.

To buy your copy contact: booksales@mola.org.uk

On 18th May, Natasha Powers (MOLA Head of Osteology) spoke at mshed, Bristol on The Archaeology of the Victorian Dead.

The animal bone and invertebrates from Holborn Viaduct (HBO10) are showing us that the locals had a varied and good quality diet with edible crab, lobster, marine fish, poultry (chicken, goose), rabbit and good quality cuts of young beef, lamb, mutton and pork.

See Mike Henderson lay out a skeleton in record time!
   

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