Reports and Papers

Bekvalac, J. and Kausmally, T. in prep. Excavations at the Abbey of St Mary Graces, East Smithfield, London. In Grainger, I. and Phillpotts, C. (eds.), MoLAS Monograph Series

Kausmally, T. 2009. The human and animal bones from Zones A and B. In Fenton-Thomas, C
A place by the Sea: Excavations at Sewerby Cottage Farm, Bridlington. On-Site-Archaeology Monograph No 1. 271-277

These excavations recorded two phases of Prehistory: there was a sequence of occupation activity in the middle and late Neolithic with buildings and finds-rich deposits containing pottery and flint waste important for the stratigraphical relationships discovered; in the later Iron Age and Romano-British time there is evidence of land boundaries, a rural farming settlement, crop-driers, fence-lines, droveways, abandoned by the mid-third century AD. Finds of 8/9th century Ipswich ware show further late Saxon activity.

Western, A. G. 2009 Osteological Analysis of the Human Remains from City College, Southampton, Hampshire. SCC Archaeology Unit. OA1029.

Western, A. G. 2009 Osteological Analysis of the Cremated Human Remains from Buttington Cross, Welshpool, Powys, Wales. WHEAS. OA1028.

Western, A. G. 2009 Osteoarchaeological Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from Sainsbury's Site, St. Johns, Worcester. WHEAS. OA1027.

Kausmally,T. (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) 2009. The Craven Street Anatomy School (1774-1778). 18th-century anatomical teaching seen from an archaeological perspective. Presentation for the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford.

Born in Northumberland in 1739, Hewson received medical training in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before departing for London, where he attended William Hunter’s renowned anatomy school, as well as the hospital schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’. He became assistant and partner at Hunter’s school, before setting up his school at Craven Street in 1772. Hewson’s short-lived school provides a well defined snapshot of anatomical teaching prior to the Anatomy Act of 1832 when, without a legitimate source of corpses, surgeons had no choice but to turn to the infamous 'bodysnatcher' for supply.

Yeomans, L. 2008 Historical and zooarchaeological evidence of horn-working in post-medieval London. Post-Medieval Archaeology 42:1-13.

Western, A. G. and Kausmally, T. 2008 Re-analysis of the Human Remains from Kemerton Camp Hill Fort, Bredon Hill, Gloucestershire: an investigation into bio-archaeological indicators of coalition violence. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. More details >

Robert Cowie, Jelena Bekvalac and Tania Kausmally 2008 Late 17th- to 19th-century burial and earlier occupation at All Saints, Chelsea Old Church, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Archaeology Studies Series. MoLAS2008

Excavations at 2–4 Old Church Street revealed prehistoric activity, a Roman rural settlement, and medieval gardens and domestic occupation associated with a medieval manor house, although most of the evidence for settlement related to the post-medieval period, when Chelsea changed from a village to a riverside resort and finally a suburb. A churchyard occupied the southern half of the site; here were recovered the skeletons of 290 parishioners buried between c 1700 and the mid 19th century, including two members of the Hand family who ran the Chelsea Bun House. The report considers various aspects of the cemetery, including its layout, and analysis of 198 skeletons provides demographic data for comparison with other London cemeteries and information on the health of this community.

Kausmally, T. A History in Bone: William Hewson and the Craven Street Anatomy School. 17th European Meeting of the Paleopathological Association “Diseases in the Past” Copenhagen, Denmark 25-27th August 2008

Western, A. G. 2007 An assessment of the human remains and funerary archaeology. In Williams, P. An Archaeological Recording at All Saint's Church, Bisley, Gloucestershire. Mercian Archaeology. PJ200.

Western, A. G. 2007 Osteological Analysis of a Human Skeleton from a Capuchin Monastery, Antwerp, Belgium. OA1014.

Bekvalac, J. & Leach, S. 2007 An introduction to human remains:St Peter’s church, Barton-upon- Humber, Lincolnshire. Outreach Project for English Heritage Open Day.

Western, A. G. 2007 Osteological Analysis of the Interred and Cremated Skeletal Assemblage from an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Highfield Farm, Littleport, Cambridgeshire. Archaeological Project Services. OA1013

Yeomans, L. 2007. The shifting use of animal carcasses in medieval and post-medieval London. In Pluskowski, A. (ed.) Breaking and shaping of beastly bodies: Animals as material culture in the Middle Ages. pp.99-116. Oxford: Oxbow.

An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species, whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioural adaptation driving positive selection pressures. Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes seems, almost arbitrarily elaborating relationships with many other species, whether through domestication, pet-keeping, taming for menageries, deifying, pest-control, conserving iconic species, or recruiting as mascots. When we consider medieval attitudes to animals we are tackling a fundamentally human, and distinctly idiosyncratic, behavioural trait. The sixteen papers presented here investigate animals from zoological, anthropological, artistic and economic perspectives, within the context of the medieval world. (Oxbow Books 2007)

Kausmally, T. 2007 Book Review: Photographic regional atlas of bone disease: a guide to pathologic and normal variation in the human skeleton. Med Hist. 2007 July 1; 51(3): 409–410

Kausmally, T. 2007 The animal bones. Excavations at the gardens, Sprotborough, South Yorkshire. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 79, 303-305

Griffin S., Western, A. G., Mann, A., & Dalwood, H. 2006 A Late Iron Age Burial at Old Yew Hill Wood, Church Lench. In Trans. Worcestershire Archaeol. Soc., 3rd ser., 20:1-9.

Kausmally, T. 2006 Analysis of the Faunal Remains from Hill Croft, Bodenham, Herefordshire. Herefordshire Archaeology . OA/FA1013.

Western, A. G. 2006 Osteological Analysis of the Cremated Remains from Castle Field, Stapleton, Herefordshire. Herefordshire Archaeology. OA/FA1012.

Western, A. G. 2006 Osteological Analysis of the Human Remains from St. Andrew's Burial Ground, Worcester. Worcester Historic Environment and Archaeological Service. OGW1011. Case Study

Brickley, M., Berry, H., & Western, A. G. 2006 The People: Physical Anthropology in St. Martin's Uncovered: Investigations in the Churchyard of St Martin's-in-the-Bull Ring, Birmingham, 2001, by Brickley, M., Buteux, S., Adams, J. & Cherrington, R. Oxbow Books.

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. Detailed anthropological analysis was carried out on a sample of 505 of the skeletons, investigating aspects of demography and health. Compared to the modern British population, the analysis revealed a high prevalence of metabolic diseases, such as scurvy and rickets. The results of these and other pathological conditions reveal that there were very real links between the prevalence of diseases and the socio-economic status of the individuals under investigation.

Bekvalac, J. and Kausmally, T. 2006 Chelsea Lives: A Record in Bone. The Chelsea Society Report 2006. 34-49.

Kausmally, T. and Western, A. G. 2005 Human and Faunal Remains from Gramer House, Mancetter, Warwickshire. Mercian Archaeology PJ153.

Kausmally, T. and Western, A. G. 2005 Excavation of Faunal Skeletal Remains from Archaeological Sites. BAJR.

Western, A. G. and Kausmally, T. 2005 Analysis of the Cremated Bone from Roman Road, near Stretton Sugwas, Herefordshire. Mercian Archaeology, PJ 140

Powers, N. 2005 Cranial Trauma and Treatment: A Case Study from the Medieval Cemetery of St. Mary Spital, London. Int. J. of Osteoarchaeology 15: 1-14

Western, A. G. and Kausmally, T. 2005 A Field Guide to the Excavation of Inhumated Human Remains. BAJR.

Yeomans, L. 2005. Discard and disposal at Çatalhöyük: an investigation through the characterisation of faunal
remains. In Hodder, I. (ed.) Inhabiting Çatalhöyük: reports from the 1995-1999 seasons.pp.573-585. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Western, A. G. and Kausmally, T. 2004 A Basic Overview for the Recovery of Human Remains from Sites Under Development. BAJR.

Western, A. G. and Kausmally, T. 2004 Human Remains from George Lane and Furzen Farm, near Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire.Mercian Archaeology, PJ 120

Western, A. G. 2004 Human Remains from the Commandery, Worcester. Mercian Archaeology, PJ 116
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Yeomans, L. 2004. Spatial determinants of animal carcass processing in post-medieval London and evidence for a cooperative supply network. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 55: 69-83.

Western, A. G. 2003 Human Remains from the Chapter House, Worcester Cathedral. Mercian Archaeology, PJ 112
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