BABAO 7Th Annual Conference

BABAO 7 th Annual Conference Programme and sessions

Friday 2nd September – morning

8.30 Coffee and registration

Chair: Hedley Swain (Museum of London, Department of Early London History) 09.00 Welcome: Hedley Swain 9.10 Bill White, Museum of London, Centre for Human Biology: Overview of osteology at the Museum of London 09.30 Brian Connell, Rebecca Redfern, Amy Gray-Jones and Don Walker Museum of London Archaeological Services: Treponematosis in Medieval London 9.50 Simon Mays, Ancient Monuments Laboratory: The ‘Guidance for best practice for treatment of human remains excavated from Christian burial grounds in England’ document and the role of the Advisory panel on the Archaeology of Christian Burials in England 10.10 Barney Sloane, English Heritage/University of Reading: ‘Enough to wake the dead’

10:30 - 10.50 TEA BREAK

Open Session In Memory of Trevor Anderson Chair: Bill White (Museum of London WORD project) 10.50 Ron Pinhasi, University of Roehampton: A cross-population analysis of the effect of rickets and other stressors on long bone growth during infancy and early childhood 11.10 Pip Patrick, Institute of Archaeology, UCL: Overweight and the the human skeleton 11.30 Louise Scheuer and Louise Humphrey: The foramen of Huschke in two British populations and its implications for ageing 11.50 Holger Schutkowski, CG Falys and Darlene Weston, University of Bradford: Auricular surface ageing – revising the revised method 12.10 Louise Humphrey, Christopher Dean and Teresa Jeffries: Changes in the strontium/calcium ratio across the neonatal line in deciduous teeth from children with different dietary histories 12:30 Poster Session (Chair: Tania Kausmally, WORD project)

12.50 LUNCH

Friday 2nd September – afternoon

Prehistory Session Chair: Rebecca Redfern (Museum of London Archaeology Service, University Of Birmingham) 13.50 John Robb, University of Cambridge: Anomalous burials and the meaning of life 14.10 Martin Smith, University of Birmingham: Mortuary variability in the British Neolithic 14.30 Michael Brass, University College London: Analysing the socio- economic and ideological changes in Holocene late Saharan hunter-gatherer and early pastoral societies 14.50 Argyro Napflioti, University of Southampton: Population biological history of the South Aegean: the case of Crete during the Bronze Age

15.10 TEA BREAK (and posters) Open Session Chair: TBC 15.40 Margaret Clegg, University of Southampton: A New look at an old asymmetry – the hypoglossal canal in primates 16.00 Alan Ogden, University of Bradford: A new and simple system for the recording of periodontal disease in skeletal material 16.20 Silvia Bello and Louise Humphrey, Natural History Museum: The funerary behaviour and social value of children in a proto-industrial urban community 16.40 Richard Mikulski, Centre for Human Bioarchaeology: Burial rites, death and disease of the late Gallinazo/ Moche period – observations from Huaca Santa Clara, Vira, northwest Peru

17.00 AGM 18.00 Finish

19:30 CONFERENCE DINNER at WAGAMAMA, CITY POINT Saturday 3rd September – morning

10.00 Introduction to second day

Commercial Osteology in the Capital Chair: Natasha Powers (Museum of London Archaeology Service) 10:05 Melissa Melikian, AOC Archaeology, Ellie Sayer, Pre-Construct Archaeology: Recent Cemetery Excavations in Roman Southwark (title TBC) 10.25 Annsofie Witkin, Oxford Archaeology: Highlights from the osteological and paleopathological analysis of the sailors from Greenwich 10.45 Tania Kausmally & Jelena Bekvalac, Centre for Human Bioarchaeology: Chelsea Old Church posh or not? 11.5 TBC, Oxford Archaeology: 18th and 19th century burials from St Luke’s Church, Islington and St George’s Church Bloomsbury

11.25 TEA

Post-medieval studies Chair: Jane Sidell (English Heritage Regional Science Advisor/ UCL) 11:45 T Greenslade, N Malhan and Piers Mitchell, Imperial College: The injuries of two soldiers from the Battle of Toulouse in 1814 and the care of disabled veterans of the Napoleonic Wars in London 12.5 Megan Brickley and Martin Smith, University of Birmingham: Culturally determined patterns of violence: physical anthropology investigations at a historic urban site 12.25 Philip Emery, Gifford & Partners: Cracking the Code: Biography and (reconstructed) stratigraphy at St Pancras Burial Ground 12.45 Student prizes

1:00 FINISH Pre-booked visit to the Hunterian Museum