Centre for Human Bioarchaeology
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The Centre for Human Bioarchaeology curates approximately 17,000 stratified human skeletal remains spanning 2,000 years of London's history. The remains are stored and their data recorded in the Wellcome Osteological Research Database to enable access and research. The Centre promotes multidisciplinary research through collaboration, publications, exhibitions, and educational events utilizing the collection to study London's past populations and gain biological and historical insights.
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Centre for Human Bioarchaeology
- 1. Centre for Human Bioarchaeology Curation and Continued Research of Human Remains Jelena Bekvalac
- 2. Centre for Human Bioarchaeology (CHB) • Established 2003 - Wellcome funding • Curation of c.17,000 stratified human skeletal remains • Roman, Medieval & Post Medieval • 2,000 years of London’s history & development • Unique insight into population of London • Excavations City of London & Greater London • On-line 2007- Widen access to collection • Generate public awareness around Human skeletal research
- 3. THE W.O.R.D DATABASE • The Wellcome Osteological Research Database - W.OR.D Database is an Oracle database • Implemented by Brian Connell and Peter Rauxloh as a rapid method of recording • Valuable Research Engine-Input and Output of data • Standardised information for each recorded skeleton • Extraction of data can relate either only to the skeletal material or linked with the archaeology- London Archaeological Archive Resource Centre (LAARC)
- 4. Role of the Centre • Curation • Collection care • Documentation • Enable access to collections • Encourage & assist student research • Promote multi disciplinary research • Collaboration and comparison • Conferences • Publications • Teaching courses for public • Outreach events – open days • Volunteers • Study days • Exhibitions Skeletons –Wellcome exhibition British Dental Association Museum
- 5. Exhibitions MIN86 11090, St Mary Graces Wellcome Collection image from the exhibition London's Buried Bones
- 6. Access to collections •On line data downloadable •Research bench spaces in CHB •Application process •National and International access •Link to LAARC records •Outreach public events
- 7. Benefits of On Line Database Database • Standardised recording • Acts as conservation tool • Downloadable information on line • Large quantative source for statistical analysis • Record of sampling Website • Comparative sites available in summarises and raw format • Previous research • Linked sources – archaeological, historical documentary
- 8. Where are the skeletons from? Building developments Inhumations/Cremations Truncation from reuse of grave Mass burials Monastic cemeteries Parish cemeteries Paupers cemeteries Hospital cemeteries Photos by Museum of London Archaeology
- 10. Curation and storage Conservation standard packing of human skeletal remains Rotunda store
- 11. Collection care – Destructive Sampling •Maintaining integrity of skeletal collections •Long term survival of collections •Advancement in techniques •New research •Application process for proposals specifically for destructive sampling •Collective decision – Human Remains Committee SB79 87
- 12. What can we learn from the skeletons? • Indicators of health & diet • Diseases affecting the bones • Dental disease • Metrics e.g. stature • Indicators of lifestyle & environment • Chemical analysis of teeth & bones – ancient DNA, stable isotopes, protein analysis
- 13. William Wood – Chelsea Old Church (Butcher & Beadle) Edentulous DISH Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis - Fusion of the spine – right side - “Candle wax”
- 14. Types of Research • Medical • Social • Forensic • Scientific – sampling • Disease specific • Comparative studies – other time periods, locations • Interpretive • Dissemination of information in publications - journals/books
- 15. Future • Continued dissemination & accessibility • Assist making research approachable & accessible • Open up database further/encourage standardised recording • Use as a dynamic tool for research • Qualitative research & collaboration • Archive assemblages for other units • Retain assemblages (if possible) -Virtual collections- record even if reburied for demographic comparison • Reburial pressure liaison with institutes at early stage for research • Other skeletal collections available on line • Outreach
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- Examples of what else might preserve in an archaeological context And why careful recovery is so important Hair Bladder/gall stones Dentures Nails Foetus in-situ in womb Dissection with more than on individual
- Chemical analysis although destructive sometimes only option to get certain answers with relation to acute diseases egg plague, TB and leprosy – recent results from tests at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz identified the pathogen from sampling teeth and bones from individuals dies of plague – Black Death – Yersinia pestis identified and two new types. We await results from tests taken from MIN86
- Post Med cemeteries large number of individuals – difference in social status – see increase in certain diseases – indicators of environment and living conditions. For some have coffin plates and so able to identify the individual all of us have names but we do not know them in all the individuals we curate but a few we do – Chelsea Old Church, St Bride’s and Spitalfields – invaluable information about the individual but also help with ageing techniques, medical research if have families. Really able to place them into the context of their time and learn even more about them by accessing documentary evidence – birth records, marriage, death certificate post 1837 and wills