Dr. Jo Buckberry,Reader
Information about Dr. Jo Buckberry at the University of Bradford.
- School of Archaeological & Forensic Sci
(Faculty of Life Sciences) - Email:
- j.buckberry@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 234289
Biography
Jo joined the University of Bradford in 2004. She leads the MSc Human Osteology and Palaeopathology, is the Director of Studies for the School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences and the Head of the Biological Anthropology Research Centre (BARC).Jo’s research focuses on archaeological, osteological and palaeopathological analysis of human remains dating to the Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval periods. She is particularly interested in the relationship between osteological indicators of identity and burial practices, and in the mortality and morbidity of individuals buried within different contexts, geographical areas and chronological periods. She has specialised in the analysis of peri-mortem trauma relating to both interpersonal violence and judicial execution. Jo has also researched the application, refinement and development of methods of sex assessment and age estimation from human skeletal remains.
Research
Bioarchaeology; palaeopathology; human osteology; trauma analysis; age estimation and sex assessment; early medieval, medieval and post-medieval funerary archaeologyResearch projects
| Role | Date | Title/description | Funder | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Principal Investigator | 2018-11-01T00:00:00 | The health of human populations, past and present, are influenced by external factors including population density, economy and subsistence. Major research has investigated the negative impacts the transition to agriculture and shift to complex societies have had on population health; the third major global transition is industrialisation. Popular perceptions of Victorian population health, exemplified by contemporary writers such as Dickens and Gaskell, include crowded slums, wide spread disease, hazardous working conditions, poor childhood health and low life expectancy; negative trends in health that we believe began in the 18th century. Skeletal evidence of disease appears to support these perceptions, with high rates of rickets, trauma, TB and neoplastic disease evident within excavated populations, but there has been limited synthesis of these data to date. This project will combine age-at-death data from parish records and burial registers with historic evidence of disease and skeletal evidence of pathology to explore the extent and severity of health impacts, and will investigate patterns relating to social status and the rural/urban divide, and will add to our understanding on the impact that industrialisation has on health, and thus society. |
Research collaborators
| Name | Company | Country | Type | Role | Theme | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State University of New York, Plattsburgh | US | EXTERNAL | Co-applicant on 'An Examination of Changes in Human Morbidity and Mortality with the Advent of the Industrial Revolution', funded by the Royal Society |
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Dr. Jo Buckberry as follows:
Teaching interests
Bioarchaeology; Human Osteology; Palaeopathology; Forensic Anthropology; Funerary ArchaeologyTeaching highlights
Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award, 2014Teaching modules
| Title | Subject | Module code | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bones, Bodies And Burials | |||
| Analysis of Human Remains | |||
| Palaeopathology |
Professional activities
Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Dr. Jo Buckberry is as follows:
Employment
- University of Bradford - Lecturer in the year 2009 (specified as 05/01/2009)
- University of Bradford - Senior Lecturer in the year 2015 (specified as 01/07/2015)
- University of Bradford - Reader in the year 2017 (specified as 01/05/2017)
- Trinity College Carmarthen - Lecturer in the year 2002 (specified as 01/10/2002)
- University of Bradford - Experimental Officer in the year 2004 (specified as 04/10/2004)
Education
- Durham - BA in Archaeology
- University of Sheffield - MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology
- University of Sheffield - PhD, 'A Cultural and Anthropological Study of Conversion Period and Later Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire'
Publications
There are 72 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Jo Buckberry. They are listed as:
- book (2)
- book chapter (26)
- book review (2)
- editorial (1)
- other journal (3)
- peer reviewed journal (38)
Book
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burial in later Anglo-Saxon England c. 650-1100 AD | 2010 | Buckberry, Jo; Cherryson, A. | |||||||||
| Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge 2012. | 2012 | Mitchell, P.D.; Buckberry, Jo |
Book Chapter
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radiography in Palaeopathology: Where Next? | 2007 | Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the British Association for Biological Anthropology & Osteoarchaeology | Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the British Association for Biological Anthropology & Osteoarchaeology | Buckberry, Jo; O'Connor, Sonia A. | Zakrzewski, S. and White, W. | Archaeopress | |||||
| On sacred ground: social identity and churchyard burial in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, C. 700-1100 AD | 2007 | Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Cemetery diversity in the Mid to Late Anglo-Saxon period in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. | 2010 | Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Hell's Gate: The Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold | 2010 | Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M. | |||||||||
| Off with their heads: The Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, East Yorkshire. | 2008 | Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Investigating Social Status Using Evidence of Biological Status: a Case Study from Raunds Furnells | 2010 | Craig-Atkins, Elizabeth F.; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| You Are What You Ate: Using Bioarchaeology to Promote Healthy Eating | 2015 | Buckberry, Jo; Ogden, Alan R.; Shearman, V.; McCleery, I. | |||||||||
| Osteological evidence of corporal and capital punishment in later Anglo-Saxon England. | 2014 | Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Were there Vikings in Carlisle? | 2014 | McCarthy, Michael R.; Montgomery, Janet; Lerwick, Ceilidh; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| 'Men that are gone … come like shadows, so depart': research practice and sampling strategies for enhancing our understanding of post-medieval human remains. | 2013 | Archaeology, the Public and the Recent Past | Archaeology, the Public and the Recent Past | Wilson, A., Powers, N., Montgomery, J., Town, M., & Janaway, R. | Boydell & Brewer. | ||||||
| Caring for the dead in late Anglo-Saxon England. | 2005 | Hadley, D.M.; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Estimating adult age: auricular surface morphology | 2017 | Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Digitised Diseases: Seeing Beyond the Specimen to Understand Disease and Disability in the Past | 2017 | New developments in the bioarcheology of care: further case studies and extended theory | New developments in the bioarcheology of care: further case studies and extended theory | Wilson, A.S., Manchester, K., Buckberry, J., Storm, R.A., Croucher, K.T. | Springer | ||||||
| The medieval burials | 2015 | Buckberry, Jo; Battley, N. | |||||||||
| The post-medieval burial | 2015 | Buckberry, Jo; Battley, N. | |||||||||
| Death and the Body: Using Osteological Methods to Investigate the Later Prehistoric Funerary Archaeology of Slovenia and Croatia | 2016 | Nicholls, R.; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Techniques for identifying the age and sex of children at death | 2018 | The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood | The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood | 55 - 70 | Buckberry J. | 9780199670697 | Oxford University Press | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199670697.013.3 | |||
| Is the pen mightier than the sword? Exploring urban and rural health in Victorian England and Wales using the Registrar General Reports | 2020 | The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization | The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization | Crane-Kramer, G and Buckberry, J | Betsinger, T and De Witte, S | Springer | |||||
| Isotopic analysis of the human skeletal remains | 2018 | Life on the Edge: Iain Crawford’s Udal, North Uist. The Neolithic and Bronze Age of RUX6 | Life on the Edge: Iain Crawford’s Udal, North Uist. The Neolithic and Bronze Age of RUX6 | Beaumont J, Hall C, Hamilton D and Buckberry J | Archaeopress | ||||||
| Skeletal analysis | 2018 | Life on the Edge: Iain Crawford’s Udal, North Uist. The Neolithic and Bronze Age of RUX6 | Life on the Edge: Iain Crawford’s Udal, North Uist. The Neolithic and Bronze Age of RUX6 | Bohling S and Buckberry J | Archaeopress | ||||||
| Exploring Age – Transition Analysis as a tool for detecting the elderly | 2018 | Across the Generations: The Old and the Young in Past Societies. | Across the Generations: The Old and the Young in Past Societies. | Maaranen, N. and Buckberry, J. | Arkeologisk museum | ||||||
| Interpretation of a probable case of Poliomyelitis in the Romano-British social context. | 2017 | In sickness and in health: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of disease and deformity in past populations | In sickness and in health: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of disease and deformity in past populations | Castells Navarro L, Southwell-Wright W, Manchester K and Buckberry J. | Archaeological reviews from Cambridge | ||||||
| Estimation of juvenile age at death | 2018 | Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains | Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains | Buckberry J and Brickley M. | CIFA | ||||||
| Undertaking sex assessment | 2018 | Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains | Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains | Brickley M and Buckberry J. | CIFA | ||||||
| Error Bred in the Bone | 2022 | Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science | Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science | Thompson, K., Manchester, K., Buckberry, J., Sparrow, T., Holland, A.D., Wilson, A.D. | Ch'ng, E., Chapman, H., Gaffney, V., Wilson, A.S. | Springer Nature | |||||
| The Osteological Evidence for Execution in Anglo-Saxon England | 2022 | Bioarchaeology of Injuries and Violence in Early Medieval Europe | Bioarchaeology of Injuries and Violence in Early Medieval Europe | BAR S3088 | Mattison, A., Williams-Ward, M., Buckberry, J., Hadley, D. and Holgate, R. | Jorge López Quiroga and Luis Ríos Frutos | BAR Publishing |
Book Review
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bioarchaeological Study of Medieval Burials on the Site of St Mary Spital: Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991–2007. [Book review] | 2015 | Buckberry, Jo | International Journal of Paleopathology 8: 55–56. | ||||||||
| Death embodied. Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse edited by Zoë L Devlin and Emma-Jayne Graham [Book review] | 2017 | Buckberry, Jo |
Editorial
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age estimation [editorial]. | 2015 | Liversidge, H.M.; Buckberry, Jo; Marquez-Grant, N. |
Other Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children | 2000 | Assemblage | Assemblage | Buckberry, Jo | University of Sheffield | ||||||
| The Relationship Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Leprosy In Two English Medieval Populations | 2019 | Assemblage | Assemblage | 17 | Papadopoulou, S.A. and Buckberry, J. | University of Sheffield | |||||
| Preliminary survey results: how do professionals in the UK view and approach working with disarticulated human remains | 2022 | The Archaeologist | The Archaeologist | Rebecca Cadbury Simmons, Jo Buckberry and Benjamin Jennings |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire | 2007 | Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M. | |||||||||
| Basics in paleodemography: A comparison of age indicators applied to the early medieval skeletal sample of Lauchheim. | 2007 | Wittwer-Backofen, U.; Buckberry, Jo; Czarnetzki, A.; Doppler, S.; Grupe, G.; Hotz, G.; Kemkes, A.; Spencer Larsen, C.; Prince, D.; Wahl, J.; Fabig, A.; Weise, S. | |||||||||
| The utility of carpals for sex assessment: a preliminary study | 2008 | Sulzmann, C.E.; Buckberry, Jo; Pastor, R.F. | |||||||||
| Age Estimation from the Auricular Surface of the Ilium: A Revised Method | 2002 | Buckberry, Jo; Chamberlain, A. | |||||||||
| Multicentric osteosarcoma associated with DISH, in a 19th Century burial from England. | 2010 | Ortner, D.J.; Ponce, P.; Ogden, Alan R.; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in the investigation of gout in paleopathology. | 2010 | Swinson, D.J.; Snaith, J.; Buckberry, Jo; Brickley, M.B. | |||||||||
| The medieval cemetery at Riccall Landing: A reappraisal. | 2008 | Hall, R.A.; Buckberry, Jo; Storm, Rebecca A.; Budd, P.; Hamilton, W.D.; McCormac, G. | |||||||||
| The (mis)use of adult age estimates in osteology. | 2015 | Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Picking up the pieces: Utilizing the diagnostic potential of poorly preserved remains. | 2015 | Brickley, M.B.; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Infant mortality and isotopic complexity: new approaches to stress, maternal health and weaning. | 2015 | Beaumont, Julia; Montgomery, Janet; Buckberry, Jo; Jay, Mandy | |||||||||
| The use of corsetry to treat Pott’s disease of the spine from 19th Century Wolverhampton, England | 2016 | Moore, J.; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Surface curvature of pelvic joints from three laser scanners: separating anatomy from measurement error. | 2015 | Journal of Forensic Sciences | 60 | Villa, C.; Gaudio, D.; Cattaneo, C.; Buckberry, Jo; Wilson, Andrew S.; Lynnerup, N. | |||||||
| Finding Vikings in the Danelaw | 2014 | Buckberry, Jo; Montgomery, Janet; Towers, Jacqueline R.; Müldner, G.; Holst, M.; Evans, J.; Gledhill, Andrew R.; Neale, Naomi; Lee-Thorp, Julia A. | |||||||||
| A post-Roman sequence at Carlisle Cathedral | 2014 | McCarthy, Michael R.; Archibald, M.; Batey, C.E.; Batt, Catherine M.; Brooks, C.; Buckberry, Jo; Cherry, J.; Evans, Adrian A.; Gaunt, G.; Keevill, G.; Lerwick, Ceilidh; Montgomery, Janet; Ottaway, P.; Paterson, C.; Pirie, E.; Walton Rogers, P.; Shotter, D.; Towers, Jacqueline R.; Tweddle, D. | |||||||||
| Finding Vikings with isotope analysis – the view from wet and windy islands. | 2014 | Montgomery, Janet; Grimes, V.; Buckberry, Jo; Evans, J.A.; Richards, Michael P.; Barrett, J.H. | |||||||||
| Weaning at Anglo-Saxon Raunds: implications for changing breastfeeding practice in Britain over two millennia | 2013 | Haydock, Hannah; Clarke, Leon J.; Craig-Atkins, Elizabeth F.; Howcroft, R.; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Technical note: reliability of Suchey-Brooks and Buckberry-Chamberlain methods on 3D visualizations from CT and laser scans. | 2013 | Villa, C.; Buckberry, Jo; Cattaneo, C.; Lynnerup, N. | |||||||||
| Forensic age estimation based on the trabecular bone changes of the pelvic bone using post-mortem CT. | 2013 | Villa, C.; Hansen, M.N.; Buckberry, Jo; Cattaneo, C.; Lynnerup, N. | |||||||||
| Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK. | 2011 | Journal of Archaeological Science | 38 | O'Connor, Sonia A.; Ali, Esam M.A.; Al-Sabah, S.; Anwar, D.; Bergström, E.; Brown, K.A.; Buckberry, Jo; Collins, M.; Denton, J.; Dorling, K.; Dowle, A.; Duffey, P.; Edwards, Howell G.M.; Faria, E.C.; Gardner, P.; Gledhill, Andrew R.; Heaton, K.; Heron, Carl P.; Janaway, Robert C.; Keely, B.; King, D.G.; Masinton, A.; Penkman, K.E.H.; Petzoldk, A.; Pickering, M.D.; Rumsbyl, M.; Schutkowski, Holger; Shackleton, K.A.; Thomas, J.; Thomas-Oates, J.; Usai, M.; Wilson, Andrew S.; O'Connor, T.P. | |||||||
| Fieldwork at Chapel Road, Fillingham. | 2001 | Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M. | |||||||||
| Evaluating osteological ageing from digital data | 2019 | Journal of Anatomy | 235 | 386 - 395 | Villa, C.; Buckberry, Jo; Lynnerup, N. | ||||||
| The importance of animal baselines: using isotope analysis to compare diet in a British medieval hospital and lay population | 2018 | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports | 17 | 103 - 111 | Bownes, J.; Clarke, Leon J.; Buckberry, Jo | ||||||
| Comparing apples and oranges: why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen | 2018 | Beaumont, Julia; Craig-Atkins, E.; Buckberry, Jo; Haydock, H.; Horne, P.; Howcroft, R.; MacKenzie, K.; Montgomery, J. | |||||||||
| Radiographically recognizable? An investigation into the appearance of osteomalacic pseudofractures | 2018 | International Journal of Paleopathology | Jennings E.;Buckberry J.;Brickley M. | 1879-9817 | 10.1016/j.ijpp.2017.12.003 | ||||||
| Quantitative analysis of the morphological changes of the pubic symphyseal face and the auricular surface and implications for age at death estimation | 2015 | Journal of Forensic Sciences | 60 | 556 - 565 | Villa C.;Buckberry J.;Cattaneo C.;Frohlich B.;Lynnerup N. | 0022-1198 | 10.1111/1556-4029.12689 | ||||
| You Are What You Ate: Consuming the Past to Benefit the Present | 2017 | McCleery, I.; Shearman, V.; Buckberry, Jo | |||||||||
| Back to the Beginning: Identifying lesions of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis prior to Vertebral Ankylosis | 2020 | International Journal of Paleopathology | 28 | Castells Navarro, L. and Buckberry, J. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.12.004 | ||||||
| A carbon and nitrogen isotopic investigation of a case of probable infantile scurvy (6th- 4th centuries BC, Slovenia) | 2020 | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports | 30 | Rebecca Nicholls, Ian Armit, Julia Beaumont, Jo Buckberry, Matija Cresnar, Hannah Koon | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102206 | ||||||
| Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genomes from the mediaeval sites of Chichester and Raunds in England | 2019 | Journal of Archaeological Science | 112 | Kerudin, A; Mueller, R; Buckberry Jo; Knuesel C; Brown T | |||||||
| An isotope signature for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis? | 2022 | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 0 | Castells Navarro, L., Buckberry, J. and Beaumont, J. | |||||||
| The Prevalence of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis in England and Catalonia from the Roman to the Post-Medieval Periods | 2022 | International Journal of Paleopathology | 0 | Castells Navarro, L. and Buckberry, J. | |||||||
| Interdisciplinary study of human remains from the Early Iron Age cemetery at Zagorje ob Savi (Slovenia) | 2020 | Arheološki Vestnik | 71 | Nicholls, R.A., Buckberry, J., Cresnar, M., Armit, I., Mason, P. and Koon, H. | 10.3986/AV.71.17 | ||||||
| The dark satanic mills: Evaluating patterns of health in England during the Industrial Revolution | 2022 | International Journal of Paleopathology | 0 | Buckberry, J and Crane-Kramer, G. | |||||||
| The Impact of Industrialization on Malignant Neoplastic Disease of Bone in England: a Study of Medieval and Industrial Samples | 2022 | International Journal of Paleopathology | VSI Industrial Paleopathology | Soria, S. and Buckberry, J. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.05.007 | ||||||
| The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities | 2022 | International Journal of Paleopathology | 38 | Bohling, S., Croucher, K., Buckberry, J. | |||||||
| An exploration of the changing understandings of physical impairment and disability in early medieval England: a bioarchaeological, funerary, and historical approach | 2022 | Church Archaeology | 22 | Bohling, S, Croucher, K, and Buckberry, J | |||||||
| Understanding Disability and Physical Impairment in Early Medieval England: an Integration of Osteoarchaeological and Funerary Evidence | 2023 | Medieval Archaeology | 67 | Solange Bohling, Karina Croucher & Jo Buckberry | Taylor & Francis | 10.1080/00766097.2023.2204666 | |||||
| Kinship practices in Early Iron Age southeast Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia | 2022 | Antiquity | 0 | Armit, I., Fischer, C.-E., Koon, H., Nicholls, R., Olalde, I., Rohland, N., Buckberry, J., Montgomery, J., Mason, P., Črešnar, M., Büster, L. and Reich, D. |