Dr. Jo Buckberry

Date

1 November 2018 to 31 October 2021

Role

Principal Investigator

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.

• British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, President (15 September 2018)
• Senate, University of Bradford, (1 September 2014)
• Paleopathology Association, Secretary (9 April 2014)
• British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, Grants Secretary (15 September 2012)
• British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, Non-executive committee member (15 September 2007)

• 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'

• University of Bradford - Reader (1 May 2017)
• University of Bradford - Senior Lecturer (1 July 2015)
• University of Bradford - Lecturer (5 January 2009)
• University of Bradford - Experimental Officer (4 October 2004)
• Trinity College Carmarthen - Lecturer (1 October 2002)

• Head of Research Centre: Head of the Biological Anthropology Research Centre.

• Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge 2012.

  Mitchell, P.D.; Buckberry, Jo (2012)

• Burial in later Anglo-Saxon England c. 650-1100 AD

  Buckberry, Jo; Cherryson, A. (2010)

• Error Bred in the Bone

  Thompson, K., Manchester, K., Buckberry, J., Sparrow, T., Holland, A.D., Wilson, A.D. (2022) Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science. In Ch'ng, E., Chapman, H., Gaffney, V., Wilson, A.S. editor(s) Springer Nature.

• The Osteological Evidence for Execution in Anglo-Saxon England

  Mattison, A., Williams-Ward, M., Buckberry, J., Hadley, D. and Holgate, R. (2022) Bioarchaeology of Injuries and Violence in Early Medieval Europe. In Jorge López Quiroga and Luis Ríos Frutos editor(s) BAR Publishing.

• Is the pen mightier than the sword? Exploring urban and rural health in Victorian England and Wales using the Registrar General Reports

  Crane-Kramer, G and Buckberry, J (2020) The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization. In Betsinger, T and De Witte, S editor(s) Springer.

• Isotopic analysis of the human skeletal remains

  Beaumont J, Hall C, Hamilton D and Buckberry J (2018) Life on the Edge: Iain Crawford’s Udal, North Uist. The Neolithic and Bronze Age of RUX6. Archaeopress.

• Skeletal analysis

  Bohling S and Buckberry J (2018) Life on the Edge: Iain Crawford’s Udal, North Uist. The Neolithic and Bronze Age of RUX6. Archaeopress.

• Undertaking sex assessment

  Brickley M and Buckberry J. (2018) Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains. CIFA.

• Techniques for identifying the age and sex of children at death

  Buckberry J. (2018) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood. Oxford University Press. 55-70.

• Estimation of juvenile age at death

  Buckberry J and Brickley M. (2018) Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains. CIFA.

• Exploring Age – Transition Analysis as a tool for detecting the elderly

  Maaranen, N. and Buckberry, J. (2018) Across the Generations: The Old and the Young in Past Societies.. Arkeologisk museum.

• Estimating adult age: auricular surface morphology

  Buckberry, Jo (2017)

• Interpretation of a probable case of Poliomyelitis in the Romano-British social context.

  Castells Navarro L, Southwell-Wright W, Manchester K and Buckberry J. (2017) In sickness and in health: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of disease and deformity in past populations. Archaeological reviews from Cambridge.

• Digitised Diseases: Seeing Beyond the Specimen to Understand Disease and Disability in the Past

  Wilson, A.S., Manchester, K., Buckberry, J., Storm, R.A., Croucher, K.T. (2017) New developments in the bioarcheology of care: further case studies and extended theory. Springer.

• Death and the Body: Using Osteological Methods to Investigate the Later Prehistoric Funerary Archaeology of Slovenia and Croatia

  Nicholls, R.; Buckberry, Jo (2016)

• You Are What You Ate: Using Bioarchaeology to Promote Healthy Eating

  Buckberry, Jo; Ogden, Alan R.; Shearman, V.; McCleery, I. (2015)

• The medieval burials

  Buckberry, Jo; Battley, N. (2015)

• The post-medieval burial

  Buckberry, Jo; Battley, N. (2015)

• Osteological evidence of corporal and capital punishment in later Anglo-Saxon England.

  Buckberry, Jo (2014)

• Were there Vikings in Carlisle?

  McCarthy, Michael R.; Montgomery, Janet; Lerwick, Ceilidh; Buckberry, Jo (2014)

• 'Men that are gone … come like shadows, so depart': research practice and sampling strategies for enhancing our understanding of post-medieval human remains.

  Wilson, A., Powers, N., Montgomery, J., Town, M., & Janaway, R. (2013) Archaeology, the Public and the Recent Past. Boydell & Brewer..

• Cemetery diversity in the Mid to Late Anglo-Saxon period in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.

  Buckberry, Jo (2010)

• Hell's Gate: The Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold

  Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M. (2010)

• Investigating Social Status Using Evidence of Biological Status: a Case Study from Raunds Furnells

  Craig-Atkins, Elizabeth F.; Buckberry, Jo (2010)

• Off with their heads: The Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, East Yorkshire.

  Buckberry, Jo (2008)

• On sacred ground: social identity and churchyard burial in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, C. 700-1100 AD

  Buckberry, Jo (2007)

• Radiography in Palaeopathology: Where Next?

  Buckberry, Jo; O'Connor, Sonia A. (2007) Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the British Association for Biological Anthropology & Osteoarchaeology. In Zakrzewski, S. and White, W. editor(s) Archaeopress.

• Caring for the dead in late Anglo-Saxon England.

  Hadley, D.M.; Buckberry, Jo (2005)

• Death embodied. Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse edited by Zoë L Devlin and Emma-Jayne Graham [Book review]

  Buckberry, Jo (2017)

• A Bioarchaeological Study of Medieval Burials on the Site of St Mary Spital: Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991–2007. [Book review]

  Buckberry, Jo (2015) International Journal of Paleopathology 8: 55–56..

• Age estimation [editorial].

  Liversidge, H.M.; Buckberry, Jo; Marquez-Grant, N. (2015)

• Preliminary survey results: how do professionals in the UK view and approach working with disarticulated human remains

  Rebecca Cadbury Simmons, Jo Buckberry and Benjamin Jennings (2022) The Archaeologist.

• The Relationship Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Leprosy In Two English Medieval Populations

  Papadopoulou, S.A. and Buckberry, J. (2019) Assemblage. 17

• Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children

  Buckberry, Jo (2000) Assemblage.

• Understanding Disability and Physical Impairment in Early Medieval England: an Integration of Osteoarchaeological and Funerary Evidence

  Solange Bohling, Karina Croucher & Jo Buckberry (2023) Medieval Archaeology. 67

• Kinship practices in Early Iron Age southeast Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia

  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. (2022) Antiquity.

• The Impact of Industrialization on Malignant Neoplastic Disease of Bone in England: a Study of Medieval and Industrial Samples

  Soria, S. and Buckberry, J. (2022) International Journal of Paleopathology. VSI Industrial Paleopathology

• An isotope signature for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis?

  Castells Navarro, L., Buckberry, J. and Beaumont, J. (2022) American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

• The Prevalence of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis in England and Catalonia from the Roman to the Post-Medieval Periods

  Castells Navarro, L. and Buckberry, J. (2022) International Journal of Paleopathology.

• The dark satanic mills: Evaluating patterns of health in England during the Industrial Revolution

  Buckberry, J and Crane-Kramer, G. (2022) International Journal of Paleopathology.

• The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities

  Bohling, S., Croucher, K., Buckberry, J. (2022) International Journal of Paleopathology. 38

• An exploration of the changing understandings of physical impairment and disability in early medieval England: a bioarchaeological, funerary, and historical approach

  Bohling, S, Croucher, K, and Buckberry, J (2022) Church Archaeology. 22

• A carbon and nitrogen isotopic investigation of a case of probable infantile scurvy (6th- 4th centuries BC, Slovenia)

  Rebecca Nicholls, Ian Armit, Julia Beaumont, Jo Buckberry, Matija Cresnar, Hannah Koon (2020) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 30

• Interdisciplinary study of human remains from the Early Iron Age cemetery at Zagorje ob Savi (Slovenia)

  Nicholls, R.A., Buckberry, J., Cresnar, M., Armit, I., Mason, P. and Koon, H. (2020) Arheološki Vestnik . 71

• Back to the Beginning: Identifying lesions of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis prior to Vertebral Ankylosis

  Castells Navarro, L. and Buckberry, J. (2020) International Journal of Paleopathology. 28

• Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genomes from the mediaeval sites of Chichester and Raunds in England

  Kerudin, A; Mueller, R; Buckberry Jo; Knuesel C; Brown T (2019) Journal of Archaeological Science. 112

• Evaluating osteological ageing from digital data

  Villa, C.; Buckberry, Jo; Lynnerup, N. (2019) Journal of Anatomy. 235, 386-395.

• The importance of animal baselines: using isotope analysis to compare diet in a British medieval hospital and lay population

  Bownes, J.; Clarke, Leon J.; Buckberry, Jo (2018) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 17, 103-111.

• Radiographically recognizable? An investigation into the appearance of osteomalacic pseudofractures

  Jennings E.;Buckberry J.;Brickley M. (2018) International Journal of Paleopathology.

• Comparing apples and oranges: why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen

  Beaumont, Julia; Craig-Atkins, E.; Buckberry, Jo; Haydock, H.; Horne, P.; Howcroft, R.; MacKenzie, K.; Montgomery, J. (2018)

• You Are What You Ate: Consuming the Past to Benefit the Present

  McCleery, I.; Shearman, V.; Buckberry, Jo (2017)

• The use of corsetry to treat Pott’s disease of the spine from 19th Century Wolverhampton, England

  Moore, J.; Buckberry, Jo (2016)

• Quantitative analysis of the morphological changes of the pubic symphyseal face and the auricular surface and implications for age at death estimation

  Villa C.;Buckberry J.;Cattaneo C.;Frohlich B.;Lynnerup N. (2015) Journal of Forensic Sciences. 60, 556-565.

• Surface curvature of pelvic joints from three laser scanners: separating anatomy from measurement error.

  Villa, C.; Gaudio, D.; Cattaneo, C.; Buckberry, Jo; Wilson, Andrew S.; Lynnerup, N. (2015) Journal of Forensic Sciences. 60

• Picking up the pieces: Utilizing the diagnostic potential of poorly preserved remains.

  Brickley, M.B.; Buckberry, Jo (2015)

• The (mis)use of adult age estimates in osteology.

  Buckberry, Jo (2015)

• Infant mortality and isotopic complexity: new approaches to stress, maternal health and weaning.

  Beaumont, Julia; Montgomery, Janet; Buckberry, Jo; Jay, Mandy (2015)

• Finding Vikings in the Danelaw

  Buckberry, Jo; Montgomery, Janet; Towers, Jacqueline R.; Müldner, G.; Holst, M.; Evans, J.; Gledhill, Andrew R.; Neale, Naomi; Lee-Thorp, Julia A. (2014)

• A post-Roman sequence at Carlisle Cathedral

  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. (2014)

• Finding Vikings with isotope analysis – the view from wet and windy islands.

  Montgomery, Janet; Grimes, V.; Buckberry, Jo; Evans, J.A.; Richards, Michael P.; Barrett, J.H. (2014)

• Weaning at Anglo-Saxon Raunds: implications for changing breastfeeding practice in Britain over two millennia

  Haydock, Hannah; Clarke, Leon J.; Craig-Atkins, Elizabeth F.; Howcroft, R.; Buckberry, Jo (2013)

• Technical note: reliability of Suchey-Brooks and Buckberry-Chamberlain methods on 3D visualizations from CT and laser scans.

  Villa, C.; Buckberry, Jo; Cattaneo, C.; Lynnerup, N. (2013)

• Forensic age estimation based on the trabecular bone changes of the pelvic bone using post-mortem CT.

  Villa, C.; Hansen, M.N.; Buckberry, Jo; Cattaneo, C.; Lynnerup, N. (2013)

• Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK.

  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. (2011) Journal of Archaeological Science. 38

• Multicentric osteosarcoma associated with DISH, in a 19th Century burial from England.

  Ortner, D.J.; Ponce, P.; Ogden, Alan R.; Buckberry, Jo (2010)

• High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in the investigation of gout in paleopathology.

  Swinson, D.J.; Snaith, J.; Buckberry, Jo; Brickley, M.B. (2010)

• The medieval cemetery at Riccall Landing: A reappraisal.

  Hall, R.A.; Buckberry, Jo; Storm, Rebecca A.; Budd, P.; Hamilton, W.D.; McCormac, G. (2008)

• The utility of carpals for sex assessment: a preliminary study

  Sulzmann, C.E.; Buckberry, Jo; Pastor, R.F. (2008)

• An Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire

  Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M. (2007)

• Basics in paleodemography: A comparison of age indicators applied to the early medieval skeletal sample of Lauchheim.

  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. (2007)

• Age Estimation from the Auricular Surface of the Ilium: A Revised Method

  Buckberry, Jo; Chamberlain, A. (2002)

• Fieldwork at Chapel Road, Fillingham.

  Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M. (2001)