Building Capacity in Human Osteoarchaeology for an Archaeological Services Company
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Archaeology
Abstract
Archaeology is a field largely dominated by 'micro-organisations', 75% of which employ just ten or fewer staff. This means many, such as On-Site Archaeology Ltd., must look to specialist consultants for further expertise as their size limits the skill advancements that they can provide in-house. This project shows collaboration between the University of Sheffield and On-Site Archaeology Ltd that aims to help professional archaeologists to develop their knowledge base and to help commercial archaeology companies to expand their expertise. Specifically, the project aims to bring new archaeology graduates into the commercial sector whilst minimising the academic and business risk.
Under the supervision of Professor Andrew Chamberlain new graduate Lauren McIntyre, a recent Masters graduate in Human Osteology and Funeral Archaeology, conducted a post-excavation analysis of a specific important assemblage of human skeletal remains. Lauren then worked closely with osteoarchaeological and historical data sources to publish the new findings.
Under this project a new graduate could improve their knowledge and understanding of osteoarchaeology whilst On-Site Archaeology Ltd. improved their research capacity and gained a new bank of 'in-house' expertise to draw upon in the future.
Under the supervision of Professor Andrew Chamberlain new graduate Lauren McIntyre, a recent Masters graduate in Human Osteology and Funeral Archaeology, conducted a post-excavation analysis of a specific important assemblage of human skeletal remains. Lauren then worked closely with osteoarchaeological and historical data sources to publish the new findings.
Under this project a new graduate could improve their knowledge and understanding of osteoarchaeology whilst On-Site Archaeology Ltd. improved their research capacity and gained a new bank of 'in-house' expertise to draw upon in the future.
Organisations
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Andrew Chamberlain (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Chamberlain AT
(2008)
Mass graves in a Medieval Cemetery: skeletal remains from the Barbican Site, York
McIntyre LM
(2011)
Post-Medieval mass graves at the Barbican, York, England
in not a journal
Redfern RC
(2011)
A demographic analysis of Maiden Castle hillfort: Evidence for conflict in the late Iron Age and early Roman period.
in International journal of paleopathology
McIntyre Lauren J.
(2014)
Demography, diet and state of health in Roman York
McIntyre L
(2017)
The York 113: osteological analysis of 10 mass graves from Fishergate, York
in Journal of Conflict Archaeology
McIntyre L
(2017)
Trends in Biological Anthropology. Volume 2
McIntyre L
(2022)
The All Saints Anchoress? An Osteobiography
in Medieval Archaeology