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Bone Books
Hot off the Press….this month sees the publication of two brand new MOLA monographs invovling the work of the osteology team. Excavations at New Bunhill Fields, Southwark in 2008 uncovered evidence of...
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Digitised Diseases
Since the beginning of 2012 the Osteology Department at MOLA has been involved in the Digitised Diseases project in collaboration with the University of Bradford the Royal College of Surgeons and...
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Last night saw the opening of the new Bone exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum. A fascinating gallery of around 60 artefacts, specimens, books, images and objects, all of a bone related...
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Into the Groove
This month PhD student Rebecca Watts from the university of Reading talks about her recent research at the lab using skeletons from our archaeological collections. People are much easier to deal with...
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The knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone
I recently spent the day with Museum of London Archaeology photographer Andy Chopping. On arriving at the photography studio I was greeted by a large white backdrop screen and an array of camera and...
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Medical histories to ancient diseases
This month Katie van Schaik talks about some of the things she encountered in the two weeks spent with us… The ‘punched-out lesions’ were unmistakable, and their form matched what I’d seen only on...
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Reorganising our curated osteology collection
During the course of building developments within the museum, some of the conservation boxes with skeletal material in the rotunda store had to be moved from their shelf locations and temporarily...
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Victorian Bones and Diseases
Bring the whole family to Museum of London Docklands on Friday 15th April 2011 to learn about Victorian death and disease and meet those involved in the analysis of the burial grounds and skeletal...
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Digital x-raying at St Bride’s crypt
Following a paper presented at the 2009 American Paleopathology (PPA) meeting in Chicago by Jelena Bekvalac, Curator, Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London, an opportunity arose to work on...
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Burnt Bones (The process and method of excavating cremation vessels)
S. Matthews, BA, MSc This month Sarah Matthews talks about the process of excavating human remains from cremation vessels. Click on the images to see further details of the excavation. Archaeological...
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LAARC VIP7: Skeletons
Although the bulk of our work during this Volunteer/Visitor Inclusion Project (VIP7) is focused on pottery, every Tuesday in the Archaeology in Action gallery, we have a table of Human Remains out on...
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Casualty 1800’s
This month human osteologist Don Walker talks about the analysis of nineteenth century trauma victims from the Royal London Hospital. The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London is a...
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The City Bunhill burial ground
This month osteologist Brian Connell talks about the human skeletons excavated at the City Bunhill burial ground, Golden Lane, London. Archaeological excavations by MOLAS in 2006 uncovered 239 human...
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Blow to the head (sharp force trauma)
The medieval period saw much violence, with warfare, crime and civil unrest rife throughout (Powers 2005). Occasionally, evidence of such fighting is revealed in the bones of past populations, offering...
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This month zoologist Alan Pipe talks about the resources for the identification of fish and wild bird bones from archaeological sites in London… Viewers of ‘Time Team’ and readers of archaeological...
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Danger in the workplace –‘Phossy Jaw’
The growth of industry and advent of new manufacturing techniques brought with it associated occupational hazards for those going to work in the factories, building sites, dockyards and railways of...
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The tail of a Monkey and a Tortoise and a trip to the Museum of Life
By Dr James Morris Recently I’ve been working on the animal bone from the Royal London Hospital (RLP05) excavated by MOLA in 2006. Some of this consists of waste from the hospital kitchens, and gives...
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Visit to the dentists
Dental disease and other afflictions of the teeth were suffered by many in the nineteenth century. The analysis of skeletons from St Mary and St Michael, Whitechapel, London revealed over 80% of...
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Diseased Bone
Paget ’s disease A major difficulty when diagnosing pathological disease in archaeological skeletal remains is that many conditions may only affect the soft tissues of the body, such as the skin or...
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Peacocks, tongue sandwiches and roast turkey; the ramblings of a museum...
By Dr James Morris As well as human remains, the osteology department deals with the animal bones recovered from archaeological sites, which are examined and reported upon by the two...
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