Ellen Kendall

This looks amazing, thank you! And open access? Yes please!

Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: Evidence from incremental dentine analysis Childhood malnutrition may have led to poor adult health in medieval England and became less common after the Black Death.

This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm also concerned about why they asked him if he's autistic - in what way is that relevant?

The Global Wetland Outlook 2025 is now online.

Glad to have contributed to this new report on the state of #wetlands worldwide, their value, and their future.

www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org

🌍 🧪 🦤

Science friends are the best - I'm so lucky to have you as one of mine too!

It absolutely should not be. In my own family, multiple children were lost to measles - short memories are making us foolish.

Semi-supination, not pronation, was the relaxed natural position. I tested this with two other people. Try it yourself and see what you think. Achieving pronation doesn't come naturally and triggers forearm tension which is slightly uncomfortable. So whatever this was, I think it was intentional.

The one thing I don't think this is: awkwardness. Not only because it was repeated, but because - being myself awkward and uncoordinated - I tried an experiment this morning. I pounded my chest and threw my arm out and up as if in enthusiasm. The thing is, my palm ended up facing upward/inward.

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

She lost two of them within days of each other, from measles. I think she would be outraged, demanding to know why, when we have so much power to prevent and decrease suffering like hers, we throw it away. I wonder if people who romanticise a mythic "healthier" past are really prepared for reality.

In particular, I'd love to hear my great-great grandmother's thoughts, but she died in 1912 at the age of only 32, after years of suffering from a disease that's now fully treatable in most cases with antibiotics. She also buried 4 of her 9 children before the age of 5.

Discouraging.

I wonder what my ancestors would have made of all of this, how incredible privilege combined with ignorance has enabled the metastasis of conspiracy thinking and distrust of medicine more generally.

I'm so sorry, what timing too.

The Impact Of The 6th Century Crisis – Exploring Burials as a Proxy For Population Dynamics in Iron Age Scandinavia This study examines population dynamics in South Norway during the Iron Age, focusing on the mid-6th century crisis and its aftermath. Analysis of nearly 7,000 dated burials reveals a substantial d...

New paper using 7,000 burial records to track population changes in Iron Age Norway. Shows 75% population decline after 536/540 CE volcanic winter! Viking Age recovery linked to warmer climate, agricultural advances & trade networks. 🌋📊 #Archaeology #ClimateHistory #Viking

doi.org/10.1080/0029...

Call for papers and posters for a session of the the 2025 EAA meeting entitled "Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past".

CFP for session at 2025 EAA meeting in Belgrade:

"Out of their element: novel methods of isotope analysis to investigate health and disease in the past"

Organizers:
Noel Hincha noel.j.hincha@durham.ac.uk
Naomi Kilburn naomi.n.kilburn@durham.ac.uk
Sangyu Shen sangyu.shen@mail.utoronto.ca

Joan Pye Lecture 2024: "Life In Roman Britain: A View From The Skeleton" with Rebecca Gowland YouTube video by Cotswold Archaeology

My amazing colleague and friend Becky Gowland gave a public talk recently. Check it out youtu.be/Bnml0j-6_aM?... #childhood #bioarchaeology #osteoarchaeology

Looking forward to reading this - tuberculosis is a topic of both professional and personal relevance for me.

theconversation.com/peatlands-ur...

For someone as keen on wetlands as I am, it seems odd that I only recently tried samphire for the first time. It's so delicious!

📢 NEWS 📢 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 SSCIP Annual Conference will take place in Aarhus, Denmark from 24th - 26th June 🥳

The conference theme is 'Children and Climate Change' 🌏 Call for Papers and further information will be circulated soon #childhood #archaeology #history Please RT!

Mobility isotopes are really good at excluding (to a reasonable degree) where someone isn't from, and then we're left with probabilities. But you're totally right, it's incredibly cool! New data is always so exciting. 😁

Ooh, we're usually woolier than that! You'll hear a lot of "possible/probable" and "is consistent with childhood origin in x", and it's a bit of a struggle with media, who like to report things with a degree of certainty we generally don't have!

Refining dietary interpretation of archaeological humans in the Holocene of northwestern Europe using paired apatite and collagen carbon isotopes

And project number two:

Refining dietary interpretation of archaeological humans in the Holocene of northwestern Europe using paired apatite and collagen carbon isotopes iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Landscapes of resilience? Archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis of archival material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders

Not one, but TWO archaeological isotope PhD studentships on offer at Durham!

Project number one:

Landscapes of resilience? Archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis of archival material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Excellent streak! I love the weird sentences. Favourites over the years have been "my belt is a real one" and "I desire not to kill any more".

Okay, this took me out! There's so much here.

They largely won, because we do have that segregation occurring, with immunocompromised and other CEV forced to continue self-segregation through continued isolation measures with mass infection present. Even vaccines restricted to a increasingly small cohort.

#SSCIP2024
One year of organization and already over 😌
Thanks very much to the @sscipchildhood.bsky.social for their trust in organizing it !!

Signing off from #SSCIP2024. Big thanks to the organisation team at Bordeaux for a wonderful job! And if you have an interest in childhood research please consider joining @sscipchildhood.bsky.social and getting involved with the Society.

For our final presentation of the conference, Maya Krause presents a bioarachaeological study of weaning, diet, and locality in a Middle Horizon (600-1000CE) Andean population. #SSCIP2024