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Dr. Jo Buckberry,
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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
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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 archaeology

Research collaborators

Information about people or organisations that Dr. Jo Buckberry collaborates with.
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 Archaeology

Teaching highlights

Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award, 2014

Teaching modules

Information about programme modules taught by Dr. Jo Buckberry.
Title Subject Module code Year
Bones, Bodies And Burials
Palaeopathology
Analysis of Human Remains

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 - Experimental Officer in the year 2004 (specified as 04/10/2004)
  • Trinity College Carmarthen - Lecturer in the year 2002 (specified as 01/10/2002)
  • University of Bradford - Reader in the year 2017 (specified as 01/05/2017)
  • University of Bradford - Senior Lecturer in the year 2015 (specified as 01/07/2015)

Education

  • University of Sheffield - PhD, 'A Cultural and Anthropological Study of Conversion Period and Later Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire'
  • University of Sheffield - MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology
  • Durham - BA in Archaeology

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

Dr. Jo Buckberry has 2 publication(s) listed under book.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
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
Burial in later Anglo-Saxon England c. 650-1100 AD 2010 Buckberry, Jo; Cherryson, A.

Book Chapter

Dr. Jo Buckberry has 26 publication(s) listed under book chapter.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Death and the Body: Using Osteological Methods to Investigate the Later Prehistoric Funerary Archaeology of Slovenia and Croatia 2016 Nicholls, R.; Buckberry, Jo
The post-medieval burial 2015 Buckberry, Jo; Battley, N.
The medieval burials 2015 Buckberry, Jo; Battley, N.
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
Estimating adult age: auricular surface morphology 2017 Buckberry, Jo
Caring for the dead in late Anglo-Saxon England. 2005 Hadley, D.M.; 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.
Were there Vikings in Carlisle? 2014 McCarthy, Michael R.; Montgomery, Janet; Lerwick, Ceilidh; Buckberry, Jo
Osteological evidence of corporal and capital punishment in later Anglo-Saxon England. 2014 Buckberry, Jo
You Are What You Ate: Using Bioarchaeology to Promote Healthy Eating 2015 Buckberry, Jo; Ogden, Alan R.; Shearman, V.; McCleery, I.
Investigating Social Status Using Evidence of Biological Status: a Case Study from Raunds Furnells 2010 Craig-Atkins, Elizabeth F.; Buckberry, Jo
Off with their heads: The Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, East Yorkshire. 2008 Buckberry, Jo
Hell's Gate: The Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold 2010 Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M.
Cemetery diversity in the Mid to Late Anglo-Saxon period in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. 2010 Buckberry, Jo
On sacred ground: social identity and churchyard burial in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, C. 700-1100 AD 2007 Buckberry, Jo
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

Book Review

Dr. Jo Buckberry has 2 publication(s) listed under book review.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Death embodied. Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse edited by Zoë L Devlin and Emma-Jayne Graham [Book review] 2017 Buckberry, Jo
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.

Editorial

Dr. Jo Buckberry has 1 publication(s) listed under 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

Dr. Jo Buckberry has 3 publication(s) listed under 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
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
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

Peer Reviewed Journal

Dr. Jo Buckberry has 38 publication(s) listed under peer reviewed journal.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
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.
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
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
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.
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 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.
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 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.
An isotope signature for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis? 2022 American Journal of Physical Anthropology 0 Castells Navarro, L., Buckberry, J. and Beaumont, J.
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
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
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
You Are What You Ate: Consuming the Past to Benefit the Present 2017 McCleery, I.; Shearman, V.; Buckberry, Jo
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
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
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.
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
Evaluating osteological ageing from digital data 2019 Journal of Anatomy 235 386 - 395 Villa, C.; Buckberry, Jo; Lynnerup, N.
Fieldwork at Chapel Road, Fillingham. 2001 Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
The use of corsetry to treat Pott’s disease of the spine from 19th Century Wolverhampton, England 2016 Moore, J.; Buckberry, Jo
Infant mortality and isotopic complexity: new approaches to stress, maternal health and weaning. 2015 Beaumont, Julia; Montgomery, Janet; Buckberry, Jo; Jay, Mandy
Picking up the pieces: Utilizing the diagnostic potential of poorly preserved remains. 2015 Brickley, M.B.; Buckberry, Jo
The (mis)use of adult age estimates in osteology. 2015 Buckberry, Jo
The medieval cemetery at Riccall Landing: A reappraisal. 2008 Hall, R.A.; Buckberry, Jo; Storm, Rebecca A.; Budd, P.; Hamilton, W.D.; McCormac, G.
High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in the investigation of gout in paleopathology. 2010 Swinson, D.J.; Snaith, J.; Buckberry, Jo; Brickley, M.B.
Multicentric osteosarcoma associated with DISH, in a 19th Century burial from England. 2010 Ortner, D.J.; Ponce, P.; Ogden, Alan R.; Buckberry, Jo
Age Estimation from the Auricular Surface of the Ilium: A Revised Method 2002 Buckberry, Jo; Chamberlain, A.
The utility of carpals for sex assessment: a preliminary study 2008 Sulzmann, C.E.; Buckberry, Jo; Pastor, R.F.
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.
An Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire 2007 Buckberry, Jo; Hadley, D.M.