Forensic

Reassessing Neanderthal teeth in Jersey

Recent analysis of 12 teeth, first excavated at the Palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey between 1910 and 1911, may provide new evidence of cross-breeding between Neanderthals and modern humans in this region. The teeth were…

Below Individuals buried at the Hospital of St John the Evangelist had the lowest incidence of fractures, possibly because the inmates of the hospital were too ill to participate in risky activities.

Life and death in medieval Cambridge

Analysis of more than 300 human skeletons, recovered from three different medieval burial sites across Cambridge, has provided interesting new details of the city’s inhabitants, and the individual risks they may have faced based on their position in life. The…