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Dr
Hella
Eckardt
Department of Archaeology
University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading
RG6 6AA
England
Isotope analysis of 26 individuals from the fort and associated small town at Catterick was carried out, suggesting a largely 'local' population, despite the military presence and a nearby major road.
Chenery, C., Eckardt, H., Müldner, G. (2011). Cosmopolitan Catterick? Isotopic evidence for population mobility on Rome's northern frontier. Journal of Archaeological Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.018
For this isotopic investigation of population and dietary diversity in Roman Gloucester, we examined 21 individuals, 11 of which were found in a late 2nd century mass burial pit at London Road, and 10 found in nearby discrete burials.
Chenery, C., Müldner, G., Evans, J., Eckardt, H., Leach, S. and M. Lewis 2010. Strontium and stable isotope evidence for diet and mobility in Roman Gloucester, UK. Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 150-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.025
In this study we examined 40 individuals from recent excavations of the late Roman cemetery at Lankhills School, Winchester (carried out by Oxford Archaeology), where earlier excavators have identified a number of individuals with burial rites thought to indicate origins in the Danube region. A comparison of grave goods, burial rites and isotopic signatures shows that in many cases burial practice was dictated not just by ethnicity, but by factors such as kinship, marriage or cultural and political preferences.
Eckardt, H., Booth, P., C. Chenery, Müldner, G., J.A. Evans and A. Lamb 2009. Isotope evidence for mobility at the late Roman cemetery at Lankhills, Winchester. Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 2816-2825. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.010
York was an important military and civilian centre with epigraphic and historical evidence for long-distance migration, and for this site we combined isotope analysis with forensic ancestry assessment: this resulted in two papers by Leach et al. (2009; 2010). There is also a paper on isotopic analysis of the unusual cemetery of beheaded males from Driffield terrace.
The data consists of:
Leach, S., Eckardt, H. , C. Chenery, G. Müldner and M. Lewis 2010. A 'lady' of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman York. Antiquity 84, 131-145.
Leach, S., Lewis, M., Chenery, C., Eckardt, H. and G. Müldner 2009. Migration and diversity in Roman Britain: a multidisciplinary approach to immigrants in Roman York, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 140: 546-561.
Müldner, G., Chenery, C. and H. Eckardt. 2011. The 'Headless Romans': Multi-isotope investigations of an unusual burial ground in Roman York, UK. Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 280-290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.09.003