IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 104: Broken Bones, Broken Lives?: The Impact of Trauma on Medieval Populations

Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:	Petra Verlinden, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading
Moderator/Chair:	Kathryn Krakowka, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Paper 104-a	Brutal and Bloody: Evidence of Trauma from the Scottish Wars of Independence (Language: English) Jo Buckberry, Division of Archaeological, Geographical & Environmental Sciences, University of Bradford Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Military History
Paper 104-b	Fracture Analysis on a Medieval Population from Poulton, Cheshire (Language: English) Carla Burrell, Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology & Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General
Paper 104-c	Child's Play: The Study of Childhood Trauma from Medieval Skeletal Collections (Language: English) Petra Verlinden, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine
Abstract	The study of skeletal trauma is traditionally applied to investigate the effect of daily life's stresses and hazards on a normal working population. This session aims to bring together different perspectives on the study of skeletal trauma, and to demonstrate its relevance when applied to the remains of medieval individuals. Moreover, in this session, medical, osteological, and historical perspectives will be combined to set these findings in a socio-cultural setting, to both explore the impact of skeletal trauma on the population, as well as the social impact recuperation or disability might have had on the injured individual.