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The People of Early Winchester - Winchester Studies 9.i (Hardcover)
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The People of Early Winchester - Winchester Studies 9.i (Hardcover)
Series: Winchester Studies, 9.i
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This volume traces the lives, health, and diseases of Winchester's
inhabitants as seen in their skeletal remains from the mid-third
century to the mid-sixteenth century, a period of over 1,300 years.
Although the populations of other British urban areas, York and
London in particular, have been studied over an extended period,
this volume is unique in providing a continuous chronological
window, rather than a series of isolated studies. It is
particularly notable for the large sample of Anglo-Saxon burials
dated to the 8th - 10th centuries, which provide a bridge between
the earlier Romano-British material and the later medieval samples.
This study includes information on demography, physical
characteristics, dental health, disease, and trauma collected from
over 2,000 skeletons excavated from the Roman Cemetery at Lankhills
and the Anglo-Saxon and medieval cemeteries of the Old and New
Minster and Winchester Cathedral, as well as other Early
Anglo-Saxon sites in neighbouring areas of Hampshire. The study
establishes the underlying continuity of the population in spite of
massive culture change between the Roman and Early Saxon periods,
and delineates the increasing tendency to rounder skulls seen in
the medieval period, a trend which is found in continental Europe
at the same time. There were also significant differences through
time in disease patterns and trauma. Leprosy, for example, is found
only in post-Roman skeletons, while decapitations are seen only in
Roman skeletons. Weapons injuries are confined to Anglo-Saxon and
medieval individuals, although broken bones were common during the
Roman period.
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