Staff profile

Public Outreach

2012: Participated in organising and running a public event as part of the CBA Festival of British Archaeology: ‘Under the Butcher’s Knife’ at Durham University

2012: ‘Celebrate Science’, Durham: participated in the organisation and running of activities on human bioarchaeology for schoolchildren

2011: Life and Death in Fewston: Preliminary Results of the Skeletal Analysis, talk delivered at the Washburn Heritage Centre, Fewston, North Yorkshire

2011: Wattle Syke: 1000 Years of Burial Along the Great North Road, talk delivered to the Teesside Archaeological Society, Stockton

2011: Participated in organising and running a public event as part of the CBA Festival of British Archaeology: ‘Eating Through Time’ at Durham University

2011: ‘Celebrate Science’, Durham: participated in the organisation and running of activities on human bioarchaeology for schoolchildren

2010: Human Skeletons: Stories from Beyond the Grave, talk delivered as part of ‘Mini Archaeology: Digging Up Life’ at the Centre for Life, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

2010: Participated in organising and running a public event as part of the CBA Festival of British Archaeology: ‘5000 Years of Death and Disease’ at Durham University

2010: 'Stunted and starved and breeding disease’ – life in the ‘yards’ of post-medieval Norwich, talk delivered as part of the CBA Festival of British Archaeology event: ‘5000 Years of Death and Disease’ at Durham University

• Human bioarchaeology
• The health of past populations from all time periods
• The impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on health in the post-medieval period

Authored book

• Gerrard, C., Graves, C., Millard, A., Annis, R., & Caffell, A. (2018). Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Oxbow Books

Chapter in book

• O'Brien, C., Elliott, L., Henderson, C., Caffell, A., & Gidney, L. (2013). Plant macrofossils, charcoal, burnt bone and snails. In A. O'Connell (Ed.), Harvesting the Stars: A Pagan Temple at Lismullin, Co. Meath (171-175). The National Roads Authority
• Caffell, A., & Holst, M. (2013). Human remains. In L. Martin, J. Richardson, & I. Roberts (Eds.), Iron Age and Roman Settlements at Wattle Syke: Archaeological Investigations During the A1 Bramham to Wetherby Upgrading Scheme (Yorkshire Archaeology 11) (201-227). Archaeological Services WYAS
• Caffell, A., & Holst, M. (2011). Osteological analysis. In C. Fenton-Thomas (Ed.), Where Sky and Yorkshire and Water Meet (323-332). On-Site Archaeology
• Caffell, A., & Clarke, R. (2011). The General Baptists of Priory Yard, Norwich. In C. King, & D. Sayer (Eds.), The Archaeology of Post-Medieval Religion (249-270). Boydell Press
• Cullen, K., Holbrook, N., Watts, M., Caffell, A., & Holst, M. (2007). A post-Roman cemetery at Hewlett Packard, Filton, South Gloucestershire: Excavations in 2005. In M. Watts (Ed.), Two Cemeteries from Bristol's Northern Suburbs (Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report 4) (51-96). Cotswold Archaeology

Conference Paper

• Janaway, R., Wilson, A., Caffell, A., & Roberts, C. (1999, November). Human skeletal collections: the responsibilities of project managers, physical anthropologists and conservators, and the need for standardized condition assessment. Presented at Human remains : conservation, retrieval and analysis., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
• Caffell, A., Roberts, C., Janaway, R., & Wilson, A. (1999, November). Pressures on osteological collections: the importance of damage limitation. Presented at Human remains : conservation, retrieval and analysis., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

Journal Article

• Snoddy, A. M. E., Shaw, H., Newman, S., Miszkiewicz, J. J., Stewart, N. A., Jakob, T., Buckley, H., Caffell, A., & Gowland, R. (2024). Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711–1857). PLoS ONE, 19(1), Article e0296203. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296203
• Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Quade, L., Levene, A., Millard, A. R., Holst, M., Yapp, P., Delaney, S., Brown, C., Nowell, G., Macpherson, C., Shaw, H. A., Stewart, N. A., Robinson, S., Montgomery, J., & Alexander, M. M. (2023). The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour. PLoS ONE, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284970
• Newman, S. L., Gowland, R. L., & Caffell, A. C. (2019). North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England. American journal of physical anthropology, 169(1), 104-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23817
• Roberts, C., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K., Gowland, R., & Jakob, T. (2016). ‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England. International Journal of Paleopathology, 13, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.12.001
• Henderson, C., Craps, D., Caffell, A., Millard, A., & Gowland, R. (2013). Occupational mobility in 19th Century rural England: the interpretation of entheseal changes. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 23(2), 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2286
• Bouwman, A., Kennedy, S., Muller, R., Stephens, R., Holst, M., Caffell, A., Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2012). Genotype of a historic strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(45), 18511-18516. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1209444109
• Croom, A., & Caffell, A. (2010). Further finds and human remains from the cemetery outside South Shields Roman fort
• Croom, A., & Caffell, A. (2005). Human remains from South Shields Roman fort and its cemetery

Report

• Graves, C., Annis, R., Caffell, A., Gerrard, C., & Millard, A. (2016). The Dunbar Diaspora: Background to the Battle of Dunbar, and the Aftermath of the Battle. [No known commissioning body]