Skip to main content
Overview

Dr Anwen Caffell

Teaching Fellow


Affiliations
Affiliation
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Archaeology

Biography

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

Research interests

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

Publications

Authored book

Chapter in book

  • Human remains
    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) (pp. 201-227). Archaeological Services WYAS.
  • Plant macrofossils, charcoal, burnt bone and snails
    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 (pp. 171-175). The National Roads Authority.
  • Osteological analysis
    Caffell, A., & Holst, M. (2011). Osteological analysis. In C. Fenton-Thomas (Ed.), Where Sky and Yorkshire and Water Meet (pp. 323-332). On-Site Archaeology.
  • The General Baptists of Priory Yard, Norwich
    Caffell, A., & Clarke, R. (2011). The General Baptists of Priory Yard, Norwich. In C. King & D. Sayer (Eds.), The Archaeology of Post-Medieval Religion (pp. 249-270). Boydell Press.
  • A post-Roman cemetery at Hewlett Packard, Filton, South Gloucestershire: Excavations in 2005
    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) (pp. 51-96). Cotswold Archaeology.

Conference Paper

Journal Article

Report