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

• Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650
  
  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

• 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

• Human skeletal collections: the responsibilities of project managers, physical anthropologists and conservators, and the need for standardized condition assessment
  
  Janaway, R., Wilson, A., Caffell, A., & Roberts, C. (2001). Human skeletal collections: the responsibilities of project managers, physical anthropologists and conservators, and the need for standardized condition assessment. In E. Williams (Ed.), Human remains conservation, retrieval and analysis : Proceedings of a conference held in Williamsburg, VA, Nov 7-11th 1999. (pp. 199-208). Archaeopress.
• Pressures on osteological collections: the importance of damage limitation
  
  Caffell, A., Roberts, C., Janaway, R., & Wilson, A. (2001). Pressures on osteological collections: the importance of damage limitation. In E. Williams (Ed.), Human remains conservation, retrieval and analysis : Proceedings of a conference held in Williamsburg, VA, Nov 7-11th 1999. (pp. 187-197). Archaeopress.

Journal Article

• Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary
  
  Terpstra, E. J., Price, M., & Caffell, A. C. (2025). Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 35(1), Article e3364. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3364
• Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain
  
  Thompson, T. J. U., Errickson, D., McDonnell, C., Holst, M., Caffell, A., Pearce, J., & Gowland, R. L. (2025). Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain. PLOS ONE, 20(4), Article e0319847. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319847
• Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711–1857)
  
  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
• The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour
  
  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
• North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England
  
  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
• ‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England
  
  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
• Occupational mobility in 19th Century rural England: the interpretation of entheseal changes
  
  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
• Genotype of a historic strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  
  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
• Further finds and human remains from the cemetery outside South Shields Roman fort
  
  Croom, A., & Caffell, A. (2010). Further finds and human remains from the cemetery outside South Shields Roman fort. The Arbeia Journal, 9.
• Human remains from South Shields Roman fort and its cemetery
  
  Croom, A., & Caffell, A. (2005). Human remains from South Shields Roman fort and its cemetery. The Arbeia Journal, 8, 101-117.

Report

• The Dunbar Diaspora: Background to the Battle of Dunbar, and the Aftermath of the Battle
  
  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.