Staff profile

BIOGRAPHY

I am now an Emeritus Professor, having retired at the end of October 2020, but I am of course still actively linked to Durham University!

BACKGROUND

I am a bioarchaeologist, and have a background in archaeology, environmental archaeology and human bioarchaeology. I have studied and interpreted human remains from archaeological sites for nearly 40 years. I am specifically interested in exploring the interaction of people with their environments in the past through patterns of health and disease (palaeopathology), and especially those health problems that are common today. My key research interests lie in:

- contextual approaches to past human health (palaeopathology);

- ethics and human remains;

- contemporary health;

- evolutionary approaches to the origin and history of infectious diseases;

- big data projects in palaeopathology;

I am also very passionate about engaging audiences with my research beyond academia.

I try to utilize multiple lines of evidence for reconstructing past health, including exploring the application of medical anthropological and evolutionary biological approaches to bioarchaeology. Furthermore, I have a strong active interest in past concepts of disease causation and therapeutic measures.

I have always promoted the need for the contextualisation of biological data for health problems experienced by our ancestors through many of my publications and in my teaching - see my publications below (e.g. see books: Roberts and Cox 2003; Roberts and Buikstra 2003; Roberts and Manchester 2005; Roberts 2018; Steckel, Larsen, Roberts and Baten eds. 2018; Roberts 2020).

MY CAREER

A State Registered Nurse initially (1975-8), I completed a BA in Archaeological Studies (Leicester - 1979-1982), a MA Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy (Sheffield - 1983), and a PhD (bioarchaeology/ palaeopathology/ medical history - Bradford 1988).

I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014, gained an Excellence in Teaching Award in 1999, and an Excellence in Doctoral Supervision Award in 2009

My nursing background, particularly, has guided me into taking an holistic approach to past ill health in bioarchaeology, something that was also considered essential in a hospital environment. Understanding why and how people and communities today experience health problems is essential to be able to understand ill health in the past. This includes a consideration of the impact of age, sex, gender, ethnicity, religion, and social, economic and political status on disease occurrence.

Appointed Lecturer (US equivalent of Assistant Professor) in 1989 and Senior Lecturer in 1994 (US equivalent of Associate Professor) at Bradford University, I moved to Durham University in 2000 to become a Reader, finally being promoted to Professor of Archaeology in 2004 (US equivalent of Full Professor).

In terms of teaching, I have successfully initiated and taught on two one year masters courses (Bradford: MSc Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology 1990-1999, and Durham: MSc Palaeopathology 2000-date).

MY OTHER LIFE:

I have always aimed to have a work-life balance (!). In the last 3 years of my working life I was employed part-time, and now have recently retired. I therefore have even more time to do the things I do in my "non-work" life"! I love the outdoors. I am very sport active, my main sports being running, including orienteering and two day mountain marathon events (off road), hiking (Pennine Way, Cleveland Way, South Downs Way, West Highland Way, John Muir Trail), downhill and cross-country skiing (in season in North America and Europe), and road cycling (Lands End to John O’Groats June 2012) – I also do yoga! My current favourite runs where I live are in Wensleydale (Cover Bridge to Coverham Abbey along the river, and back via Middleham Castle) and in Swaledale (from Muker to Keld along the river and back over the tops). However, in the past, I have been a very active participant in caving, partaking in several foreign expeditions, and horse riding (competing). I have also experienced kayaking, coasteering, surfing, triathlons, water skiing, wind surfing (Greece on a course), parachuting (twice), canyoning in France and hang gliding (a course). I completed the Everest Marathon in Nepal in 1999 (starting at 17,000 feet ASL), and the Bob Graham Round in 1996 (66 miles, 27,000 feet of ascent, and 42 mountain tops in 24 hours - in the Lake District); these are both achievements that are dear to my heart in places I love.

I was Treasurer of the Archaeology Society in at Leicester University in the 1980s, and President of the Calder Valley Fell Runners for two years in the 1990s. I am currently a member of the Fell Runners Association. I am also a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, We Are Cycling UK, and I garden, flower arrange (awarded a diploma in 2017), am an active member of the Women’s Institute of East Witton (President, and responsible for PR and the annual event programme), ring the local church bells, sing in the Dales Community Pop Choir (awarded the Richard Whiteley prize in 2020 at the Yorkshire Awards) and, until recently, the Northwest Federation of the Women’s Institute Choir, completed a beekeeping course in 2019, and have a qualification in dry stone walling. Life is not a dress rehearsal.

I have a great healthy interest in all things natural history, and I have travelled widely (Europe, USA, Canada, China, Mongolia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Europe, Iceland, India, Jordan, Nepal, New Zealand, Middle East, Russia). I also enjoy good food and wine with dear friends, cinema, theatre, have wide music tastes (which includes seeing live bands), like reading non-fiction when I have the time (usually on holiday!), and support Manchester United Football Club.

MY ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

The sections below record activity within the last 3 years

MEMBERSHIP OF RESEARCH GROUPS AND CENTRES

Bioarchaeology (based in the Department of Archaeology) - https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/research_environment/research_groups/bioarchaeology/

Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (based in the Department of Philosophy) - http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/

Centre for Life and Death Studies (based in the Department if Theology) - http://www.dur.ac.uk/cdals/

Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage (University wide Research Centre) - http://www.dur.ac.uk/cech/staff/

Wolfson Research Institute (Durham University) - http://www.dur.ac.uk/wolfson.institute/

Northern Centre for the History of Medicine (Durham/Newcastle Universities) - http://www.nchm.ac.uk/

OUTREACH (selected public lectures/media)

I enjoy talking about my research to beneficiaries beyond academia, and have taught classes for the public since the 1980s, along with giving many public lectures and taking part in TV and radio programmes. Here are the last three years of talks to the public/exhibitions/engagement etc:

2022

Gainford Local History Group: Skeletons in the cupboard (February 14^th)

Leyburn Probus Club: Dead peoples bones tell tales (1^st March)

Café Scientifique, Stockton: Let the dead teach the living: evidence for infectious diseases from past to present (15^thMarch)

UCL seminar: Some reflections on public engagement activities for the Maldon leprosy hospital project: ‘Medical heritage, green infrastructure and community wellbeing’ (22^nd March)

Harrogate Library WI: (15^th September) From nursing to archaeology: a life caring for the living and the dead (dressing up)

Teesdale U3A: Skeletons in the cupboard (October 13^th)

Harrogate 3D Archaeological Society: Scottish Soldiers Project (20^th October) 

North East Humanists: From nursing to the archaeology of disease: A life caring for the living and the dead (17^thNovember)

2021

Loyola University, Chicago (Anthropology: Anne Grauer): discussion with students about mycobacterial infections (March 28^th)

Tubingen University, Germany: Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution colloquium (interview with MSc students) (June 4^th)

Swaledale and Arkengarthdale Archaeology Group: Early medieval people at Bamburgh, Northumberland:The Bowl-Hole Cemetery (12^th October)

Thackray Medical Museum: Leprosy, an old disease revealing new insights (6^th November)

2020

Harrogate 3D Archaeological Society: From nursing to the archaeology of disease. A life caring for the living and the dead (18^th November)

Michigan State University (Anthropology: Gabriel Wrobel): talk to small anthropology class

Berlin, Germany (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Klassische Philologie): Public engagement event: Berliner Antike in virtual space – People and Object (contribution on What can our ancestors' skeletons tell us about infectious diseases? Contributions from the past to understand the present)

Thackray Medical Museum: Living with tuberculosis in the past: the bioarchaeological and historical evidence

PAST RESEARCH STUDENTS

The following lists supervision of past research students, funding source and nationality of students (B= at my previous institution, the University of Bradford):

Simon Hughes 2022  Measuring the impact of research access for human skeletal remains stored in English museum contexts

Samantha Tipper 2020 (A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Spinal Pathology across Ancient Nubia between 300 BC and 1500 AD) 

Kayla Crowder 2019 (Early-life stress in Transylvania: the use of macroscopic and isotopic analyses to examine how early life stress affected survival during periods of political transition).

Anna Barrett-Davies 2018 (The impact of sociocultural and environmental change on air quality and respiratory health in the 4th Cataract, Sudan: a bioarchaeological perspective).

Claire Hodson (Stressed at Birth: Investigating Fetal, Perinatal and Infant Growth and Health Disruption)

Elina Petersone-Gordina 2018 (Living outside the city gates: a palaeopathological, demographic, isotopic and comparative analysis of the post-medieval St Gertrude Church cemetery population in Riga, Latvia).

Kendra Quinn (A Bioarchaeological Study of the Impact of Mobility on the Transmission of Tuberculosis in Roman Britain).

Marieke Gernay (Health in late medieval urban north-west Europe: a bioarchaeological study of Caen, Canterbury and Ghent Belgium, France and England).

Zahra Afshar 2015 (Mobility and economic transition in the 5th to the 2nd millennium B.C. in the population of the Central Iranian Plateau, Tepe Hissar).

Michaela Binder 2014 (Health and Diet in Upper Nubia through Climate and Political Change - A bioarchaeological investigation of health and living conditions at ancient Amara West between 1300 and 800BC).

Devon Lee Kase Tancock 2014 Congenital Defects in 18th and 19th Century Populations from Rural and Urban Northeast England.

Ashley Tallyn 2014 A study of the health of monks' and nuns' health using multiple lines of evidence.

Sharman J 2013: Age, sex and the life course: population variability in human ageing and implications for bioarchaeology.

Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla 2013 The copper age in South West Spain: a bioarchaeological approach to prehistoric social organization.

Kimberley Plomp 2013: Quantifying palaeopathology: developing objective geometric morphometric methods for recording pathological conditions in human skeletal remains.

Kirsty McCarrison 2012: Osteological and biomolecular study of prehistoric tuberculosis in Britain

Ryan Franklin 2011 (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; external supervision); The Recognition, Frequency, and Taxonomic Association of Skeletal Pathology from Selected Plio-Pleistocene-aged Sites from the Cradle of Humankind, Witwatersrand, South Africa

Heather Jarrell 2011: (Ohio State University; external supervision) Association Between Skeletal Fractures and Locomotor Behavior, Habitat Use, and Body Mass in Nonhuman Primates

Karen Bernofsky 2010: Respiratory health in the past. A bioarchaeological study of chronic maxillary sinusitis and rib periostitis from the Iron Age to the Post Medieval period in southern England.

Paola Ponce 2010: A comparative study of activity-related skeletal changes in 3rd-2nd millennium BC coastal fishers and 1st millennium AD inland agriculturists in Chile, South America.

Charlotte Henderson 2009: Musculo-skeletal stress markers in bioarchaeology: Indications of activity levels or human variation?

Rosa Spencer 2008: Testing hypotheses about diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) using stable isotope and aDNA analysis of late medieval populations.

Francisca Alves Cardoso 2008: A portrait of gender in two late 19th/early 20th century Portuguese populations: a palaeopathological perspective.

Alvaro Arce 2008 Health in Southern and Eastern England: a perspective on the Early Medieval period.

McNaught J 2007 A clinical and archaeological study of Schmorl’s Nodes: using clinical data to understand the past.

Groves SE 2006 Spears or ploughshares: multiple indicators of activity related stress and social status in four early Medieval populations from north-east England.

Caffell AC 2005 Dental caries in Medieval Britain (c. 450-1540): temporal, geographic and contextual patterns.

Jakob T 2004 Prevalence and patterns of disease in early Medieval populations: a comparison of skeletal samples from 5th-8th century AD Britain and Germany.

Bernard M-C 2003 Tuberculosis: a demographic analysis and social study of admissions to a children’s sanatorium (1936-1954) in Stannington, Northumberland.

Montgomery J 2002 Lead and strontium isotope compositions of human dental tissues as an indicator of ancient exposure and population dynamics.

Sture J 2002 Biocultural perspectives on birth defects in late Medieval rural and urban populations in Northern England.

Santos AL 2000 (University of Coimbra, external supervision) A skeletal picture of tuberculosis. Macroscopic, radiological, biomolecular and historical evidence from the Coimbra Identified Collection.

Keeping D 2000 Life and death in English nunneries: a biocultural study of variations in the health of women during the later Medieval period, 1066-1540.

Freeth C 1999 Dental health in biocultural perspective UK. (B)

Lewis M 1999 The impact of urbanization: an assessment of morbidity and mortality in British non-adult populations. (B)

Margerison B 1997 A comparison of the palaeodemography of catastrophic and attritional cemeteries. UK. (B)

Dalby G 1994 Middle ear disease in antiquity. UK. (B)

RECENT CONFERENCES

2022

World Archaeological Conference, Prague, Czech Republic: The Ethical Challenges of Destructive Sampling and Analysis in Bioarchaeology 

Accessing Aidan Symposium, Bamburgh: Reading the bones. Giving a voice to the people buried at Bamburgh

Annual Meeting of the America Association of Biological Anthropology, Denver, USA: co-authored paper: Exploring medical care through dental calculus analysis: St Leonard’s medieval leprosy hospital, Peterborough, England

Paleopathology Association European meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania. Paper in Ethics in paleopathology session (Displaying human remains: experience from a 2018 exhibition at Durham University, England); and The evolution of paleopathology: the importance of focusing on the "here and now" of health and well-being (invited keynote speaker)

European Anthropological Association meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania. Human variation and adaptation in a changing world: perspectives from the past using palaeopathology (invited keynote speaker)

German Society for Anthropology (GfA), Provenance research on human remains. An osteoanthropological perspective: Displaying human remains: experience from a 2018 exhibition at Durham University, England

2021

Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World, Maynooth University, Northern Ireland (invited keynote speaker)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists: co-authored paper (Rose-Ann Bigue): Palaeopathology: Paleopathological analysis of an historical urban population from Montréal: Exploring the interactions between vitamin D deficiency and other diseases.

Sapiens, Health and the Environment - Natural and Artificial Frontiers, University of Coimbra, Portugal : Taking the long view: understanding environmental impacts on human health in the past to inform the future (Invited keynote)

BABAO Annual Meeting, Teesside: 2 co-authored papers: 1. (David Bennett) Can renal rickets be distinguished from nutritional-related rickets in skeletal remains? 2. (Kori Filipek) Illness and Inclusion: Mobility Histories of Adolescents with Leprosy from Anglo-Scandinavian Norwich (Norfolk)

International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (virtual): Co-authored poster in session Reproduction (Bentley, Gorman, Newsham): Squatting in human societies: The “obstetrical dilemma” revisited; and co-authored paper in session Evolutionary medicine and palaeopathology synergies. Are we moving forward? (Marques, Buikstra): Bridging paleopathology and evolutionary medicine in cancer research

Taking a breath: Reflecting on respiratory disease in bioarchaeology (virtual): Breathe in and breathe out, then repeat: bioarchaeological contributions to understanding respiratory system disease in the past (Invited keynote paper)\

International Network for the History of Hospitals: ‘Space and the hospital, Lisbon, Portugal (Elena Fiorin, postdoc): Exploring medical care through dental calculus analysis: the case of St Leonard medieval leprosy hospital at Peterborough, England 

2020

“21^st Century Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and the Way Forward”. Arizona State University, USA (invited participant)

RESEARCH STUDENTS

I continue to supervise the following research students; unless otherwise stated I act as primary supervisor:

Susan Aylard (Does Parasitic Infection Correlate With Stress During Childhood? Exploring the Impact of Poor Living Environments on the Development of Skeletal Indicators of “Stress” and Parasitic Infection in the Bioarchaeological Record)

Kori Filipek-Ogden (Illness, Isolation, and Isotopes: Assessing leprosy stigma in late Medieval England (12^th-16^th centuries AD) and its impact on health and contemporary society)

Mocen Li (Diachronic changes in health and the transition to agriculture in China).

Aryel Pacheco (Tuberculosis in Andean communities from the Tarapacá area (North of Chile) between 900 BC to 1450 AD. Chile; Chilean government funded

Julie Peacock (Disability and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Britain: AD 1066-AD 1800). U.K. AHRC funded

• contextual approaches to past human health (palaeopathology)
• ethics and human remains
• contemporary health
• evolutionary approaches to the origin and history of infectious diseases
• big data projects in palaeopathology

• 2021: REF2021 Subpanel member for C15: Elected to Archaeology subpanel
• 2020: Scientific Advisory Board, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria: Invited to serve on the Board
• 2019: Jilin University: Invited to be an International Strategic Advisor for Jilin University, Changchun, China
• 2019: AAPA Repatriation Committee: Invited to serve as a member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists’ AAPA Repatriation Committee 2019-2022
• 2019: Accessing Aidan: Invited to sit in Steering Committee for Heritage Lottery Funded Project on public engagement
• 2017: Invited to be a member of the Pomerance Science Medal Committee (AIA):
• 2017: Invited to membership of the Scientific Advisory Board, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria:
• 2017: Eve Cockburn Service Award, Paleopathology Association:
• 2017: BABAO President: President of BABAO 2017-2020 (British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology)
• 2014: Elected a Fellow of the British Academy:
• 2014: REF2014 Subpanel member for C17: Elected to Archaeology subpanel
• 2012: Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Paleopathology:
• 2010: Associate Editor of International Journal of Palaeopathology and Member of the Advisory Board:
• 2010: First entry to Who's Who:
• 2010: Working party member for BABAO Ethics and Practice Policies:
• 2010: President of the Paleopathology Association 2011-2013: Elected President for 2011-2013
• 2007: Invited by the Natural History Museum to be a member of the Human Remains Data Collection Workshop:
• 2006: Invited to be a member of the Grants Review Panel for 2 years for the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York:
• 2003: Elected Vice President of the Paleopathology Association:
• 2002: Invited member of the BABAO Working Group on recording standards:
• 2001: Director at Large, Paleopathology Association, 2001-3:

Authored book

• Roberts, C. (2020). Leprosy: Past and Present. University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16zjzzm
• Roberts, C. (2018). Human remains in archaeology. A Handbook. Practical Handbook 18. Second edition. (2nd ed.). Council for British Archaeology
• Roberts, C. (2012). Human remains in archaeology. A handbook. Practical Handbooks in Archaeology No 19. (Rev. ed.). Council for British Archaeology
• Roberts, C. (2009). Human remains in archaeology: a handbook: 19. Council for British Archaeology
• Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2008). The bioarchaeology of tuberculosis. A global view on a reemerging disease. (Paperback ed.). University Press of Florida
• Roberts, C., & Manchester, K. (2005). Archaeology of disease. (3rd ed.). Sutton Publishing
• Roberts, C., & Cox, M. (2003). Health and disease in Britain: from prehistory to the present day. Sutton Publishing
• Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2003). The bioarchaeology of tuberculosis: a global view on a re-emerging disease. University Press of Florida

Book review

• Roberts, C. (2010). Book review of Luke Demaitre: Leprosy in Premodern Medicine. A malady of the whole body. The Historian, 72(3), 718-719
• Roberts, C. (2009). Book review of R David (ed): Egyptian mummies and modern science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(8), 1816-1817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.04.002
• Roberts, C. (2009). Book review of M Signoli, D Chevé, P Adalaina, G Boëtsch, O Dutour (editors) 2008 Peste: entre épidemies et sociétés, Plague: epidemics and societies, 2007, Firenze University Press. Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (En ligne), 20(3-4), 287-288
• Roberts, C. (2009). Book Review of Burial at the Site of the Parish Church of St Benet Sherehog before and after the Great Fire. Excavations at 1 Poultry, City of London. (MoLAS Monograph 39). By Adrian Miles & William White, with Danae Tankard. London: Museum of London, 2008. Medieval Archaeology, 53, 464-465
• Roberts, C. (2009). Book review of The Black Death Cemetery, East Smithfield, London (MoLAS Monograph 43). By Ian Grainger, Duncan Hawkins, Lynne Cowal & Richard Mikulski. London: English Heritage/Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2008. Medieval Archaeology, 53, 462-463
• Roberts, C. (2008). Book review of 'The churchyard : Wharram, a study of settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds' by S. Mays, C. Harding, C. Heighway, York University Archaeological Publications : York, 2007. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(7), 2083-2084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.01.004
• Roberts, C. (2008). Book review of ‘Backbone of history. Health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere’ edited by JC Rose and RH Steckel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Social History of Medicine, 19(2), 345-346. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl014
• Roberts, C. (2008). Book review of 'Counting the Dead. The epidemiology of skeletal populations' by T. Waldron, Chichester : John Wiley, 1994. Journal of Human Evolution, 29(2), 194-197
• Roberts, C. (2008). Book Review of: St Peter’s, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire. A Parish Church and its community. Volume 2. The human remains. By Tony Waldron, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007. Medieval Archaeology, 52, 428-430. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581708x335549
• Roberts, C. (2005). Book review of C. Greenblatt and M. Spigelman (eds): Emerging pathogens. Archaeology, ecology and evolution of infectious disease, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003. American Journal of Archaeology, 109(3), 572-573. https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.109.3.567
• Roberts, C. (2001). Book review of 'The Tarim Mummies : Ancient China and the mystery of the earliest peoples from the West' by J. P. Mallory & Victor H. Mair, London : Thames & Hudson, 2000. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 7(1), 102-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527250120043375
• Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2000). Book review of 'Digging for pathogens. Ancient emerging diseases - their evolutionary, anthropological and archaeological context' edited by C.L. Greenblatt, Rehovot, Israel : Balaban Publishers, 1998. American journal of physical anthropology, 112(2), 288-290. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28sici%291096-8644%282000%29112%3A2%3C288%3A%3Aaid-ajpa14%3E3.0.co%3B2-h
• Roberts, C. (2000). Book review of 'The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology' by A. Aufderheide and C. Rodriguez Martin, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Medical History, 44(1), 121-123
• Roberts, C. (1999). Book review of 'The archaeology of human bones.' by Simon Mays, London and New York : Routledge, 1998. Journal of Archaeological Science, 26(9), 1235-1236. https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.1999.0485

Chapter in book

• Roberts, C. Guidance on recording palaeopathology (abnormal variation). In P. Mitchell, & M. Brickley (Eds.), Updated Guidelines to the Standards for Recording Human Remains (44-47). CIfA and BABAO
• Roberts, C. The bioarchaeology of health and well being: its contribution to understanding the past. In L. Stutz, & S. Tarlow (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial. Oxford University Press
• Bentley, G. R., Roberts, C. A., Elton, S., & Plomp, K. A. (2022). Now you have read the book, what next?. In K. A. Plomp, C. A. Roberts, S. Elton, & G. R. Bentley (Eds.), Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach. Oxford University Press
• Plomp, K. A., Roberts, C. A., Elton, S., & Bentley, G. R. (2022). What's it all about? A legacy for the next generation of scholars in evolutionary medicine and palaeopathology,. In K. A. Plomp, C. A. Roberts, S. Elton, & G. R. Bentley (Eds.), Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach. Oxford University Press
• Roberts, C. (2022). Conceptual approaches to the bioarchaeology of “community” care using knowledge from personal experiences of care giving. In A. Schrenk, & L. Tremblay (Eds.), A Community of Care: Expanding Bioarchaeology of Care to Population Level Analyses. University Press of Florida
• Roberts, C. (2021). Reflections on the bioarchaeology of leprosy and identity, past and present. In E. Brenner, & F.-O. Touati (Eds.), Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages: from England to the Mediterranean. Manchester University Press
• Filipek, K. L., Roberts, C., Gowland, R. L., & Tucker, K. (2021). Alloparenting Adolescents: Evaluating the Social and Biological Impacts of Leprosy on Young People in Saxo-Norman England (9th to 12th Centuries AD) through Cross-Disciplinary Models of Care. In E. J. Kendall, & R. Kendall (Eds.), The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time (30-57). Routledge
• Roberts, C. (2020). Ethical challenges of working with archaeological human remains, with a focus on the UK. In K. Squires, D. Errickson, & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), Ethical approaches to human remains :a global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology (133-155). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_7
• Roberts, C. (2020). Fashionable but Debilitating Diseases: Tuberculosis Past and Present. In S. Sheridan, & L. Gregoricka (Eds.), Purposeful pain: bioarchaeological and biocultural perspective on the embodiment of intentional suffering (21-38). Springer Verlag
• Davies-Barrett, A., Antoine, D., & Roberts, C. (2020). Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification. In G. Robbins Schug (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030465-8
• Roberts, C. (2020). Manchester, Keith. In C. Smith, S. Blau, & D. Ubelaker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. (2nd). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_164
• Roberts, C. (2020). Palaeopathology: the study of ancient disease in archaeological human and nonhuman remains. In C. Smith, S. Blau, & D. Ubelaker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. (2nd). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_145
• Roberts, C. (2020). Exploring the third “epidemiological transition”: Paleopathology’s contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future. In G. Robbins Schug (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030465-3
• Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2020). The History of Tuberculosis from Earliest Times to the Development of Drugs. In L. Friedman, M. Dedicoat, & P. Davies (Eds.), Clinical Tuberculosis. (6th). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351249980-1
• Roberts, C. (2020). What Lies Beneath Those Urban Settings? The Value of Bioarchaeology in Understanding the Complexities of Urban Health and Well-Being. In T. Betsinger, & S. DeWitte (Eds.), The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities (485-510). Springer Nature
• Redfern, R., & Roberts, C. (2019). Trauma. In J. Buikstra (Ed.), Ortner’s Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains (211-284). (3rd ed.). Elsevier
• Roberts, C., & Manchester, K. (2019). A tribute to Don Ortner. In J. Buikstra (Ed.), Ortner’s Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains (xvii-xviii). (3rd ed.). Elsevier
• Roberts, C., & Redfern, R. (2019). The history of treponematosis continues to be one of the most contentious issues in science ‘ (Ortner 2003:273) – some perspectives from bioarchaeology. In S. Sretzer (Ed.), The Hidden Affliction: sexually-transmitted infections and infertility in history (93-123). University of Rochester Press and Boydell & Brewer
• UK Perspective. In K. Squires, D. Errickson, & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), A Global Challenge in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology (265-297). Springer Verlag
• Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2019). Bacterial infections. In J. Buikstra (Ed.), Ortner’s Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains (321-439). (3rd ed.). Elsevier
• Grauer, A., & Roberts, C. (2019). Fungal, viral, multicelled parasitic and protozoan infections. In J. Buikstra (Ed.), Ortner’s Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains (441-478). (3rd ed.). Elsevier
• Roberts, C. (2019). Infectious Disease: Introduction, periostosis, periostitis, osteomyelitis, and septic arthritis. In J. Buikstra (Ed.), Ortner’s Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains (285-319). (3rd ed.). Elsevier
• Roberts, C., & Brickley, M. (2018). Infectious and metabolic diseases: a synergistic bioarchaeology. In M. Katzenberg, & A. Grauer (Eds.), Biological anthropology of the human skeleton (415-446). (3rd ed.). Wiley
• Roberts, C., Steckel, R., & Larsen, C. (2018). Appendix 2: Database creation, management, and analysis. In R. Steckel, C. Larsen, C. Roberts, & J. Baten (Eds.), The backbone of Europe. Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia (428-448). Cambridge University Press
• Filipek, K., & Roberts, C. (2018). Bioarchaeology of infectious diseases. In W. Trevathan (Ed.), Int Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118584538
• Jay, M., Scarre, C., Roberts, C., Philip, G., Bradbury, J., & Davies, D. (2018). The ‘Invisible Dead’ Project: The database as a work-in-progress. In M. Holst, & M. Alexander (Eds.), Trends in Biological Anthropology (18-28). Oxbow
• Roberts, C., & Gowland, R. (2018). Bioarchaeology. In H. Callan (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (385-398). Springer Verlag
• Roberts, C. (2018). The bioarchaeology of leprosy: learning from the past. In D. Scollard, & T. Gillis (Eds.), International textbook of leprosy
• Roberts, C. (2018). Guidance on recording palaeopathology (abnormal variation). In P. Mitchell, & M. Brickley (Eds.), Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains (44-47). (2nd.). CIfA and BABAO
• Roberts, C., Redfern, R., & Bekvalac, J. (2018). Health and well-being: the contribution of the study of human remains to understanding the late medieval period in Britain. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (819-836). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.53
• Steckel, R., Larsen, C., Roberts, C., & Baten, J. (2018). Multidimensional patterns of European health, work, and violence over the last two millennia. In R. Steckel, C. Larsen, C. Roberts, & J. Baten (Eds.), The backbone of Europe. Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia (381-396). Cambridge University Press
• Sparacello, V., Panelli, C., Rossi, S., Dori, I., Varalli, A., Goude, G., Kacki, S., Partit, C., Roberts, C., & Moggi-Cecchi, J. (2018). Archaeothanatology and palaeobiology of the burials and “scattered human remains” from Arma dell’Aquila (Finale Ligure, Savona). In P. Biagi, & E. Starnini (Eds.), Gli scavi all’Arma dell’Aquila (Finale Ligure, Savona): le ricerche e I materiali degli scavi del Novecento (145-184). Società per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trieste
• Roberts, C., & Steckel, R. (2018). The developmental origins hypothesis and the history of health project. In R. Steckel, C. Larsen, C. Roberts, & J. Baten (Eds.), The backbone of Europe. Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia (325-351). Cambridge University Press
• Steckel, R., Larsen, C., Roberts, C., & Baten, J. (2018). Introduction to the European History of Health Project . In R. Steckel, C. Larsen, C. Roberts, & J. Baten (Eds.), The backbone of Europe. Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia (1-10). Cambridge University Press
• Roberts, C. (2017). Navigating approaches to impairment, "disability" and care in the past: the need for reflection. In L. Powell, W. Southwell-Wright, & R. Gowland (Eds.), Care in the past. Archaeological and interdisciplinary persectives (xi-xviii). Oxbow
• Roberts, C. (2017). Applying the “Index of care” to a person who experienced leprosy in late Medieval Chichester, England. In L. Tilley, & A. Schrenk (Eds.), New developments in the bioarchaeology of care (101-124). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39901-0_6
• Roberts, C. (2017). Developing and implementing 'big picture' approaches in bioarchaeology: opportunities and challenges. In J. Bradbury, & C. Scarre (Eds.), Engaging with the dead. Exploring changigng human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body (117-128). Oxbow
• Roberts, C. (2017). Palaeopathology: The Study of Ancient Disease in Archaeological Human and Nonhuman Remains. In C. Smith, S. Blau, & D. Ubelaker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. (2nd ed.). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_145-2
• Roberts, C. (2017). A bioarchaeology of care. In C. Nolte, B. Frohne, U. Halle, & S. Kerth (Eds.), Pre-Modern Dis/ability History. A Handbook (107-109). Affalterbach Didymos-Verlag
• Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., Roberts, C., García Sanjuán, L., & Hurtado Pérez, V. (2017). Tomb 3 at La Pijotilla (Solana de los Barros, Badajoz, Spain): A Bioarchaeological Study of a Copper Age Collective Burial. In T. Tomé, M. Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, A. Silva, C. Cunha, & R. Boaventura (Eds.), Current Approaches to Collective Burials in the Late European Prehistory (1-10). Archaeopress Archaeology
• Roberts, C. (2017). Keith Manchester. In S. Blau, & D. Ubelaker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. (2nd). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_164-2
• Roberts, C., & Gowland, R. (2015). Paleopathology. In K. Metheny, & M. Beaudry (Eds.), Archaeology of food (385-398). Rowman & Littlefield
• Roberts, C. (2015). What did agriculture do for us? The bioarchaeology of health and diet. In G. Barker, & C. Goucher (Eds.), The Cambridge World History. Volume 2: A world with agriculture, 12,000 BCE-500 CE (93-123). (New ed.). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511978807.005
• Roberts, C. (2014). Human remains. In J. Balme, & A. Paterson (Eds.), Archaeology in practice. A student guide to archaeological analyses (300-335). (2nd ed.). Wiley
• Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2014). History of tuberculosis from the earliest times to the development of drugs. In P. Davies, P. Barnes, & S. Gordon (Eds.), Clinical tuberculosis. (5th ed.). Hodder Arnold
• Roberts, C. (2014). Pathological conditions and anomalies in archaeological investigations. In S. Blau, & D. Ubelaker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (5823-5829). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_145
• Roberts, C. (2014). Manchester, Keith. In S. Blau, & D. Ubelaker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (4618-4621). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_164
• Roberts, C. (2013). The bioarchaeology of health and well-being: its contribution to understanding the past. In L. Stutz, & S. Tarlow (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial (79-98). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199569069.013.0006
• Roberts, C. (2013). Archaeological human remains and laboratories: attaining acceptable standards for curating human skeletal remains for teaching and research. In M. Giesen (Ed.), Curating human remains: caring for the dead in the United Kingdom (123-134). Boydell & Brewer
• Roberts, C. (2013). Malnutrition. In M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S. Keynes, & D. Scragg (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England (304-305). (2nd ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118316061.ch13
• Roberts, C. (2013). Parasites. In M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S. Keynes, & D. Scragg (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. (2nd ed.). Wiley
• Roberts, C. (2013). Social aspects of the Bioarchaeology of leprosy. In N. Lozada, & B. O’Donnabhain (Eds.), The dead tell tales: Essays in honor of Jane E. Buikstra (136-144). Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
• Roberts, C. (2013). Surgery. In M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S. Keynes, & D. Scragg (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England (445-447). (2nd ed.). Wiley
• Roberts, C. (2012). Re-emerging infections: developments in bioarchaeological contributions to understanding tuberculosis today. In A. Grauer (Ed.), A companion to paleopathology (434-457). Wiley
• Roberts, C. (2011). The bioarchaeology of leprosy and tuberculosis: a comparative study of perceptions, stigma, diagnosis and treatment. In S. Agarwal, & B. Glencross (Eds.), Social bioarchaeology (252-281). Wiley
• Roberts, C. (2010). Human Remains. In G. Burleigh, & K. Fitzpatrick-Matthews (Eds.), Excavations at Baldock, Hertfordshire, 1978-1994. Volume 1. An Iron Age and Romano-British cemetery at Wallington Road (187-197). North Hertfordshire District Council Museums Service and North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society
• Roberts, C. (2009). Health and welfare in medieval England: the human skeletal remains contextualised. In R. Gilchrist, & A. Reynolds (Eds.), Reflections : 50 years of medieval archaeology, 1957-2007 (307-325). Taylor and Francis
• Roberts, C. (2009). Health and welfare: lessons from the past. In A. Amin, & M. O'Neill (Eds.), Thinking about almost everything : new ideas to light up minds (29-30). Profile
• Roberts, C. (2008). Understanding health: past and present. In C. Panter-Brick, & A. Fuentes (Eds.), Health, risk and adversity (13-25). Berghahn Journals
• Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2008). The history of tuberculosis from earliest times to the development of drugs. In P. Davies, P. Barnes, & S. Gordon (Eds.), Clinical tuberculosis (3-19). (4th). Hodder Arnold
• Roberts, C. (2008). Health, healing and disease. In D. Pearsall (Ed.), Encylopedia of archaeology (1417-1426). Academic Press
• Roberts, C., & Cox, M. (2007). The impact of economic intensification and social complexity on human health in Britain from 6000 BP (Neolithic) and the introduction of farming to the mid-nineteenth century AD. In M. Cohen, & G. Crane-Kramer (Eds.), Ancient health : skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification (149-163). University Press of Florida
• Roberts, C. (2007). Medical science and archaeology. In B. Fagan (Ed.), Discovery! unearthing the new treasures of archaeology (234-237). Thames & Hudson
• Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2007). The evidence for tuberculosis in the Eastern Mediterranean:past and current research and future prospects. In M. Faerman, L. Horwitz, T. Kahana, & U. Zilberman (Eds.), Faces from the past : diachronic patterns in the biology of human populations from the Eastern Mediterranean (213-227). Archaeopress
• Roberts, C., & Cox, M. (2006). The Human Population: Health and Disease. In M. Todd (Ed.), A companion to Roman Britain (242-272). Blackwell
• Roberts, C. (2006). A view from afar. Bioarchaeology in Britain. In J. Buikstra, & L. Beck (Eds.), Bioarchaeology : the contextual analysis of human remains (417-439). Academic Press
• Roberts, C., Lagia, A., Triantaphyllou, S., Bourbou, C., & Tsaliki, A. (2005). Health and disease in Greece: past, present and future. In H. King (Ed.), Health in antiquity (32-58). Routledge
• Roberts, C. (2004). General medicine. In B. Fagan (Ed.), The seventy great inventions of the ancient world (225-260). Thames & Hudson
• Boghi, F., & Roberts, C. (2004). Kempston: The cremations (3801-3805). In M. Dawson (Ed.), Archaeology in the Bedford region (315-321). Archaeopress
• Boylston, A., & Roberts, C. (2004). Kempston: The Roman inhumations. In M. Dawson (Ed.), Archaeology in the Bedford region (322-350). Archaeopress
• Roberts, C., & Connell, B. (2004). Guidance on recording palaeopathology. In M. Brickley, & J. McKinley (Eds.), Guidelines to the standards for recording human remains (34-39). British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology and Institute of Field Archaeologists
• Roberts, C., & Buikstra, J. (2003). History of tuberculosis from the earliest times to the introduction of drug therapy. In P. Davies (Ed.), Clinical tuberculosis (3-20). (3rd ed.). Edward Arnold
• Roberts, C., & Lewis, M. (2002). Ecology and infectious disease in Britain from prehistory to the present: the case of respiratory infection. In P. Bennike, E. Bodzsar, & C. Susanne (Eds.), Ecological aspects of past human settlements in Europe (179-192). Eotvos University Press
• Roberts, C. (2000). Did they take sugar:the use of skeletal evidence in the study of disability in past populations. In J. Hubert (Ed.), Madness, disability and social exclusion : the archaeology and anthropology of difference (46-59). Routledge
• Roberts, C. (2000). Infectious disease in biocultural perspective: past, present and future work in Britain. In M. Cox, & S. Mays (Eds.), Human osteology : in archaeology and forensic science (145-162). Cambridge University Press
• Roberts, C. (2000). Trauma in biocultural perspective: past, present and future work in Britain. In M. Cox, & S. Mays (Eds.), Human osteology in archaeology and forensic science (337-356). Greenwich Medical Media
• Roberts, C., Lewis, M., & Boocock, P. (1998). Infectious disease, sex and gender: the complexity of it all. In A. Grauer, & P. Stuart-Macadam (Eds.), Sex and gender in paleopathological perspective (93-113). Cambridge University Press

Conference Paper

• Roberts, C. (2012, December). Where have we been, where are we now, and what does the future hold? palaeopathology in the Uk over the last 30 years, with a few bees in my bonnet
• Redfern, R., & Roberts, C. (2001, September). Health in Romano-British urban communities: reflections from the cemeteries. Presented at 22nd Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, Birmingham, England
• Roberts, C., & McKinley, J. (2000, April). A review of trepanations in British antiquity focusing on funerary context to explain their occurrence. Presented at Trepanation : history, discovery, theory. International colloquium on cranial trepanation in human history., Birmingham University
• Roberts, C. (2000, September). Health and disease in past British populations, prehistory to the later Medieval period: some perspectives on the evidence and its problems. Presented at 4th Kongress der Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie., Potsdam, Germany
• Roberts, C. (2002, December). Palaeopathology and archaeology: the current state of play
• Schultz, M., & Roberts, C. (2002, December). Diagnosis of leprosy from an English later Medieval leprosy hospital using histological analysis. Presented at The past and present of leprosy. Archaeological, historical, palaeopathological and clinical approaches. Proceedings of the International Congress on the Evolution and palaeoepidemiology of the infectious diseases 3 (ICEPID)., Bradford University
• Roberts, C. (2002, December). The antiquity of leprosy in Britain: The skeletal evidence. Presented at The past and present of leprosy. Archaeological, historical, palaeopathological and clinical approaches. International Congress on the Evolution and palaeoepidemiology of the infectious diseases 3 (ICEPID), 26th-31st July 1999., Bradford University
• Roberts, C. (2000, January). Tuberculosis:a multidisciplinary approach to past and current concepts, causes and treatment of this infectious disease. Presented at Practitioners, practices and patients : new approaches to medical archaeology and anthropology., Magdalene College, Cambridge University
• 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
• Roberts, C. (1999, December). Rib lesions and tuberculosis: the state of play
• Roberts, C. (1994, December). Treponematosis in Gloucester, England: a theoretical and practical approach to the pre-Columbian theory

Edited book

• Plomp, K. A., Roberts, C. A., Elton, S., & Bentley, G. R. (Eds.). (2022). Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach. Oxford University Press
• Steckel, R., Larsen, C., Roberts, C., & Baten, J. (Eds.). (2018). The backbone of Europe. Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379830
• Buikstra, J., & Roberts, C. (Eds.). (2012). The Global History of Paleopathology: Pioneers and Prospects. Oxford University Press
• Roberts, C., Lewis, M., & Manchester, K. (Eds.). (2002). The past and present of leprosy: Archaeological, historical, palaeopathological and clinical approaches: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Evolution and palaeoepidemiology of the infectious diseases (ICEPID)3rd: University of Bradford, 26th-31st July 1999. Archaeopress
• Hunter, J., Roberts, C., & Martin, A. (Eds.). (1996). Studies in crime: an introduction to forensic archaeology. BT Batsford Ltd
• Roberts, C., Lee, F., & Bintliff, J. (Eds.). (1989). Burial archaeology. Current research, methods and developments. British Archaeological Reports

Journal Article

• Morgan Jones, M., Abrams, D., & Lahiri, A. (online). Shape the Future: how the social sciences, humanities and the arts can SHAPE a positive, post-pandemic future for peoples, economies and environments (Appendix 16 (240-244):Roberts CA: Words, stigma and the coronavirus: implications of COVID-19 for holistic approaches to infectious diseases). Journal of the British Academy, 8, 167-266. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/008.167
• Bigué, R.-A., Ribot, I., Brickley, M. B., Kahlon, B., & Roberts, C. A. (2024). Heterogeneity in experiences of vitamin D deficiency in an early to mid-19th century population from Montreal, Quebec. International Journal of Paleopathology, 47, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2024.07.003
• Fiorin, E., Roberts, C. A., Baldoni, M., Connelly, E., Lee, C., Ottoni, C., & Cristiani, E. (2024). First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 2452. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52422-8
• Cristiani, E., Roberts, C., & Fiorin, E. (2023). Knowledge and perception of leprosy amongst high school students in Italy: A survey. Leprosy Review, 94(4), 341-349. https://doi.org/10.47276/lr.94.4.341
• Robbins Schug, G., Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Baker, B. J., Berger, E., Buzon, M. R., Davies-Barrett, A. M., Goldstein, L., Grauer, A. L., Gregoricka, L. A., Halcrow, S. E., Knudson, K. J., Larsen, C. S., Martin, D. L., Nystrom, K. C., Perry, M. A., Roberts, C. A., Santos, A. L., Stojanowski, C. M., Suby, J. A., …Zakrzewski, S. R. (2023). Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(4), Article e2209472120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209472120
• Tipper, S., Wilson, P., & Roberts, C. A. (2023). Spondylolysis in ancient Nubian skeletal populations. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 33(5), 876-885. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3241
• Roberts, C. A. (2022). Earliest known surgery was of a child in Borneo 31,000 years ago. Nature, 609(7927), https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02340-4
• Caine, A. C., Roberts, C. A., & Kennet, D. (2022). A community in transition: Analysis of health and well‐being in people living during and following aridification. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 32(5), 1082-1095. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3134
• Petersone‐Gordina, E., Montgomery, J., Millard, A. R., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., Roberts, C. A., Gerhards, G., & Zelčs, V. (2022). Strontium isotope identification of possible rural immigrants in 17th century mass graves at St. Gertrude Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia. Archaeometry, 64(4), 1028-1043. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12759
• Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Agarwal, S. C., Baker, B. J., Bartelink, E. J., Berger, E., Blevins, K. E., Bolhofner, K., Boutin, A. T., Brickley, M. B., Buzon, M. R., de la Cova, C., Goldstein, L., Gowland, R., Grauer, A. L., Gregoricka, L. A., Halcrow, S. E., Hall, S. A., Hillson, S., Kakaliouras, A. M., …Zakrzewski, S. R. (2022). Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(S74), 54-114. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24494
• Squires, K., Roberts, C. A., Sardi, M. L., & Márquez-Grant, N. (2022). Ética, Bioarqueología y Publicaciones Científicas: Un Estudio de Caso. Runa, archivo para las ciencias del hombre, 43(2), 245-264. https://doi.org/10.34096/runa.v43i2.10794
• Filipek, K., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Moore, J., Tucker, K., & Evans, J. (2022). Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobilityhistories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. MaryMagdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England). American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(1), 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24498
• Squires, K., Roberts, C. A., & Márquez‐Grant, N. (2022). Ethical considerations and publishing in human bioarcheology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177(4), 615-619. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24467
• Gorman, J., Roberts, C. A., Newsham, S., & Bentley, G. R. (2022). Squatting, Pelvic Morphology, and a Reconsideration of Childbirth Difficulties. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 10(1), 243-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoac017
• Filipek, K. L., Roberts, C. A., Gowland, R. L., Montgomery, J., & Evans, J. A. (2021). Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(6), 1180-1191. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3029
• Davies-Barrett, A. M., Roberts, C. A., & Antoine, D. (2021). Time to be nosy: Evaluating the impact of environmental and sociocultural changes on maxillary sinusitis in the Middle Nile Valley (Neolithic to Medieval periods). International Journal of Paleopathology, 34, 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.07.004
• Mora, A., Pacheco, A., Roberts, C., & Smith, C. (2021). Palaeopathology and amino acid δ13C analysis: Investigating pre-Columbian individuals with tuberculosis at Pica 8, northern Chile (1050-500 BP). Journal of Archaeological Science, 129, Article 105367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105367
• Marques, C., Roberts, C., Matos, V., & Buikstra, J. (2021). Cancers as Rare Diseases: Terminological, Theoretical, and Methodological Biases. International Journal of Paleopathology, 32, 111-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2020.12.005
• Pfrengle, S., Neukamm, J., Guellil, M., Keller, M., Molak, M., Avanzi, C., Kushniarevich, A., Montes, N., Neumann, G. U., Reiter, E., Tukhbatova, R. I., Berezina, N. Y., Buzhilova, A. P., Korobov, D. S., Suppersberger Hamre, S., Matos, V. M., Ferreira, M. T., González-Garrido, L., Wasterlain, S. N., Lopes, C., …Schuenemann, V. J. (2021). Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes. BMC Biology, 19(1), Article 220. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01120-2
• Petersone-Gordina, E., Roberts, C., Kazarina, A., Jakob, T., Ranka, R., Zole, E., Gerhards, G., & Kimsis, J. (2021). Differential diagnosis of abnormal enlargement and bending deformities in the skeleton of a medieval child from St Peter’s Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia
• Petersone‐Gordina, E., Montgomery, J., Millard, A., Roberts, C., Gröcke, D., & Gerhards, G. (2020). Investigating dietary life histories and mobility of children buried in St Gertrude Church Cemetery, Riga, Latvia (15th– 17th centuries AD). Archaeometry, 62(S1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12520
• and present. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 171: Yearbook of Physical Anthropology(S70), 5-41. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23988
• Li, M., Roberts, C. A., Chen, L., & Zhao, D. (2019). A male adult skeleton from the Han Dynasty in Shaanxi, China (202 BC–220 AD) with bone changes that possibly represent spinal tuberculosis. International Journal of Paleopathology, 27, 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.08.003
• Afshar, Z., Roberts, C., Millard, A., & Gröcke, D. (2019). The Evolution of Diet During the 5th to 2nd millennium BCE for the ‎population buried at Tepe Hissar, North-eastern Central Iranian Plateau: ‎The Stable Isotope Evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 27, Article 101983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101983
• Crespo, F., White, J., & Roberts, C. (2019). Revisiting the tuberculosis and leprosy cross-immunity hypothesis: expanding the dialogue between immunology and paleopathology. International Journal of Paleopathology, 26, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.05.005
• Davies-Barrett, A. M., Antoine, D., & Roberts, C. A. (2019). Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease: A method for recording prevalence from sites with differing preservation. American journal of physical anthropology, 168(3), 530-542. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23769
• Sparacello, V., Rossi, S., Pettitt, P., Roberts, C., Salvatore, J., & Formicola, V. (2018). New insights on Final Epigravettian funerary behaviour at Arene Candide Cave (Western Liguria, Italy) from osteological and spatial analysis of secondary bone deposits. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 96, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.4436/jass.96003
• Perri, A., Power, R., Stuijts, I., Heinrich, S., Talamo, S., Hamilton-Dyer, S., & Roberts, C. (2018). Detecting hidden diets and disease: Zoonotic parasites and fish consumption in Mesolithic Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 97, 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.07.010
• Hunt, K., Roberts, C., & Kirkpatrick, C. (2018). Taking Stock: A systematic review of archaeological evidence of cancers in human and early hominin remains. International Journal of Paleopathology, 21, 12-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2018.03.002
• Mora, A., Pacheco, A., Roberts, C., & Smith, C. (2018). Pica 8: Refining dietary reconstruction through amino acid δ 13 C analysis of tendon collagen and hair keratin. Journal of Archaeological Science, 93, 94-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.03.002
• Afshar, Z., Roberts, C., & Millard, A. (2018). Interpersonal violence among the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages inhabitants living on the Central Plateau of Iran: A voice from Tepe Hissar. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 75(1), 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0723
• Petersone-Gordina, P., Roberts, C., Millard, A., Montgomery, J., & Gerhards, G. (2018). Dental disease and dietary isotopes of individuals from St Gertrude Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0191757. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191757
• Sparacello, V. S., Roberts, C. A., Kerudin, A., & Müller, R. (2017). A 6500-year-old Middle Neolithic child from Pollera Cave (Liguria, Italy) with probable multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis. International Journal of Paleopathology, 17, 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2017.01.004
• Sparacello, V., Roberts, C., Canci, A., Moggi-Cecchi, J., & Marchi, D. (2016). Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy). International Journal of Paleopathology, 15, 50-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.08.003
• Bradbury, J., Davies, D., Jay, M., Philip, G., Roberts, C., & Scarre, C. (2016). Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23(2), 561-591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-015-9251-1
• 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
• Müller, R., Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2016). Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: Presence of environmental bacteria in human archaeological remains. Journal of Archaeological Science, 68, 5-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.03.002
• Roberts, C. (2016). Palaeopathology and its relevance to understanding health and disease today: the impact of the environment on health, past and present. Anthropological Review, 79(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1515/anre-2016-0001
• Filipek-Ogden, K. L., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Gowland, R., & Tucker, K. (2016). Keeping up with the kids: mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester). American journal of physical anthropology, 159(s62), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22955
• Gilmour, R., Gowland, R., Roberts, C., Bernert, Z., Klara Kiss, K., & Lassanyi, G. (2015). Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary. International Journal of Paleopathology, 11, 75-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.08.004
• Plomp, K., Roberts, C., & Strand Viðarsdόttir, U. (2015). Does the correlation between Schmorl’s nodes and vertebral morphology extend into the lumbar spine?. American journal of physical anthropology, 157(3), 526-534. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22730
• Plomp, K., Roberts, C., & Strand Viðarsdόttir, U. (2015). Morphological Characteristics of Healthy and Osteoarthritic Joint Surfaces in Archaeological Skeletons. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 25(4), 515-527. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2319
• Roberts, C. (2015). Old World tuberculosis: evidence from human remains with a review of current research and future prospects. Tuberculosis, 95(Supplement 1), S117-S121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2015.02.018
• Roberts, C., & Bernard, M.-C. (2015). Tuberculosis: a biosocial study of admissions to a children’s sanatorium (1936-1954) in Stannington, Northumberland, England. Tuberculosis, 95(Supplement 1), S105-S108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2015.02.012
• Müller, R., Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2015). Complications in the study of ancient tuberculosis: non-specificity of IS6110 PCRs. Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 1(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1179/2054892314y.0000000002
• Mant, M., & Roberts, C. (2015). Diet and dental caries in post-medieval London. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 19(1), 188-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-014-0286-x
• Roberts, C. (2015). The application of bioarchaeology to reconstructing our ancestors' lives in late Medieval British funerary contexts: a brief history
• Binder, M., & Roberts, C. (2014). Calcified structures associated with human skeletal remains: Possible atherosclerosis affecting the population buried at Amara West, Sudan (1300–800 BC). International Journal of Paleopathology, 6, 20-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2014.03.003
• Müller, R., Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2014). Genotyping of ancient Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains reveals historic genetic diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1781), Article 20133236. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3236
• Binder, M., Roberts, C., Spencer, N., Antoine, D., & Cartwright, C. (2014). On the Antiquity of Cancer: Evidence for Metastatic Carcinoma in a Young Man from Ancient Nubia (c. 1200BC). PLoS ONE, 9(3), Article 90924. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090924
• Rubini, M., Zaio, P., & Roberts, C. (2014). Tuberculosis and leprosy in Italy. New skeletal evidence. HOMO, 65(1), 13-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchb.2013.07.006
• Müller, R., Roberts, C., & Brown, T. (2014). Biomolecular identification of ancient Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in human remains from Britain and continental Europe. American journal of physical anthropology, 153(2), 178-189. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22417
• Rissech, C., Roberts, C., Tomás-Batlle, X., Tomás-Gimeno, X., Fuller, B., Fernandez, P., & Botella, M. (2013). A Roman Skeleton with Possible Treponematosis in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula: A Morphological and Radiological Study. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 23(6), 651-663. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.1293
• Groves, S., Roberts, C., Lucy, S., Pearson, G., Gröcke, D., Nowell, G., Macpherson, C., & Young, G. (2013). Mobility histories of 7th-9th century AD people buried at Early Medieval Bamburgh, Northumberland, England. American journal of physical anthropology, 151(3), 462-476. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22290
• Roberts, C., Millard, A., Nowell, G., Gröcke, D., Macpherson, C., Pearson, G., & Evans, D. (2013). Isotopic tracing of the impact of mobility on infectious disease: The origin of people with treponematosis buried in hull, England, in the late medieval period. American journal of physical anthropology, 150(2), 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22203
• Plomp, K., Roberts, C., & Strand Viðarsdóttir, U. (2012). Vertebral morphology influences the development of Schmorl's nodes in the lower thoracic vertebrae. American journal of physical anthropology, 149(4), 572-582. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22168
• 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
• Grimoud, A., Roberts, C., Boimond, A., Sevin, A., Lucas, S., & Passarius, O. (2012). Topographical presentation of dental wear as arches in a French mediaeval population. Archives of Oral Biology, 57(6), 841-852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2011.11.006
• Assis, S., Santos, A., & Roberts, C. (2012). Does hypertrophic osteoarthropathy help in the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases: evidence from the Coimbra Skeletal Identified Collection. International Journal of Paleopathology, 1(3-4), 155-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2012.02.009
• Roberts, C., & Mays, S. (2011). Study and restudy of curated skeletal collections in bioarchaeology: a perspective on the UK and the implications for future curation of human remains. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 21(5), 626-630. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.1175
• Roberts, C. (2010). Adaptation of populations to changing environments: Bioarchaeological perspectives on health for the past, present and future. Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (En ligne), 22(1-2), 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13219-010-0008-9
• Wilbur, A., Bouwman, A., Stone, A., Roberts, C., Pfister, L., Buikstra, J., & Brown, T. (2009). Deficiencies and challenges in the study of ancient tuberculosis DNA. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(9), 1990-1997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.05.020
• Roberts, C., Pfister, L., & Mays, S. (2009). Letter to the editor. Was tuberculosis present in Homo erectus in Turkey?. American journal of physical anthropology, 139(3), 442-444. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21056
• Redman, J., Shaw, M., Mallet, A., Santos, A., Roberts, C., Gernaey, A., & Minnikin, D. (2009). Mycocerosic acid biomarkers for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in the Coimbra skeletal collection. Tuberculosis, 89(4), 267-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2009.04.001
• Park, V., Roberts, C., & Jakob, T. (2009). Palaeopathology in Britain: a critical analysis of publications with the aim of exploring recent trends (1997-2006). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 19, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.1068
• Stone, A., Wilbur, A., Buikstra, J., & Roberts, C. (2009). Tuberculosis and leprosy in perspective. American journal of physical anthropology, 140(Supplement 49), 66-94. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21185
• Jurmain, R., & Roberts, C. (2008). Juggling the evidence: the purported 'acrobat' from Tell Brak. Antiquity, 82(318),
• Roberts, C., & Ingham, S. (2008). Using ancient DNA analysis in palaeopathology: a critical analysis of published papers with recommendations for future work. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 18(6), 600-613. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.966
• Roberts, C., Powell, M., & Buikstra, J. (2007). Preface. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 17(4), 327-336. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.904
• Roberts, C. (2007). A bioarchaeological study of maxillary sinusitis. American journal of physical anthropology, 133(2), 792-807. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20601
• Djuric, M., Roberts, C., Rakocevic, Z., Djonic, D., & Lesic, A. (2006). Fractures in late Medieval skeletal populations from Serbia. American journal of physical anthropology, 130(2), 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20270
• Santos, A., & Roberts, C. (2006). Anatomy of a serial killer: differential diagnosis of tuberculosis based on rib lesions of adult individuals from the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection,Portugal. American journal of physical anthropology, 130(1), 38-49. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20160
• Von Hunnius, T., Roberts, C., Saunders, S., & Boylston, A. (2006). Histological identification of syphilis in pre-Columbian England. American journal of physical anthropology, 129(4), 559-566. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20335
• Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Powlesland, D., & Roberts, C. (2005). Continuity or colonization in Anglo-Saxon England? Isotope evidence for mobility, subsistence practice, and status at West Heslerton. American journal of physical anthropology, 126(2), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20111
• Millard, A., Roberts, C., & Hughes, S. (2005). Isotopic evidence for migration in Medieval England: the potential for tracking the introduction of disease. Social biology and human affairs, 70(1), 9-13
• Roberts, C., Knusel, C., & Race, L. (2004). A foot deformity from a Romano-British cemetery at Gloucester, England and the current evidence for Talipes in palaeopathology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 14(5), 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.723
• Budd, P., Millard, A., Chenery, C., Lucy, S., & Roberts, C. (2004). Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis: a report from Britain. Antiquity, 78(299), 127-141. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0009298x
• Roberts, C. (2003). Bees in my bonnet:reflections on biological anthropology in the UK. Archaeological review from Cambridge, 16(2), 96-116
• Groves, S., Roberts, C., Johnstone, C., Hall, R., & Dobney, K. (2003). A high status burial from Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire, England: differential diagnosis of a chest deformity. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 13(6), 358-368. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.696
• Byers, S., & Roberts, C. (2003). Bayes' theorem in palaeopathological diagnosis. American journal of physical anthropology, 121(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.10164
• Roberts, C. (2002). Tuberculosis in Britain: its history and palaeoepidemiology. Antropologia Portuguesa, 19, 101-119
• Djuric-Srejic, M., & Roberts, C. (2001). Palaeopathological evidence of infectious disease in skeletal populations from later medieval Serbia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 11(5), 311-320. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.570
• Gernaey, A., Minnikin, D., Copley, M., Dixon, R., Middleton, J., & Roberts, C. (2001). Mycolic acids and ancient DNA confirm an osteological diagnosis of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, 81(4), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.1054/tube.2001.0295
• Santos, A., & Roberts, C. (2001). A picture of tuberculosis in young Portuguese people in the early 20th century: A multidisciplinary study of the skeletal and historical evidence. American journal of physical anthropology, 115(1), 38-49. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1054
• Roberts, C., & Grauer, A. (2001). Commentary: Bones, bodies and representivity in the archaeological record. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30(1), 109-110
• Dixon, R., & Roberts, C. (2001). Modern and ancient scourges:the application of ancient DNA to the analysis of tuberculosis and leprosy from archaeologically derived human remains. Ancient biomolecules, 3(3), 181-193
• Boylston, A., Knusel, C., Roberts, C., & Dawson, M. (2000). Investigation of a Romano-British rural ritual in Bedford, England. Journal of Archaeological Science, 27(3), 241-254. https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.1999.0451
• Judd, M., & Roberts, C. (1999). Fracture trauma in a Medieval British farming village. American journal of physical anthropology, 109(2), 229-243. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28sici%291096-8644%28199906%29109%3A2%3C229%3A%3Aaid-ajpa7%3E3.0.co%3B2-y
• Ackroyd, R., Lucy, D., Pollard, A., & Roberts, C. (1999). Nasty, brutish, but not necessarily short: A reconsideration of the statistical methods used to calculate age at death from adult human and dental age indicators. American Antiquity, 64(1), 55-70. https://doi.org/10.2307/2694345
• Judd, M., & Roberts, C. (1998). Fracture patterns at the medieval leper hospital in Chichester. American journal of physical anthropology, 105(1), 43-55. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28sici%291096-8644%28199801%29105%3A1%3C43%3A%3Aaid-ajpa5%3E3.0.co%3B2-e
• Roberts, C., Boylston, A., Buckley, L., Chamberlain, A., & Murphy, E. (1998). Rib lesions and tuberculosis: the palaeopathological evidence. Tubercle and lung disease, 79(1), 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1054/tuld.1998.0005
• Ribot, I., & Roberts, C. (1996). A study of non-specific stress indicators and skeletal growth in two Medieval subadult populations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 23, 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.1996.0006
• Grauer, A., & Roberts, C. (1996). Palaeoepidemiology, healing and possible treatment of trauma in the Medieval cemetery population of St. Helen-on-the-Walls, York, England. American journal of physical anthropology, 100(4), 531-544. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28sici%291096-8644%28199608%29100%3A4%3C531%3A%3Aaid-ajpa7%3E3.0.co%3B2-t
• Knusel, C., Roberts, C., & Boylston, A. (1996). Brief communication : When Adam delved : an activity-related lesion in three human skeletal populations. American journal of physical anthropology, 100(427-434), 427-434. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28sici%291096-8644%28199607%29100%3A3%3C427%3A%3Aaid-ajpa9%3E3.0.co%3B2-q
• Lewis, M., Roberts, C., & Manchester, K. (1995). A comparative study of the prevalence of maxillary sinusitis in Medieval urban and rural populations in Northern England. American journal of physical anthropology, 98(4), 497-506. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330980409
• Boocock, P., Roberts, C., & Manchester, K. (1995). Maxillary sinusitis in Medieval Chichester, England. American journal of physical anthropology, 98(4), 483-495. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330980408
• Roberts, C., Lucy, D., & Manchester, K. (1994). Inflammatory lesions of ribs: an analysis of the Terry Collection. American journal of physical anthropology, 95(2), 169-182. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330950205

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Roberts, C. Teaching archaeology in care homes, I learned how older people are often the best students
• Hind, K., & Roberts, C. (online). We have weaker bones than our hunter-gatherer ancestors – this is what you can do about it'
• Roberts, C., Wrobel, G., & Westaway, M. (2020). What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history – and the human response to them

Other (Print)

• McCarrison, K., & Roberts, C. Skeleton Science. Teacher’s Resource Pack
• Roberts, C. (online). Guidance on recording palaeopathology (abnormal variation) - long version
• McCarrison, K., & Roberts, C. Skeleton Science. Archaeology for the older generation
• Abrams, D., Impact, C. F. H., Hand, D., Heath, A., Karlsen, S., Mills, M., Nazroo, J., Richards, L., & Roberts, C. (2020). What factors make a community more vulnerable to COVID-19? A summary of a British Academy workshop
• Roberts, C. (2019). Life-long learning using archaeology in care homes
• Roberts, C. (2013). Human remains: should we study them?
• Roberts, C., Alves Cardoso, F., Bernofsky, K., Henderson, C., Jakob, T., Plomp, K., Ponce, P., Sharman, J., & Spencer, R. (2012). Palaeopathology: studying the origin, evolution and frequency of disease in human remains from archaeological sites