Leiden University Student Repository

Persistent URL of this record https://hdl.handle.net/1887/38197

Documents

    • Bachelor thesis
    • closed access

In Collections

This item can be found in the following collections:

Westelaken, Agnes (2016)

Social status through vertebral pathologies on post-medieval cemeteries in England.

Bachelor thesis | Archeologie (BA)
In this thesis the possible correlation between vertebral pathologies and social status was examined in two post-medieval populations from London (1700-1850 AD). One group contained individuals of high social status, Chelsea Old Church, and one of lower social status, Cross Bones. As it could be expected that individuals of lower social class may have undertaken more physically demanding activities, vertebral pathologies which can appear as a result of stress should be more abundant in the Cross Bones group. Conversely diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), a disease associated with dietary excess should be more visible in high social status groups. The groups are compared using age groups and chi-squared tests.
vertebral pathologies
social status
post medieval
England
Cross Bones
Chelsea Old Church
London
Author
Westelaken, Agnes
Faculty
Faculty of Archaeology
Specialisation
Osteoarchaeology
Supervisors
Inskip, Sarah
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en