AGES

Archaeological, Geographical & Environmental Sciences

Dr Jo Buckberry

Lecturer in Biological Anthropology

Archaeological Sciences

Room:	Phoenix SW 0.39
Tel:	(01274) 234289
Email:	J.Buckberry@Bradford.ac.uk

Jo has a BA in Archaeology (1997, Durham) and a MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology (1999, Sheffield). She completed her PhD entitled 'A Cultural and Anthropological Study of Conversion Period and Later Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire' at the University of Sheffield in 2004, and joined the University of Bradford later that year.

Jo is the course manager for MSc Human Osteology and Palaeopathology. She is module co-ordinator for 'Human Osteoarchaeology' (Level 3), 'Archaeology of Human Remains' (Level M), 'Forensic Anthropology' (Level 3) and 'Introduction to Forensic Anthropology for CSIs' (Level M). She contributes to the teaching of 'Bioarchaeology' (Level 2), 'Palaeopathology' (Level M) and 'Funerary Archaeology' (Level M) and runs some of the laboratory sessions for 'Human Evolution' (Level 1).

Professional activities

Jo is the collections manager of the Biological Anthropology Research Centre (BARC) collection. She was a non-executive member of the BABAO committee between 2007 and 2010, and is co-editing the BABAO conference proceedings for the 12th Annual Conference (2010) with Dr Piers Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

Research

Jo's main area of research is on the archaeology and anthropology of later Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. Her PhD thesis investigated the changing form and location of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries from the 5th to 11th centuries in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and included a detailed investigation of variation in late Anglo-Saxon burial practices, and a bio-cultural analysis of several cemetery populations (Buckberry 2007; 2010). This has formed the basis for much of her current research, including a British Academy funded project which investigated social status and health status in late Anglo-Saxon cemeteries (Craig and Buckberry 2010; Buckberry et al. in prep). Recently, Jo co-edited a volume on later Anglo-Saxon burial practices with Annia Cherryson (published summer 2010). Jo is currently working with Dr Janet Montgomery and Professor Julia Lee-Thorp on the analysis of the Masham Anglo-Scandinavian cemetery. She is a co-investigator on a British Academy funded project to investigate the Anglo-Scandinavian cemetery at Carlisle Cathedral (with Drs Mike McCarthy, Cathy Batt and Janet Montgomery). Jo is continuing her research on Anglo-Saxon execution cemeteries, following the re-analysis of Walkington Wold (Buckberry and Hadley 2007; 2010; Buckberry 2008), which has included contributing to the skeletal analysis of the skeletal remains from Old Dairy Cottage (Hants).

Jo's research extends to the analysis of later medieval and post-medieval cemeteries, including high status burials from Stirling Castle (with Dr Janet Montgomery and Professor Julia Lee-Thorp, funded by Historic Scotland) and the Villiers Street Crypt, Sunderland (with Rob Janaway and Dr Andrew Wilson). She is a co-applicant on You Are What You Ate: Food Lessons from the Past (a Society Award for engaging science funded by The Wellcome Trust), with Dr Iona McCleery (PI; University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Shearman (Senior Cultural Officer, Wakefield Council).

She is currently working with Dr Andrew Wilson, Dr Chris Gaffney (AGES) and Dr Hassan Ugail in the Centre of Visual Computing on the JISC-funded project 'From Cemetery to Clinic', which aims to provide a user-friendly website incorporating pathological descriptions, 3D laser scans, radiographs and archaeological information about individuals with leprosy from the leprosarium of St James and St Mary Magdalene, Chichester, alongside clinical descriptions and images of leprosy.

Jo continues to research age estimation and sex assessment methods, and particular is continuing her research on the age-related changes observable on the auricular surface of the ilium. She was an invited researcher for the international project ‘The Basics in Palaeodemography: Calibration of Age Indicators in the Early Medieval Skeletal Sample of Lauchheim’, which investigated the reliability of different adult age estimation techniques on a sample of 120 individuals from Lauchheim, Germany (Wittwer-Backofen et al. 2008). The research has now been extended, and a series of age estimation methods have been applied to the known-age skeletal collection from the Spitalfriedhof cemetery in Basel, Switzerland. This research is funded by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, and the 'Basel Project' is organised jointly by the MPIDR and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. The results of this project are currently being written up as a monograph.

Publications Since 2000

O’Connor, S., Ali, E., Al-Sabah, S., Anwar, D., Bergström, E., Brown, K.A., Buckberry, J., Buckley, S., Collins, M., Denton, J., Dorling, K.M., Dowle, A., Duffey, P., Edwards, H.G.M., Faria, E.C., Gardner, P., Gledhill, A., Heaton, K., Heron, C., Janaway, R., Keely, B.J., King, D., Masinton, A., Penkman, K., Petzold, A., Pickering, M.D., Rumsby, M., Schutkowski, H., Shackleton, K.A., Thomas, J., Thomas-Oates, J., Usai, M-R., Wilson, A.S., O’Connor, T. (early view). Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK. Journal of Archaeological Sciences doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.030.

Ortner D. J., Ponce P., Ogden A. R. & Buckberry J. L. (early view) Multicentric osteosarcoma associated with DISH, in a 19th Century burial from England. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology DOI: 10.1002/oa.1196

Buckberry, J. L. 2010. Cemetery Diversity in the Mid to Late Anglo-Saxon Period in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. In: J. L. Buckberry & A. K. Cherryson. (eds) Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England, c. 650–1100 AD. 1-25. Oxford: Oxbow

Buckberry, J. L. & A. K. Cherryson (eds) 2010. Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England, c. 650–1100 AD. Oxford: Oxbow

Buckberry, J. L. & D. M. Hadley 2010. Hell's Gate: The Anglo-Saxon Execution Cemetery at Walkington Wold. In: J. Auler (ed.) Richtstättenarchäologie 2. 434-451. Dormagen: Archaeotopos.

Craig, E. F. & J. L. Buckberry 2010. Investigating Social Status Using Evidence of Biological Status: a Case Study from Raunds Furnells. In: J. L. Buckberry & A. K. Cherryson. Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England, c. 650–1100 AD. 128-142. Oxford: Oxbow

Swinson, D., J. Snaith, J. Buckberry & M. Brickley 2010. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in the investigation of gout in paleopathology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 20: 135-143

Buckberry, J. L. 2008. Off with their heads: The Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, East Yorkshire. In E. Murphy (ed.) Deviant burial in the archaeological record: 148-168. Oxford: Oxbow

Hall, R. A., J. Buckberry, R. Storm, P. Budd, W. D. Hamilton & G. McCormac 2008. The medieval cemetery at Riccall Landing: a reappraisal. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 80: 55-92

Sulzmann, C. E., J. L. Buckberry & R. F. Pastor 2008. The utility of carpals for sex assessment: a preliminary study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135: 252-262

Wittwer-Backofen, U., J. Buckberry, A. Czarnetzki, S. Doppler, G. Grupe, G. Hotz, A. Kemkes, C. S. Larsen, D. Prince, J. Wahl, A. Fabig & S. Weise 2008. Basics in Paleodemography: A Comparison of Age Indicators Applied to the Early Medieval Skeletal Sample of Lauchheim. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 137:384-396

Buckberry, J. L. 2007. On sacred ground: social identity and churchyard burial in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, c.700-1100 AD. In H. Williams and S. Semple (ed.) Early Medieval Mortuary Practices. Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 14: 120-132. Oxford: Oxbow

Buckberry, J. L. & D. M. Hadley 2007. An Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 26: 309-329.

Buckberry, J. L. & S. O'Connor 2007. Radiography in Palaeopathology: Where next?. In S. R. Zakrzewski and W. White (ed.) Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the British Association for Biological Anthropology & Osteoarchaeology: British Archaeological Reports International Series 1712. 105-110. Oxford: Archeopress

Hadley, D. M. & J. L. Buckberry 2005. Caring for the dead in late Anglo-Saxon England. In F. Tinti (ed.) Pastoral care in late Anglo-Saxon England: 121-147. Woodbridge: Boydell

Buckberry, J. L. & A. T. Chamberlain 2002. Age estimation from the auricular surface of the ilium: a revised method. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119: 231-239.

Buckberry, J. L. & D. M. Hadley 2001. Excavations at Chapel Road, Fillingham. Lincolnshire History and Archaeology 36: 11-18.

Buckberry, J. L. 2000. Missing, presumed buried? Bone diagenesis and the under-representation of Anglo-Saxon children. Assemblage 5: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/assemblage/html/5/buckberr.html.