Research Fellow
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Biography
Dr Jenna Dittmar is a Research Fellow in Osteoarchaeology in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. As a specialist in bioarchaeology and palaeopathology, her research utilises a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions about health, disease and medical intervention in past populations.
She was previously employed as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (2016-2020) on the Wellcome funded project entitled, ‘After the Plague: Health and History of Medieval Cambridge’. This multidisciplinary project examined the historical and biological effects of the catastrophic medieval plague pandemic, known as the Black Death.
Qualifications
- PhD Biological Anthropology2016 - University of Cambridge
- MSc Osteology and Palaeopathology2011 - University of Bradford
Latest Publications
Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England
International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 40, pp. 7-19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK.
International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 39, pp. 115-121Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEmploying radiography (X-rays) to localize lesions in human skeletal remains from past populations to allow accurate biopsy, using examples of cancer metastases
International journal of osteoarchaeology, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 916-922Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations
International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 36, pp. 24-29Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.12.001
An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim
Genome Biology, vol. 23, no. 1, 22Contributions to Journals: Articles
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Research Specialisms
- Physical and Biological Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Archaeological Sciences
- Bronze Age
- Medieval History
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
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Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England
International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 40, pp. 7-19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK.
International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 39, pp. 115-121Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEmploying radiography (X-rays) to localize lesions in human skeletal remains from past populations to allow accurate biopsy, using examples of cancer metastases
International journal of osteoarchaeology, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 916-922Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations
International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 36, pp. 24-29Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.12.001
An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim
Genome Biology, vol. 23, no. 1, 22Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAncient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.19.476912
- [ONLINE] http://europepmc.org/abstract/PPR/PPR444875
Violence in Hasmonean Judea: Skeletal evidence of a massacre from 2 nd‐1st century BCE Jerusalem
International journal of osteoarchaeologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3084
Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England
International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 35, pp. 90-100Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReply to Air pollution was high centuries before industrial revolutions and may have been responsible for cancer rates in medieval Britain
Cancer, vol. 127, no. 19, pp. 3699Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.33680
The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England
International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 34, pp. 101-112Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.06.011
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