What makes us different is what makes us human..
Paleopathology
This man was no stranger to violence.
2002 One accident too many? BMSAES 3:42-54.
Distal ulnae showing common attributes of the "parry" fracture.
The parry fracture, notorious for its misuse in bioarchaeological interpretation, may indeed have been the result of blocking a blow ... or alternatively it may have been obtained from a defensive gesture to protect the head from a falling object or when falling against a protruding object.
2002 Ancient injury recidivism: an example form the Kerma Period of ancient Nubia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 12:89-106.
Each person regardless of sex or age, was invariably placed in a flexed position, laid on the right side...with the head facing east.
2001 The human remains. In: Life on the Desert Edge: Seven Thousand Years of Settlement in the Nothern Dongola Reach, Sudan. Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication Number 7, edited by D. Welsby, pp. 458-536.
Right forearm fractures with pseudoarthrosis. Nonunion of the forearm is common in clinical practice and through it looks painful, individuals may experience less restriction in movement than those with bridged, but poorly aligned injuries.
2001 The human remains. In: Life on the Desert Edge: Seven Thousand Years of Settlement in the Nothern Dongola Reach, Sudan. Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication Number 7, edited by D. Welsby, pp. 458-536.
The Kerma skull injuries were associated with the injuries received from blunt trauma... [and] present a persuasive argument for interpersonal violence among the ancient Kerma people.
2004 Trauma in the city of Kerma: ancient versus modern injury patterns. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14:34-51.
Margaret A. Judd
Physical anthropologist Margaret A. Judd joined the Department in Fall of 2004.
She was a consultant to the British Museum's Virtual Mummy Project, and has worked extensively with the Museum's Wendorf Skeletal Collection, and Sudan materials. and is project bioanthropologist to the Wadi ath-Thamad Project in Jordan.
Selected Publications
2004 Trauma in the city of Kerma: ancient versus modern injury patterns. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14:34-51.
2002 Comparison of long bone trauma recording methods. Journal of Archaeological Science 29:1255-1265.
2002 Ancient injury recidivism: an example from the Kerma Period of ancient Nubia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 12:89-106.
1998 Fracture patterns at the medieval leper hospital in Chichester. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105:43-55. (with Charlotte A. Roberts).