Abstract
The graveyard excavated at the Newgate (General Post Office) site in the City of London contained 436 badly damaged individual graves of a medieval Saxon population. Detailed studies of the individual skeletons showed that the population was fairly homogenous with very small range of individual variations. The people were short in stature and were muscular in build. Old individuals were uncommon. One third of women's graves also contained a child. Some congenital deformations, degenerative disease and injuries were noted on the excavated bones. Everyone suffered from severe dental caries, periondontal disease and subsequent loss of teeth. The skeletal features are described and inferences drawn concerning the biological status of the population.
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Živanović, S. Human skeletons from the Newgate site in the City of London. Int. J. Anthropol. 1, 251–259 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02442039
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