Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology

13 papers presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, held at the University of Birmingham in September 2006. Contents: 1) The geographical epicentre of the 1918 influenza pandemic (D. Ann Herring and Janet Padiak); 2) Combining palaeopathological and historical evidence for health in the Crusades (Piers D. Mitchell); 3) When hard work is disease: the interpretation of enthesopathies (Charlotte Henderson); 4) Determination of useful incision mark characteristics for microscopic forensic analysis (Catherine Tennick, Jennie Robinson and Micheal Wysocki); 5) oAll the outward tinsel which distinguishes man from man will have then vanishedao an assessment of the value of post-medieval human remains to migration studies (Natasha Powers); 6) Periapical voids in human jaw bones (Alan R. Ogden); 7) Great Chesterford: a catalogue of burials (Sarah Inskip); 8) Rickets in Victorian London: why treatment was ineffective for so long (Lisa Brent and Piers D. Mitchell); 9) A morphometric approach to body mass estimation (Lisa Cashmore); 10) Lacunae to fill: combining palaeopathological and documentary research in investigations of individuals from a post-medieval Swedish cemetery (Caroline Arcini); 11) Tuberculosis of the shoulder in a Victorian girl: how the invention of radiographs overturned a diagnosis of hysteria (Amna Suliman and Piers D. Mitchell); 12) External auditory exostosis oat the end of the worldo: the southernmost evidence according to the latitudinal hypothesis (Paola Ponce, Gabriela Ghidini, Rolando Gonzsslez-Jose); 13) West Butts Street cemetery, Poole: a small 18th century Baptist community (Jacqueline I. McKinley).