Stories of ‘ordinary medieval folk’
Dr Sarah Inskip, researcher on After the Plague, and now at the Centre for Regional and Local History, University of Leicester, said: “The importance of using osteobiography on ordinary folk rather than elites, who are documented in historical sources, is that they represent the majority of the population but are those that we know least about.”
The series of bone biographies indicate that the prestigious university city was a sea of need, with poverty and disease taking their toll.
Archaeologists from Cambridge University analysed close to 500 skeletal remains excavated from burial grounds across the city, dating between the 11th and 15th centuries.
Samples came from a range of digs dating back to the 1970s.
Cambridge Archaeological Unit / St John’s College
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