Dr Anna Davies-Barrett

Social Science History Association | Toronto, Canada | 2nd November 2024 

A. M. Davies-Barrett & S. Inskip. Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the history of tobacco consumption in western europe. 

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51st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology | London, Canada | 30th October-2nd November 2024

S. A. Inskip, A. M. Davies-Barrett, N. Jakubovics, & R. Holliday. An ‘index of oro-dental disease’: a holistic method for understanding the impacts of different risk factors on oral health in archaeological populations with a case study of tobacco

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British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology 25th Annual Conference| Keele University | 6th-8th September 2024

S. A. Inskip & A. M. Davies-Barrett. Using an ‘index of oro-dental disease’ to investigate the impacts of tobacco consumption on oral health in British and Dutch post-medieval populations (c. AD 1500 – 1850)

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European Archaeology Association Annual Conference | Sapienza University of Rome | 31st August 2024 

A. M. Davies-Barrett & S. Inskip. Exploring the health burden of smoking-related respiratory disease in the past. 

 

Paleopathology Association European Annual Conference  | Leiden University | 23rd August 2024

A. M. Davies-Barrett & S. Inskip. An ‘index of oro-dental disease’: a holistic method for understanding the impacts of different risk factors on oral health in archaeological populations. 

 

The Sudan Archaeological Research Society Colloquium | Swansea University | 25th May 2024 

A. M. Davies Barrett & R. Whiting. Life and death at the town of Kawa: osteological analysis of the Kushite cemetery assemblage (Invited Talk). 

 

School of Archaeology and Ancient History Research Seminar Series | University of Leicester | 14th May 2024

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Who smokes anymore? Investigating past impacts of tobacco consumption using osteoarchaeological and biomolecular approaches (Invited Talk). 

 

Funerary Archaeology Research group | University of York | 10th November 2023 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. The Tobacco, Health & History Project: Investigating the historic impacts of tobacco consumption using osteoarchaeological and biomolecular approaches. (Invited Talk). 

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British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology 24th Annual Conference | UCL | 15th-17th September 2023

A. M. Davies-Barrett, D. Badillo Sanchez, M. Serrano Ruber, & S. Inskip. The archaeometabolomic identification of tobacco users: Improving understanding of tobacco-associated disease prevalence in post-medieval England. 

 

29th European Archaeology Association Annual Meeting | Queen's University Belfast | 30th August-2nd Sept. 2023 

A. M. Davies-Barrett, D. Badillo Sanchez, M. Serrano Ruber, & S. Inskip. Disease prevalence and its relationship to tobacco consumption in industrial england. 

 

Food Systems and Practices: Past, Present and Future | The University of Sheffield | 27th-28th June 2023 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. The historic health impacts of the commodification and consumption of tobacco: an osteoarchaeological perspective (Invited Talk). 

 

Tobacco, Health & History Project Seminar | University of Leicester | 23rd January 2023 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Palaeopathology and tobacco consumption: initial results. 

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‘Dental Calculus as a Window to the Past’ Workshop | The British Museum | 21st July 2022 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Changing prevalence of respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: potential respiratory irritants and how we might find them in dental calculus (Invited Talk).

 

Intersectional Bodies Symposium | University of Leicester | 16th-17th June 2022 

A. M. Davies-Barrett & S. Inskip. Skeletal evidence for tobacco consumption as embodiment of identity: Industrial England (Invited Talk). 

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Tobacco, Health & History Annual Project Seminar |  University of Leicester | 18th March 2022 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Palaeopathology.

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7th Annual School of Archaeology and Ancient History PGR Conference | University of Leicester  | 3rd March 2022 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Desert dust and city smoke: investigating the impact of environmental aridification and urbanisation on respiratory health in the past (Keynote Lecture).

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‘Back(bone) to the Future – bioarchaeological perspectives on climate change and climate crisis’ Conference | German Archaeological Institute | 2nd-3rd December 2021 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Desert dust and city smoke: investigating the impact of environmental aridification and urbanisation on respiratory health in the past (Invited Talk). 

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School of Archaeology and Ancient History Research Seminar Series | University of Leicester | 27th Oct. 2021 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Desert dust and city smoke: linking risk factors for respiratory disease in the past to modern global crises (Invited Talk). 

 

5th Sudan Studies Research Conference | Warsaw | 4th-5th September 2021 

A. M. Davies-Barrett & T. Vlemincq-Mendieta. Life and death at the town of Kawa: findings of the recent osteological analysis of the Kushite cemetery assemblage (Invited Talk). 

 

Cardiff Archaeological Society Lecture Series | Cardiff | 3rd December 2020  

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Air pollution and respiratory disease: not just a modern-day problem (Invited Talk).

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University Archaeology Day | 2020 | 22nd October 2020  

A. M. Davies-Barrett. The path to COVID: how respiratory disease has plagued past people too (Chosen Representative for Cardiff University).

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British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology 21st Annual Conference | Natural History Museum | 13th-15th Sep. 2019 

A. M. Davies-Barrett, C. A. Roberts, & D. Antoine. Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: the impact of environmental and sociocultural change from the Neolithic to Medieval periods. 

 

Third Sudan Studies Postgraduate Conference | University of Oxford | 4th May 2019 

A. M. Davies-Barrett. Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: the impact of environmental and sociocultural change from the Neolithic to Medieval periods.

 

‘Stressed out: debunking the stress myth in the study of archaeological human remains’ Conference | UCL | 19th-20th May 2017 

A. M. D. Barrett. Respiratory disease as a ‘non-specific indictor of stress’? The value of identifying specific causative factors.

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The Sudan Archaeological Research Society Colloquium | The British Museum | 8th May 2017 

D. Antoine & A. M. D. Barrett. Life and Death in the Kerma Classique at the Fourth Cataract: the evidence from site 4-L-2.