All Publications
Book Volume
Davies-Barrett, A. M., Vlemincq-Mendieta, T., & Bangsgaard, P. (2024). Gematon: Living and dying in a Kushite town on the Nile. Volume IV: Bioarchaeology (Vol. 4). Sudan Archaeological Research Society; Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.32028/9781803276786
Book Chapters
Davies-Barrett, A. M., & Inskip, S. A. (2024). Who smokes anymore? Documentary, archaeological and osteological evidence for tobacco consumption and its relationship to social identity in industrial England, 1700–1850. In E. Craig-Atkins & K. Harvey (Eds.), The material body: Embodiment, history and archaeology in industrialising England, 1700—1850 (pp. 133–169). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2021.1976701
Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2020). Human bone. In N. Sharples (Ed.), The economy of a Norse settlement in the Outer Hebrides. Excavations at mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist, Volume 4 (pp. 313-315). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Davies-Barrett, A. M., Antoine, D., & Roberts, C. A. (2021). Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification. In G. Robbins Schug (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change (pp. 122–140). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030465
Davies-Barrett, A. M., Whiting, R., & Antoine, D. (2018). New insights into disease prevalence in two Medieval cemeteries from the Fourth Cataract. In S. Tipper & G. Tully (Eds.), Current Research in Nubian Archaeology (pp. 129-154). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.
Journal Articles
Davies-Barrett, A. M., Holliday, R., Jakubovics, N. S., & Inskip, S. A. (2025). An ‘Index of Oro-dental Disease’: A holistic method for understanding the impacts of different risk factors on oral health in archaeological populations. International Journal of Paleopathology, 48, 43–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2024.12.001
Davies-Barrett, A.M, Casna, M., Boyd, D., & Inskip, S. (2024). An analysis of interobserver variability in the recording of maxillary sinusitis in human osteoarchaeological remains. International Journal of Palaeopathology, 34(2): e3293. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3293
Badillo-Sanchez, D., Davies-Barrett, A. M., Serrano Ruber, M., Jones, D. J. L., & Inskip, S. A. (2024). Archaeometabolomics characterizes phenotypic differences in human cortical bone at a molecular level relating to tobacco use. Science Advances, 10(40), eadn9317. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn9317
Davies-Barrett, A. M., Antoine, D., & Roberts, C. (2024). Desert Dust and City Smoke: Investigating the Impact of Urbanization and Aridification on the Prevalence of Pulmonary/Pleural Inflammation in the Middle Nile Valley (2500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.). Bioarchaeology International, 8(3–4), 248–269. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2022.0037
Casna, M., Davies-Barrett, A. M., Schrader, S. (2024). Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE). World Archaeology, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2024.2425814
Casna, M., Davies-Barrett, A. M., Schrader, S. (2024). Smoking histories: A bioarcheological approach to tobacco consumption and its impact on the respiratory health of two skeletal populations from the Netherlands (1300-1829 CE). Post-Medieval Archaeology, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2024.2355461
Badillo-Sanchez, D., Serrano Ruber, M., Davies-Barrett, A. M., Jones, D. J. L., Hansen, M., & Inskip, S. (2023). Metabolomics in archaeological science: A review of their advances and present requirements. Science Advances, 9(32), eadh0485. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh0485
Badillo-Sanchez, D., Serrano Ruber, M., Davies-Barrett, A. M., Jones, D. JL., & Inskip, S. (2023). Botanical collections as an opportunity to explore nature through the time: An untargeted metabolomic study in historical and modern Nicotiana leaves. Journal of Archaeological Science, 153, 105769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105769
Badillo-Sanchez, D., Ruber, M. S., Davies-Barrett, A. M., Sandhu, J. K., Jones, D. J. L., Hansen, M., & Inskip, S. A. (2023). Examination of human osteoarchaeological remains as a feasible source of polar and apolar metabolites to study past conditions. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Art. 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27401-0
Robbins Schug, G., Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Baker, B. J., Berger, E., Buzon, M. R., Davies-Barrett, A. M … Zakrzewski, S. R. (2023). Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(4), e2209472120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209472120
Owens, L. S., Davies-Barrett, A. M., & Service, L. M. C. (2022). Unilateral Congenital Aural Atresia from an Ychsma Group Burial at the Site of Pachacamac, Peruvian Central Coast. Journal of Bioanthropology, 2(1), pp. 45-55. https://doi.org/10.54062/jb.2.1.3
Rajab, T., & Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2022). A bioarchaeological analysis of the prevalence of rhinosinusitis across two Romano-British and early medieval populations. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 143, 193–213.
Davies-Barrett, A. M., Owens, L. S., & Eeckhout, P. A. (2021). Paleopathology of the Ychsma: Evidence of respiratory disease during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1476) at the Central Coastal site of Pachacamac, Peru. International Journal of Paleopathology, 34, 63–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.06.001
Davies-Barrett, A. M., Roberts, C. A., & Antoine, D. (2021). Time to be nosy: Evaluating the impact of environmental and sociocultural changes on maxillary sinusitis in the Middle Nile Valley (Neolithic to Medieval periods). International Journal of Palaeopathology, 34, 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.07.004
Davies-Barrett, A. M., Antoine, D., & Roberts, C. A. (2019). Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease: a method for recording prevalence from sites with differing preservation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 168(3), 530-542. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23769
Book Review
Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2023). The Forgotten Cemetery. Excavations at Ranelagh, Co Roscommon. Medieval Archaeology, 67(2), 526–527. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2023.2262916​​
Unpublished Osteological Reports
Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2025). Osteological Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from Teffont (Field Season 2023). Unpublished osteology report for Teffont Archaeology Project.
Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2023). Osteological Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from Teffont (Field Season 2021). Unpublished osteology report for Teffont Archaeology Project.
Owens, L. S. & Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2019). Informe bioarqueológico de la Temporada de Campo 2019 del Proyecto Ychsma. Unpublished Osteology Report for the Ministerio de Cultura, Peru.
Outreach Publications
Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2022). Tobacco, Health & History—Team on Tour! [Blog]. Tobacco, Health & History. https://www.tobaccohealthhistory.co.uk/blog/blog-003/
Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2019). Living with dust: respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley. British Museum Magazine, Winter, 52-53.
Davies-Barrett, A. M. (2018). Respiratory disease in Fourth Cataract populations. The British Museum Egypt and Sudan Newsletter, 5, 33.
Barrett, A. M. D. (2016). The impact of sociocultural and environmental change on air quality and respiratory health in the 4th Cataract, Sudan: a bioarchaeological perspective. Skeleton Science (Touring Exhibition Booklet). Durham University.