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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. (2020). A matter of life and breath! Why air pollution and respiratory disease aren’t just a modern-day problem [Blog]. Cardiff University: Celebrating 100 Years of Archaeology. 

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.  

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