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Megan Brickley
Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)
CNH 518Biography:
Dr Brickley's current research covers a wide variety of issues in biological anthropology and ranges from investigations involving prehistoric human remains to forensic work. Recent publications have covered all these areas. At the start of 2009, the results obtained from a Leverhulme funded project on Neolithic human bone were published in collaboration with Dr Martin Smith of Bournemouth University (People of the Longbarrows). Other recent work includes a synthesis of bioarchaeological research undertaken on metabolic bone diseases, and in collaboration with Roxana Ferllini of UCL, an edited volume on forensic anthropology in Europe was produced in 2007. Dr Brickley has also undertaken extensive research on human skeletal remains from 18th and 19th century urban contexts, with work at St. Martin’s churchyard, Birmingham forming the largest such project. In addition to the main report on the human bone (St. Martin's Uncovered: Excavations at St. Martin's Churchyard Birmingham 2001) a number of papers detailing specific aspects of health in this past community have been published, particularly linked to a NERC funded project on vitamin D deficiency.
Dr Brickley has examined a number of collections of human bone from 18th/19th century Britain, and in addition to St. Martin’s she has also worked on the Cross Bone Burial Ground, London and St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham. Prior to her research on conditions linked to vitamin D deficiency, Dr Brickley worked on a number of other metabolic bone diseases, in particular osteoporosis and she has a wide range of publications on this subject.
Fall - Anthro 3PP3 - Palaeopathology
Winter - Anthro 4R03 - Advanced Skeletal Biology
Books
Smith, M.J. & Brickley, M.B. (2009). People of the Long Barrows: Life, Death and Burial in the Earlier Neolithic. The History Press: Stroud.
Brickley, M. & Ives, R. (2008). The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease. San Diego: Academic Press.
Brickley, M. & Ferllini, R. (eds.) (2007). Forensic Anthropology: Case Studies From Europe. Charles C Thomas: Springfield Il.
Brickley, M. & Buteux, S. & Adams, J. & Cherrington, R. (2006). St. Martin’s Uncovered: Investigations in the churchyard of St. Martin’s-in-the-Bull Ring, Birmingham, 2001. Oxbow Books: Oxford.
Smith, D. Brickley, M. & Smith, W. (eds.) (2005). Fertile Ground: Papers in Honour of Professor Susan Limbrey, Oxbow Books: Oxford.
Brickley, M. Miles, A. & Stainer, H. (1999). The Cross Bones Burial Ground, Redcross Way Southwark, London, MoLAS: London.
Recent Articles in Books and Journals
Brickley, M. Mays, S. & Ives, R. (2010). Evaluation and interpretation of resicual rickets deformities in adults. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 20:54-66.
Swinson, D. Snaith, Buckberry, J. & Brickley, M. (2010). HPLC in the investigation of gout in paleopathology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 20:135-143.
Mays, S. Brickley, M. & Ives, R. (2009). Growth and vitamin D deficiency in a population from 19th century Birmingham, England. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 19:406-415.
Mays, S. Brickley, M. & Ives, R. (2008). Growth in an English population from the Industrial Revolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 136:85-92.
Mays, S. Brickley, M. & Ives, R. Growth in an English population from the Industrial Revolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. In Press.
Mays, S. Brickley, M. & Ives R. (2007). Skeletal evidence for hyperparathyroidism in a 19th century child with rickets. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 17:73-81.
Smith, M. Brickley, M. & Leach, S. (2007). Experimental evidence for lithic projectile injuries: Improving identification of an under-recognised phenomenon. Journal of Archaeological Science 34:540-553.
Brickley, M. Mays, S. & Ives, R. (2007). An Investigation of Skeletal Indicators of Vitamin D Deficiency in Adults: Effective Markers for Interpreting Past Living Conditions & Pollution Levels in 18th and 19th Century Birmingham, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132:67-79.
Smith, M.J. & Brickley, M.B. (2006). The date and sequence of use of Neolithic funerary monuments: New AMS dating evidence from the Cotswold Severn region. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 25:335-356.
Brickley, M. & Ives, R. (2006).Skeletal manifestations of infantile scurvy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129:163-172.
Brickley, M. & Smith, M. (2006). Culturally determined patterns of violence: Biological anthropological investigations at an historic urban cemetery. American Anthropologist 108:163-177.
Brickley, M. (2006). Rib fractures in the archaeological record: a useful source of sociocultural information? International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 16: 61-75.
Mays, S. Brickley, M. & Ives R. (2006). Skeletal manifestations of rickets in infants and young children in an historic population from England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 129:362-374.
Brickley, M. Mays S. & Ives, R. (2005). Skeletal modifications of vitamin D deficiency osteomalacia in documented historical collections. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 15:389-403.
Ives, R. & Brickley, M. (2005). Metacarpal Radiogrammetry. A useful indicator of bone loss throughout the skeleton? Journal of Archaeological Science 32:1552-1559.
Brickley, M. & McKinley, J. (eds.) (2004). Guidance to Standards for Recording Human Skeletal Remains Institute of Field Archaeologists / British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology: University of Reading.
Ives, R. & Brickley, M. (2004). A procedural guide to metacarpal radiogrammetry in archaeology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14:7-17.
Smith, M. & Brickley, M. (2004). Analysis and interpretation of flint toolmarks found on bones from West Tump Long Barrow, Gloucestershire. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14:18-33.
Brickley, M. & Thomas, R. (2004). The young woman and her baby or the juvenile and their dog: reinterpreting osteological material from a Neolithic long barrow. Archaeological Journal 161:1-10.
