Re: Message for Anthropology List (fwd)

LESLIE EISENBERG (LESLIE.Eisenberg@CCMAIL.ADP.WISC.EDU)
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From: jacobsk@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Jacobs Kenneth)
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I thought perhaps someone on this list might be able to help with the query
below rather more than those on arch-l (where it was originally posted).
Regards,
Ken Jacobs
Anthropologie
jacobsk@ere.umontreal.ca


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> From: Eva Fisch <E.Fisch@latrobe.edu.au>
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> A student is researching paper on the effect of the Norman conquest on
> the rural population of England in the 11th century.
>
> D.A.Hinton in his "Archaeology, economy and society: England from the
> fifth to the fifteenth century" ( London, 1990) comments on the
> "curious alteration to the shape of the human skull which skeletal
> analyses show as occurring around this time. Instead of being narrow
> headed (dolichocephalic) the norm became broad-browed
> (brachycephalic)"(p. 118). He gives as his source for this
> information a paper published in "World Archaeology" in June,1972 by
> Don Brothwell (vol.4, no. 1, pp. 75-87) entitled "Palaeodemography
> and earlier British populations". However, there is only a very
> brief, passing reference to this subject in this paper.
>
> Does anyone know of any published or unpublished information
> on this subject?
>
>
>
>
> Eva Fisch
> Reference Librarian - Borchardt Library
> La Trobe University, Bundoora, 3083
> Victoria, Australia
> e.fisch@latrobe.edu.au
> fax: 613 471 0993
>
For those of you who are willing to contact a colleague of mine in northern
France who has been investigating some of the same issues, you should contact:

Dr. Joel Blondiaux
32 rue Jules Ferry
59127 Walincourt-Selvigny
France

Leslie Eisenberg
Burial Sites Program Coordinator
State Historical Society
816 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 264-6503