News feedsDr Simon Mays
Archaeology
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
Position: Visiting Lecturer
Research interests
Dr Simon Mays (Visiting Lecturer) is a Senior Scientific Officer for the Ancient Monuments Laboratory of English Heritage. He specialises in human skeletal biology. For his PhD thesis he studied social organisation and social change in the Early and Middle Bronze Age of Central Europe.
Publications
Mays, S. Rogers, J. & Watt, I. 2001
A possible case of Hyperparathyroidism in a burial of 15th-17th century AD date from Wharram Percy, England International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 11: 329-335.
Mays, S. 2001
Effects of age and occupation on cortical bone in a group of 18th-19th century British men. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116: 34-44.
Mays, S. Taylor, G., Legge, A., Shaw, D. & Turner-Walker, G. 2001
Palaeopathological and Biomolecular study of Tuberculosis in a Mediaeval skeletal collection from England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 114: 298-311.
Mays, S. & Faerman, M. 2001
Sex determination of putative infanticide victims from Roman Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science 28: 555-559.
Mays, S. Fuller, B., & Richards, M. 2001
Stable isotopes of bone and tooth collagen reveal dietary patterns and age at weaning in the Medieval Village site of Wharram Percy. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 16(6); 41.
Mays, S. Turner Walker, G. & Syversen, U. 2001
The archaeology of osteoporosis. Journal of European Archaeology 4: 263-268
Mays, S. 2000
Age-dependent cortical bone loss in women from the 18th and Early 19th century London American Journal of Physical Anthropology 112: 349-361
Mays, S. Turner-Walker, G. & Syversen, S. 2000
An SEM-BSE study of Bone Mineral Diagenesis. Where does all the calcium go? Taphonomy and Diagenesis Newsletter 7: 33.
Mays, S. 2000
Cremated human bone in Ashwin, T. & Bates, S. (Eds.) Norwich Southern Bypass, Part I: Excavations at Bixley, Caistor St Edmund, Trowse. East Anglian Archaeology 91. Norfolk Museums Service, Gressenhall pp 228-229.
Mays, S. 2000
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) in skeletons from two Mediaeval English cemeteries. Journal of Palaeopathology 12: 25-36.
Mays, S., Turner-Walker, G. & Syversen, U. 2000
Do high parity and prolonged lactation have long-term consequences for bone mineral density? Journal of bone & mineral research 18(6): S530 (Abstract).
Cox, M. & Mays, S.(Eds.) 2000
Human osteology in archaeology and forensic science Greenwich Medical Media: London.
Mays, S. 2000
Review of Downs & Pollard (Eds.) The loved body's corruption British Archaeology 52: 30-31.
Cox, M. & Mays, S. 2000
Sex determination from the skeleton in Cox, M. & Mays, S (eds.) Human osteology in archaeology and forensic science. Greenwich Medical Media: London pp117-130.
Mays, S. 2000
Stable isotope analysis in ancient human skeletal remains in Cox, M. & Mays, S (eds.) Human osteology in archaeology and forensic science. Greenwich Medical Media: London pp 425-438
Mays, S. 2000
The archaeology and history of infanticide, and its occurrence in earlier British populations in (Sofaer-Deverenski, J., Ed.) Children and material culture. Routledge: London pp180-190.
Mays, S. 2000
The metric study of cranial variation in Cox, M. & Mays, S (eds.) Human osteology in archaeology and forensic science. Greenwich Medical Media: London pp277-288.
| Module title | Module code | Discipline | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Skeletal Biology | ARCH6024 | Archaeology | Tutor |