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Dr Simon Mays 

Visiting Lecturer

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Dr Simon Mays is a Visiting Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

I am currently Human Skeletal Biologist for Heritage England, based in Portsmouth. For my PhD thesis (Southampton, 1987) I studied social organisation and social change in the Early and Middle Bronze Age of Central Europe.  I sit on the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England, which I co-founded.  I am also currently on the managing committee of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology and a committee member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past. I am a casual lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Book reviews editor for the International Journal for the Study of Childhood in the Past, and Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Research interests

My research covers all aspects of human osteoarchaeology.  Current work includes study of DNA of Roman infants, cannibalism among 19th century remains from the Arctic, and the history of metabolic bone disease, particularly osteoporosis, scurvy and vitamin D deficiency.

Research group

Osteoarchaeology

Dr Simon Mays
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton
Avenue Campus, Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom
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