Staff profile

I studied for my undergraduate degree at Durham and it was here that I first developed an interest in bioarchaeology. After graduating I completed a Masters degree at Sheffield before returning to Durham for a PhD in 1998. I then worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at Sheffield University before being awarded a prestigious Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge I began to collaborate with several members of the Classics Faculty on projects involving human skeletal remains from Roman Italy and Britain, which continues to this day. In October 2006 I was appointed as Lecturer in Bioarchaeology at the University of Durham. I am delighted to be teaching and researching human skeletal remains in the department where they first fascinated me. I was promoted to Professor in 2019.

At Durham I contribute to the Department’s world-leading Bioarchaeology Research Group. One of my key research strengths is the integration of scientific evidence from the skeleton with theories of social identity and embodiment. The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, co-edited with Professor Chris Knüsel (University of Bordeaux) and Human Identity and Identification, co-authored with Professor Tim Thomspon (Teesside University), exemplify this approach. Most recently I was PI on the British Academy funded project The Children of the Revolution, examining the impact of poverty and child labour on childhood health during the industrial revolution in Britain, and the Wenner Gren funded project The Infant/Mother Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology. Both of these projects have been highly inter-disciplinary. I also lead an Impact Case Study based on my development and delivery of an innovative CPD course to national and international forensic practitioners. I collaborate with a number of international agencies (including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Centre for Missing Persons in Cyprus). I advise human rights lawyers and those working on transitional justice on international cases involving human skeletal remains.

I enjoy teaching at all levels; however, most of my teaching is on the MSc in Human Bioarchaeology and Palaeopathology for which I am Course Director. I also supervise PhD students researching a variety of aspects of Human Bioarchaeology. I have fulfilled a variety of management roles within the Department, including Deputy Head of Department, Bioarchaeology Research Group convenor and Chair of the Equality and Diversity committee. I am the Associate Editor for the world-leading archaeology journal Antiquity which is currently produced by the Department. Since September 2019 I have been the Faculty Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Social Sciences and Health.

• Care and disability in the past
• Childhood health in the past and present
• Health and demography in the Roman world
• Human identification in forensic contexts
• Human identification in forensic contexts
• Skeletal ageing and age as an aspect of social identity
• The history of malaria in England
• The infant/mother nexus in anthropology and archaeology
• The inter-relationship between the physical body and social identity

• 2018: Associate Editor, Antiquity:
• 2018: Vice President: Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past:
• 2016: External Examiner: University of Sheffield:
• 2016: Editorial Board: Bioarchaeology International:
• 2015: Roman Archaeology Committee Member:
• 2015: Editorial Board: Science and Justice:
• 2013: External Examiner: Bounemouth University:

Authored book

• Gowland, R., & Thompson, T. (2013). Human Identity and Identification. Cambridge University Press

Book review

• Gowland, R. (2010). Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past. Medical History, 54(3), 407-408. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300004750
• Gowland, R. (2009). Children, Identity, and the Past. Edited by Liv Helga Dommasnes and Melanie Wrigglesworth. Childhood in the Past,
• Gowland, R. (2002). Review of 'Burial in early medieval England and Wales', edited by Sam Lucy and Andrew Reynolds. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 14(2), 145-147. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.699

Chapter in book

• Gowland, R., & Caldwell, J. L. (2022). The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Implications for Paleopathology. In A. L. Grauer (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology (520-540). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003130994
• Filipek, K. L., Roberts, C., Gowland, R. L., & Tucker, K. (2021). Alloparenting Adolescents: Evaluating the Social and Biological Impacts of Leprosy on Young People in Saxo-Norman England (9th to 12th Centuries AD) through Cross-Disciplinary Models of Care. In E. J. Kendall, & R. Kendall (Eds.), The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time (30-57). Routledge
• Moore, J., Williams-Ward, M., Filipek, K., Gowland, R., & Montgomery, J. (2021). Poisoned pregnancies: consequences of prenatal lead exposure in relation to infant mortality in the Roman Empire. In E. J. Kendall, & R. Kendall (Eds.), The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time (137-158). Routledge
• Kendall, E. J., Millard, A., Beaumont, J., Gowland, R., Gorton, M., & Gledhill, A. (2020). What Doesn’t Kill You: Early Life Health and Nutrition in Early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (103-123). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_6
• Gowland, R., & Kacki, S. (2020). Theoretical approaches to bioarchaeology: The view from across the pond. In C. M. Cheverko, J. R. Prince-Buitenhuys, & M. Hubbe (Eds.), Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology. Taylor and Francis
• Hodson, C., & Gowland, R. (2019). Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-medieval London. In The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology; Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (39-64). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_3
• Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (2019). Introduction: The Mother-Infant Nexus in Archaeology and Anthropology. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (1-18). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_1
• Gowland, R. (2019). Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course in Archaeology. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology : small beginnings, significant outcomes (257-274). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_14
• Hodson, C., & Gowland, R. (2019). Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology : small beginnings, significant outcomes (39-64). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_3
• Kendall, E. J., Millard, A., Beaumont, J., Gowland, R., Gorton, M., & Gledhill, A. (2019). What Doesn't Kill you: Early Life Health and Nutrition in Anglo-Saxon East Anglia. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology and Archaeology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (103-124). Springer Verlag
• Halcrow, S., & Gowland, R. (2019). Concluding Thoughts. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (275-277). Springer Verlag
• Gowland, R. (2018). Infants and Mothers: Linked Lives and Embodied Life Courses. In S. Crawford, D. Hadley, & G. Shepherd (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of childhood (104-121). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199670697.013.6
• Gowland, R., & Penny-Mason, B. (2018). Overview: Archaeology and the Medieval Life-Course. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of later medieval archaeology in Britain (759-773). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.52
• Gowland, R., & Walther, L. (2018). Human Growth and Stature. In W. Scheidel (Ed.), The Science of Roman History Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past. Princeton University Press
• Gowland, R. (2018). ‘A Mass of Crooked Alphabets’: The Construction and Othering of Working Class Bodies in Industrial England. In P. Stone (Ed.), Bioarchaeological Analyses and Bodies New Ways of Knowing Anatomical and Archaeological Skeletal Collections. Springer Verlag
• Gowland, R., & Newman, S. (2018). Children of the revolution: childhood health inequalities and the life course during industrialisation of the 18th to 19th centuries. In P. Beauchesne, & S. Agarwal (Eds.), Children and Childhood in the Past. Florida University Press
• Southwell-Wright, W., Gowland, R., & Powell, L. (2016). Foundations and approaches to the study of care in the past. In W. Southwell-Wright, L. Powell, & R. Gowland (Eds.), Care in the past : archaeological and interdisciplinary perspectives (1-19). Oxbow Books
• Gowland, R. (2016). That 'tattered coat upon a stick' the ageing body: evidence for elder marginalisation and abuse in Roman Britain. In L. Powell, W. Southwell-Wright, & R. Gowland (Eds.), Care in the past : archaeological and interdisciplinary perspectives. Oxbow Books
• Gowland, R. (2016). Ideas of Childhood in Roman Britain: The Bioarchaeological and Material Evidence. In M. Millett, L. Revell, & A. J. Moore (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Roman Britain (303-320). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.019
• Gowland, R. (2016). Growing Old: Biographies of Care and Disability in Later Life. In L. Tilley, A. Schrenk, & D. Martin (Eds.), New developments in the bioarchaeology of care : further case studies and expanded theory (237-251). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39901-0_12
• Cataroche, J., & Gowland, R. (2015). Flesh, Fire, and Funerary Remains from the Neolithic site of La Varde, Guernsey: Investigations Past and Present. In T. Thompson (Ed.), Cremation in Archaeology. Oxbow
• Redfern, R., & Gowland, R. (2012). A bioarchaeological perspective on the pre-adult stages of the life course: implications for the care and health of children in the Roman Empire. In M. Harlow, & L. Larsson Loven (Eds.), Families in the Roman and Late Antique World (111-140). Continuum
• Gowland, R., & Garnsey, P. (2010). Skeletal evidence for health, nutritional status and malaria in Rome and the empire. In H. Eckardt (Ed.), Roman diasporas; archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman Empire (131-156). Journal of Roman Archaeology
• Gowland, R. (2009). Age as an aspect of social identity: the archaeological funerary evidence. In R. Gowland, & C. Knusel (Eds.), Social archaeology of funerary remains (143-154). Oxbow
• Gowland, R., & Knusel, C. (2006). Introduction. In R. Gowland, & C. Knusel (Eds.), Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains (ix-xiv). Oxbow

Conference Paper

• Lewis, M., & Gowland, R. (2009). Infantile cortical hyperostosis: cases, causes and contradictions. In M. . E. Lewis, & M. Clegg (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology: Department of Archaeology, University of Reading 2007 (43-52)
• Gowland, R., & Chamberlain, A. (2005). Estimating age-at-death from the pubic symphysis: past, present and future.
• Gowland, R. (2004). The social identity of health in late Roman Britain. In B. Croxford, H. Eckardt, J. Meade, & J. Weekes (Eds.),
• Gowland, R., & Chamberlain, A. (2003). A new method for estimating gestational age from skeletal long bone length. In K. Robson-Brown (Ed.),
• Millard, A., & Gowland, R. (2003). A Bayesian approach to the estimation of age-at-death from tooth development and wear in humans.
• Gowland, R. (2001). Playing dead: implications of mortuary evidence for the social construction of childhood in Roman Britain. In G. Davies, A. Gardner, & K. Lockyear (Eds.),

Edited book

• Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (Eds.). (2020). The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4
• Powell, L., Southwell-Wright, W., & Gowland, R. (Eds.). (2016). Care in the Past: Archaeological and Interdisciplinary perspectives. Oxbow
• Gowland, R., & Knusel, C. (Eds.). (2006). Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains. Oxbow

Journal Article

• Snoddy, A. M. E., Shaw, H., Newman, S., Miszkiewicz, J. J., Stewart, N. A., Jakob, T., …Gowland, R. (2024). Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711–1857). PLoS ONE, 19(1), Article e0296203. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296203
• Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Quade, L., Levene, A., Millard, A. R., Holst, M., …Alexander, M. M. (2023). The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour. PLoS ONE, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284970
• Perry, M. A., & Gowland, R. L. (2022). Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past. International Journal of Paleopathology, 39, 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.09.002
• Filipek, K., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Moore, J., Tucker, K., & Evans, J. (2022). Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobilityhistories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. MaryMagdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England). American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(1), 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24498
• Filipek, K. L., Roberts, C. A., Gowland, R. L., Montgomery, J., & Evans, J. A. (2021). Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(6), 1180-1191. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3029
• Kendall, E. J., Brown, A. T., Doran, T., Gowland, R., & Cookson, R. (2021). Health inequality in Britain before 1750. SSM - Population Health, 16, Article 100957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100957
• Quade, L., & Gowland, R. (2021). Height and health in Roman and Post-Roman Gaul, a life course approach. International Journal of Paleopathology, 35, 49-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.10.001
• Moore, J., Filipek, K., Kalenderian, V., Gowland, R., Hamilton, E., Evans, J., & Montgomery, J. (2021). Death Metal: Evidence for the impact of lead poisoning on childhood health within the Roman Empire. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(5), 846-856. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3001
• Kilburn, N. N., Gowland, R. L., Halldórsdóttir, H. H., Williams, R., & Thompson, T. J. (2021). Assessing pathological conditions in archaeological bone using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37, Article 102980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102980
• Quade, L., Chazot, P., & Gowland, R. (2021). Desperately seeking stress: A pilot study of cortisol in archaeological tooth structures. American journal of physical anthropology, 174(3), 532-541. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24157
• Gowland, R., Stewart, N. A., Crowder, K. D., Hodson, C., Shaw, H., Gron, K. J., & Montgomery, J. (2021). Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis. American journal of physical anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24231
• Tschinkel, K., & Gowland, R. (2020). Knock-knees: Identifying genu valgum and understanding its relationship to vitamin D deficiency in 18th to 19th century northern England. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 30(6), 891-902. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2919
• Walser, J. W., Gowland, R. L., Desnica, N., & Kristjánsdóttir, S. (2020). Hidden dangers? Investigating the impact of volcanic eruptions and skeletal fluorosis in medieval Iceland. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12(3), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01026-0
• Walser, J. W. I., Kristjánsdóttir, S., Gröcke, D. R., Gowland, R., Jakob, T., Nowell, G., …Montgomery, J. (2020). At the world’s edge: reconstructing diet and geographic origins in medieval Iceland using isotope and trace element analyses. American journal of physical anthropology, 171(1), 142-163. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23973
• Quade, L., & Gowland, R. (2020). Modeling Health during Societal Collapse: Can Recent History Help Our Understanding of Post-Roman Gaul?. Bioarchaeology international, 4(3-4), 172-190
• Newman, S. L., Gowland, R. L., & Caffell, A. C. (2019). North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England. American journal of physical anthropology, 169(1), 104-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23817
• Walser, J. W., Kristjánsdóttir, S., Gowland, R., & Desnica, N. (2019). Volcanoes, medicine, and monasticism: Investigating mercury exposure in medieval Iceland. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(1), 48-61. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2712
• Gowland, R., Caffell, A., Newman, S., Levene, A., & Holst, M. (2018). Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries). Bioarchaeology international, 2(1), 44-62. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2018.1015
• Redfern, R., Gowland, R., Millard, A., Powell, L., & Gröcke, D. (2018). ‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium). Journal of Archaeological Science, 19, 1030-1040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.015
• Redfern, R., DeWitte, S., Montgomery, J., & Gowland, R. (2018). A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain. Bioarchaeology international, 2(1), 20-43. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2018.1014
• Andre Stewart, N., Fernanda Gerlach, R., Gowland, R. L., Gron, K., & Montgomery, J. (2017). Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(52), 13649-13654. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714926115
• Gowland, R. (2017). Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 48, 175-194. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x17000125
• Errickson, D., Grueso, I., Griffith, S., Setchell, J., Thompson, T., Thompson, C., & Gowland, R. (2017). Towards a best practice for the use of active non-contact surface scanning to record human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(4), 650-661. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2587
• Mays, S., Gowland, R., Halcrow, S., & Murphy, E. (2017). Child Bioarchaeology: Perspectives on the Past 10 Years. Childhood in the Past, 10(1), 38-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2017.1301066
• Griffith, S., Thompson, C., Thompson, T., & Gowland, R. (2016). Experimental abrasion of water submerged bone: The influence of bombardment by different sediment classes on microabrasion rate. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.09.001
• Thompson, T., Szigeti, J., Gowland, R., & Witcher, R. (2016). Death on the frontier: military cremation practices in the north of Roman Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 828-836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.020
• Booth, T., Redfern, R., & Gowland, R. (2016). Immaculate conceptions: Micro-CT analysis of diagenesis in Romano-British infant skeletons. Journal of Archaeological Science, 74, 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.08.007
• Roberts, C., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K., Gowland, R., & Jakob, T. (2016). ‘Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death’: A potentially occupationally-related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England. International Journal of Paleopathology, 13, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.12.001
• Newman, S., & Gowland, R. (2016). Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(2), 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2531
• Arthur, N., Gowland, R., & Redfern, R. (2016). Coming of age in Roman Britain: osteological evidence for pubertal timing. American journal of physical anthropology, 159(4), 698-713. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22929
• Shaw, H., Montgomery, J., Redfern, R., Gowland, R., & Evans, J. (2016). Identifying migrants in Roman London using lead and strontium stable isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 66, 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.12.001
• Kendall, R., Hendy, J., Collins, M., Millard, A., & Gowland, R. (2016). Poor preservation of antibodies in archaeological human bone and dentine. Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 2(1), 15-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2015.1133117
• Gowland, R. (2015). Entangled lives: Implications of the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis for bioarchaeology and the life course. American journal of physical anthropology, 158(4), 530-540. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22820
• Kendall, R., Kendall, E., Macleod, I., Gowland, R., & Beaumont, J. (2015). An unusual exostotic lesion of the maxillary sinus from Roman Lincoln. International Journal of Paleopathology, 11, 45-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.09.001
• Gilmour, R., Gowland, R., Roberts, C., Bernert, Z., Klara Kiss, K., & Lassanyi, G. (2015). Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary. International Journal of Paleopathology, 11, 75-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.08.004
• Millett, M., & Gowland, R. (2015). Infant and child burials rites in Roman Britain: a study from East Yorkshire. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 46, 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x15000100
• Newman, S., & Gowland, R. (2015). The Use of Non-Adult Vertebral Dimensions as Indicators of Growth Disruption and Non-Specific Health Stress in Skeletal Populations. American journal of physical anthropology, 158(1), 155-164. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22770
• Gowland, R. (2015). Elder abuse: evaluating the potentials and problems of diagnosis in the archaeological record. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 26(3), 514-523. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2442
• Craps, D., & Gowland, R. (2015). The proximal ulna as an additional diagnostic feature of advanced rheumatoid arthritis. International Journal of Paleopathology, 10, 26-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.04.002
• Gowland, R., Chamberlain, A., & Redfern, R. (2014). On the brink of being: re-evaluating infanticide and infant burial in Roman Britain. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 96, 69-88
• Penny-Mason, B. J., & Gowland, R. L. (2014). The Children of the Reformation: Childhood Palaeoepidemiology in Britain, ad 1000–1700. Medieval Archaeology, 58(1), 162-194. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609714z.00000000035
• Henderson, C., Craps, D., Caffell, A., Millard, A., & Gowland, R. (2013). Occupational mobility in 19th Century rural England: the interpretation of entheseal changes. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 23(2), 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2286
• Redfern, R., Gowland, R., & Powell, L. (2013). La sante des enfants sous l'Empire romain. Les Dossiers d'archéologie (Dijon), 356, 80-83
• DeBattista, R., Thompson, T., Thompson, C., & Gowland, R. (2013). A comparison of surface features on submerged and non-submerged bone using scanning electron microscopy. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 20(6), 770-776
• Gowland, R., & Western, A. (2012). Morbidity in the Marshes: Using Spatial Epidemiology to Investigate Skeletal Evidence for Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England (AD410-1050). American journal of physical anthropology, 147(2), 301-311. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21648
• Thompson, C., Ball, S., Thompson, T., & Gowland, R. (2011). The abrasion of modern and archaeological bone by mobile sediments: the importance of transport modes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 784-793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.11.001
• Gowland, R., & Redfern, R. (2010). Childhood health in the Roman World: perspectives from the centre and margin of the Empire. Childhood in the Past, 3(1), 15-42. https://doi.org/10.1179/cip.2010.3.1.15
• Lewis, M., & Gowland, R. (2007). Brief and precarious lives: infant mortality in contrasting sites from medieval and post-medieval England (AD 850-1859). American journal of physical anthropology, 134(1), 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20643
• Samworth, R., & Gowland, R. (2007). Estimation of adult skeletal age-at-death: statistical assumptions and applications. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 17(2), 174-188. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.867
• Gowland, R. (2007). Age, ageism and osteological bias: the evidence from late Roman Britain. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 65, 153-169
• Gowland, R. (2007). Beyond ethnicity: symbols of identity in fourth to sixth century AD England. Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history, 14, 56-65
• Gowland, R., & Chamberlain, A. (2005). Detecting plague: palaeodemographic characterisation of a catastrophic death assemblage. Antiquity, 79(303), 146-157. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00113766
• Gowland, R., & Chamberlain, A. (2002). A Bayesian Approach to Ageing Perinatal Skeletal Material from Archaeological Sites: Implications for the Evidence for Infanticide in Roman-Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science, 29(6), 677-685. https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.2001.0776