Victims of Ireland's Great Famine

The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse

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Jonny Geber

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Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global

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With one million dead, and just as many forced to emigrate, the Irish Famine (1845-52) is among the worst health calamities in history. In 2006, archaeologists discovered a mass burial containing the remains of nearly 1,000 Kilkenny Union workhouse inmates. In the first bioarchaeological study of Great Famine victims, Jonny Geber uses skeletal analysis to tell the story of how and why the Irish Famine decimated the lowest levels of nineteenth century society. By examining the physical conditions of the inmates that might have contributed to their institutionalization, as well as to the resulting health consequences, Geber sheds new and unprecedented light on Ireland’s Great Hunger.

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Jonny Geber is a lecturer in biological anthropology at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

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November 30th, 2015

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Jonny Geber

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General (US: Trade)

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2 maps, 9 black & white illustrations, 15 graphs, 27 tables, 37 black & white photographs

Pages

288

Series

Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global

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152x229x21

ISBN-13

9780813061177

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23076655

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