Investigating social and gender inequality in past societies through the lens of infants and young children

This project aims to provide an improved understanding of the impacts of social and gender inequality in the past on the childhood experience of health, stress and disease and their consequences later in life. Foundational research into skeletal growth and pathology in infants, the age and sex distribution of skeletal indicators of malnutrition and frailty, and the pursuit of accurate indicators of sex are essential to understanding the impacts of social and gender inequality on young children in the past.