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  • Project Overview
  • Trace Element Analyses
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  • News
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  • Video: Nelson's Caribbean Hell-hole - an Eighteenth Century Graveyard Uncovered
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Royal Navy Cemetery Antigua Project

Publications

Choudhury, S., D.N. Agyman-Budu, A.R. Woll, T. Swanston, T. Varney, D.M.L. Cooper, G.N. George, I.J. Pickering, and I. Coulthard. Superior Spacial Resolution in Confocal X-ray Techniques Using Collimating Channel Array Optics: Elemental Mapping and Speciation in Archaeological Human Bone. Journal of Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, 2017. 
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Varney, T., T. Swanston, M. Brown, and R. Murphy. Exposed Burials on Galleon Beach, Antigua – a preliminary reporting.  Proceedings of the the XXVI International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Sint Maarten, 2015 (Submitted June 7, 2016 for expected release of volume in July 2017).

Giffin, K., T. Varney, T. Swanston, I. Coulthard, R. Murphy, D.M.L. Cooper. Rum and ruin: lead levels in human skeletal remains from the cemetery of the British Royal Navy hospital at English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies.  Proceedings of the the XXIV International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Sint Maarten, 2015. In Press. 

Choudhury, S., T. Swanston, T.L. Varney, D.M.L. Cooper, G.N. George, I.J. Pickering, V. Grimes, B. Bewer, and I. Coulthard. 2017. Confocal X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging Facilitates High-Resolution Elemental Mapping in Fragile Archaeological Bone. Archaeometry, 2017.

Swanston, T., T. Varney, I. Coulthard, G.N. George, I.J. Pickering, A.R. Murphy and D.M.L. Cooper. Synchrotron Imaging Evidence of Biogenic Mercury Identified in a Burial in Colonial Antigua. Journal of Archaeological Science 58, 26-30. 2015. 

Varney, T., T. Swanston, I. Coulthard, R. Murphy, and D. Cooper.  Toxic trace element poisoning in the remains of British Naval personnel interred in the Royal Naval Hospital cemetery at English Harbour, Antigua c. 1800.  Proceedings of the the XXV International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Puerto Rico, 2013. Pp. 569-81. 2015. PDF

Varney, T., T. Swanston, I. Coulthard, D.M.L. Cooper, G.N. George, I.J. Pickering, and A.R. Murphy. A Preliminary Investigation of Lead Poisoning in a Napoleonic Era Naval Cemetery in Antigua, W.I. Caribbean Connections: A Publication of the Field Research Centre 2(1): Special Issue focusing in the Bioarchaeology of the Caribbean. 2012. PDF

Swanston, T., T. Varney, I. Coulthard, R. Feng, B. Bewer, R. Murphy, C. Hennig, and D. Cooper. Element localization in archaeological bone using synchrotron radiation x-ray fluorescence: Identification of biogenic uptake. Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 2409-2413. 2012.

Varney, T.L. The Royal Naval Hospital cemetery at English Harbour, Antigua:  not just the “Grave of the Englishman”. Proceedings of the XXIII  International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Antigua, 2009.  print pp. 291-300; digital pp 447-459. 2011. PDF​

Varney, T.L. Does diet reflect group membership?  A stable isotope analysis of human remains from the Royal Naval Hospital cemetery at English Harbour, Antigua, W.I.  Proceedings of the XXI International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad, 2005.  Volume 2, pp. 667-676. 2007. PDF

Varney, T.L. and D.V. Nicholson. Digging the "Grave of the Englishman":  a preliminary report on excavations at a former British Navy Hospital cemetery, English Harbour, Antigua. Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Grenada, WI, 1999. 2001. PDF

Nicholson, D.V. Mud and Blood:  artifacts from dredging and the Naval Hospital Site.  Proceedings of the XVth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Puerto Rico, 1991. 1993. 
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