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  1. Clearing out at Clare College, Cambridge, England: a late nineteenth-century material culture

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  2. Clare Hall, Cambridge: the fourteenth to seventeenth-century college

    Article • Archaeological Journal, March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  3. Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA

    Article • Science Advances, January 2026, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Craig Cessford

  4. Bone Adhered Sediments as a Source of Target and Environmental DNA and Proteins

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, August 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Craig Cessford

  5. Bone adhered soil as a source of target and environmental DNA and proteins

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Craig Cessford

  6. Low Genetic Impact of the Roman Occupation of Britain in Rural Communities

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, September 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Craig Cessford

  7. Health inequality in medieval Cambridge, 1200–1500 CE

    Article • American Journal of Biological Anthropology, August 2024, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  8. Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death

    Article • Science Advances, January 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Craig Cessford

  9. Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity

    Article • Antiquity, December 2023, Antiquity Publications

    Craig Cessford

  10. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE AUGUSTINIAN FRIARY, CAMBRIDGE

    Article • The Antiquaries Journal, August 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Craig Cessford

  11. Local population structure in Cambridgeshire during the Roman occupation

    Article • August 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Craig Cessford

  12. Medieval social landscape through the genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Craig Cessford

  13. Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, March 2023, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  14. Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, December 2022, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  15. Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia

    Article • Science Advances, July 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Craig Cessford

  16. The people of the Cambridge Austin friars

    Article • Archaeological Journal, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  17. Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, March 2022, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  18. An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim

    Article • February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  19. Buried with their Buckles On: Clothed Burial at the Augustinian Friary, Cambridge

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  20. Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  21. Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes

    Article • BMC Biology, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos, Craig Cessford

  22. The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, September 2021, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  23. Reply to Air pollution was high centuries before industrial revolutions and may have been responsible for cancer rates in medieval Britain

    Article • Cancer, July 2021, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  24. Beyond Plague Pits: Using Genetics to Identify Responses to Plague in Medieval Cambridgeshire

    Article • European Journal of Archaeology, June 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Craig Cessford

  25. Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, June 2021, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  26. The prevalence of cancer in Britain before industrialization

    Article • Cancer, May 2021, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  27. Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2021, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  28. Intrapopulation variation in lower limb trabecular architecture

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2020, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  29. Middle Anglo-Saxon Downham Road, Ely: extending the West Fen Road site

    Article • Archaeological Journal, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  30. ‘A Tale of Two Sibleys’: ceramic counter narratives, globalization, individuality and the last century of the Ely pottery industry c. 1770–1870

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  31. Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  32. Osteobiography: The History of the Body as Real Bottom-Line History

    Article • Bioarchaeology International, August 2019, University Press of Florida

    Craig Cessford

  33. East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths

    Article • Annals of Human Biology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford, Christopher Evans

  34. Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541-750):

    Article • November 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Craig Cessford

  35. Moving in mysterious ways: the use and discard of Cambridge college ceramics

    Article • Antiquity, August 2018, Antiquity Publications

    Craig Cessford

  36. Medieval Britain and Ireland — Fieldwork Highlights in 2017

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  37. Educating Victorian Children

    Article • June 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Craig Cessford

  38. Corporate Branding and Collegiate Coats of Arms as Logos: Marked Ceramics and the University of Cambridge

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  39. The archaeology of an eighteenth century English coffeehouse

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  40. Throwing away everything but the kitchen sink? Large assemblages, depositional practice and post-medieval households in Cambridge

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  41. John Webb Cluff: a postscript

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  42. The St. John’s Hospital Cemetery and Environs, Cambridge: Contextualizing the Medieval Urban Dead

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  43. Medieval Britain and Ireland — Fieldwork Highlights In 2014

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  44. Assemblage Biography and the Life Course: An Archaeologically Materialized Temporality of Richard and Sarah Hopkins

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  45. An Assemblage of Collegiate Ceramics: Mid-Nineteenth Century Dining at Trinity Hall, Cambridge

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  46. Different Times, Different Materials and Different Purposes: Writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge

    Article • December 2013, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Craig Cessford

  47. Life in a “Cathedral of Consumption’: Corporate and Personal Material Culture Recovered from a Cellar at the Robert Sayle Department Store in Cambridge, England, ca. 1913–21

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  48. Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2010

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  49. The Dolphin Inn Hoard: Re-examining the Early Nineteenth-Century Discovery of a Mid-Thirteenth-Century Hoard from Cambridge

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  50. A Decorated 13th-century Sword Cross from Broad Street, Ely

    Article • Arms & Armour, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  51. Middle Anglo-Saxon Justice: the Chesterton Lane Corner execution cemetery and related sequence, Cambridge

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  52. Quantifying the Consumption of Obsidian at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  53. Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük

    Article • American Antiquity, January 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Craig Cessford

  54. A new dating sequence for Çatalhöyük

    Article • Antiquity, December 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Craig Cessford

  55. Pine Marten and Other Animal Species in the Poem Dinogad's Smock

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, June 1998, Maney Publishing

    Craig Cessford

  56. The Pictish Mirror Symbol and archaeological evidence for mirrors in Scotland

    Article • Oxford Journal of Archaeology, March 1997, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  57. Northern England and the Gododdin Poem

    Article • Northern History, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  58. TORCS IN EARLY HISTORIC SCOTLAND

    Article • Oxford Journal of Archaeology, July 1995, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  59. Wine in early historic Scotland

    Article • Journal of Wine Research, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  60. The Death of Aethelfrith of Lloegr

    Article • Northern History, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  61. Gardens of the 'Gododdin'

    Article • Garden History, January 1994, JSTOR

    Craig Cessford

  62. Cavalry in Early Bernicia: A Reply

    Article • Northern History, June 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford