Student Prize Winners

The prize awarded at the BABAO annual conference for the most outstanding student presentation is given in memory of Jane Moore. Jane was a BABAO member who sadly died in March 2004. The prize is funded by a generous donation from Jane's family.

About Jane Moore

2011 BABAO Student Prize Winners

Jane Moore Prize

Julia Beaumont (and co-workers) - The Great Irish Famine: producing 'lifeways' for victims and survivors using isotopic ratios and elemental concentrations.

Podium Presentations

Jonny Geber - A palaeopathology of the great Irish famine: the Kilkenny Union Workhouse mass burials.

Poster Presentations

Thomas Davies and J.T. Stock - the skeletal distribution of strength: detecting behaviour from whole-bone robusticity profiles.

2010 BABAO Student Prize Winners

Jane Moore Prize - Sri Raj - Genetic architecture and population structure of type 2 diabetes and obesity associated loci among South Asian populations.

Best Student Podium Presentation - 1. Thomas Davies - Long bone cross-sectional morphology: at the intersection of behavioural and climatic forces. 2. Michael Sandholzer - Micro-CT evaluation of heat induced alterations in human teeth.

Best Student Poster Presentation - 1. Matthew Gasperetti - A bioculutral study of diet, health, and behavior in the prehistoric Levant. 2. Trisha Biers - The bioarchaeology of activity and labor under Inka occupation: a regional analysis of provincial burials from Lima, Peru.

2009 BABAO Student Prize Winners

Jane Moore Prize - Jeanette Wooding - Palaeopathology in archaeozoology: the application of skeletal lesion patterning and differential diagnosis to the study of zoonotic disease.

Best Student Podium Presentation - Sarah S. King - Warfare and violence in the Iron Age of East Yorkshire.

Best Student Poster Presentation - David Gonçalves - Lateral angle of the petrous bone as sex predictor for cremated human remains.