{"podcast":{"title":"AnthroBiology Podcast","slug":"anthrobiology-podcast-263302","podcast_index_feed_id":263302,"rss_url":"https://anthrobiologypodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://anthrobiology.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/9/d/4/59d47ccc72bd27a1d959afa2a1bf1c87/1Logo.jpeg","author":"Gaby Lapera","episode_count":74,"summary":"The AnthroBiology Podcast sits down with biological anthropologists once or twice a month to learn about what they do and why it's rad. Want to know more about our evolutionary past? Or what your bones say about you? Maybe chimps are more your speed? If it's anthropology and it's about humans, we'll cover it. Learn more at anthrobiology.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T04:19:27.461817+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/anthrobiology-podcast-263302"},"episode":{"title":"Dr. Rebecca Gilmour - Roman bioarchaeology","slug":"dr-rebecca-gilmour-roman-bioarchaeology","published_at":"2025-02-26T09:44:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/anthrobiology-podcast-263302/dr-rebecca-gilmour-roman-bioarchaeology","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/anthrobiology-podcast-263302","url":"https://anthrobiologypodcast.libsyn.com/dr-rebecca-gilmour-roman-bioarchaeology","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/anthrobiologypodcast/ABP_Gilmour_0225_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=1761989","summary":"Dr. Rebecca Gilmour of Mount Royal University talks about bones, their mechanics, and how we can use both to understand humans' lives in the past -- especially around her main focus of disability and care in ancient Rome. Books, articles, and media mentioned in this episode + helpful sites and articles: Ed. CS Hirst, RJ Gilmour, FA Cardoso, KA Plomp. (2023). Behaviour in our Bones: How Human Behaviour Influences Skeletal Morphology . Elsevier. Gilmour, Rebecca & Plomp, Kimberly. (2022). The Changing Shape of Palaeopathology: The Contribution of Skeletal Shape Analyses to Investigations of Pathological Conditions . (OPEN ACCESS). Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 10.1002/ajpa.24475.. Battles, Heather & Gilmour, Rebecca. (2022). Beyond Mortality: Survivors of Epidemic Infections and the Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability . (OPEN ACCESS). 6. 23–40. 10.5744/bi.2021.0003. Gilmour, Rebecca & Brickley, Megan & Jurriaans, Erik & Prowse, Tracy. (2018). Maintaining mobility after fracture: A biomechanical analysis of fracture consequences at the Roman Sites of Ancaster (UK) and Vagnari (Italy) . International Journal of Paleopathology. 24. 10.1016/j.ijpp.2018.09.002.. Gilmour, Rebecca & Prowse, Tracy & Jurriaans, Erik & Brickley, Megan. (2017). Well-Trodden Roads: Skeletal Evidence for Sex-Related Mobility at the Roman Site of Vagnari, Italy . Conference presentation: American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Gilmour, Rebecca. (2017). Resilient Romans: Cross-Sectional Evidence for Long-Term Functional Consequences of Extremity Trauma . PhD thesis completed at McMaster University. Cunningham, C., Scheuer, L., Black, S. (2016). Developmental Juvenile Osteology . Academic Press. White, T. & Folken, P. (2005). The Human Bone Manual . Academic Press. Eds. Hirst, C.S…","meta_description":"Dr. Rebecca Gilmour of Mount Royal University talks about bones, their mechanics, and how we can use both to understand humans' lives in the past -- espec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3213,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/anthrobiology-podcast-263302/episodes/dr-rebecca-gilmour-roman-bioarchaeology/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/anthrobiology-podcast-263302/dr-rebecca-gilmour-roman-bioarchaeology.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}