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Aaron Gasparik - Honorary Research Fellow

Aaron Gasparik, Honorary Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Archaeology

 

Name: Dr Aaron Gasparik

Honorary Title: Honorary Research Fellow

Email: aaron.gasparik.14@alumni.ucl.ac.uk

IoA staff nominator’s name and email address:

Carolyn Rando: c.rando@ucl.ac.uk

Profile

IoA involvement:

Aaron is currently working with Carolyn Rando on the cataloguing, photography, and analysis of a large assemblage of skeletons from Chichester, West Sussex, with the aim of completing an in-depth osteological report on this collection. He will also contribute to subsequent research projects and publications that develop out of this initial report.

Having recently worked as a post-graduate teaching assistant on the Bioarchaeology and Forensic anthropology MSc degree programme, Aaron will continue to assist with laboratory and research supervision for students in this programme.

Publications

Research Publications

 

Alves Cardoso, F. and Gasparik, A. (In press). Activity and the shoulder: From soft tissues to bare bones. In Hirst, C., Gilmour, R., Alves Cardoso, F., and Plomp, K. (Eds.) Behaviour in Our Bones: How Human Behaviour Influences Skeletal Morphology. London, UK: Elsevier.

Gasparik, A., Rando, C. and Waldron, T. (2019). Shouldering the load: A comparison of rotator cuff disease prevalence and demography in three skeletal assemblages from the medieval (1066-1540 CE) and post-medieval (1540-1850 CE) periods in Britain.  Poster presented in a session at the annual meeting of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. London, UK. (September 13-15, 2019).

Hirst, C., White, S., Siek, T. and Gasparik, A. (2019). Honeycomb Sterna: An unusual case of a developmental abnormality in the sternum. Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy, 42: 91-94.

Watts, R., Gasparik, A., Monetti, L., Rando, C., and Waldron, T. (2019). Chronic gout in mature adult males from post medieval Chichester. Poster presented in a session at the annual meeting of the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. London, UK. (September 13-15, 2019).