22 September 2015, Starts: 19:30

Northern Picts:
From fast to fish and flesh to bones:
Diet, disease and trauma at medieval Portmahomack

Talk by Dr Shirley Curtis-Summers

Tarbat Discovery Centre, Portmahomack. £3 entry.

Dr Shirley Curtis-Summers gained her doctoral degree in bioarchaeology at the University of Liverpool in 2015. Part of her research was based on reconstructing aspects of diet, disease and trauma on individuals from 6th to 17th century Portmahomack, by using stable isotope and osteological methods.
Analyses from this study have yielded remarkable results, including evidence of violence,suggesting inter-personal conflict; a change in diet over time, reflecting social and religious influences, and a number of other pathologies that suggest the medieval people of Portmahomack had a far from easy life.