Publications

2025

Cusan A., Casna M., & Magno G. “An early twentieth-century case of lower lip cancer from the Morgagni Museum (Padua, Italy)”. memo – Magazine of European Medical Oncology 18, 320–323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12254-025-01072-1

Casna M. The air we breathe: a study into the impact of historical socioeconomic changes on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (ca. 470-1850 CE). Doctoral dissertation, Leiden University. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/4250305

Davies-Barrett A. M., Casna M., & Inskip S. A. “A custome lothsome”: Investigating the association between tobacco consumption and respiratory inflammation in two post-medieval English populations (c. CE 1500–1855). PLoS One 20(5), e0324045. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324045

Casna M., & Schrader S. A. Historical Trends and Risk Factors in Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis Among Dutch Pre-Adults (475–1866 CE). American Journal of Biological Anthropology 186(4), e70050. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70050

2024

Casna M., Davies-Barrett, A. M., & Schrader S. A. Exploring the impact of tobacco consumption on the respiratory health of two Dutch skeletal populations (1300–1829 CE). World Archaeology 55(5), 508-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2024.2425814

Pace V., Casna M., & Schrader S. A. Using computed tomography to diagnose chronic frontal sinusitis in the skeletal remains of a post-medieval Dutch rural community (AD 1829–1866). Journal of Archaeological Science 170, 106041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106041

Casna M., Davies-Barrett A. M., & Schrader S. A. Smoking histories: a bioarchaeological approach to tobacco consumption in two skeletal populations from The Netherlands (1300-1829 CE). Post-Medieval Archaeology 58(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2024.2355461

Bartholdy B. P., Hasselstrøm J. B., Sørensen L. K., Casna M., Hoogland M. L. P., Beemster H. G., & Henry A. G. Multiproxy analysis exploring patterns of diet and disease in dental calculus and skeletal remains from a 19th century Dutch population. Peer Community Journal 4: e46. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.414

Casna M., & Schrader S. A. Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis: A comparison of osteological and CT methods of diagnosis. International Journal of Paleopathology 45: 30-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2024.04.001

Casna M., & Schrader S. A. The urban sea: Cribra orbitalia, porotic hyperostosis, linear enamel hypoplasia, and sinusitis in three diachronic urban sites from the Dutch province of Zeeland (1030–1800 CE). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 34(3), e3302. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3302

Casna M., Roelofs J. J. H., Schats R., Verbist B., & Bruntjes T. D. Association between morphological features in the cochlear promontory and mastoid Process: Implications for Identifying middle ear diseases in human skeletal remains. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 56, 104538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104538

Davies-Barret, A. M., Casna M., Boyd D., & Inskip S. An analysis of interobserver variability in the recording of maxillary sinusitis in human osteoarchaeological remains. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 34 (2), e3293. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3293

2023

Casna M., Schats R., Hoogland M. L. P., & Schrader S. A. A distant city: assessing the impact of Dutch socioeconomic developments on urban and rural health using respiratory disease as a proxy, International Journal of Paleopathology 42: 34-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.07.003

2022

Casna M. & Schrader S. A. Urban beings: a bioarchaeological approach to socioeconomic status, cribra orbitalia, porotic hyperostosis, linear enamel hypoplasia, and sinusitis in the early-modern Northern Low Countries (A.D. 1626–1850), Bioarchaeology International 6 (4): 217-232. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2022.0001 [Open Access link]

2021

Casna M., Burrell C. L., Schats R., Hoogland M. L. P., & Schrader S. A. Urbanization and respiratory stress in the Northern Low Countries: a comparative study of chronic maxillary sinusitis in two early modern sites from the Netherlands (AD 1626–1866), International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 31 (5): 891-901. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3006