Past life and death in a Flemish town. An archaeo-anthropological study of burials from the medieval and post-medieval St. Rombout's cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th-18th centuries CE)

The results showed differences in burial modes associated with age, sex and pathological changes that can be related to social age, gender and socio-economic background. They particularly reveal a possible sub-group in the population consisting of adolescents and young male adults, who showed indications for more severe physical stress, growth disturbances and disease and were buried in less expensive and more unusual graves.