During the academic year, projects based on the Byzantine collection were incorporated into Dr. Sheridan's "Human Osteology" course. They included an analysis of the biomechanics of kneeling, and a survey of childhood stress indicators, with particular emphasis on dental defects (enamel hypoplasias). This work was carried forward by some students as "Directed Research" in the Spring semester.

The summer 96 team helped collect data on comparative Byzantine skeletal collections in the Levant, amass a large data base on long bone metrics, non-metric dental traits, and age indicators throughout the skeleton.  Several of the students from the Fall and Summer 1996 came to the project thru the Albright Institute Intership program.

The data collected during the 1997 academic year was incorporated into Dr. Sheridan's "Human Osteology" course. Ten students utilized raw data for research projects in class. Also, three students began a study of non-metric traits for a joint "Directed Research" project. Graduate students from Theology continued with the project, writing grants to support their research, and establishing an on-line database for the library holdings of the Byzantine Jerusalem project.

Students  collected data for a publication on the material culture commingled with the human remains, non-metric dental, cranial and post-cranial traits, and cortical bone maintenance.

The "Human Osteology" course conducted research on aspects of pilgrimage, childhood age estimation, diet, and burial customs.  Two groups looked at non-metric traits of the cranium and post-cranium, to be later synthesized with the data on dental non-metric traits.  One group studied dental pathologies such as carious lesions, abcesses, etc in a reconstruction of oral health and dietary practices.  Another group synthesized multiple methods of childhood age estimation to be used on the data collected on the subadult segment of the community.  And, one group surveyed Byzantine burial practices for comparison to the depositional context of the St. Stephen's collection.

This class studied the question of diet reconstruction using the Byzantine St. Stephens data.  One group studied the frequency of dental caries, another looked at diseases of bone associated with nutritional stress, and one group analyzed aspects of childhood growth and development in bone versus dentition. 

The summer 2000 "Field School in Biocultural Anthropology"  focused on diet reconstruction using the St. Stephen's collection.  Dental features related to diet included scoring degree of calculus build-up, attrition, and frequency of carious lesions were studied.

The summer 2002  NSF-REU Program in Biocultural Anthropology studied the subadult segment of the Byzantine St. Stephen's collection.

The team of student assistants for 2003 helped catalogue the St. Stephen's collection, maintain the lab library, convert the extensive slide collection, and study the remains.

The summer 2003 NSF-REU Program in Biocultural Anthropology studied biomechanical aspects of the lower limb as part of a larger reconstruction of daily activity patterns.

The Fall 2003 Osteology class concentrated on aspects of the shoulder, thorax, and leg related to daily activity pattern reconstruction.

The Spring 2004 team helped catalogue the remains for study.

The summer 2004 NSF-REU Program in Biocultural Anthropology studied the diet of the Byzantine St. Stephens's community as part of a larger reconstruction of daily life.