MORTALITY -- THE ULTIMATE STRESS MARKER: SKELETAL LESIONS AND SURVIVAL ANALYSIS AT ROMAN VIMINACIUM C. Scott Speal Paper presented at Conference Stressed Out: Debunking the Stress Myth in the Study of Archaeological Human Remains Institute of Archaeology, University College of London, May 20 th 2017. Im here to speak to you about six field seasons of osteological research at the provincial Roman City of Viminacium, and what it taught me about modeling ďiologiĐal stƌess fƌoŵ the peƌspeĐtiǀe of human skeletal remains. Occupied from the 1 st through the 5 th Century AD, Viminacium was situated on the Danube frontier in modern day eastern Serbia (Mócsy 1974, “pasić-Duƌić 2002)(Figure 1). With humble beginnings as a legionary outpost in Augustan times, the camp grew to be formally recognized as an urban municipium in the 2 nd Century, reached the pinnacle civic rank of colonia in the 4 th Century, and eventually served as the capital of the province of Moesia Superior. The city is thought to have had a peak population of perhaps 30,000 persons. Figure 1: Location of Viminacium within the Roman Balkans