APWG 2010 - Registration now open

It is now possible to register to attend the next conference of the ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group - themed Animal Disease in Past Human Societies. The conference will be held 9-11 April 2010 at the Hecabe Centre, Katerini, Greece (on the foothills of Mt. Olympus!). Further details can be found on the conference website. A provisional abstract booklet for the conference is now available to download.

Publications

We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of the second APWG conference held at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia, 23rd – 24th September 2004 have now been published by Archaeopress. The full citation is as follows:

British Archaeological Reports -S1844, 2008 Current Research in Animal Palaeopathology: Proceedings of the Second ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Conference edited by Zora Miklíková and Richard Thomas. ISBN 978 1 4073 0331 4. £26.00.

Papers include the following topics: Environmental stress in early domestic sheep (Bartosiewicz); Developmental anomaly of prehistoric roe deer dentition (Fabiš et al.); Tuberculosis or brucellosis in an Iron Age horse skeleton (Bendrey); Palaeopathology at two Roman sites in central Britain (Vann); Fracture analysis at a Roman site in The Netherlands (Groot); Pathology in horses from a Roman cemetery (Lyublyanovics); Animal diseases at a Celtic-Roman village in Hungary (Daróczi-Szabó); Animal pathology at an early medieval settlement in south-west Slovakia (Miklíková); Animal diseases from medieval Buda (Csippán & Daróczi-Szabó); Fossil and sub-fossil pathological bird bones from recent excavations (Gál); Osteoporosis in animal palaeopathology (Martiniaková et al.); Cranial perforations in Armenian cattle (Manaseryan).

Fourteen papers arising out of the 2007 conference held at the Lithuanian Veterinary Academy, Kaunas, Lithuania, have now also been published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Lithuanian Veterinary Academy: Veterinarija & Zootechnika. All papers can be downloaded for free here.

New palaeopathology images in the ADS Image Bank

We are pleased to announce that the Animal Palaeopathology Image Bank, which forms part of the ADS Image Bank, has been updated and now contains 127 images. To locate the images you need to log on to the image bank website http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/learning/image_bank/, click on "Advanced Search" on the right hand menu, and select the "Palaeopathology" option. Alternatively, you can view the images by undertaking a quick search on one of the following keywords: Joint Disease, Enthesopathy, Trauma, Osteodystrophy, Infection/Inflammation, Necrosis, Neoplasia, Non-metric, Other. If you are interested in donating images to the Image Bank, please see further details in our resources section.