Downloadable Palaeopathology BooksThe New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science have made two of their bulletins freely available to download that may be of interest to palaeopathologists: Rothschild, B. M. and Martin, L. D. 2006. Skeletal Impact of Disease. Session Announcement - Palaeopathology in the zooarchaeological record: problems and possibilitiesThe fourth meeting of the Palaeopathology Association in South America (PAMinSA IV), to be held 2-5th November 2011 in Lima, Peru, includes a session entitled Palaeopathology in the zooarchaeological record: problems and possibilities. The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended until August 15th. Further information about the conference and how to submit your abstract can be found in the conference circular. There is also an online registration form. PAMinSA are offering Cockburn Awards for the best student poster and student podium presentation of the conference. MeetingsA review of the APWG conference in Greece in April 2010 has now been posted in the 'past meetings' section of the website. Ylva Telldahl has very kindly agreed to host the next meeting at the Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Details will follow in due course.New Palaeopathology Journal AnnouncedElsevier have just annouced that they will be hosting a new journal - The International Journal of Paleopathology - which has been adopted as the journal of the Paleopathology Association (http://www.paleopathology.org). The aim of the journal is as follows: "Paleopathology is the study and application of methods and techniques for studying diseases and related conditions from skeletal and soft tissue remains. The description of ways in which these methods can be applied to the reconstruction of health, disease and activity patterns in the past is central to the discipline. The International Journal of Paleopathology (IJP) will publish original and significant articles on human and animal diseases, based upon the study of physical remains, including osseous, dental, and preserved soft tissues. Papers dealing with text-based evidence relating to disease in the past (rather than history of medicine) will also be published." In addition to articles, case studies, book reviews, and shorter-length technical notes and brief communications, the first two years of the journal will offer an inaugural series of papers that reflect the opinions of recognized paleopathologists specializing in such topics as animal health, bone disease, dental disease, historical paleopathology, imaging technologies, paleohistology, paleoparasitology, and mummy science, both reflecting the current state of the art and future prospects, including opportunities afforded by interdisciplinary collaborations. Articles will be evaluated in terms of their contributions to new knowledge about the past and the history of health and disease, justified in terms of archaeological or historical contexts. The goal is that the journal will be active in shaping the field of paleopathology, not a passive reflection of it. The first issue of the journal will be published in December 2010, and there will be four issues published each year. If you are interested in contributing a paper on animal palaeopathology and would like some further information, please visit the IJPP website (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijpp) or get in touch with Richard Thomas (Associate Editor;rmt12@le.ac.uk). PublicationsWe 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 BankWe 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.
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