Committee news

I am pleased to announce that four new colleagues have been appointed to the APWG committee: Theo Antikas, Robin Bendrey, Ylva Telldahl and Fay Worley. Contact details for the new committee members can be found on our committee page. RT.

Lithuania 2007

A review of the recent APWG conference held at the Lithuanian Veterinary Academy, Kaunas, Lithuania, (6-8 September 2007) can now be downloaded here - many thanks to Jeanette Wooding Wooding (University of Bradford), for writing this. Details of the abstracts of the conference are still accessible online. The proceedings of the Kaunas conference are now in the process of being published in the journal of the Lithuanian Veterinary Academy: Veterinarija & Zootechnika. To download those papers that have been published already please click 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.

Palaeopathology Short Course 2008

The 8th Palaeopathology Short Course will take place from Sunday 10 August (arrival) through Friday, 22 August 2008 at the Biological Anthropology Research Centre, Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford.

The course will cover topics in the study of health and demographic characteristics of past human populations, including age estimation and sex determination, estimates of body proportion and stature from human remains, specific and non-specific infectious disease, degenerative joint disease, metabolic disease, congenital abnormality, dental disease, activity-related skeletal change, and the use of histological techniques in the differential diagnosis of ancient disease. The course will also include a number of special lectures on ancient DNA, the analysis of ancient and modern human hair, and isotopic analyses that complement and extend the macro and microscopic analysis of palaeopathological conditions. Dr. Frank Rühli will also contribute on the use of radiography and Ct-scanning to aid differential diagnosis of palaeopathological lesions.

If you are interested in participating please see the flier for more details.