#Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #Paleopathology #Workshop After 11 years, Prof. Robert W. Mann, PhD (University of Hawaii) is once again holding a workshop in Berlin from 26 to 28 June 2024. We can again expect exciting topics, including fracture patterns (antemortem & perimortem trauma, taphonomic effects), epigenetic features and cribriform lesions on Read more…
#Anthropology #bioarchaeology@dai_weltweit# ZWA_DAI #Bioarchaeology #NaturalSciences_DAI @dai_weltweit This summer in Olympia, Greece, we were able to examine skeletons that were excavated around 1999 on the site of the former sports cities of the Olympic Games. Among many other exciting finds, we could diagnose a Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in one of the skeletons, which Read more…
#Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #KörperUndTod @dai_weltweit The DAI research cluster “Body and Death” will hold its annual conference at the DAI Athens this year. We meet from the 17th to the 19th. October 2023 on the topic “Death in Three Acts: Practices of Dealing with Body and Death”. Proposals for presentations – Read more…
#Anthropology #Bioarchaeology First osteological evidence of severed hands in Ancient Egypt. Our paper on the severed hands of 12 individuals from Tell el-Dabha is published (press release). You will find it here.
#Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #Paleopathology #Conference @Paleopatholog10 The 50th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association will take place on April 17th to 19th in Reno, Nevada.Take part in the hybrid symposia and the many podium and poster presentations. Looking forward to (virtually) seeing you there! Read the program here.
#Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #AncientRareDiseases #RareDiseases The DAARD is available online! Around 91 archaeological cases from so far 18 rare diseases affecting the skeleton can be viewed worldwide with all available osteological and archaeological data. Anyone can be part of the DAARD by submitting a case of a rare skeletal disease and Read more…
#Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #Archaeology#KörperUndTod The DAI research cluster “Body and Death” was founded in 2021 with the aims of promotingexchange between the various archaeological and anthropological disciplines concerned with the human body and establishing the body as a research topic. “Body and death” forms a cross -cutting theme for all research questions that deal Read more…
#Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #Groundcheck #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis # With increasing speed and simultaneity, we are experiencing dramatic climate and social changes. Science and politics are challenged to defend these findings against denial and fake science, which makes solutions even more difficult. The conference is intended to take a look at the specific Read more…
#BioarchClimateConference #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Bioarchaeology #NaturalSciences_DAI #Groundcheck @dai_weltweit On the 2nd and 3rd of December 2021, the Human Bioarchaeology Unit (Division of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute) organised the free online conference “Back(Bone) to the Future – Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Climate Change and Climate Crisis”. The conference presented a global, long-term Read more…
#Bioarchaeology #methodology #workshop #ZWA_DAI @DAI_weltweit Members of the Human Bioarchaeology Unit participated in a workshop to discuss different methods of age estimation and sex determination in subadults on the base of a collection of identified subadult skeletons. The workshop was held by the AG Freiberufliche Osteoanthropologen (AFOA, WG Freelance Osteo-Anthropologists) Read more…