Baltic Bioarchaeological Meeting (BBM) 2015
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Baltic Bioarchaeological Meeting (BBM) 2015
Baltic Bioarchaeological Meeting (BBM) 2015 Venue: ADBOU, Lucernemarken 20, 5260 Odense S Draft Program, 24-26. August 2015 Invited guest speakers: Niels Lynnerup, Copenhagen Univ: Ben Krause-Kyora, Kiel, Germany: Danish mummies (Grauballe etc.) DNA project The program is based on input from the participants. Topics are primarily to be related to the Baltic region and can be about: Diseases in the past Age, death and demography Graves, grave types and grave goods Migration Forensic anthropology and archaeology Archaeological and osteological methods Biostatistics - Social events Get-together-evening Sunday 23th August: St. Canute’s Cathedral, Odense (free of charge) Conference dinner Tuesday evening 25th August: Conference venue, ADBOU, Lucernemarken, Odense Excursion after the meeting: Øm Kloster or Moesgaard Museum, Grauballe man exhibition etc. Course 27-28. August: Hands on course on Bones ‘age-sex-illnesses’ (master + phd level) DEADLINES: Abstracts 1st May (send to: [email protected]) Registration & payment no later than 1st June Registration and payment: http://webpay.sdu.dk/system/bbm2015 Abstract form: See example, p. 3 1 Prices: Registration fees EUR Ordinary participant 60 Student participant 40 Conference dinner 20 Excursion 20 Bone course 27-28 August* 200 * scolarships available for students (apply to [email protected]) DKK 450 300 150 150 1500 Dalum Landbrugsskole College** Prices EUR DKK per night 2 nights 3 nights 4 nights 5 nights ** Walking distance 5 min from ADBOU 40 80 120 160 200 300 600 900 1200 1500 Other Hotels’ prices in Odense Per night Cabinn Close to railway station Odense Plaza Close to railway & city Scandic Hotel Close to highway Hotel Knudsens Gård Close to ADBOU (10 min.) Best Western Single DKK 495 DKK 795 DKK 995 DKK 895 Double DKK 675 DKK 1490 DKK 1300 (Single rooms with shared bath & toilet, incl. breakfast) Organizing Committee: Head of committee, Jesper L. Boldsen, Assoc.prof, DMSc Tel: +45 6550 2603; Cell + 45 2618 4540; Email: [email protected] Phd-student Dorthe D. Pedersen, Anthropologist, MSc Tel: + 45 6550 4734; [email protected] Phd-student Peter Tarp, Anthropologist, MSc Tel: + 45 6550 4733; [email protected] Mrs. Bodil Theilade, Secretary Tel: +45 65509083; Cell +45 6179 6473; Email: [email protected] 2 ABSTRACT EXAMPLE How do we know that so many suffered from leprosy? A comparison of the pathological and the epidemiological approaches to estimating leprosy frequency in Medieval Denmark JESPER L BOLDSEN. Department of Anthropology (ADBOU), Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark. Paleopathologically, Medieval leprosy is described as a relatively rare disease. Epidemiological research has indicated that leprosy was much more widespread. More than 40 leprosaria were established in Denmark during the 13th century. By 1550 leprosy had ceased to be a major public health problem and the leprosaria went out of use. This poster sets out to estimate the frequency of leprosy in the city of Odense using data about burials in the leprosarium. In Odense the leprosarium was established in the 1270s. The cemetery of the leprosarium was excavated totally in 1980 yielding evidence of some 2500 mostly adult burials. Analyses of the burial custom showed that more than 90% of the burials were made before 1350. This means that around 40% of all burials of adults in the city of Odense between the 1270s and 1350 were made in the cemetery of the leprosarium. Based on an epidemiological analysis, virtually all the skeletons came from people who suffered from leprosy; based on a pathological analysis more than half of the skeletons came from people with leprosy. Consequently, more than 20 % of the people of Odense died with leprosy between 1270 and 1350. This means that leprosy was an extremely common disease and that the epidemiological estimate of the frequency of leprosy are much more accurate than those based on pure pathological analyses. This research was funded by the EU program Interreg 4A. --------- • • • • Max 300 words If more than one author of the abstract, please underline speaker’s name There should be no references in the text Please submit abstract to [email protected] no later than 1st May 2015 3