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
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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: btheilade@health.sdu.dk)
Registration & payment no later than 1st June
Registration and payment:
http://webpay.sdu.dk/system/bbm2015
Abstract form:
See example, p. 3
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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 jboldsen@health.sdu.dk)
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: jboldsen@heatlh.sdu.dk
Phd-student Dorthe D. Pedersen, Anthropologist, MSc
Tel: + 45 6550 4734; dopedersen@health.sdu.dk
Phd-student Peter Tarp, Anthropologist, MSc
Tel: + 45 6550 4733; ptarp@health.sdu.dk
Mrs. Bodil Theilade, Secretary
Tel: +45 65509083; Cell +45 6179 6473; Email: btheilade@health.sdu.dk
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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.
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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 btheilade@health.sdu.dk no later than 1st May 2015
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