18th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association

18th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association
Vienna, Austria
August 23rd – 26th 2010
Paleopathology – Shedding light on the past using novel strategies and conclusions

Aims of the meeting
The objective of the 18th PPA Meeting is to shed light on the many aspects of human health in the past from the Palaeolithic to modern times in order to discover the complex interaction between individuals and their environment and to investigate the degree of physical stress to which the members of early societies were exposed. Contributions, which aim to discuss novel methods and their possible limits and prospects are highly welcome, in particular when they critically deal with the potential of non-invasive (µCT) and invasive methods (e.g., REM, SEM-BSE-mode), aDNA-analysis techniques and protein diagnostics, respectively. Just recently, overused muscle insertions have become of particular interest, since these anomalies will enable us to reconstruct working activities and to get an idea of the social system and care of severely incapacitated individuals within these early groups. Pathologically altered ancient human skeletal remains are not only of historical interest, they can also reveal much to modern clinicians, who rarely have the opportunity to identify severe pathological alterations (due to modern medicine).

Language
English will be the only official language throughout the meeting.

Possible panels/topics of the Meeting
Skeletal dyplasias (Mucopolysaccharidoses)
Working activities (Enthesopathies)
Application of novel methods to paleopathology
Metabolic disorders
Jaws and teeth
Infectious disease
Trauma
Tumors
Joint lesions
Ethical issues
Historical issues

Abstract submission
Abstracts must be submitted by April 1st, 2010 and preceded by payment of the registration fee (there will be an early and late payment date);
based on our first preliminary calculation, the fees will probably be as follows:

Registration type early late and on-site
Form and payment required by: March 31, 2010 from April 1, 2010

PPA Members € 180,00 € 240,00
Non-PPA members € 200,00 € 280,00
Students € 90,00 € 120,00
Accompanying person € 90,00 € 120,00

Online registration will start ………..1st November 2009-09-23

Poster Prize
There will be a poster award for outstanding research work carried out by a student.

Organizing Institution
NHM
The meeting will be sponsored by
The Natural History Museum of Vienna
City of Vienna
University of Vienna

Organizer
Maria Teschler-Nicola, Natural History Museum of Vienna

Overview of the dates
1st November 2009 Online registration start, early registration fee
30th April 2010 Deadline for early registration, early payment and abstract submission
31st July 2010 Final program available
22nd August 2010 Registration, “Ice breaker”
23rd August 2010 Official opening of the conference

Contact
PPA 2010 Conference Secretariat
Department of Anthropology
Natural History Museum Vienna
Burgring 7
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
Tel.: +43 52177/239
Fax: +43 52177/230
e-mail:ppa2010@nhm-wien.ac.at
www-ppa2010.at
bettina.voglsinger@nhm-wien.ac.at (secretary)
maria.teschler@nhm-wien.ac.at

Más información: web del congreso