Conference Presentations by Julia Gresky
Paper presented at "Uluslararası Harran ve Çevresi Tarih ve Arkeoloji Sempozyumu" (International ... more Paper presented at "Uluslararası Harran ve Çevresi Tarih ve Arkeoloji Sempozyumu" (International Archaeology and History Symposium: Harran and its Vicinity), 03 November 2017
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18th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Wien, October 23-26, 2010
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18th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Wien, October 23-26, 2010
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20th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Lund, Sweden, August 26-31, 2014
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21st European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Moscow, August 15-19, 2016
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International conference of “Anthropology and Ethnology of Caucasus”, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State... more International conference of “Anthropology and Ethnology of Caucasus”, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Institute of History and Ethnology, October 24-27, 2016, Tbilisi.
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18th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeolog... more 18th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Kent, 9th-11th September 2016
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11. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Archäozoologie und Prähistorische Anthropologie e.V. vom 10. – 14... more 11. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Archäozoologie und Prähistorische Anthropologie e.V. vom 10. – 14. Oktober 2016 im Archäologischen Landesmuseum im Paulikloster in Brandenburg an der Havel
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A paleopathological investigation on skeletal remains from the Old Kingdom mastabas of Elephantin... more A paleopathological investigation on skeletal remains from the Old Kingdom mastabas of Elephantine, Egyptian Nubia (approx. 2300 BC), revealed an adult male with specific lesions in the tibiae, fibulae and foot bones, characteristic of leprosy (MØLLER-CHRISTENSEN 1961;SCHULTZ, ROBERTS 2002)
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The first case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) in Greece is presented. LCPD, a rare disease, is discussed using the Digital Atlas of Ancient Rare Diseases (DAARD), which tests the benefits of the database for diagnosing and contextualizing the new case with 42 archaeological cases of LCPD recorded in the DAARD.
Materials
A 30–40-year-old, probable male individual was found at the archaeological site of Olympia, Greece, dating to 500–700 CE.
Methods
Biological sex, age-at-death and pathological changes were investigated using macroscopic and osteometric methods. The DAARD provided the typical characteristics of LCPD.
Results
Pathological changes in both hip joints without any other related changes in the skeleton corresponded to the skeletal features of LCPD. The DAARD produced 42 cases of LCPD, most of which from Europe, with a preference for male sex and unilateral involvement of the hip joint.
Conclusions
The DAARD aids in diagnosing rare diseases and interpreting new cases in the context of already known studies.
Significance
This study shows that the DAARD has the potential to help researchers move beyond the level of single case studies and create a broader picture of the history of rare diseases.
Limitations
This paper focuses on the benefits of the DAARD in relation to LCPD but not all rare diseases have been included in the database.
Suggestions for further research
More rare diseases from archaeological contexts should be added to the DAARD to create a base for the interpretation of their history and expand our understanding of rare diseases in the past.
by a common project of the Slovak Academy of Science, the Roman-Germanic Commission, the Archaeological Institute of the University of Heidelberg, the NIhK (Niedersachsisches Institut für historische Kiistenforschung) and the Bergbaumuseum
Bochum. The interdisciplinary project is focusing on the genesis of the fortified settlement in the context of its surrounding archaeological landscape. Key questions are the role of early metallurgy, the impact of this proto-urban centre on the environment and the reasons for its formation and decline. Large-scale geophysical prospection, field surveying, auger programs, chemical analysis of soils, and test trenches enable us to outline the genesis of the settlement. In the first stage at the beginning of the Early Bronze Age a small settlement was fortified by bank and ditch. In the following stage in the period of the Hatvan Culture it grew into one of the largest settlements in the Pannonian Basin. Later in the Mad'arovce Culture a reduction of the settlement took place and marks the final stage. The first results illustrate the potential of the site Fidvár and the Žitava river valley to investigate the socioeconomic and cultural change in Early Bronze Age societies, the role of bronze metallurgy and the human impact. The ongoing research is embedded in an interdisciplinary project, funded since 2010 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the VEGA Scientific Grant Agency (project no. 2/0013/10).
Following the three previous conferences (Kickoff: Frankfurt a. M. 2021; Concepts: Berlin 2022; Practices: Athens 2023), this year‘s annual conference is dedicated to the topic of media, or more precisely to dealing with body and death through media. We want to discuss how different media have been used to deal with the human body and death. The thematic spectrum of the conference ranges from concrete case studies to fundamental considerations on how media are constructed and staged in order to create a communicative space on the body and death. The focus on media in this conference ties in with our previous
explorations of theoretical concepts and of practices of dealing with body and death during the preceding conferences.