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 (e.g., µCT) and invasive methods (e.g., light microscopy, SE- and BSE-mode in SEM), 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 medical approaches).

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