International Council for Archaeozoology - Care or Neglect?: Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology: Proceedings of the 6th Meeting of the Animal Palaeopathology Working Group of the International Council for Archaeozoology (Icaz),

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CONTENTS

Lszl Bartosiewicz and Erika Gl

Lszl Bartosiewicz and Erika Gl

Kamilla Pawowska

Lszl Bartosiewicz, va . Nyerges and Anna Zs. Biller

Erika Gl and Gnther Karl Kunst

Nemanja Markovi, Oliver Stevanovi, Nikola Krsti, Darko Marinkovi, Maciej Janeczek, Aleksander Chrszcz and Vujadin Ivanievi

Yasha Hourani

Lauren Bellis

Henriette Baron

William Taylor and Tumurbaatar Tuvshinjargal

Pamela J. Cross

Kyra Lyublyanovics

Lszl Bartosiewicz

Henriette Baron

Annamria Brny

Yves Darton and Isabelle Rodet-Belarbi

Mrta Darczi-Szab and Lszl Darczi-Szab

Jennifer Harland and Wim Van Neer

Hanna Kivikero

FOREWORD

The Animal Palaeopathology Working Group is an autonomous organisation within the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ). Its members are specialised in the reconstruction of past animal health, typically using evidence from excavated animal remains. The 6th meeting of this loosely defined group of scholars was organised in Budapest between 2629 May 2016. The present volume comprises the proceedings resulting from the lectures, poster presentations and lively exchange of ideas during the meeting.

The conference was dedicated to the memory of Sndor Bknyi (19261994), former director of the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (19811993) on the 90th anniversary of his birth. A fresh graduate in veterinary sciences working in the Hungarian National Museum, Bknyi established modern archaeozoological research in Hungary in 1950. In his analyses, he represented a fresh perspective combining veterinary expertise with archaeological reasoning. This period represented the heyday of classical archaeozoology in Central Europe. Bknyi was a founding member of ICAZ and co-hosted with Jnos Matolcsi, the 1971 conference in Budapest that marked the beginning of the organisation. At the time, ICAZ was committed to facilitating academic exchange between archaeozoologists working in the politically divided western and eastern halves of Europe. Bknyis best known book, the History of Domestic Mammals in Central and Eastern Europe , was a contribution to the unfolding international cooperation in our field.

During the editing works of this volume we received the news that another key figure in animal palaeopathology, Don Brothwell (19332016) sadly passed away in September 2016. We therefore decided to pay tribute to his oeuvre as well. Brothwell was an archaeologist and anthropologist by training, and specialist in human palaeoecology and environmental archaeology. Having spent the first 16 years of his career at the University of Cambridge and the British Museum (Natural History), Brothwell was appointed senior lecturer in zooarchaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London in 1974. It was during this period that his interest extended from human remains to animal bones, including the archaeology of animal disease. This was the time when, inspired by so-called New Archaeology, the application of scientific methods was emerging in archaeology world-wide. In 1974, Brothwell founded the influential Journal of Archaeological Science . Among archaeozoologists, however, he will probably remain best known as co-author with John Baker of the first modern book on the archaeological applications of animal palaeopathology: Animal Diseases in Archaeology (1980). Prior to that publication, the topic had been usually studied by palaeontologists and lacked any cultural perspective.

Sndor Bknyi in the 1980s lecturing at the Etvs Lornd University in Budapest, Hungary;

Don Brothwell in 2010 during the fourth Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Conference in Katerini, Greece .

The 2016 APWG conference was one of the last international meetings organised at the Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences prior to its re-location in a former industrial zone from the historic building complex in the prestigious Buda Castle District. The venue of the APWG meeting once served as the refectory of a Franciscan monastery built during the early 18th century in Baroque style. At the end of 1794, Hungarian noble revolutionaries called Jacobins were tried in this room, hence its name, Jacobin Hall.

The 25 participants attending the conference represented twelve countries from three continents. Their research, illustrated by contributions to this volume, encompasses a dozen countries in Eurasia. Remarkably, the overwhelming majority of participants were early-career scholars, a promising trend in furthering the legacy of previous generations of archaeozoologists devoted to promoting the study of animal disease in the past.

In order to guarantee the high academic standards of this volume, contributors all experts in the field were asked to peer-review each others manuscripts. In addition, however, several colleagues served as external reviewers to help improve the manuscripts both in terms of contents and linguistic clarity. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank John Chapman, Alice M. Choyke, Damien Huffer, Eve Ranname, William Taylor and Eric Tourigny for their enthusiastic support during the preparation of manuscripts.

Participants of the sixth meeting of the Animal Palaeopathology Working Group in Budapest (Photo: Melinda Vindus) .

The editors

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

ANNAMRIA BRNY
Hungarian National Museum
1088 Budapest, Mzeum krt 1416, Hungary

HENRIETTE BARON
Rmisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut fr Archologie
Ernst-Ludwig-Platz 2, D-55116 Mainz, Germany

LSZL BARTOSIEWICZ
Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory
Stockholm University