DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT
Course designed in 9 two-hour classes.
This course is designed for students with an interest in palaeopathology, both at an introductory and advanced level. The main alterations usually observed in archaeological bone remains and mummified remains will be dealt with. Special emphasis will be placed on the study of diseases of traumatic and infectious origin, without neglecting the rest of the programme.
We will differentiate between Anatomical Variations and true pathologies. Specific classes will be given for each group of pathologies, according to their aetiology. All cases will be illustrated with photographs, videos, X-rays, CT and histology images, in most cases taken by the same lecturers who will be teaching the course.
The experience accumulated by the teachers of the course during more than 30 years of working with bone remains has allowed us to design the classes with our own material that we have studied directly and that, in many cases, has been published in journals of impact or defended in national and international congresses.
The classes will be completed with on-line exercises, based on photographs or radiographic and/or CT images, which the students will carry out at home and the teachers will correct personally in each case.