Friday, May 3

BeFRAIL Webinars

These webinars introduce human frailty linked with pan/epidemics and war in the human past via archaeological contextualisation.

By BeFRAIL Project

Select date and time

Friday, May 3 · 8 - 9:30am PDT

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The program comprises:

Dr Charlotte Primeau (14.03.2024 - 15:00 GMT) - ‘The use of radiographic imaging in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology.’
Dr Sandra Assis (04.04.2024 - 15:00 WEST, GMT+1) - ‘Bones and diseases: contributions and challenges of paleohistopathology for the study of past human conditions.’
Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant (12.04.2024 - 16:00 WEST, GMT+1) - ‘Taphonomy: What happens to the body after death?’
Dr Eline Schotsmans (24.04.2024 - 12:00 WEST, GMT+1) - ‘The use of lime as a disinfectant during epidemics.’
Prof Amanda Wissler (03.05.2024 - 16:00 WEST, GMT+1) - ‘Socio-demographic causes of frailty in the 1918 flu pandemic.’
Prof Sharon DeWitte (17.05.2024 - 18:00 WEST, GMT+1) - ‘Stress, sex, and death: health and survival in the context of medieval famine and plague.’
Dr Olalla López-Costas (24.05.2024 - 15:00 WEST, GMT+1) - ‘Food on the move: bioarchaeology of diet and mobility.’
Prof Alexandra Esteves (07.06.2024 - 15:00 WEST, GMT+1) - ‘Diseases and epidemic outbreaks in Portugal in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.’