Current Research in Animal Palaeopathology: Proceedings of the Second ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Conference

Papers from the Second ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Conference held at Nitra, Slovakia in September 2005. 1) Introduction: current research in animal palaeopathology (R. Thomas & Z. Miklíková); 2) Environmental stress in early domestic sheep (L. Bartosiewicz); 3) A developmental anomaly of prehistoric roe deer dentition from Svodín, Slovakia (M. Fabis, R. Thomas, V. Páral & D. Vondrák); 4) A possible case of tuberculosis or brucellosis in an Iron Age horse skeleton from Viables Farm, Basingstoke, England (R. Bendrey); 5) Animal palaeopathology at two Roman sites in central Britain (S. Vann); 6) Understanding past human-animal relationships through the analysis of fractures: a case study from a Roman site in The Netherlands (M. Groot); 7) Pathology in horses from a Roman cemetery (K. Lyublyanovics); 8) Animal diseases at a Celtic-Roman village in Hungary (M. Daróczi-Szabó); 9) Skeletal alterations of animal remains from the early medieval settlement of Bajc, southwest Slovakia (Z. Miklíková); 10) Animal diseases from medieval Buda (P. Csippán & L. Daróczi-Szabó); 11) Broken-winged: fossil and sub-fossil pathological bird bones from recent excavations (E. Gál); 12) Osteoporosis in animal palaeopathology (M. Martiniaková, R. Omelka, M. Vondráková, M. Bauerová, P. Massányi & M. Fabis); 13) Cranial perforations in Armenian cattle (N. Manaseryan).