2024

OOOS XXXXI 10. december, 2024 – Bioarchaeology SeminarBioarkæologisk undersøgelse, formidling og forskning i Danmark
Talks by
– Michael Borre Lundø, Museum Odense
– Lars Agersnap Larsen og Katrine Vestergaard, Viborg Museum
– Tim Slumstrup Aunkilde, Københavns Museum
– Thomas Guntzelnik Poulsen, Museum Østjylland
– Maria Knudsen, Museum Vest
– Kirsten Nellemann Nielsen, Museum Silkeborg
– Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, Museum Odense
From ADBOU:
– Dorthe D. Pedersen
– Svenja Weise
– Vicki Kristensen
– Sara Næss Elleskov.

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2023

Mini-Symposium on Demographic Evolution 12th Oct, 2023 in DIAS Auditorium

On the occasion of professor Jesper L. Boldsen’s retirement from his position
on 30.09.2023, ADBOU and Dept. Of Forensic Sciences, University of Southern
Denmark invited friends and co-workers to a mini symposium on the topic within
the special interests of the professor, demographic evolution. (program)

The symposium was followed by a reception dinner.

2022:
OOOS Jubilee Seminar for students and others.
Special guests: Saige Kelmelis, Univ. South Dakota, USA & George R. Milner, PennState University, USA.
Time: Monday, June 13th, 2022, 12.30-16.30
Place: DIAS Seminar room V24-411-0, Fioniavej 34

2020:

OOOS on Forensic Archaeology & Pathology on 19th February 2020
Speakers:
Mike Groen, Netherlands Forensic Institute (Forensic Archaeologist, Den Haag) „Archaeology and Crime Scenes. Current concepts and future directions‟
Petra Molnar, Polisen, Forensisk section (Kriminaltekniker, DVI-team Stockholm; Osteoarkeolog),            “Crime Scene Investigations and Forensic Anthropology within the Swedish Police”
Jo Buckberry, School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford (Reader in Biological Anthropology, Programme Manager MSc Human Osteology and Palaeopathology)„Trauma and taphonomy: Investigating the peri-mortem interval at medieval Stirling Castle, Scotland‟.

2018
21st Congress of the European Anthropological Association hosted by ADBOU, took place at campus from 22-25 August, 2018. (Download Final Program)



2018:

OOOS on 4th October, 2018

Speakers:
Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, ADBOU. The Haagerup Field School Excavation 2018.
Jesper L. Boldsen, ADBOU. TheCityDwellers project – Relations among adults in Viborg.
Lene Mollerup, Øm Kloster, Skanderborg Museum. Alken Enge – the mass grave at Lake Mossø.
Raining Wang, PennState University. Metagenomic screening of ancient Treponema pallidum genetic signatures from the pre-Columbian America Norris Farms #36 cemetery.
Saige Kelmelis, PennState University. Frailty of urbanization in medieval Denmark – a study in progress: Dungeons and Demographics – a peak into the weird and wonderful world of D&D.

2017:

OOOS XXXVI: Mycobacterial infectious diseases

Time: Tuesday 6th June 2017, 11:00 – 13:00
Place: ADBOU, Lucernemarken 20, 5260 Odense S

Professor David Minnikin from University of Birmingham, an expert on the study of lipid biomarkers indicative of TB and leprosy in bones, is visiting ADBOU. We therefore host a seminar about the study of these mycobacterial infectious diseases.

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2016

PhD defence – Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen

Time: 5. January 2016 at 14.00
Place: ADBOU, Lucernemarken 20, 5260 Odense SV

Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen defends her PhD thesis entitled The presence of tuberculosis in Danish skeletons AD 800 – 1800 – from skeletal data to paleoepidemiological analysis.

It is still possible to get a copy of Dorthe’s thesis, please contact Bodil Theilade, btheilade@health.sdu.dk 

Inaugural seminar Professor Jesper Boldsen 

Time: 12. May 2016 at 14.00
Place: ADBOU, Lucernemarken 20, 5260 Odense SV
Welcome: Dean Ole Skøtt, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark

Guest speakers:

James W. Wood, Professor of Anthropology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
Kaare Lund Rasmussen, Associate professor, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark

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OOOS XXXV: Excavation of human skeletal remains
Time: Thursday 6th October 2016, 09:00 – 16:30
Place: ADBOU, Lucernemarken 20, 5260 Odense S

Why excavate human remains? What archaeological methods are used? How are the skeletal remains examined? How is data analysed? What research collaboration between archaeology, anthropology and natural sciences can excavations of human skeletal remains result in? Such questions will be discussed at the seminar.

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