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Annelise Binois-Roman
Assistant lecturer in Zooarchaeology at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Dissertation (defended June 2017) : The archaeology of epizootic disease. Identification and diagnosis of mass mortality events in domesticates from the Neolithic to the XIXth century.
Dissertation keywords: zooarchaeology, animal paleopathology, veterinary history, epidemiology, Northern France, England, Roman Period, Middle Ages, Modern Period, cattle, sheep, epizootic disease, animal deposits.
Supervisors: Pr. Christophe Petit and Dr. Anne Bridault
Dissertation (defended June 2017) : The archaeology of epizootic disease. Identification and diagnosis of mass mortality events in domesticates from the Neolithic to the XIXth century.
Dissertation keywords: zooarchaeology, animal paleopathology, veterinary history, epidemiology, Northern France, England, Roman Period, Middle Ages, Modern Period, cattle, sheep, epizootic disease, animal deposits.
Supervisors: Pr. Christophe Petit and Dr. Anne Bridault
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Animal health and wellbeing are essential concerns for people caring for domesticated animals, but are also signals of human health and wellbeing. Zooarchaeologists have long recorded individual pathologies from skeletal remains. This lesional approach is however often limited by the difficulty of diagnosing non-specific lesions, and by the limited scope of results obtained on individual specimens. In this symposium, we aim to address issues of animal health on a populational scale, and attempt to integrate the paleopathological data with other factors of animal lives discerned from archaeological and zooarchaeological data. Patterns of stress and injury observed in large assemblages may indeed reveal important information about the entire animal population and the relationship of animals to human activities and conditions. Epidemiological investigations on large faunal samples can allow the diagnosis of otherwise unrecognizable conditions. Concerns for animal health can also be detected in tooth wear, in isotopic data for feeding and herd movement, in evidence for corrals, pens, and other protective structures, in herd demography, in the locations of settlements and water control features on the landscape, and in the ways diseased animal carcasses were disposed of. The integration of data from all these lines of evidence, and many more, can thus offer us a broader perspective on the topic of animal health in archaeology.
sick. There are some texts that describe early veterinary care, but details are lacking and medical instruments are hard to come by in archaeological sites. However, as Annelise Binois explains, archaeological findings can provide a lot more information than might be thought, and can start to give a glimpse of the vast history of veterinary medicine.
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Diaporama de soutenance de thèse, 28 juin 2017, présentation d'environ 45 mn, diapos en anglais
Dissertation defense "The archaeology of epizootic disease. Identification and diagnosis of mass mortality events in domesticates from the Neolithic to the XIXth century."
I will be publicly defending my PhD in archaeology on the 28th of June 2017 at 1:30 PM, at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie in Paris (details on the attached invitation). The defense will be followed by a drinks reception.
Indeed, if the gelding of lambs seems well attested in texts from the Roman era onwards, its actual practical application is very difficult to demonstrate on archaeological artefacts and evidence of it remains controversial. We will present here archaeological sheep remains dated to the 17th or 18th century from Achères, France, and show that a targeted comparison of the sex and age data obtained for each animal may substantiate evidence of practices described historically.
Tail-docking is on the contrary very rarely documented prior to the modern period, whether in iconographical or textual sources. The example of the sheep-burial of Teteghem (France, 12th-13th century) will however demonstrate that this practice could have been common in some medieval flocks.
Our presentation will also cast a historical light on the motives, the usefulness and the practical procedures of these routine surgical interventions sine the Roman times.
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Animal health and wellbeing are essential concerns for people caring for domesticated animals, but are also signals of human health and wellbeing. Zooarchaeologists have long recorded individual pathologies from skeletal remains. This lesional approach is however often limited by the difficulty of diagnosing non-specific lesions, and by the limited scope of results obtained on individual specimens. In this symposium, we aim to address issues of animal health on a populational scale, and attempt to integrate the paleopathological data with other factors of animal lives discerned from archaeological and zooarchaeological data. Patterns of stress and injury observed in large assemblages may indeed reveal important information about the entire animal population and the relationship of animals to human activities and conditions. Epidemiological investigations on large faunal samples can allow the diagnosis of otherwise unrecognizable conditions. Concerns for animal health can also be detected in tooth wear, in isotopic data for feeding and herd movement, in evidence for corrals, pens, and other protective structures, in herd demography, in the locations of settlements and water control features on the landscape, and in the ways diseased animal carcasses were disposed of. The integration of data from all these lines of evidence, and many more, can thus offer us a broader perspective on the topic of animal health in archaeology.
sick. There are some texts that describe early veterinary care, but details are lacking and medical instruments are hard to come by in archaeological sites. However, as Annelise Binois explains, archaeological findings can provide a lot more information than might be thought, and can start to give a glimpse of the vast history of veterinary medicine.
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Diaporama de soutenance de thèse, 28 juin 2017, présentation d'environ 45 mn, diapos en anglais
Dissertation defense "The archaeology of epizootic disease. Identification and diagnosis of mass mortality events in domesticates from the Neolithic to the XIXth century."
I will be publicly defending my PhD in archaeology on the 28th of June 2017 at 1:30 PM, at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie in Paris (details on the attached invitation). The defense will be followed by a drinks reception.
Indeed, if the gelding of lambs seems well attested in texts from the Roman era onwards, its actual practical application is very difficult to demonstrate on archaeological artefacts and evidence of it remains controversial. We will present here archaeological sheep remains dated to the 17th or 18th century from Achères, France, and show that a targeted comparison of the sex and age data obtained for each animal may substantiate evidence of practices described historically.
Tail-docking is on the contrary very rarely documented prior to the modern period, whether in iconographical or textual sources. The example of the sheep-burial of Teteghem (France, 12th-13th century) will however demonstrate that this practice could have been common in some medieval flocks.
Our presentation will also cast a historical light on the motives, the usefulness and the practical procedures of these routine surgical interventions sine the Roman times.
I. Identification archéologique des mortalités de masse chez les ovins
II. Caractéristiques épidémiologiques des principales causes de mortalité de masse
III. Critères archéologiques de la diagnose différentielle des mortalités de masse ovines
Des fouilles préventives réalisées à Guimps (Charente) en 2011 ont mis au jour un squelette de chien médiéval,
inhumé isolément à l’intérieur d’un silo. L’animal présente de nombreuses lésions squelettiques. L’excellente
conservation des vestiges osseux nous ont permis de réaliser un diagnostic rétrospectif et de démontrer la pré-
sence de deux pathologies indépendantes, un radius-curvus et une luxation patellaire médiale. Ces affections sont
ici d’origine traumatique, comme le sont les nombreuses fractures que présente également l’animal. La chrono-
logie et la répartition squelettique des lésions sont étudiées au regard de données épidémiologiques actuelles, ce
qui nous amène à proposer un diagnostic de maltraitance animale, et à soulever la question de l’identification de
ce phénomène en archéologie."