Limping together through the ages. Joint afflictions and bone infections, 2008, 210 p., 170 ill. -

The volume contains a list of authors, a foreword by the editors and eleven scientific contributions. These are subdivided into seven papers on evidence from human bones and four from animal remains. In detail, there are discussions of regional differences of stress markers in three Medieval and early modern populations in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, the late Medieval cemetery of the poorhouse at Regensburg, Bavaria, selected pathologies on bones of the 19th and 20th century from the church cemetery of Saint Pankratius in Altdorf / Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, a late Medieval village population at Diepensee, Brandenburg, non-invasive examination methods of ancient bone and mummies, archaeological and anthropological examinations of a mass grave from the 1636 battle at Wittstock as well as Messerer fractures in the forensic and palaeopathological context. The palaeozoological papers deal with bone structure and function in draft cattle, the differential diagnosis of arthropathy in bovids, diachronic trends in lower limb pathologies in later Medieval and post-Medieval cattle from Britain as well as a deformed fowl skull from Trier.