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- Learning about past health, disease and diet from the mouths of skeletons
Learning about past health, disease and diet from the mouths of skeletons
Camilla Speller
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26 September 2014
7.50pm - 8.05pmYork Medical Society (map)
FREE admission
No booking requiredWheelchair accessible
(through the garden)
Event details
Your body (and mine) are covered with germs. We need them; they help to keep us healthy! Recent research at the University of York has discovered that we can study ancient health and disease by examining these germs which are trapped in archaeological dental calculus (mineralised plaque, or tartar).
Analysing this helps us to recover evidence of pathogens, and proteins associated with the human immune system. Come and see how these discoveries promise to expand our understanding of human health in the past, and of today!
This is one of twelve thought-provoking short talks throughout the evening at York Medical Society on all things health-related by researchers from across eight different departments at the University of York. The talks are divided into three sessions over four hours, starting at 5pm and ending at 9.20pm, which are interspersed with refreshments and a chance to speak to the researchers, some of whom have been researching for years and some of whom are just at the start of their careers.
