Wiener Laboratory Hosts Max Planck Institute Workshop
April 6, 2010
The Wiener Laboratory hosted a Max Planck Institute for Demographic Workshop (Rostock) on March 15-17, 2010 entitled: “Sex, death and bones: Paleodemography and gender differentials in the Mediterranean World.” There were 25 participants in the workshop from various parts of the globe—Russia, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Greece, Canada and the U.S. Of these, six have present or past affiliations with the Wiener Laboratory (Sherry Fox, Chryssi Bourbou, Maria Liston, Michael MacKinnon, Anastasia Papathanasiou, and Sevi Triantaphyllou). Papers included: “Sex differences in prehistoric Greece: The human osteological record” (A. Papathanasiou); “Engendering the people of the Argolid in the Middle Helladic period: A comparative view of Lerna, Argos and Mycenae” (S. Triantaphyllou); and “The question of infant death in Greco-Roman antiquity: Infanticide, natural causes, or all of the above.”