Beyond spondylosis: talk on spinal disease in Roman horses.

Michal Smisek of Masaryk University Brno gives a lecture in English in lecture room 2.2058 (second floor). The talk is titled "Beyond spondylosis? Diagnostic challenges in equine spinal hyperostosis: a comparative perspective". Using a horse find from the Roman-period site of Gerulata in southwestern Slovakia, he discusses diagnostic questions around spinal hyperostosis in horses. The talk examines the critical evaluation of comparative analogies when interpreting pathological changes in archaeological animal remains.