The cemetery is located in the south-west of Pottenbrunn, on plot "Steinfeld" (15°41´05"/48°13´55"). Discovered in 1930, it had already yielded objects dating to the early La Tène period. In 1981, road construction revealed further finds which initiated rescue excavations by the Bundesdenkmalamt (State Office for Protection of Historical Monuments) under the guidance of J.-W. Neugebauer (Ramsl 2002a(Ramsl , 13) in 1981(Ramsl and 1982. A total of 42 graves with 45 burials (single and double inhumations, and cremations) have been documented. Some burials were severely disturbed (by ancient activities such as grave robbing and/or contemporary construction work), and some were set within fenced enclosures ("Grabgärten"). Three (of 22) samples of charcoal and bone fragments taken by Peter Stadler (Department of Prehistory, Natural History Museum Vienna) in the course of the FWFproject "Absolute Chronology for Early Civilisations in Austria and Central Europe" returned AMS dates of 410-200 cal BCE (grave 520), 550-200 cal BCE (grave 565) and 380-350 cal BCE (grave 1005) (Ramsl 2002b, 359). The cremation burials were not included in the initial osteological analysis, but 31 inhumed individuals were studied (Gerold 2002). Petrous bones from three of these were successfully analyzed for aDNA. Sample I11699 (female) derived from an individual (inv. no. 26.238) aged c. 20 years in grave 89 which, despite disturbance in antiquity, was accompanied by fibulae and ceramic vessels. Sample I11701 (male) derived from an individual (inv. no. 26.249) aged c. 18 years in grave 570, which also included shears, fibulae, and ceramic vessels. Evidence for bone porosity in the mandible and maxilla suggest possible Vitamin C deficiency, while enamel hypoplasia points to malnutrition or illness during childhood. Sample I11708 (female) derived from an individual (inv.no. 26.250) aged c. 25-35 years in grave 574/2, who was richly adorned with fibulae, bronze, iron and silver-rings, an amber ring, a bracelet, a glass bead, and a worked bone artefact.

The impacts of community service participation on college student development are extensive and well-documented. The characteristics of students that predict volunteerism, however, are not well understood. The purpose of this study is thus to estimate the differences in first-year students' plans to volunteer while in college (i.e., 'Done,' 'Plan to do,' 'Do not plan to do,' or 'Have not decided') by their background characteristics and by the characteristics of the institutions that they attend. Study results suggest changes to several campus policies and programs that may remove barriers to successful community service participation among firstyear students. 3Educating people for responsible citizenship has been a part of the missions of colleges since their inception in the United States. The founding of the first institutions of higher education in this country was for the purpose of educating a new generation of civic and religious leaders for the communities of the new world. It was within this spirit that colleges came of age, and it is a tradition that has stayed with them up to the present, as evident in their current mission of teaching, research, and service (Rudolph, 1977;Terenzini, 1994).Modern ideas about the integration of service and learning in higher education were shaped by the work of John Dewey, who proposed ideas about hands-on learning and practical education (Curti, 1965). Dewey asserted that better learning occurs when students have the opportunity to put into practice the ideas that they are learning in the classroom. As further research has been done on this concept of service-learning, scholars (e.g., Astin & Sax, 1998;Astin, Sax, & Avalos, 1999;Eyler & Giles, 1999;Eyler, Giles, & Braxton, 1997; Gray, Ondaatje, Fricker, Geshwind, Goldman, Kaganoff, Robyn, Sundt, Vogelgesang, & Klein, 1998; have found that not only does student volunteerism promote the civic engagement that universities have historically tried to foster in their students, but community service also offers a host of educational and extracurricular benefits to the students.The impacts of volunteerism on college student development are extensive and welldocumented. These benefits can be distilled into thee broad categories -educational/scholastic, career/vocational, and personal/social -and each of these categories represent areas of student development that are highly valued by universities and educators. Educationally, students who participate in community service receive better grades (e.g., Tartter, 1996), demonstrate greater educational gains (e.g., Eyler & Giles, 1999), and increase their critical thinking skills (e.g., Eyler, Root, & Giles, 1998). Vocationally, community service by college students is associated with a stronger likelihood to participate in both future community service (e.g., Astin, Although the benefits of community service to the student volunteer are welldocumented, information from a recent survey of college students illustrates that 36% of graduating seniors at baccalaureate degree-g...

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The use of lead was ubiquitous throughout the Roman Empire, including material for water pipes, eating vessels, medicine, and even as a sweetener for wine. The toxicity of lead is well established today, resulting in long-term psychological and neurological deficits as well as metabolic diseases. Children are particularly susceptible to the effects of lead, and it is likely that the widespread use of this deadly metal among Roman populations led to a range of adverse health effects. Indeed, lead poisoning has even been implicated in the downfall of the Roman Empire. This research examines, for the first time, the direct effect of lead poisoning on the inhabitants of the Empire. It explores whether the dramatic increase in lead during this period contributed to the failure to thrive evident within the skeletal remains of Roman children.Lead concentration and paleopathological analyses were used to explore the association between lead burdens and health during the Roman period. This study includes 173 individuals (66 adults and 107 non-adults) from five sites, AD 1st-4th centuries,