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Welcome to the 21st Congress of the European Anthropological Association. Welcome to University of Southern Denmark. Welcome to ADBOU. And not the least welcome to Odense, the city of fairytales. At ADBOU we take pride in being chosen to host the 21st congress of the EAA. We, ADBOU, are the Research Unit of Anthropology of the Dept. of Forensic Medicine at SDU here in Odense. ADBOU is one of two national institutions that curate human skeletons from archaeological excavations and perform forensic anthropological analyses. The ADBOU collection is large - around 17.000 skeletons primarily from the Danish medieval period - but there are many other collections like it. What makes the ADBOU collection unique are all our guests, who visit us to carry out research and utilize the excellent documentation brought about in close collaboration with the museums and archaeologists who excavated the skeletons. We maintain and develop the collection not to store bones but to provide material for research into once living populations, under our motto: “The living - not the dead”. By facilitating this kind of research we want to contribute to bridge the gap between our understanding of human life and health in the past and in the present. We sincerely hope that this 21st congress of the EAA will contribute to the fruitful exchange of ideas among anthropologists of all kinds.