🎉 Thrilled to share our new paper just published in @PLOSONE! In this study we explored how weather & seasonality impact cremation conditions using experimental archaeology, FTIR-ATR, and isotope analysis. 👉 Read it here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

@elliestam.bsky.social talked about how seasonality affects the cremation environment ❄️🌸☀️🍁, and what happens when bone reaches extremely high temperatures 🌡️🔥🦴

Paper Alert 🔥 Want to learn more about Roman cremations? Can’t sleep because you keep thinking about how the Romans burned their dead? Then don't miss our latest paper & download it for free here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 (1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species. If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩

Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline

AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p

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New paper out by @jbioarch.bsky.social on Legaire Sur (Álava, Spain), a Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic transition burial tomb. This period was a time of notable population expansion, technological advancement, as well as social and economic change. Isotopic analysis of 🦷& 🦴tells us more 🧵1/6

Jacob I. Griffith@jbioarch.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today my new paper was published in Plos One. High-resolution Neolithic life history reconstructions using Incremental dentine, bone collagen, and multi-enamel sampling! I'm really pleased with this one journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social

This month @elliestam.bsky.social and @osteolady.bsky.social have been working on the excavation of LBA/EIA cremation graves at Steenwijk in The Netherlands. The cremation depositions will come back to AMGC to be CT scanned and then micro-excavated!

And a starter pack devoted to Isotope Experts in Archaeology and Ecology Hey, I'm one of those! So be sure to check it out because isotopes are really revolutionizing our understanding of archaeology and ecology in many different ways And go follow @isoarch.bsky.social! bsky.app/starter-pack...

There's a related starter pack from @sntipper.bsky.social focusing on bioarchaeologists Do check it out for a wide variety of insights into studying archaeological skeletal material and its context in an interdisciplinary study of ancient humans and be sure to follow Sam! bsky.app/starter-pack...

And another great starter pack from @vcampanacho.bsky.social is this great list of biological anthropologists From ancient funerary ritual to human evolution to, more broadly, what can ancient skeletal remains tell us about our ancestors? go.bsky.app/CnJLf95

Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack! Help build community with this starter pack. This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that! go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU

Started up a bioarch starter pack 🤩 Let me know if you want to be added or have suggestions 😊 #archaeology #bioarchaeology go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

Hello, we are the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab, a team based at VUB researching archaeological mobility, diet, health, cremation conditions, plants, animals and more from all around the 🌍 and from the Neolithic to the present. 🦴⚱️🔥🦷🗺👩‍🔬 Follow us and our team here: go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev

Hello everyone! Let me introduce myself 🙋🏼‍♀️ I am from Greece 🇬🇷 but I live in Belgium🇧🇪I am a joint PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Université libre de Bruxelles. For my PhD I investigate how cremation was performed in past societies using infrared and isotope analyses.

When iron was introduced during the Later Bronze Age of Central Europe, it was first used for ornaments and decorative purposes. Hilt of a bronze swords with dark iron inlays, 9th century BC, found in a well at Unterkrumbach. Naturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg. #archaeology

This is a truly extraordinary discovery. It’s also an excuse to drop my P.boisei reconstruction ☺️

Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪 Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool! www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

🌟 Exciting news! Introducing our brand-new Isotope Archaeology & Forensics Lab at VU Amsterdam! It is part of the Netherlands Isotope GEochemistry Laboratory (NIGeL), enabling cutting-edge research in Earth sciences, archaeology, forensics, and cultural heritage. 🧬🔍 #Science #Archaeology #Forensics

Just started a new pack for #isotope bioarchaeologists, ecologists and so on.😀🧪 Let me know if you would like to be in/out! Hope it can help.🙌 go.bsky.app/FpHPMC6

I am offering a 2-year #postdoc position to join me on my MASH Junior project (Moving Toward a Transformative Bioarchaeology of Cremation in the Czech Republic and beyond). Join me in advancing #isotope #mapping and provenance studies in Central Europe! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/286900

Postdoc: Isotope Mapping and Provenance Studies

Workplace: Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic Type of Contract: temporary position with 2-year contract, non-academic

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