Exciting LEAP news! 👇 Over the last 3 years, I've worked on my PhD as part of the LEAP project, studying how people & the environment reacted to past climate change events. We were fortunate enough make a video showcasing what we do & it's now available to watch! 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kg8...

Peat, Bones, and Stalagmites: exploring ancient climate change and human mobility in Belgium | LEAP

YouTube video by Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium

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🗣️ New paper! 🗣️ The mobility patterns of the population of Gallo-Roman Tienen (Belgium) are keeping you up at night? Wondering if there is more than mobility reflected in these 87Sr/86Sr results? This is very relatable, and conveniently, I have the right paper for you! It's accessible right there 👇

This weekend our team traveled to Thessaloniki to celebrate the end of the #TEFRA project with two days of exciting conferences! 🔥🔥

📢 New paper alert! 📢 I’m really happy to share our latest publication in AJBA! We explore how sampling cremated petrous parts & teeth helps reconstruct life histories and cremation practices 🔥. You can find our paper through this link: doi.org/10.1002/ajpa... (1/6)

Reconstructing Life Histories: New Insights Into Cremation Practices, Mobility, and Food Consumption Patterns Through Isotope and Infrared Analyses of Petrous Parts and Teeth

This graph shows the strontium results of the individuals from Herstal, Belgium.

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On #EarthDay we post about loving our planet while VU Amsterdam cuts its Earth Sciences department. Dismissing 42 earth scientists reveals the gap between stated values and actual priorities. What we fund is what we truly value #RedAardwetenschappen (Image by @thelittlebluedood.bsky.social)

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...

The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025 😀

📞 Ypres calling! Special delivery📦🚚 Barbara, Martijn, and Charlotte visited the BAAC depot last Friday and collected the first batch of skeletons from the Sint-Maarten parish in Ypres🦴 But who were these medieval city-dwellers, and where did they come from..?🧪💀 Like for part 2?🤔 #Sr&O #osteology

Great work by @rosaliehermans.bsky.social and team on developing an expanded baseline for NW Europe 🌱🔬🔥

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🚨 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! 📩

🚨 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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Let’s explore the prehistoric landscapes of the Netherlands: enjoy our open access article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lively landscapes: Sex- and age-related differences in diet and land use characterising a Late Bronze-Early Iron Age community from Tilburg, the Netherlands

The Late Bronze-Early Iron Age (LBA-EIA)urnfield of Tilburg-Udenhoutseweg yielded 229 cremation graves with various features.This large cemetery is a …

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Fantastic paper on Medieval Ypres. Great job Rachel Spros and the rest of the team!

SHOC VUB@shoc-vub.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ypres was one of 13th-century Europe’s economic powerhouses. Bart Lambert’s MOTC project drew on isotopic analyses of human skeletons to reconstruct mobility patterns of its inhabitants. Their new paper discusses evidence of regional, female and children’s mobility. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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

Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain

Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recent...

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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

Media spotlight on the opening of my isotope lab at the Department of Anthropology, Masaryk University - marking a new research center for isotope research and innovation! www.em.muni.cz/en/science/1...

Department of Anthropology has new isotope lab

International cooperation is well underway at the Faculty of Science Masaryk University thanks to a new isotope lab, dedicated to studying both ancient and modern human populations.

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Massive congrats to @Christophe-fire.bsky.social on winning a VUB Brussel Excellent PhD Supervisor Award. Your support and enthusiasm mean the 🌍 to the team 🔥 @amgc-vub.bsky.social

So excited to share our accepted manuscript! It sets up a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe. Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many. Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!

Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in North-western 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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A recap of this year's research with the FWO. Plant sampling in Latvia with the team (inc. @christophe-fire.bsky.social / @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social ). Bring back the summer!

The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now! Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon! Paper here👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

Classical Cat Problems 🐈‍⬛

What does research on the past bring to people living today? This was discussed live on national radio last Sunday, when @isotopistrachel.bsky.social was interviewed by De Ochtend on VRT Radio 1 about her research on medieval Ypres. Missed it? You find it here: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...

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!

Archaeology Scotland's #SpotifyWrapped just dropped! 🎶

We have 100 bioarchaeologists on the starter list 🤩 great to see so many of us here! #starterlist #archaeology #osteology #bioarchaeology go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

New paper out on the Sagalassos Hinterland! Here we assess all evidence of Ancient Moatra, which should have been located in Bereket. @amgc-vub.bsky.social

More Water at Moatra: Archaeology, Geomorphology and Toponymy in the Territory of Sagalassos

Gephyra | Volume: 28

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‼️Exciting new paper from @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social Super interesting to see the differences in how individuals analyse cremated human remains!🔥🦴 Definitely a must-read🏺

Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 2y ago

New BB-LAB paper out 👍🏻 Marta Hlad and the team identified and characterised patterns in cremation analysis practices through an online survey of those working on cremated human remains 👇 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Beautiful ring ditches….did you spot them? @amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social

This week in the AMGC lab, @fienjo.bsky.social is searching for micrometeorites from sediment samples, Inigo is sampling ostrich eggs for clumped isotope analysis and Titouan is preparing geothermal granite samples for elemental analysis 🧪☄️🪨🥚