Sam Tipper
@sntipper.bsky.social
🦴 Senior lecturer @ARU, Bioarchaeologist, Roman and Medieval periods, Community archaeology, Ancient Nubia, 💀 🦷 all things bone related 😜 Chair Cifa Osteo group
Babao 2026 Conference will be in Lincoln this year on the 12th and 23th September. Abstracts submission is now open! Open to all themes, including cases studies commercial and community projects 🤩 Abstracts are due June 30th
The awesome power of population genomics has once again been applied to ancient genomes. This time we learn that northern ‘barbarian tribes’ did not overrun Ancient Rome. Instead, small-scale migration & intermarriage led to gradual genetic & cultural shifts. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Demography and life histories across the Roman frontier in Germany 400–700 ce - Nature
Analysis of 258 ancient genomes from southern Germany reveals a major demographic shift during the late fifth century, yet family structures persisted from Late Roman times, demonstrating cultural con...
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🚨Archaeology students!🚨Applications for our two summer field schools close Tuesday, May 5. Both run June 22 - July 17 and provide hands-on experience. Learn more: tinyurl.com/y4sprwm5 🏺🧪🏛️
🧪🏺🦕This Friday at #SAA2026 (9:30am, Session 158), Weronika Tomczyk and I are presenting on the reach of applied zooarchaeology. Using bibliometric analysis, we compare citation practices in applied zooarchaeology and conservation paleobiology. Would love to chat if you’re there! (check the figs 👇)
Babao 2026 Conference will be in Lincoln this year on the 12th and 23th September. Abstracts submission is now open! Open to all themes, including cases studies commercial and community projects 🤩 Abstracts are due June 30th
🧵ASP #SundaySpotlight is back with the lovely and brilliant Afaf Wahba! Afaf is a bioarchaeology specialist, meaning she studies skeletal remains to illuminate such incredible detail about people from the past, bringing them to life in distinctive and compelling ways.
A 2,000-year-old burial in the Philippines is rewriting what we know about scurvy in tropical Southeast Asia — and what ancient communities owed their most vulnerable members. #Paleopathology #HumanEvolution #Bioarchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/a-young-ma...
A Young Man in the Philippines, 2,000 Years Ago, Was Slowly Coming Apart at the Seams
A Metal Period burial at Nagsabaran reveals how scurvy and hip ankylosis combined to reshape one life — and how a community responded.
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How old was this skeleton, really? A new paper argues that disease alters the very bone markers used to estimate age at death — creating a methodological loop few researchers have addressed head-on. #Paleopathology #Bioarchaeology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-ske...
When a Skeleton Lies About Its Age
The problem with reading disease from bone is that disease changes the bone you're reading
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🏺 The Ultimate Finds Fest Roadmap is HERE! From expert insights to hands-on handling, the full schedule for Finds Fest 2026 is officially live. 🎟️ Book your spot now via tinyurl.com/FindsFest #FindsFest2026 #Archaeology #MaterialCulture #HistoricEngland #CIfA #SpecialistTraining
🦴🌱 Sheffield RICHeS Bioarchaeology Collections Open Days! 🌾 Archaeobotany: 10 & 24 Feb; 10 & 24 Mar; 14 & 28 Apr; 12 & 26 May 🦴 Zooarchaeology: 17 Feb; 3, 17 & 31 Mar; 21 Apr; 5 & 19 May To book contact us at: Archaeobotany → c.longford@sheffield.ac.uk Zooarchaeology → l.salvagno@sheffield.ac.uk
Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a 'giant' who'd had brain surgery www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a 'giant' who'd had brain surgery
Archaeologists and student excavators uncovered a Viking Age pit full of dismembered remains near Cambridge, England.
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Vikings! Bioarchaeology! Artefacts! New publication from Steve Ashby, Gareth Perry, Alexandre Lucquin, Oliver Craig and Anita Radini at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social shows culinary differences between Viking-Age England and Denmark. www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...
A Different Kettle of Fish: Vikings changed their cooking habits when they settled in England
Departmental team demonstrates that pottery from Viking-Age England was very rarely used to cook fish
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A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia holds 77 people, most of them women and children. New aDNA, isotope, and trauma analysis suggests this wasn't random — it was targeted. A thread on what prehistoric violence really looked like. #Bioarchaeology #AncientDNA #IronAge
The Gomolava Massacre: What a 2,800-Year-Old Mass Grave Reveals About Targeted Violence in Prehistoric Europe
A new bioarchaeological study of an Early Iron Age burial pit in Serbia finds that the victims were overwhelmingly women and children — and that this was almost certainly not an accident.
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CT scans of four Inca children sacrificed ~500 years ago on Andean volcanoes reveal blunt force trauma, possible disease, and a body partially rebuilt with textiles after burial. The ritual didn’t end at death. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #IncaEmpire www.anthropology.net/p/ct-scans-o...
CT Scans of Inca Child Sacrifices Reveal New Details About Capacocha Rituals
What happened to four children on Andean peaks 500 years ago, and what their frozen bodies are still telling us
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We investigated one of Europe’s largest prehistoric single-event mass graves, combining osteology, isotopes, archaeogenetics, chronology, and archaeological context to understand who these people were and what happened to them. Illustrations by Sara Nylund.
Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? And how did the evolution of human physical activity affect other key human characteristics that have advanced our species? 🏺🧪
PaleoAnthropology@qafzeh.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Evolution of Walking and Running - Daniel Lieberman explores how running evolved and its role in human evolution youtu.be/PIduTH2vzCI?...
Anglo-Saxon-era skeletons discovered in England show signs of violent deaths. The pit dates back 1200 years and may be evidence of battle or execution in 8th/9th century AD. #Archaeology #News
Skeletons found in mysterious pit died violent deaths in Anglo-Saxon-era England
Anglo-Saxon-era skeletons discovered in England show signs of violent deaths. The pit dates back 120...
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Osteoarchaeologist – AMS Consultancy, Ireland Full-time post-excavation archaeology role specialising in human skeletal analysis. Eligibility: Relevant post-graduate degree in archaeology. Deadline: 30 January 2026 Apply: higherjobz.com/osteoarchaeo... #ArchaeologyJobs #Osteoarchaeology #IrelandJobs
Osteoarchaeologist Position – AMS Consultancy,Ireland | HigherJobz
Apply for a full-time Osteoarchaeologist position at AMS Consultancy, Kilrush, Ireland. Post-graduate degree required. Deadline 30 Jan 2026.
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CT scans of a 1,100 year old mummy from Chile reveal death by mine collapse. A rare look at the risks ancient miners faced to extract turquoise traded across the Andes. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Osteoarchaeology #AncientMining #Atacama www.anthropology.net/p/the-cost-o...
The Cost of Blue Stone
What a crushed spine in the Atacama Desert reveals about danger, labor, and ancient mining
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BABAO statement on the 10-Minute Rule Bill outlawing the buying and selling of human remains to be introduced in the House of Commons by MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy on Wednesday 4th Feb. Read here👉https://babao.org.uk/bill-to-stop-barbaric-practice-of-buying-and-selling-human-remains-to-be-introduced/
We are running a 1 day short course all about teeth 🦷 Come join us on the 14th March at the Cambridge Campus store.anglia.ac.uk #archaeology #bones #osteology
I updated the archaeology 🏺 job sites directory again today and moved it to Zenodo. You can now find it here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Do you want to publish on a fieldwork discovery, innovative use of technology, or ongoing project? Project Galleries are 1500 words, online only, and free to read, making them perfect for showcasing research of broad relevance 🏺 #Archaeology Submit one 👇 antiquity.ac.uk/submit
Scientists managed to extract a high-coverage genome of an extinct woolly rhino from an undigested piece of its flesh found in the stomach of a permafrost-preserved 14kyo wolf pup. 🧪🏺
One of the last woolly rhinos to walk Earth was eaten by a wolf pup — and scientists have now sequenced its genome from the undigested meat
More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out why it went extinct.
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The health of a mother during pregnancy has a profound effect on their child's health. By examining mother and infant skeletons from Iron Age & Roman Britain, Rebecca Pitt explores the long-term impact of Roman occupation on health #WaybackWednesday 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
We are running a 1 day short course all about teeth 🦷 Come join us on the 14th March at the Cambridge Campus store.anglia.ac.uk #archaeology #bones #osteology