Today is the day! We are excited to immerse ourselves in all things bioarchaeology with a stellar line-up of brilliant workshops and talks for the next 3 days at the#BABAO2025 conference here in Leicester! 💀🦷🔬🩻🧬🦠🔍 #bioarchaeology #conference

It’s the final countdown to #BABAO2025 🙌🏻 HAPPENING TOMORROW ‼️

💀 Conference PROGRAMME: 📆 Thursday 18 September #BABAO2025

🦷 Conference PROGRAMME: 📆 Friday 19 September #BABAO2025

🔬 Conference PROGRAMME: 📆 Saturday 20 September #BABAO2025

🚨 36 HRS UNTIL #BABAO2025! 🚨 📢 We look forward to welcoming all our delegates to Leicester 🏛️, and for a day of engaging #workshops on Thursday 🔬, and what promises to be an amazing 2 full days of talks and discussions about all things #bioarchaeology from Friday to Saturday! 💀 #conference #BABAO

A so-called antenna-hilted dagger, dating 6th century BC, found in a burial mound at Niederraunau. The corroded blade is partly enclosed in the remains of its sheath, with bronze fittings and traces of degraded organic material. The name of this type of daggers...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Thank you @elwhitten.bsky.social for writing a really cool article about our work in Battle Harbour, Labrador this summer! #archaeology #gravestones 🏺 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dr Heather Scott is a very dear friend and my academic work is infinitely richer for the discussions we have & reading her perspectives. Right now she should be able to focus on writing her first book- which I can't wait to read. Instead, she is fighting a UK ban: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The CfP for TRAC2025 is now open! Send me an abstract of 200-300 words about 'What do the monuments stand for? The materiality of Roman architecture' if you have a suitable talk at ulla.rajala(a)antiken.su.se Deadline August 30. www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-con...

Been a bit quiet on here for the past few weeks, because I’m happy to say I’ve got a new job with the University of Leicester Archaeological Services as a field archaeologist for the next 6 months — so I’m happy being a big kid in a big sandbox again ⛏️🏺🧱 @archanchistleic.bsky.social #archaeologyfun

Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

Our newest #BODYPOLITICSERC publication — ‘Womb Politics — is CAJ’s #ThePaperOfTheMonth ‼️ 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 #ECRlife

Superb new study of the ‘war cemetery’ at the iconic Iron Age hillfort of Maiden Castle by Martin Smith and colleagues at @buarchanth.bsky.social — a thorough contextual and chronological reconsideration of numerous remains exhibiting violent trauma 💀⚔️ #IronAge #Dorset #Britain #Bioarchaeology

It’s #WorldGothDay, the perfect day to listen to our episode with Professor Claire Nally! podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/t...

I’ve been lucky enough to spend a day exploring the brilliant exhibition of the Battle of Visby at Gotland Museum — seeing some absolutely mind blowing skeletal trauma 💀⚔️🛡️ A fascinating and bloody history being sensitively presented, contextualised and narrated throughout! #Visby #Gotland #Sweden

🚨 DEADLINE TODAY 🚨 📃 max. 250 words outlining: — Research aims/objectives — Materials — Methods — Results — Conclusions Submit your #BABAO2025 abstract HERE: 👉🏻 adaviesb.wixsite.com/babao2025/ab... 📧 [email protected] @babao2025meeting.bsky.social #bioarchaeology #conference

www.medievalists.net/2025/05/medi... Analysis of the skeleton revealed clear signs of prolonged medical intervention and care. Researchers believe he received pain relief typical of the time, possibly including ointments containing lavender oil, opium, or alcohol.

For the Romanists out there 🏺🏺🏺 #Roman #Archaeology #Job

#FindsFriday Pair of showy fibulae. Part of the Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, from an East Germanic (Gepidic) grave discovered in 1910. #Gold plating on silver with inlaid garnet, glass, enamel. #Archaeology #Art #History #artwork #Jewellery

We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📅 Date: June 30, 2025 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)

⏰ 2.5 days left to get your #BABAO2025 abstracts in before the end of this weekend! 📅 DEADLINE: midnight 18 May!!

The British School at Rome is inviting expressions of interest from postdoctoral researchers for a range of fellowship schemes, including the British Academy, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Leverhulme Trust International Fellowships: bsr.ac.uk/call-for-exp...

After a Melsonby-hoard-related delay, the announcement of this is finally official - I've been on tenterhooks waiting! Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)

A nice write-up of our new #ResearchArticle on #Pregnancy in #VikingAge Scandinavia by @medievalists.bsky.social 🫶 💬 'Womb Politics' adds a crucial new layer to our understanding of Viking society. This study shifts attention to the social and symbolic role of pregnant women. #BODYPOLITICSERC

This is fascinating, superb piece by all involved #archaeology #pregnacy '...by de-familiarizing and ‘making strange’ the pregnant body, we can rupture some conventional androcentric thinking surrounding both bodies and politics, and gain a new lens through which we can understand past societies'

The CreMATE Network has gathered for our second workshop 🔥💀⚱️ #Cremations #Archaeology #Excavation #Practice #Ethics #Guidelines #Workshop

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENDED 🚨 The deadline for submitting your abstract to #BABAO2025 has been extended till midnight on 1️⃣8️⃣ May‼️ More info HERE: 👉🏻 adaviesb.wixsite.com/babao2025/ab... @babao2025meeting.bsky.social

⏰ You have 4 DAYS to get your #BABAO2025 abstract in before the deadline this Friday ‼️ Submission info HERE: 👉🏻 adaviesb.wixsite.com/babao2025/ab... If you have any Qs — contact the organising committee via email 👇🏻 📧 [email protected] @babao2025meeting.bsky.social #bioarchaeology

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 My first co-authored paper with the #BODYPOLITICS team is available now in #CAJ 💫 Read our study ‘Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence’ in Viking Age Scandinavia HERE: 👉🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org #OpenAccess

The deadline for proposals for Ancient Societies/Ancient Artefacts at Macquarie University is 20 May: use of museum collections, ancient coins, replicas and 3D technologies in educational settings. Presentations 20 minutes. Please send your title and abstract to Kenneth Sheedy ([email protected])

Thinking of coming to TAG in York? While you wait for the call for papers (we're hoping for these to go live 1st June or thereabout) why not check out our plans for the annual party and the amazing community venue The Crescent: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/events/

Beautiful blue glass beads from the Iron Age, 2,600 years ago! Mounted in a copper alloy frame. From ‘Rauer Lehen’ burial mound, Ertingen, Germany. Halstatt period, 7th century BC. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology 🏺

New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...

When you get a beautiful bunch of tulips and get to catch up with a beautiful person over drinks on a beautiful sunny spring day 🤍

Bit late to the party here but finally have a copy & it's a fabulous read! 50 LGBTQ+ Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by @benpaites.bsky.social, copies available from www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-fin... #archaeology

Don’t forget that #BABAO offers 1️⃣0️⃣ BURSARIES covering 💯% of conference fee 🪙 For #members that are experiencing financial difficulties 🧮 Eligibility Criteria: — Student members — Unwaged members — Members working in commercial / museum sector without access to other funding opportunities …

📢 You have 1 WEEK to submit your abstract for #BABAO2025❗️ 📃 max. 250 words outlining: — Research aims/objectives — Materials — Methods — Results — Conclusions Submit your abstract HERE: 👉🏻 adaviesb.wixsite.com/babao2025/ab... 📅 Deadline: midnight 16 May @babao2025meeting.bsky.social

Holy trowel…

Released today: The special issue stamp on #IceAge art from the caves in the Swabian Jura. The caves became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. Many of the approximately 40,000-year-old objects are on display at urmu Blaubeuren – one of our seven branch museums. 🏺 #archaeology

📣 Data, data, data 📣 The BBLAB crew spent the day compiling our isotope data in the @isoarch.bsky.social version 3.0 database! Thanks @isotopistrachel.bsky.social & @tloeffelmann.bsky.social for teaching us the ropes 🧗🏻‍♀️ #openaccessdata #archaeology #fairandcare

Do you do #bioarchaeology? Do you have some great research you want to share? 💀🩻🔬 📃 Then submit an #abstract for this year’s #BABAO2025 #conference HERE: 👉🏻 adaviesb.wixsite.com/babao2025/ab... 📅 Deadline: midnight 16 May @babao2025meeting.bsky.social

🚨Book Alert!🚨 Iron Age Mortuary Practices in Southern England 550 BC to AD 70 by our own Dr Andrew Lamb! Buy it @barpublishing.bsky.social 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yb9evebf @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 📖 #newbook #edinarch #archaeology #IronAge #England #mortuary

With #CAA underway in Athens, we're excited to announce our upcoming title 'Creating and Evaluating Digital Media for Archaeological Storytelling: The life and death of MYC1V at Grave Circle A, Mycenae'. This book explores digital storytelling in archaeology to reconstruct MYC1V’s life at Mycenae.🏺

The multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset looking south to the sea for #HillfortsWednesday Part of a glorious painting made by George Heywood Sumner in 1914 Sumner's art influenced JRR Tolkien which is why there's a feeling of Middle Earth to the painting

Only two weeks and change to go until the Great Viking Survey officially closes on 19 May. ⏱️ Don't forget to take part while you still can! Let us hear your thoughts on the vikings at vikingsurvey.org!

Medieval floor tile from Hyde Abbey in Winchester. The Benedictine abbey was located near the city walls. The tile is now part of the collections at Winchester City Museum. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #HydeAbbey #Winchester

✨📜NEW POETRY!📜✨ We love this concise reminder of why we love the ancient world, from @smallemily.bsky.social A brilliant antidote to... well... *indicates in all directions* www.workingclassicists.com/zine/a-carni...

It's Bank Holiday #MosaicMonday ! Here's the happiest fish in the #Roman Empire to celebrate He's one cheery fella 🐠 From the frigidarium of the bathhouse at Great Witcombe villa #Gloucestershire 📷 English Heritage. For more see: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places...