🗣️ 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)

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 🌱🔬🔥

🚨 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! 📩

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

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

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

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

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...

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!

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!

On 01.11, I started my PhD @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel with @amgc-vub.bsky.social & @shoc-vub.bsky.social thanks to funding from the FWO. I will be researching: The first (medieval) city-dwellers; where they came from, their socio-eco background, and how they shaped their urban environments. 💀🏚

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

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

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 🧪☄️🪨🥚

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.

Our Prof Steven Goderis and the ULTIMO team are heading to Antarctica today to begin the hunt for meteorites ☄️ Follow along with the blog 👇 froidultimo.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/u...

back to my old Twitter series now of bluesky 'Archaeological Themes in Contemporary Music' - Joy Division www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDrB...

Time & Space! At this years Wetenschapfestival Brussel, our @amgc-vub.bsky.social team presented themes of both archaeology and cosmo chemistry under one roof, presenting samples, creating art, and giving out free (temporary) tattoos 🦷🦴🔥☄️🌘🪨🚀 Well done to the whole team!

#FindsFriday 👀😍 The Caergwrle Bowl This Middle Bronze Age bowl was discovered during drain digging beside the River Alun, near Caergwrle Castle, north #Wales. 1300-1150 BCE #Archaeology #History #Art. #AncientBlueSky🏺 📸 My own. (See Alt for more details)

This weekend is the Wetenschapsfestival Brussel 2024, and we are doing a (temporary) tattoo parlour for children with Archaeology & Cosmo-Geochemistry designs - coming two of the many disciplines in our department. if you're in Brussels, the event is free, the tattoos are also free!

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

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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

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Super fascinating project, can't wait to see more! @orianachiappa.bsky.social 🏺

Hey there bluesky archaeo people, I'm taking this fresh start to introduce myself with a recap of my year so far. This year I started my PhD adventure at UGent and the VUB to learn about funerary rituals and mobility patterns of the Balearic Islands through archaeometric methods 🏝️🦴🧪👩‍🔬.

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

In exciting Monday morning news, the BB-Lab have arrived to bluesky! 🦷🧪🏺🦴 @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social

👋Hello Bluesky, I'm Hannah, a postdoc fellow at @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social, working on unravelling archaeological diets by using stable (δ⁸⁸Sr) & radiogenic (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) strontium isotopes & concentrations in tooth enamel & cremated bones. I'm a big fan of anything isotopic & archaeological! 🦴🦷🔥

Good thought piece on selling of human remains

Hello everyone! A little introduction to myself 🙋🏼‍♀️ I am from the UK originally 🇬🇧 but have spent time in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 doing my masters and am now a second year PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🇧🇪

Fantastic paper! 🏺🦴

Fleeing the wasteland that was once called Twitter

If you're into archaeology, the ancient world, and related fields, here are some starter packs you will like 🧵 1/? go.bsky.app/J2BAdwu

It's time to get the conversation going here on climate change and cultural heritage. Here's a starter pack I made. Let me know if you'd like to get on or off it. #ClimateHeritage go.bsky.app/HmZ38CC