Our new paper is out: Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory #stableisotopes journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I am pleased to present my new Article Collection, "Stable Isotope Approaches to Human–Aquatic Interactions in Archaeological Contexts.” invt.io/1txbh73aizn

📣 Work with us! 📣 The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology. 📅 Closing date: 15 September 👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Making the impossible possible: @alicetoso.bsky.social wants to develop reliable methods for determining the concentration of steroid #hormones in centuries-old human bones. Another exciting pioneering project 👍 – we wish you every success!

🎉 Our own @alicetoso.bsky.social won a €1.4 million grant from @volkswagenstiftung.de! In this groundbreaking project, she’ll trace hormones in historically contextualized archaeological skeletons, shedding light on pregnancy, menopause and more across 200 years. www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/135-...

🚨 New project funded! Thrilled to receive €1.4M from the @VWStiftung for “Archaeology of Hormones”—we’ll develop methods to detect steroid hormones in ancient bones to study fertility, reproduction & resilience in past societies. @unibonn 🔗 www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/135-...

Anthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @amnh.org in New York! Additional info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509

We just kicked off a citizen science project in @bocas-news.bsky.social where we’re teaming up with retired + active medical doctors to help interpret complex paleopathological cases while having fun. Our 1st session of the Ärtze-Konsil was great ✨🦴🧬 #citizenscience #paleopathology #bioarchaeology

This Friday we round up our summer series of the Debates in Archaeosciences with a bioarchaeological study of Bukhara! Don't miss it!

Gestern war BoCAS beim wunderbaren #Stiftshoffest in #Nideggen: Ernährungsrekonstruktion anhand von Gefäßrückständen, stabilen Isotopen und Skeletten. Ein schöner Tag und interessante Gespräche mit Laien und Fachleuten - danke an das Team der LVR-Bodendenkmalpflege für die Einladung!

Join us this Friday when Silvia Amicone shares her material science perspective on pottery production in Etruria between the end of the early Iron Age and the beginning of the Orientalising period: 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!

Yamnaya = mobile? Probably — but what about their subsistene economy?Join us + Dr. Martin Riesenberg tomorrow at 4PM in HS 2 (or online) to see how sequential analysis on livestock teeth🦷🐄🐑🐐 help track mobility.

Funded PhD on natural and cultural heritage on islands! www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...

The Rheinische Ärzteblatt came to our lab to have a chat about what we do and how we study human remains. It was great to have them over and show them some of our work. Click below for a direct link to the magazine

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

20,000-year-old whale bone tools discovered in Spain. 🌊🐳 New study carried out by ICTA-UAB researcher Krista McGrath phys.org/news/2025-05...

A landmark success! The University of Bonn secured funding for all six existing Clusters of Excellence and both new initiatives – more than any other German university. More: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/095-... © G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich

Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!

Don't miss out on this Friday talk! #debatesinarchaeosciences

www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/chil... @unibonn.bsky.social covering our last paper on childhood weaning and diet in Iberia 👇

Towards a genomic history of the Rhineland! In our first debates session, Laura Lacher shares new insights into Early Medieval DNA 🧬. This Friday 4PM, Römerstraße 164, or e-mail us for the Zoom link.

The summer term has started, so please mark your calendars for the Debates in ArchaeoSciences! Fridays at 4PM, HS 2 in Römerstraße 164 or get in touch for the Zoom link.

🚨 Job Vacancy 🚨 Deadline 30th April 2025 📲 bit.ly/4jzaP8f Lecturer (Teaching) in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology (Ref.: B03-02432). Note: The post is funded from 15 Sept '25 - 14 Sept '26, as cover for Katie Hemer for when on research leave as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow

This morning I sampled some African elephant material from the amazing collection of #museumkoenig @leibnizlib.bsky.social. I received the warmest welcome from Dr. Decher and his team, and I left a little sketch behind in their guest book. I hope this is the start of a long lasting collaboration.

🍼 What did babies eat 1000 years ago? Our new study uncovers breastfeeding & weaning patterns in Roman & Medieval Portugal using isotopes + Bayesian modeling. Religious and cultural change shaped childhood diets, but women's agency was also at play. Read more www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The summer semester lineup of #debatesinarchaeosciences is here! Join us in person if you are in Bonn, or online by dropping us an email at bocas(at)uni-bonn.de. This semester we travel from the Mediterranean to the steppe and from the 4th millennium to forensic cases. Come along!

This week we are in the lab with the 2nd cohort of our Grundlagen Archäologische Naturwissenschaften module. In a week-long block seminar students learn to extract collagen, interpret isotopes and basic notions in osteoarchaeology and skeletal anatomy. It's an intense 30hrs but I love it!

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 😀

Your astonishing artifact for the week is this adorable ivory birb from Paleolithic Germany. 🧪🏺

I just love it when the right paper shows up at the right time! We recently worked on a medieval skeleton with severe lythic lesions to the elbows. We were puzzled by the case until this paper popped up! I wonder if anyone else has seen similar lesions before but we'll definitely look into it 🦴

Just casually pipetting my way into the @unibonn.bsky.social feed 😬 @bocas-news.bsky.social

Really enjoyed reading this paper by @chrisstantis.bsky.social et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... about ethical considerations for SIA. This goes straight into the required readings for the summer block teaching.

📢 We are hiring a Full-Time Lab Technician at the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (Permanent Contract)! Come work with us! We are a lovely bunch of people if I can say so myself! www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

Are you a postdoctoral medievalist with excellent teaching experience? UCL History Department is seeking an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Medieval History for the period 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2028, to cover a colleague's leave. Deadline 20 March: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMB509/a...

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

Do you like skeletons in your closet? The @nhmwien.bsky.social 's Department for Anthropology is offering the position of a preparator! Check the job advert at jobs.nhm.at/Prparatorin-... #anthropology #scientificcollections #bioarchaeology

This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...

🌍 Join us in the ERC Last Neanderthals! We're hiring: 1️⃣ PhD: Digital approaches for the study of Paleolithic human remains 🖥️ 2️⃣ PhD: Taxonomic discrimination of Late Pleistocene bone fragments through paleoproteomics 🦴

Absolutely blown away by the beautiful exhibition of the Archaeology Museum of Luxembourg city. The display and the explanation were just right and not overwhelming. I loved the concept of the 8 floors going from Prehistory to Present. Highly recommend!

The 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (www.isba11.com) will take place in Turin, at the University of Turin and the Musei Reali di Torino, from August 26 to 29, 2025. The deadline for abstract submission is January 20! Join us in the Diet and Foodways session! #ISBA2025

📣 This coming Friday, January 10th at 16:15 the first talk of this new year will be by Dr. Olalla López-Costas on “PollutedPast: Human remains and environmental metal exposure”. 🦴🌳🔩 If you cannot join in person, please email us at [email protected] and you'll receive a zoom link! #bocas_unibonn

Lovely to see Shinya again and share a Brauhaus experience. Fermented millet drinks were not available but we found a good replacement. 🍻 #BoCAS #debatesinArchaeoSciences

This Friday, December 13th at 16:15 the next talk of #debatesinArchaeosciences will be by Dr. Shinya Shoda (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Japan, University of York, University of Turin) on “Millet Eastwards and Westwards: Penetration into culinary traditions”.

Props to Rainer Cramer and Lily Adair! Our new method of sex identification using tooth 🦷 amelogenin based on #MALDI-MS or more accurately #LAP-MALDI-MS Guess what we call it internally? 🤔 First you had #ZooMS, now meet...?

Next Friday, December 6th at 16:15 we continue with the #debatesinarchaeosciences with Léa Drieu (CNRS) on “Exploring the potential of water-soluble compounds in Organic Residue Analysis”. Email us at [email protected] for the link!

Where would you send a student to study osteoarchaeology in Continental Europe? I get these questions all the time from students and there seems to be a scary trend for all physical anthropology masters to disappear.

I have been talking about it for ages - and now it is finally out *Orthrus: an AI-powered, cloud-ready, and open-source hybrid approach for metaproteomics* www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now that more people are joining I wonder if anyone has clever ideas about storage they want to share? This question never gets old 😁