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...

🚨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...

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...

🏺 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

Digging into digital #archaeology www.the-ies.org/events/eia-c...

🦴🌱 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 → [email protected] Zooarchaeology → [email protected]

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/...

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 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

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...

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? 🏺🧪

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

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

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...

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

Haha love this 😀

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...

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. 🧪🏺

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

Still in a boot but can start weaning off it and the crutches 🩼(slowly) woohoo🤩

Who doesn't love a talk on infectious diseases 🤩

The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses 13 Jan. 2026 5 PM CET=11 AM EST online lecture @monicamedhist.bsky.social csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social

Non-British ECR interested in working with me on #bioarchaeology, the @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowship scheme will shortly open. V keen on Egyptian bioarchaeology, human evo or #disAbility research 🏺https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/international-fellowships/

Our first talk in the new year takes us into WWII archaeology: Jörg Dietsche and Julian Weller present the work of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. This Friday, 4PM in HS 2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!

Interesting paleoanthropology happening in Morocco -- these 773kyo remains were found in Casablanca and may be the ancestor of humans/Neanderthals/Denisovans. 🏺🧪

Job opportunity at Bradford jobs.bradford.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Since the #Vráble #skeletons have arrived from Nitra, there has been some progress in the #bone department 💀🦴🧹💧📷📐👀 cleaning routine, #photogrammetry & #3Dmodelling are being established! #humanosteology #osteoarchaeology #neolithic #LBK #vrableneolithicbodies @clusterroots.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

Passing along this call for papers for EAA2025 in Belgrade. Please share widely with anyone you think might be interested! 🏺💀 #bioarchaeology #isotopes #archaeology #paleopathology #health #disease

14th Century Tooth Reveals Grim Fate of Edinburgh Teen Killed by the Black Death #Science #Biology #Microbiology #BlackDeath #Archaeology #Paleopathology

A recent study shows substantial variability in diagnosing maxillary sinusitis. #Anthropology #Paleopathology #BiologicalAnthropology #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Still time to submit an abstract for our free online workshop as part of COEXIST🧪🦣🏺

This is soooo cool! 🤩🤩🤩 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Massive Roman grave revealed in Penrith A66 excavation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Check out this second bioarchaeology & Zooarchaeology starter pack 🤩 let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/SNhcVie

Stupendous stuff from @samleggs22.bsky.social - meta analysis of human strontium and oxygen stable isotope data from southern Britain in 2nd half of 1st Millennium AD. Too rich to summarise but if your are into complex early medieval mobility, this one’s for you. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nice use of stable isotopes to explore past human mobility. Rather than the old myths of mass migrations of 'Anglo Saxons' into Britain, such scientific studies provide valuable data. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What are the common threads between the funerary practices of different cultures across time? 'What to expect when you’re dead' explores the ideas ancient people had about the afterlife. Read our review in the latest #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

🦴 💀 🧬🦠🩺🩻🏺🕵🏼 My dear colleagues from @dai-weltweit.bsky.social have put together an outstanding program for the #PPAberlin2026 @paleopathology.bsky.social European Meeting 3-7 August! Check out events & speakers: www.dainst.org/en/the-25th-... #paleopathology #evolutionarymedicine #bonesinternational

Ohh cant wait to give this a read 🤓👀🏺