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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Celebrating the start of the academic year with our @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social friends 🥼😎🎓🔥☀️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

We are on our way to @isba11.bsky.social 🚅 Ready for a week of archaeology and science 🏺🦴🦷🧪⚛️🥼🍝🍕

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Finally, @christophe-fire.bsky.social extinguished the fire with a Keynote presentation 🔥🧯

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

@elliestam.bsky.social talked about how seasonality affects the cremation environment ❄️🌸☀️🍁, and what happens when bone reaches extremely high temperatures 🌡️🔥🦴

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Yannis Chatzikonstantinou presented his work on cremations from Crete and results of experimental work 🏺🔥

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Paula Becerra talked about her research on chalcolithic cremations of Los Milanes (Spain), presenting results about analytical and experimental approaches 🧪🦴🪵🔥

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Vasso Papathanasiou showed us how people cremated their death in Macedonian Iron Age at the sites of Polichni and Nea Philadelphia 🔥🪵

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Guy de Mulder and @orianachiappa.bsky.social presented their most recent research on the lime burials of the Balearic Islands 🏝️⛰️🔥

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This weekend our team traveled to Thessaloniki to celebrate the end of the #TEFRA project with two days of exciting conferences! 🔥🔥

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

📣 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

Group of researchers sitting around table with laptops smiling at the camera.

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📞 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

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

BBLAB has so much to celebrate! 🎉 @christophe-fire.bsky.social's 10-year milestone at VUB and his recent PhD Supervisor Prize, plus the arrival of new members set the stage for an exciting 2025. Here’s to a year filled with research, isotopes and collaboration!

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Provenance and childhood mobility histories were reconstructed using δ13C, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr, δ88Sr, and [Sr] values from dental enamel of successionally forming molars. The results indicate that all but one individual likely grew up local to the site. 4/6

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

To reconstruct lives, we used multiple sampling techniques & isotope proxies. Incremental dentine was used to reconstruct breastfeeding strategies & dietary histories into early adulthood. These were complemented by bone collagen sampling, creating a dietary life history 3/6

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Inside the tomb, the remains of at least 25 individuals were found, 18 of which were analysed within this study. The remains of a singular dog were also found, but radiocarbon dating reveals that this dog was buried thousands of years later, in the medieval period! 2/6

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Last week, @christophe-fire.bsky.social was in Trento, to attend the MOLA workshop, part of Dr Giacomo Capuzzo's MSCA post-doc fellowship. The first exciting results were presented, which use multi-isotope analyses of inhumation & cremations in the Italian Alps from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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!

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