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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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Emma Legrand @emmalegrand.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🗣️ 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 👇

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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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Hannah James @toothdetective.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Our bioavailable strontium baseline for Corsica is out! ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ranges from 0.7075 to 0.7169 and was established from 245 plant & soil leachate samples from 125 sites. Check out the article here lnkd.in/e6pDJFCY and the dataset can be downloaded from the IsoArcH database here lnkd.in/eFNS5Xbw

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

Congratulations #TEFRA team for this accomplishment and thank you, Sevi Triantaphyllou for inviting us to form part of this! Ευχαριστώ ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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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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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Prepping for the Phytolith Morphometry Workshop at #IMPR2025 in Barcelona this July! We’ll dive into the some hands-on 3D modelling of phytoliths. 👉 For scholars attending the IMPR, please feel free to attend the workshop by registering before May 31!

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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

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Anneminne Frère @anneminnefrere.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

📢 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)

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Reconstructing Life Histories: New Insights Into Cremation Practices, Mobility, and Food Consumption Patterns Through Isotope and Infrared Analyses of Petrous Parts and Teeth

This graph shows the strontium results of the individuals from Herstal, Belgium.

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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...

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🌿 I’m excited to be speaking at the upcoming Open Research Meeting. Join us to discuss how we can share phytolith images more openly within the community. 🗓️ 9 May, 16:00–17:00 UTC+1 💻 Online 🔗 Register: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Christophe Snoeck @christophe-fire.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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 😀

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Join us in Belgium! Two PhD and two postdocs are available on the LOCO project. Its a great opportunity to work with a large interdisciplinary team examining the mobility of people, materials and ideas 💡

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline’ by R. Hermans et al. is now #free for a limited time 1/7 👉 doi.org/pdrp @rosaliehermans.bsky.social @christophe-fire.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social @tloeffelmann.bsky.social

Next time you feel the sharp sting of a nettle (Urtica), think of its fascinating stinging microhairs - here around 150–200 µm in length - with irritating chemicals stored in their bulbous heads.
The study study investigates plant silica bodies (phytoliths), including these microhairs and other morphotypes, of extant dicotyledons prevalent in North-Western Europe, establishing a baseline for botanical, archaeobotanical, and palaeoecological research.

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🌿🏺This study lays the foundation for refining NW Europe's phytolith reference database. With more data, we can better reconstruct ancient environments and human-plant interactions. (7/7) 👉 doi.org/pdrp @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @stromberglab.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social #AoBpapers

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Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline

AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p

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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It was hard work…what can I say…..🤣

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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 · 12/03/2025

Great work by @rosaliehermans.bsky.social and team on developing an expanded baseline for NW Europe 🌱🔬🔥

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 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! 📩

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Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline

AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Great work led by @osteolady.bsky.social with @tloeffelmann.bsky.social, @toothdetective.bsky.social, Joris Brattinga, Arjan Louwen, Guy De Mulder, Lucas Meurkens, Charlotte Sabaux, Guido van den Eynde, and @Christophe-fire.bsky.social 🔥

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This multiproxy analysis of the large Tilburg-Udenhoutseweg urnfield uncovered social networks! Local mobility and preferential land use was seen and nonadults & women were enjoying different diets than men! 🔥🦴🌿🍖

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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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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Great work by our recent joint SHOC and AMGC PhD graduate @isotopistrachel.bsky.social on leading this comprehensive isotope study. As part of the Make-up of the City project, Dr Spros measured 🦷🦷🦷 from the inhabitants of medieval Ypres to uncover their mobility patterns! @amgc-vub.bsky.social

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

When compared to contemporaneous groups in the region, our high-resolution life histories reveal another distinct socio-economic group in the region, adding further to the regional social complexity during this period. 6/6

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

Incremental dentine analysis reveals that this one individual was breastfed for longer than the other individuals, and also had a different childhood diet. This indicated they likely joined the group later in life. 5/6

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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 · 23/01/2025

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

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ISBA11 Turin @isba11.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

ALERT! ⚠️🚨 The deadline for the ISBA11 abstract submission is quickly approaching - January 20th! CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT www.isba11.com/abstract-sub... #archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA11 #archaeologists @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

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Abstract Submission – ISBA 2025

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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

My new office for the next three weeks: researching New Kingdom skeletons at Gebel el-Silsila, Egypt @amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

ISBA @isbarchaeology.bsky.social heads to Turin! 🇮🇹 Call for abstracts for biomolecular archaeology's premier conference, @isba11.bsky.social. Spotlight on ancient biomolecules, isotopes & their stories of the past 🧬 Human-environment interactions foodways, mobility & more 🏛️ Deadline: Jan 20, 2025

Panoramic view of Turin with the iconic Mole Antonelliana dome rising above the cityscape, backed by snow-capped Alps. Golden evening light illuminates the historic architecture and grand boulevards of this Italian city that will host ISBA 11. Image: Turin by Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar, 31 March 2013, via Wikimedia Commons

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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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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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!

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Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in North-western Europe: Establishing a baseline

AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Great work by @rosaliehermans.bsky.social & the team on developing a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe to make it easier accurately interpret archaeological and palaeoecological data! @tloeffelmann.bsky.social @christophe-fire.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social 🌱🌿

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