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Eva Rosenstock @evarosenstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Die Infostände von @bocas-news.bsky.social und den anderen Archäologien am IAK sind bereit für die Semestereröffnung!

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Eva Rosenstock @evarosenstock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Freue mich sehr, bei der Eröffnung der Dauerausstellung "Was vom Luftkrieg übrigbleibt" www.luftkriegsgeschichte.org dabeizusein. Danke an die AG für ihre unermüdliche Arbeit!

Am Rednerpult Frank Güth von der AG Lufkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. vor dem Gebäude Vogelsang 42, im Vordergrund das Publikum, Photographien aus der letzten Sitzreihe

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last year, the wreck of a british WWII bomber was documented and recovered by our colleagues from LVR-ABR and AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e. V. Our team was honoured to be involved in the investigation of the human remains, likely of the crew, ahead of aDNA analysis.

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Robin Peters @robinpeters85.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Archäologie erleben für Alle. Heute erzählen rund 20 Archäolog*innen von Ihren Forschungsprojekten beim #TagderArchäologie in Titz. Mit dabei Kolleg*innen von @unicologne.bsky.social , @vfg-arch-bonn.bsky.social , @bocas-news.bsky.social , @ruhr-uni-bochum.de , @goetheuni.bsky.social & @lmu.de.

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our final talk this semester is by Valerio Gentile and combines experimental archaeology with microscopic wear analysis to reconstruct Bronze Age combat and ritual deposits. Please come ☝️unarmed ☝️ to HS 2 this Friday 16:15 or - if you prefer to stay on the safe side - get in touch for the Zoom link!

Promotional poster lecture. The background photo shows two people wearing modern protective fencing gear reenacting combat with long spears and large round wooden shields outdoors on a paved area in front of a wooden fence. A white rounded text box overlays the lower half of the image. It reads: "Reminder!" followed by the lecture title, A blade's journey: investigating the use and deposition of Bronze Age weapons through Experimental Archaeology and Microscopic Wear Analysis. The speaker is Dr. Valerio Gentile (Georg-August University Göttingen). The lecture takes place on 10 July 2026 at 16:15. Logos of the VolkswagenStiftung, the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (BoCAS), and the University of Bonn appear along the bottom.

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📢 This Thursday at 14:15, we host an additional lecture by Basira Mir Makhamad on agriculture in Central Asia from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. Join us in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link for an integrative perspective on archaeobotany, stable isotopes and other paleoenvironmental data.

Poster for a lecture. The background shows an aerial photograph of a green steppe landscape with linear gemorphological features, buildings and a road running along the right side. Overlaid in the center is a text box reading: "Special Reminder!" followed by the lecture title, Current and Future Research Directions: From Archaeobotanical Reconstruction to Isotope and Paleochannel Analysis in Central Asia. The speaker is Dr. Basira Mir Makhamad (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology). The lecture takes place on Thursday, 9 July 2026, at 14:15. Logos of the VolkswagenStiftung, the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (BoCAS), and the University of Bonn appear along the bottom.

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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#ScienceSnack: A new book co-edited by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alice Toso (University of Bonn) shows how identities of people from Late Antiquity to modern times can be reconstructed from bones, graves & objects—revealing how people lived and were seen: shorturl.at/BMWtZ © Yehdou/Uni Bonn

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alice Toso from the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences.

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Job alert 📣Our colleagues in Classical Archaeology here at the institute have a W1 position open: www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

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W1-Professur für Klassische Archäologie mit Tenure Track auf W3

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

How can thermally altered lipids reveal cooking techniques, repeated vessel use, and changing culinary traditions? This Friday at 4PM, @adriabreu.bsky.social will present new biomarkers and new insights from Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery. join us in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link.

Poster for a Deabtes in ArchaeoSciences lecture. At the top, a drawing of a steaming ceramic pot on a light beige background. Above the pot is a simplified chromatogram with labeled peaks (K31, K33, K35), and below it a simplified chemical structure representing of a lipid biomarker.

A large rounded white panel in the center contains the event information: Reminder! Caution! Contents were hot: Detecting thermal processing in archaeological lipid residues Dr. Adrià Breu; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 19.06.2026 at 16:15
The lower section has a pale green background and displays the logos of the VolkswagenStiftung, the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (BoCAS), and the University of Bonn.

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We have updated our program and included an additonal talk on Thursday July 9th!

JPEG version of program; pdf can be found here: https://www.iak.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/bocas/media/bocas-debates-sose26-poster_neu.pdf

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Eva Rosenstock @evarosenstock.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Happy to see that along other studies, also our #LiVES Emmy Noether project @dfg.de and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social study on human stature until ca. 1000 BCE is covered

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Alice Toso @alicetoso.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Today is the day! Our edited volume Human Identities in the Archaeological Record is now fully available online. Co-edited with Annamaria Diana and Daniela Marcu-Istrate, it grew from a conference session into a collection of chapters on identity, belonging, resilience and otherness. 👇

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Human Identities in the Archaeological Record

Retracing the origin, development and survival of individual and collective identities in past human societies, this volume features a global and interdisciplin…

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@missjonestravel.bsky.social hat Maxime Rageot's Forschung in ihrem Blog besprochen!

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

People with many different culinary backgrounds came together in the provinces of the Roman Empire, so join us and Maaike Groot this Friday 4PM for a zooarchaeologists's perspective on foodways in Germania Inferior! HS2 in Römerstraße 164 or get in touch for the Zoom link.

Light green event poster featuring a comic-style illustration: a figure in a tunic, shown from behind, is butchering a cow carcass hanging upside down, while an older bearded figure facing forward gestures toward the scene. Below the illustration, text reads: “Reminder!
Foodways, food production and trade in the Roman province of Germania Inferior: an interdisciplinary approach. Dr. Maaike Groot
Freie Universität Berlin 08.05.2026 at 16:15”. Logos of VolkswagenStiftung, the Bonn Center for Archaeosciences (BOCAS), and the University of Bonn appear along the bottom.

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🐎 Excited to share a new project led by friend and colleague Maaike Groot at Freie Universität Berlin: “Management, supply and mobility of equids in the northwestern Roman Empire” (DFG-funded). The project explores how horses and mules supported the Roman army. Congratulations Maaike!!!

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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What did people eat and drink in the Bronze Age South Caucasus? Dairy products, wine, and beyond: Researchers studied the foodways and culinary practices of Kura-Araxes communities. More: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/076-... (c) A. Decaix, ANR SWEED and the Mission “Boyuk Kesik” & ANR KUR(A)GAN

Top: Grape seed from Qaraçinar, Azerbaijan. - Bottom: Red-black and black-polished vessels from Qaraçinar, Azerbaijan.

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New paper out by BoCAS members: Maxime Rageot, Qi Zeng and colleagues investigated vessel contents from the Kura-Araks interaction sphere of the late 4th and early 3rd millennium BCE South Caucasus and Southwest Asia. www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/076-...

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What did people eat and drink in the Bronze Age South Caucasus?

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The program of the summer 2026 Debates in ArchaeoSciences is ready! Join us on the respective dates in Römerstraße 164, Bonn in Hörsaal 2 /(R.0.007) at 16:15 or contact us to receive a zoom link.

Picture file of a text pdf that can be found as https://www.iak.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/bocas/media/bocas-debates-sose-2026-poster.pdf

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Excavators and conservators are key in retrieving and preserving archaeomaterials and their contexts for scientifc analysis. Sound training is an asset, so we are very happy about the decision of the Academic Senate of HTW Berlin to keep its Conservation and Excavation Techniques study program!

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Our Debates in ArchaeoSciences start again! First talk is this Friday at 4PM: Carlo Cocozza unveils the biography and identit(ies) of a +/- 8th century anonymous female buried in the remains of a Roman Villa in Sorrento. Meet us in person in HS2 or e-mail us for the Zoom link!

Photo of a coastal landscape overlooking the sea and distant mountains, with low stone ruins in the foreground. Text announces a talk titled “How did you get in here? Unveiling the lived experiences of an unknown Byzantine individual buried in a Roman villa in Sorrento, Southern Italy” by Dr. Carlo Cocozza, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. The event takes place on 24 April 2026 at 16:15. Logos of VolkswagenStiftung, the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (BoCAS), and the University of Bonn.

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

💨A new paper on incense burners from Pompeii 🗻, with and by our very own Maxime Rageot: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/sacr...

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Sacrifice before the cataclysm: the aromas of Pompeii’s household altars

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Starting at 9AM in Römerstraße 164 - join us for insights on seafood in the past!

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Open Science @UniBonn @opensciene-unibonn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

📢 We’re hiring for the Research IT / Open Science team at the University of Bonn! 👉 IT Consultant & Platform Developer (E13, full-time) fixed-term until Dec 31, 2029 📅 Apply by April 19, 2026 🔗 www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Join us on April 14th for our Conference "Foodways in Transition in Ancient Littoral Societies: From Molecules to Cultures"! Program and registration👇 www.iak.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...

Photograph of a section of a fish mosaic from the Triclinium at the Casa del Fauno in Pompeii ©Chappsnet / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

As last year, our new ArchaeoSciences students wrapped up their first term with a poster session. Complete with conference-grade coffee, strategic cookie placement, and a nosy audience asking *very* specific questions. ☕🍪👀

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

How can machine learning support archaeozoological research? Meet Manon Vuillien for our last talk of this term in HS2 this Friday or get in touch for the Zoom link!

Poster for a lecture titled “Bridging the gap between zooarchaeology and machine learning.” At the top, a stylized blue silhouette of a deer is shown alongside a line drawing of a deer skeleton. To the right, icons representing machine learning and a colorful heatmap matrix with animal silhouettes illustrate computational analysis. The lecture is by Dr. Manon Vuillien (CEPAM / CNRS), scheduled for 6.2. 2026 at 16:15. Logos of VolkswagenStiftung, the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (BoCAS), and the University of Bonn appear at the bottom.

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In the Classical Archaeology Colloquium on Friday, our student assistant Cosima Hebel presented initial findings of her M.A. thesis on the contents of a sample of transport amphorae from Marseille. Well done, Cosima!

Cosima Hebel presenting in front of a projection of her title slide that reads: Tracing archaic Greek trade through biomolecular archaeology and techno typology. The case of the transport amphorae from Marseille.

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Where did the gold for the treasures of Early Bronze Age centers in the Eastern Mediterranean such as Hisarlık/Troy and Ur originate? Find out about new ICP-MS results presented by Ernst Pernicka this Friday at 4PM HS2 or e-mail us for the Zoom link!

poster for a lecture featuring close-up images of gold jewelry from the early bronze age Hisarlik/Troy "treasures", including basket earrings and butterfly beads. Text reads: "Reminder! Schliemann’s golden treasures of Troy and related finds: Composition and provenance. Prof. Dr. Ernst Pernicka, CEZA Mannheim, 23.01.2026 at 16:15." Logos of VolkswagenStiftung, Bonn Center for Archaeosciences (BoCAS), and Universität Bonn appear along the bottom. The background is a pale green-grey.

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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🗑️ #ScienceSnack: Some 53,000 items of litter flow past Cologne daily in the Rhine – an amount many times larger than previously believed. That's the “dirty” result from a citizen science project led by @unibonn.bsky.social. Read more here: f.mtr.cool/mblomiuhmr © Simon Taal

Researchers standing on the "RheinKrake"“ — a floating litter trap installed in 2022 near the Zoobrücke bridge in Cologne. A large amount of trash can be seen that has already been collected by the “RheinKrake.”

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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!

Poster showing a photo of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. team in the field, lecture title Recovery and identification of WWII aircraft wreckages - insights into the work of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. and place/date of talk, logos of VolkswagenStiftung, BoCAS and Uni Bonn

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

250 BC to 150 AD, the Xiongnu formed one of the earliest nomadic polities in Eastern Eurasia. Linked to the later Huns in Europe or not, their foodways were far more agricultural and diverse than assumed. Join us and @cmcarolus.bsky.social this Friday in HS2 — or get in touch for the Zoom link!

Poster showing a birds-eye view photo of a green steppe landscape with meandering river channels. Text announces Dr. Christina Carolus, Yale University and lecture title: Reconsidering the Steppe and the Sown: Archaeobotanical and Biomolecular Insights into Foodways Transformations and Early Political Complexity in Mongolia. Logos of VolkswagenStiftung, uni Bonn and BoCAS

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We are delighted to learn that our Çatalhöyük archaeogenetics study published in @science.org was chosen as one of @archaeologymag.bsky.social 's top 10 discoveries of 2025. 💃🏻👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 🏺 archaeology.org/issues/janua...

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Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - A Feminine Touch - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026

Çatalhöyük, Turkey

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Eva Rosenstock @evarosenstock.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Past beers and ways to archaeologically detect them: contribution by Alisa Scheibner and me to this yummy #bierinderantike volume edited by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe and @kai-ruffing.bsky.social 🍻

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Brace yourself for Stefan Potente's talk! Blunt and sharp force are daily fare in contemporary forensics. Crossbows and sabres have mostly disappeared, but fresh bone injuries still raise questions — especially “fall or assault?” This Friday 16h in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!

$Poster showing an axial CT of a human skull with a fracture in the eoccipital part text announcing PD Dr. Stefan Potente's (Uni Bonn) talk "Injuries in fresh bone – as seen by the forensic pathologist" 5.12.2025, 16:15$

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Huge congrats to our @barahuber.bsky.social and colleagues for their new book on the evidence for fragrance and smoke in archaeology! 💨Scents of Arabia 💨brings this invisible, long-lost aspect back to the surface for the first time: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The term has started with a talk by James Fellows Yates on FAIR data in ArchaeoScience! Stay tuned - the next talk in our Debates in ArchaeoSciences series will be on December 5th!

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Bara Huber @barahuber.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A journey into the sensory world of ancient Arabia: incense, ritual, trade, memory & scent 🌿🔥🏺🧪 www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...

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DAI - Scents of Arabia

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A new academic year means new classes, new faces, and new Debates! You all are welcome to join us - come along in person Friday s at 4PM or get in touch for the Zoom link !

Poster with BoCAS and Uni Bonn Logos
DEBATES IN ARCHAEOSCIENCES FRIDAYS AT 16h (c.t.)
AVZ III, Römerstr.164 / 0.007 HS 2
To join online get in touch at bocas@uni-bonn.de
07.11.2025
JAMES FELLOWS YATES
Poor metadata and data archiving is holding back archaeological sciences

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STEFAN POTENTE
Injuries in fresh bone – as seen by the forensic pathologist

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CHRISTINA CAROLUS
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JÖRG DIETSCHE & JULIAN WELLER
Recovery and identification of WWII aircraft wreckages.
Insights into the word of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V.

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ERNST PERNICKA
Schliemann’s golden treasures of Troy and related finds:
Composition and provenance

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MANON VUILLIEN
Bridging the gap between zooarchaeology and machine learning

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VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 21/07/2025

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!

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Alice Toso @alicetoso.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

First celebratory cake was a blueberry pound cake inspire by the @VWStiftung logo 🍰

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🎉 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-...

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How fertile have humans been over the past 200 years?

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Alice Toso @alicetoso.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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

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Eva Rosenstock @evarosenstock.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

ich freue mich auf morgen! veranstaltungskalender.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/veranstaltun...

Erste Vortragsfolie des Vortrags "Grenzen des Wachstums: Wirtschafts- und sozialarchäologische Aspekte menschlicher Körperhöhe" (Eva Rosenstock 8.7. 14h Forschungskolloquium Zentrum für Altertumswissenschaften der Uni Heideblberg); sie zeigt neben dem Titel eine Visualisierung der Sonde Pioneer 10 im All

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known, We take the Golden Road to Samarkand (J E Flecker) 🕌 Stop over with us and Shannon Monroe in Buchara for the last debates talk this semester - in HS2 or via Zoom!

Poster showing a photo of a view over Buchara, with a Madaras in foreground and the Ark citadel in the background. Title of the talk is "Surviving, Thriving, and Dying in a Medieval Islamic Oasis: Skeletal Evidence for Nutrition and Disease in Qarakhanid (12th-13th cen. CE) Bukhara, Uzbekistan”, Shannon Monroe, New York University, 11.7.25, 16:15

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Eva Rosenstock @evarosenstock.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

8,000 years ago, two babies were buried at Çatalhöyük West. Excavated and analyzed during our excavations, their DNA links them to East Mound — now part of this amazing paper. Very, very happy to contribute & huge thanks to the teams involved! 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük

Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

What did people cook in Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery on the Atlantic coast? Martine Regert will present lipid results from dairy 🥛 to beeswax 🐝, but a surprising lack of seafood 🐟. Join us today at 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!

Poster showing aerial view of the Beg ar Loued settlement under excavation at low tide. ©Marine nationale, 2009. Text reads: Reminder! What did people cook in Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery on the Atlantic coast?
A new way of understanding foodways and culinary practices
based on the lipid content of ceramic vessels. Dr. Martine Regert, CNRS

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BoCAS @bocas-news.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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!

Poster showing a birds eye view across a deforested hilly landscape under a blue sky with fluffly white clouds. An elongated blue mountain with three summits is looming in the distance on the horizon. Text announces the talk "Crafting the City: Ceramic Production and Urbanisation in Etruria (late 10th – mid 7th century BCE)”.

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Dr Susan Greaney @handle.invalid · 16/06/2025

Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

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WAC-10 – Darwin 22-28 June 2025

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