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Christophe Snoeck

@christophe-fire.bsky.social
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Isotope Bioarchaeologist, head of the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab of AMGC, VUB, Belgium

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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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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 · 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 · 06/02/2025
Welcoming our newest postdoc Dr Danaé Guiserix with a morning of mass spec training! @isotopistrachel.bsky.social @christophe-fire.bsky.social @toothdetective.bsky.social @tloeffelmann.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social
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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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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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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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Jacob I. Griffith @jbioarch.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A recap of this year's research with the FWO. Plant sampling in Latvia with the team (inc. @christophe-fire.bsky.social / @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social ). Bring back the summer!
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SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Hear Rachèl Spros talk about her research on Belgian Radio 1 📻 Rachèl was part of the multidisciplinary Make-Up of the City project and used isotopes to reconstruct the mobility and diet of city-dwellers in medieval Ypres 🏰 www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
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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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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New BB-LAB paper out 👍🏻 Marta Hlad and the team identified and characterised patterns in cremation analysis practices through an online survey of those working on cremated human remains 👇 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation
Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research...
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Jacob I. Griffith @jbioarch.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Marta (as well as @tloeffelmann.bsky.social, @toothdetective.bsky.social, @christophe-fire.bsky.social, @osteolady.bsky.social and myself) has a new paper out in Plos One! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation
Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research...
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Taking place now online and in-person at @univie.ac.at @christophe-fire.bsky.social being introduced by #KatarinaRebaySalisbury as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #ArchaeologicalScience
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So thought about what to post first….I guess what I am really proud of: our wonderful paper on really weird burial rituals. Have fun reading! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Assembling ancestors: the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman skeletal remains at Pommerœul, Belgium | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Assembling ancestors: the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman skeletal remains at Pommerœul, Belgium
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Oriana Chiappa @orianachiappa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A lot has happened since then! We began the process of acquiring permits for sampling human remains by visiting the Museu de Mallorca (twice!) and the Museu de Menorca and Museu de Ciutadella.
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Jacob I. Griffith @jbioarch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This weekend is the Wetenschapsfestival Brussel 2024, and we are doing a (temporary) tattoo parlour for children with Archaeology & Cosmo-Geochemistry designs - coming two of the many disciplines in our department. if you're in Brussels, the event is free, the tattoos are also free!
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello, we are the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab, a team based at VUB researching archaeological mobility, diet, health, cremation conditions, plants, animals and more from all around the 🌍 and from the Neolithic to the present. 🦴⚱️🔥🦷🗺👩‍🔬 Follow us and our team here: go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev
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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We are looking forward to welcoming @christophe-fire.bsky.social from @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social to #HEASVienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience next Monday. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗 👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...
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HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Christophe Snoeck from Vrije Universiteit Brussel will give a talk on ‚Behind the scenes of isotope bioarchaeology – new developments and ...
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The IsoArcH initiative @isoarch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
🧑‍🔬 Into #isotopic data? 📈 Love #Big #Data? 🆕Meet #IsoArcH v.2.0! Our brand-new user-friendly platform lets you explore nearly *130,000* standardized isotope-related measurements effortlessly. Start your data journey today and make IsoArcH your new #research hub! 👇👇
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Hannah James @toothdetective.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
👋Hello Bluesky, I'm Hannah, a postdoc fellow at @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social, working on unravelling archaeological diets by using stable (δ⁸⁸Sr) & radiogenic (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) strontium isotopes & concentrations in tooth enamel & cremated bones. I'm a big fan of anything isotopic & archaeological! 🦴🦷🔥
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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello everyone! A little introduction to myself 🙋🏼‍♀️ I am from the UK originally 🇬🇧 but have spent time in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 doing my masters and am now a second year PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🇧🇪
Photo of myself. I am white, have blonde mid-length hair, blue eyes and am smiling with my hand on my chin. I am wearing a white fluffy jumper sat at a brown table with a white background and green plant to my left.
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Christophe Snoeck @christophe-fire.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Here we are 😊 A new adventure begins @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
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