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Dr Emma Tollefsen

@emmatollefsen.bsky.social
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Bioarchaeologist: Histotaphonomy, Archaeothanatology, Funerary Archaeology 💀🩻 🏛️ Honorary Fellow @archanchistleic.bsky.social 🔬 #PDRA @arcdurham.bsky.social |📍Newcastle 📩 Committee: Bog Body Research Network | 🇳🇴 in 🇬🇧 | 🐾🧶🪴☕️📸 #DeathPositive - Views my own

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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s that time of year again! I’m back to teaching bones in the lab — this time around for MSc students at Durham 💀🔍📚 . . . #ECRlife #osteology #teaching #demonstrator #happiestinthelab
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
… and accepted — all in a day! 💫 #ECRlife #academiclife #publication
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Revisions on first lead author paper done! 📚📑📬 #ECRlife
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Tom Hanks Says 'SUBMIT!'
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A perfect early autumn morning 🍂 #morningcommute
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 New co-authored paper with the #BODYPOLITICS team is available now #online in #JAMT 💥 Read our study on 'Direct and Structural Violence in an Atypical Mortuary Dataset from Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia' HERE: 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1007/s108... #OpenAccess #Research #Article
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Loving the sculptural art installations on campus 🗿 . . . @durhamuniversity.bsky.social . . . #Durham #sculptures #contemporaryartwork #campuslife
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Thank you David! And congratulations on your graduation! Well done 👨🏻‍🎓
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I will be working with Dr Claire Hodson and Prof. Rebecca Gowland on creating CPD material for the excavation and analysis of fetal and infant remains from archeological and forensic contexts 🪦 So excited! #PostdocLife #ECRlife #bioarchaeology #burialarch #forensics #CPDtraining
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Eppendorf Eppy: Scientist Ready to Go
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yesterday I started my new job as a Post Doctoral Research Associate in Archaeology at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social ✌🏻👩🏼‍💻 In an absolutely brilliant and wonderfully friendly and welcoming department! @arcdurham.bsky.social #PostdocLife #ECRlife #bioarchaeology
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A new chapter 🦚 . . . #Durham
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We’ve moved back to The North — and we couldn’t be happier to finally call #Newcastle our home! 🌊🗝️🪁
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I got to collaborate & network w/ so many talented & brilliant academics, ECR + PhD researchers, scientists, museums & labs across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium & UK 🦷🛖🏺🛡️⚔️ I have learnt so much - I’m so grateful for all the wonderful opportunities and experiences I had🔬🧬🩻 #ECRlife #BODYPOLITICS
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It was a privilege to work as #PDRA in #osteoarchaeology on this fascinating project for 3 years — getting to study in great detail a truly unique and provocative dataset of human remains deposited in settlement contexts across Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia 💀 #ECRlife #BODYPOLITICS
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We’ve just spent 2 fantastic days celebrating the amazing research done by #BODYPOLITICS project over the past 5 years — showcasing all the exciting findings and outputs, and engaging in inspiring discussions with friends and colleagues in beautiful surroundings at @nationalmuseet.dk 🧿🏛️🌊 #ECRlife
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
What a year! 🦺 . . . #archaeologylife #lastdayonsite
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
For my last day at University of Leicester Archaeological Services, I’ve been tickling a rather nice curb of a post-medieval trackway 🪨🐚⛏️ . . . #archaeologylife #lastdayofwork
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🪲 . . . #archaeologylife
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Georgia’s feature has morphed into a very lovely well indeed! 🪝 . . . #archaeologylife
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Oh well, oh well 🚧 . . . #archaeologylife
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Digging life 🪨⛏️🪣 . . . #archaeologylife
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🛒 . . . #urbanphotography
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Medieval Leicester 🦇 . . . #urbanphotography
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you’ve been thinking about becoming a #BloodDonor then I would strongly urge you to register and book your first appointment — together we can save lives ♥️ Follow the link to Register today 👇🏻 #1person1bag3lives #registertoday #blooddonationsaveslives
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I gave blood today! The first of many donations 🩸🩺 The amazing staff at the Leicester NHS Blood Donation Centre were absolutely lovely and guided me through this new experience with smiles and gratitude 🙏🏻 🤍 #1person1bag3lives #blooddonor #blooddonationsaveslives #firsttimedonor
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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Today is the day! We are excited to immerse ourselves in all things bioarchaeology with a stellar line-up of brilliant workshops and talks for the next 3 days at the#BABAO2025 conference here in Leicester! 💀🦷🔬🩻🧬🦠🔍 #bioarchaeology #conference
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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It’s the final countdown to #BABAO2025 🙌🏻 HAPPENING TOMORROW ‼️
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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
💀 Conference PROGRAMME: 📆 Thursday 18 September #BABAO2025
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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🦷 Conference PROGRAMME: 📆 Friday 19 September #BABAO2025
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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🔬 Conference PROGRAMME: 📆 Saturday 20 September #BABAO2025
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨 36 HRS UNTIL #BABAO2025! 🚨 📢 We look forward to welcoming all our delegates to Leicester 🏛️, and for a day of engaging #workshops on Thursday 🔬, and what promises to be an amazing 2 full days of talks and discussions about all things #bioarchaeology from Friday to Saturday! 💀 #conference #BABAO
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A so-called antenna-hilted dagger, dating 6th century BC, found in a burial mound at Niederraunau. The corroded blade is partly enclosed in the remains of its sheath, with bronze fittings and traces of degraded organic material. The name of this type of daggers...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology
An antenna-hilt dagger displayed vertically against a dark background with a small bronze fibula beside it. The corroded blade is partly enclosed in the remains of its sheath, with bronze fittings and traces of degraded organic material. The handle features a distinctive looped “antenna” pommel and a decorated crossguard.
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Thank you @elwhitten.bsky.social for writing a really cool article about our work in Battle Harbour, Labrador this summer! #archaeology #gravestones 🏺 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Archaeology duo took to Battle Harbour to restore graves, which included one iconic resident | CBC News
Husband and wife archaeology duo Robyn Lacy and Ian Petty were recently in Battle Harbour to restore more than 50 grave stones, including one belonging to a man immortalized in an iconic photograph.
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Dr J. M. Wall @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Dr Heather Scott is a very dear friend and my academic work is infinitely richer for the discussions we have & reading her perspectives. Right now she should be able to focus on writing her first book- which I can't wait to read. Instead, she is fighting a UK ban: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Canadian who could not renew visa due to mental health crisis faces UK ban
Academic Heather Scott has been told by Home Office that being ‘acutely ill’ is not an exceptional circumstance
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Siân Halcrow @ancientchildren.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland
The assessment of sex is fundamental in osteoarcheological analysis, yet traditional morphological methods are less reliable for children due to the incomplete development of sexually dimorphic trait....
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The CfP for TRAC2025 is now open! Send me an abstract of 200-300 words about 'What do the monuments stand for? The materiality of Roman architecture' if you have a suitable talk at ulla.rajala(a)antiken.su.se Deadline August 30. www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-con...
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Upcoming Conferences
TRAC 2025 The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology ConferenceWe are pleased to announce that TRAC 2025 conference will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format through the Gathe…
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Been a bit quiet on here for the past few weeks, because I’m happy to say I’ve got a new job with the University of Leicester Archaeological Services as a field archaeologist for the next 6 months — so I’m happy being a big kid in a big sandbox again ⛏️🏺🧱 @archanchistleic.bsky.social #archaeologyfun
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺
Cylindrical glass beads in bright shades of blue and turquoise with white horizontal stripes
Photo: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Our newest #BODYPOLITICSERC publication — ‘Womb Politics — is CAJ’s #ThePaperOfTheMonth ‼️ 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 #ECRlife
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Take a deep-dive into the demographic and skeletal analysis of this fascinating assemblage of violence-related injuries by reading the full article HERE: 👉🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #IronAge #MaidenCastle #WarCemetery #Dorset #Britain #Bioarchaeology #ResearchArticle
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FRAUGHT WITH HIGH TRAGEDY: A CONTEXTUAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL RECONSIDERATION OF THE MAIDEN CASTLE IRON AGE ‘WAR CEMETERY’ (ENGLAND)
The Iron Age ‘war cemetery’ of Maiden Castle hillfort, Dorset, England, is one of the most internationally celebrated of British archaeological discoveries, levels of trauma recorded on skeletons fou...
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Superb new study of the ‘war cemetery’ at the iconic Iron Age hillfort of Maiden Castle by Martin Smith and colleagues at @buarchanth.bsky.social — a thorough contextual and chronological reconsideration of numerous remains exhibiting violent trauma 💀⚔️ #IronAge #Dorset #Britain #Bioarchaeology
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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It’s #WorldGothDay, the perfect day to listen to our episode with Professor Claire Nally! podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/t...
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Professor Claire Nally on literature, Goth, Steampunk, death memoirs, representations of dead women, death positive libraries & working in academia
Podcast Episode · The Death Studies Podcast · 01/04/2025 · 43m
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I’ve been lucky enough to spend a day exploring the brilliant exhibition of the Battle of Visby at Gotland Museum — seeing some absolutely mind blowing skeletal trauma 💀⚔️🛡️ A fascinating and bloody history being sensitively presented, contextualised and narrated throughout! #Visby #Gotland #Sweden
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
🚨 DEADLINE TODAY 🚨 📃 max. 250 words outlining: — Research aims/objectives — Materials — Methods — Results — Conclusions Submit your #BABAO2025 abstract HERE: 👉🏻 adaviesb.wixsite.com/babao2025/ab... 📧 BABAOconference2025@gmail.com @babao2025meeting.bsky.social #bioarchaeology #conference
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Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment @pasthorizons.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
www.medievalists.net/2025/05/medi... Analysis of the skeleton revealed clear signs of prolonged medical intervention and care. Researchers believe he received pain relief typical of the time, possibly including ointments containing lavender oil, opium, or alcohol.
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Medieval Man with Crippled Knee Offers Clues to Disability Care - Medievalists.net
A new study reveals how the remains of a disabled man buried in medieval Lund shed light on medical care and societal attitudes toward disability in the Middle Ages.
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
For the Romanists out there 🏺🏺🏺 #Roman #Archaeology #Job
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
#FindsFriday Pair of showy fibulae. Part of the Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, from an East Germanic (Gepidic) grave discovered in 1910. #Gold plating on silver with inlaid garnet, glass, enamel. #Archaeology #Art #History #artwork #Jewellery
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Palaeoanthropology CDF @palaeocdf.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📅 Date: June 30, 2025 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
⏰ 2.5 days left to get your #BABAO2025 abstracts in before the end of this weekend! 📅 DEADLINE: midnight 18 May!!
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Dr Emma Tollefsen @emmatollefsen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are having the most productive discussions on professional guidelines for archaeologists and various specialists working on cremated remains 🔥💀🔬🏛️ #CreMATENetwork #Cremations #Archaeology #ProfessionalGuidelines
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British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The British School at Rome is inviting expressions of interest from postdoctoral researchers for a range of fellowship schemes, including the British Academy, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Leverhulme Trust International Fellowships: bsr.ac.uk/call-for-exp...
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Call for Expressions of Interest: Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities at the BSR - bsr.ac.uk
The British School at Rome (https://bsr.ac.uk) invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral scholars who wish to apply for a range of fellowships schemes: The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellows...
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