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Hannah Leonard

@hannahleonard.bsky.social
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PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🎓 @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social Expect to hear about isotopes, climate change and funerary practices in the Bronze Age 🔥🦴🏺💀⚰️🦷🪦🧪 LEArning from the Past (LEAP) www.leap-belgium.be

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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Exciting LEAP news! 👇 Over the last 3 years, I've worked on my PhD as part of the LEAP project, studying how people & the environment reacted to past climate change events. We were fortunate enough make a video showcasing what we do & it's now available to watch! 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kg8...
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Peat, Bones, and Stalagmites: exploring ancient climate change and human mobility in Belgium | LEAP
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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 · 25/05/2025
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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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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Maura De Coster @mauradecoster.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
On #EarthDay we post about loving our planet while VU Amsterdam cuts its Earth Sciences department. Dismissing 42 earth scientists reveals the gap between stated values and actual priorities. What we fund is what we truly value #RedAardwetenschappen (Image by @thelittlebluedood.bsky.social)
The image shows a simple blue line drawing on a white textured background. There's a figure of a person pointing at a rectangular sign or board that contains text. The text on the board reads: "DO UNTO THE EARTH AS YOU WANT DONE UNTO THE EARTH" - a environmental take on the golden rule. The drawing has a handmade, sketch-like quality with the person and message rendered in blue ink.
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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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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 · 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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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Let’s explore the prehistoric landscapes of the Netherlands: enjoy our open access article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Lively landscapes: Sex- and age-related differences in diet and land use characterising a Late Bronze-Early Iron Age community from Tilburg, the Netherlands
The Late Bronze-Early Iron Age (LBA-EIA)urnfield of Tilburg-Udenhoutseweg yielded 229 cremation graves with various features.This large cemetery is a …
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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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Jacob I. Griffith @jbioarch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Today my new paper was published in Plos One. High-resolution Neolithic life history reconstructions using Incremental dentine, bone collagen, and multi-enamel sampling! I'm really pleased with this one journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain
Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recent...
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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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Kévin Salesse @kevinsalesse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Media spotlight on the opening of my isotope lab at the Department of Anthropology, Masaryk University - marking a new research center for isotope research and innovation! www.em.muni.cz/en/science/1...
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Department of Anthropology has new isotope lab
International cooperation is well underway at the Faculty of Science Masaryk University thanks to a new isotope lab, dedicated to studying both ancient and modern human populations.
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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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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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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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The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Classical Cat Problems 🐈‍⬛
Various representations of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion.
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What does research on the past bring to people living today? This was discussed live on national radio last Sunday, when @isotopistrachel.bsky.social was interviewed by De Ochtend on VRT Radio 1 about her research on medieval Ypres. Missed it? You find it here: 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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Archaeology Scotland @archscot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Archaeology Scotland's #SpotifyWrapped just dropped! 🎶
A graphic in the style of Spotify Wrapped lists satirical bands and songs linked to Scotland's past such as 'Bronze Age Bangers' and 'Bones Don't Lie'

A graphic in the style of Spotify Wrapped says we have spent 116,262 minutes thinking about Scotland's stone circles this year.
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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We have 100 bioarchaeologists on the starter list 🤩 great to see so many of us here! #starterlist #archaeology #osteology #bioarchaeology go.bsky.app/N5yfURb
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Ralf Vandam @ralfvandam.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New paper out on the Sagalassos Hinterland! Here we assess all evidence of Ancient Moatra, which should have been located in Bereket. @amgc-vub.bsky.social
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More Water at Moatra: Archaeology, Geomorphology and Toponymy in the Territory of Sagalassos
Gephyra | Volume: 28
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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
‼️Exciting new paper from @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social Super interesting to see the differences in how individuals analyse cremated human remains!🔥🦴 Definitely a must-read🏺
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Beautiful ring ditches….did you spot them? @amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
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Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry @amgc-vub.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This week in the AMGC lab, @fienjo.bsky.social is searching for micrometeorites from sediment samples, Inigo is sampling ostrich eggs for clumped isotope analysis and Titouan is preparing geothermal granite samples for elemental analysis 🧪☄️🪨🥚
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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hello everyone! Let me introduce myself 🙋🏼‍♀️ I am from Greece 🇬🇷 but I live in Belgium🇧🇪I am a joint PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Université libre de Bruxelles. For my PhD I investigate how cremation was performed in past societies using infrared and isotope analyses.
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Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry @amgc-vub.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Our Prof Steven Goderis and the ULTIMO team are heading to Antarctica today to begin the hunt for meteorites ☄️ Follow along with the blog 👇 froidultimo.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/u...
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ULTIMO project: search for extraterrestrial material
The extreme conditions and logistical challenges make the Antarctic continent one of the last frontiers in scientific explorations. The ULTIMO project, funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO)…
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Jacob I. Griffith @jbioarch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
back to my old Twitter series now of bluesky 'Archaeological Themes in Contemporary Music' - Joy Division www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDrB...
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Ice Age (2007 Remaster)
YouTube video by Joy Division - Topic
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Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry @amgc-vub.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Time & Space! At this years Wetenschapfestival Brussel, our @amgc-vub.bsky.social team presented themes of both archaeology and cosmo chemistry under one roof, presenting samples, creating art, and giving out free (temporary) tattoos 🦷🦴🔥☄️🌘🪨🚀 Well done to the whole team!
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#FindsFriday 👀😍 The Caergwrle Bowl This Middle Bronze Age bowl was discovered during drain digging beside the River Alun, near Caergwrle Castle, north #Wales. 1300-1150 BCE #Archaeology #History #Art. #AncientBlueSky🏺 📸 My own. (See Alt for more details)
The Caergwrle Bowl is a rare representation of a Bronze Age ship.
We think the zig-zags around
the base are waves and the long triangles are oars. The eye symbol protected sailors. The circles are the shields of its heroic voyagers. It speaks of connections: shale from Dorset, tin from Cornwall and gold from Ireland or Wales. It was placed beside the River Alun, which flows into the River Dee towards the Irish Sea.
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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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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
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Kévin Salesse @kevinsalesse.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I am offering a 2-year #postdoc position to join me on my MASH Junior project (Moving Toward a Transformative Bioarchaeology of Cremation in the Czech Republic and beyond). Join me in advancing #isotope #mapping and provenance studies in Central Europe! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/286900
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Postdoc: Isotope Mapping and Provenance Studies
Workplace: Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic Type of Contract: temporary position with 2-year contract, non-academic
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform
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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Super fascinating project, can't wait to see more! @orianachiappa.bsky.social 🏺
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Oriana Chiappa @orianachiappa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hey there bluesky archaeo people, I'm taking this fresh start to introduce myself with a recap of my year so far. This year I started my PhD adventure at UGent and the VUB to learn about funerary rituals and mobility patterns of the Balearic Islands through archaeometric methods 🏝️🦴🧪👩‍🔬.
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!
An image showing what I describe
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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In exciting Monday morning news, the BB-Lab have arrived to bluesky! 🦷🧪🏺🦴 @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
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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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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Good thought piece on selling of human remains
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Auction houses still sell human remains – and it’s time they stopped
A collection of skulls and shrunken heads has been removed from a leading auction site, but the trade in human remains is unregulated and ongoing.
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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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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Fantastic paper! 🏺🦴
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Fleeing the wasteland that was once called Twitter
Roman mosaic of a man on a chariot pulled by two blue birds. Another man seems to be running behind with an outstretched arm
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If you're into archaeology, the ancient world, and related fields, here are some starter packs you will like 🧵 1/? go.bsky.app/J2BAdwu
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