Dietary inequality marker reveals 10,000 years of gender and cultural disparity in Europe Abstract. Diet is a key to evaluating social and health inequalities over time, as it reflects disparities in access to resources often linked to socioecon

Analysing how much meat in the diet by sex as marker of social inequality, last 10,000 years. Not too unequal early Neolithic, but it gets worse!

'This diachronic analysis highlights the complex interactions between diet, social structures, and gender...'

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Speaking with the Dead - A day in the life of a Professional Osteologist Have you ever wondered what skeletons can tell us about the past?

BABAO is running a series FREE, ONLINE of talks on Osteology for the general public. The first is April 29 at 19:00. Ever wondered what happens to the skeletons found during building works? Or why looking at skeletons is important for learning about the past?

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Postdoc Alert! The archaeology department here at Exeter are looking for a Research Fellow for Biocultural HIVE, part of the AHRC RICHeS Infrastructure Portfolio. The role (0.8 FTE for 5 years) involves managing our digital, lab and collections resources:
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Students know exactly where learning happens – and it's not in the upload Exams, placements, seminars, peer explanation – students name the moments that made learning stick. Jim Dickinson argues the common thread is accountability, not format

A really worthwhile study of what assignments students themselves found to be best for their learning, especially in an AI context. Spoiler alert: it’s NOT take-home essays. It’s all the stuff AI can’t do. And it’s mostly in-person.

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Libanonissa siviilit maksavat sodan hinnan, kun maa ajautuu yhä syvemmälle kriisiin Israelin sotatoimet ovat johtaneet laajamittaiseen humanitaariseen kriisiin Libanonissa. Israelin ja Hizbollahin välinen väkivalta kiihtyi Iranin sodan vuoksi. Israel perustelee sotatoimiaan oman turv...

Agneta Kallström ja Marika Kataja pohtivat Lähi-itä NYT -blogikirjoituksessa, onko siviileihin ja terveydenhuoltoon kohdistuva piittaamaton väkivalta ajamassa Libanonin yhä syvemmälle humanitaariseen katastrofiin, josta toipuminen voi viedä vuosia.

Today I've been making and decorating this replica Bronze Age beaker from Seahouses in Northumberland. The original is in the collection of the Great North Museum in Newcastle. It's one of the pots that inspired me to do what I do. 🏺 #Archaeology #Pottery potted-history.co.uk

Osteoarchaeologists / Forensic Anthropologists – West of Ireland - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 Euro (DOE)Closing Date: 13/04/26Location: West of Ireland

Osteoarchaeologists / Forensic Anthropologists
IAC Archaeology
Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 Euro (DOE)
Closing Date: April 13, 2026
Location: West of Ireland
www.bajr.org/job-ad/osteo...

Multi‐Stability of the Present‐Day Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation There is much supporting evidence (freshwater export, paleo records, model hierarchy) that the present-day AMOC is in a multi-stable regime.

Breaking: A new review paper of the tipping point risk of the Atlantic ocean circulation system known as #AMOC has been published. 🌊
The evidence has broadened over the last years that the present AMOC is in a multi-stable regime, posing a risk of tipping 😨.
dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice This is an open access book. This volume is the first dedicated to action within bioarchaeology that can bring about social and political change.

We don't have enough open access resources for reading about ethics, and there's some really great looking chapters in there. I'm excited to spend some time with this! 🏺🧪link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-1...

What's for dinner? Tooth enamel reveals what early Mesopotamians really ate We can learn a great deal about the lives and social structures of civilizations thousands of years ago by studying what they ate. While actual food remains are few and far between, scientists can rec...

When collagen fails: Zinc isotopes unlock Sumerian lifeways in southern Mesopotamia
phys.org/news/2026-03...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The abstract deadline for the 2026 Connected Past has been extended until March 31!

Sota palasi Libanoniin Noin viikko sitten minä, kuten moni muukin Libanonissa, heräsi aamuyöstä koviin pamauksiin. Vaikka olin unenpöppörössä, ei kestänyt kauan tajuta, mistä oli kyse. Kämppikseni koputti oveeni ja kehotti ...

"Noin viikko sitten minä, kuten moni muukin Libanonissa, heräsi aamuyöstä koviin pamauksiin. Vaikka olin unenpöppörössä, ei kestänyt kauan tajuta, mistä oli kyse."

Harjoittelijamme Venla Lehtinen kertoo Paikan päältä -blogissa tapahtumista ja tunnelmista Libanonissa. Linkki biossa.

5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously thoug...

Latest Treponema genome just dropped: it's 5,500 years old, was found in Colombia, and is a different branch of the evolutionary tree than the strains that cause today's syphilis/yaws/bejel. 🏺🧪

Osteological Database

Incredibly useful resource!

www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers.

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.

I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.

www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

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Badaro Talk: Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics – Suomen Lähi-idän instituutti Please join us on for the next Badaro Talks, presented by the PhD candidate Moustapha Itani. The lecture delves into […]

The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics” by Moustapha Itani takes place on Dec, 11th at 6 pm.

More info and RSVP can be found in FIME's website:
www.fime.fi/tapahtuma/ba...

Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!

Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...

📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh... #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture

Susanne Dahlgren: A long journey in Anthropology of Southern Yemen: From Society to Court Room to... YouTube video by American University of Beirut

FIME's director Susanne Dahlgren is interviewed in the American University of Beirut's podcast Society and Science (العلم والمجتمع)

Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...

Jane Goodall: April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025

Jane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond.

Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.

Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025

Come work with us!🏺
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇

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Badaro Talk 17.9. – Joanna Töyräänvuori: Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History – Suomen Lähi-idän instituutti The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be […]

The lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be given by FIME’s new researcher Joanna Töyräänvuori on Wednesday 17th of September at 6pm at the FIME premises at 30 Badaro Street, Chaoui Building. You can also attend online.

Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention | PNAS Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention

Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️

A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW

#Climate #Health

Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: Evidence from incremental dentine analysis Childhood malnutrition may have led to poor adult health in medieval England and became less common after the Black Death.

This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨

The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology

Deadline for applying: August 22nd

More information on the link below 👇

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...

"Indiana Jones and the curse of the Eduroam login"

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...