I’m excited to announce the recent publication of our article in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences:

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A huge thank you to my co-authors: Anna Cohen, Sacha Kacki, Yilmaz Erdal, Christopher Knüsel and @elineschotsmans.bsky.social .

I very much enjoyed delivering last week's bone practical. Who recognises the different species?!

Lovely to be at Hacettepe University to collaborate with our lovely Turkish colleagues and interact with the students in Biological Anthropology about archaeothanatology and funerary practices @pisanthro.bsky.social @demetdelibas.bsky.social @uowenvirofutures.bsky.social

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...

New paper out with two of our colleagues: wonderful results from the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük showing female lineages and changing kinship patterns. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congratulations Christopher J. Knüsel and @elineschotsmans.bsky.social for this long-term effort!

Assessing Histotaphonomy: A Pilot Study Using Image Analysis for Quantitative Scoring of Bone Diagenesis This pilot study focusses on improving the methodological approach of histotaphonomy by integrating image analysis software for assessing bone diagenesis in both bone histological sections and microc....

📢Have a look at our latest paper on histotaphonomy in collaboration with colleagues from @pacea.bsky.social 🦴Very proud of PhD student Lolita Trenchat! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#publicoutreach in collaboration with a great Belgian audio-team making a podcast about human body #decomposition related to the upcoming #Vesalius museum from @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and UZ Leuven

Conferences play a critical role in academic & prof. development of students. Despite the negative impact of #UOW travel ban (+ its many other neg decisions) my two students Alexandra🥇& Lolita 🥈received the 1st and 2nd Student Presentation Prize at the #ASHB2024 Conference🏆

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@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
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Very sad news. A towering figure over decades and one of the true archaeology intellectuals. We we colleagues at Cambridge Arch & Anth for many years and he managed to uniquely combine friendliness, kindness and geneality with imperial style. End of an era stretching back to the 1960s.

The NEOMATRIX team came together in Paris for the AGRIPOP exhibition and symposium, describing how the neolithization spread from Anatolia to Europe. To learn more about our 4-year international scientific collaboration project NEOMATRIX, please visit: neomatrix.metu.edu.tr