🧵ASP #SundaySpotlight is back with the lovely and brilliant Afaf Wahba! Afaf is a bioarchaeology specialist, meaning she studies skeletal remains to illuminate such incredible detail about people from the past, bringing them to life in distinctive and compelling ways.
A 2,000-year-old burial in the Philippines is rewriting what we know about scurvy in tropical Southeast Asia — and what ancient communities owed their most vulnerable members. #Paleopathology #HumanEvolution #Bioarchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/a-young-ma...
How old was this skeleton, really? A new paper argues that disease alters the very bone markers used to estimate age at death — creating a methodological loop few researchers have addressed head-on. #Paleopathology #Bioarchaeology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-ske...
A clean, professional agenda for the morning of Finds Fest. At the top, the title reads "Finds Fest Morning Agenda." The timeline includes: 9:30 Registration, refreshments, and icebreaker activity; 10:00 Welcome and Introduction; 10:15 A session on Historic England’s Archaeology Mentoring Partnerships; 10:40 "First Aid for Finds" talk; 11:15 A Keynote session featuring a structured interview with a panel of finds practitioners; and 12:30 Lunch (included). The CIfA, SLR, and Historic England logos are at the bottom.
A clean, professional agenda for the afternoon of Finds Fest. At the top, the title reads "Finds Fest Afternoon Agenda." The afternoon schedule is presented in a pink and white table. From 1:15 to 4:00 PM, the session includes an introduction, four 30-minute themed discussion topics, an AMP Peer Session, poster displays, "Thoughts on FAFF" (First Aid For Finds), and a marketplace where attendees can meet specialists. A break is scheduled at 2:45 PM. The day concludes at 4:00 PM with closing remarks and the announcement of poster competition winners, with the event closing at 4:15 PM. The CIfA, SLR, and Historic England logos are at the bottom.
🏺 The Ultimate Finds Fest Roadmap is HERE!
From expert insights to hands-on handling, the full schedule for Finds Fest 2026 is officially live.
🎟️ Book your spot now via tinyurl.com/FindsFest
#FindsFest2026
#Archaeology
#MaterialCulture
#HistoricEngland
#CIfA
#SpecialistTraining
Digging into digital
#archaeology
www.the-ies.org/events/eia-c...
🦴🌱 Sheffield RICHeS Bioarchaeology Collections Open Days!
🌾 Archaeobotany: 10 & 24 Feb; 10 & 24 Mar; 14 & 28 Apr; 12 & 26 May
🦴 Zooarchaeology: 17 Feb; 3, 17 & 31 Mar; 21 Apr; 5 & 19 May
To book contact us at:
Archaeobotany → c.longford@sheffield.ac.uk
Zooarchaeology → l.salvagno@sheffield.ac.uk
Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a 'giant' who'd had brain surgery www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Vikings! Bioarchaeology! Artefacts!
New publication from Steve Ashby, Gareth Perry, Alexandre Lucquin, Oliver Craig and Anita Radini at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social shows culinary differences between Viking-Age England and Denmark.
www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...
A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia holds 77 people, most of them women and children. New aDNA, isotope, and trauma analysis suggests this wasn't random — it was targeted. A thread on what prehistoric violence really looked like. #Bioarchaeology #AncientDNA #IronAge
CT scans of four Inca children sacrificed ~500 years ago on Andean volcanoes reveal blunt force trauma, possible disease, and a body partially rebuilt with textiles after burial. The ritual didn’t end at death. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #IncaEmpire www.anthropology.net/p/ct-scans-o...
We investigated one of Europe’s largest prehistoric single-event mass graves, combining osteology, isotopes, archaeogenetics, chronology, and archaeological context to understand who these people were and what happened to them. Illustrations by Sara Nylund.
Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve?
What adaptations underlie them? And how did the evolution of human physical activity affect other key human characteristics that have advanced our species? 🏺🧪
Anglo-Saxon-era skeletons discovered in England show signs of violent deaths. The pit dates back 1200 years and may be evidence of battle or execution in 8th/9th century AD. #Archaeology #News
Done :)
Osteoarchaeologist – AMS Consultancy, Ireland
Full-time post-excavation archaeology role specialising in human skeletal analysis.
Eligibility: Relevant post-graduate degree in archaeology.
Deadline: 30 January 2026
Apply: higherjobz.com/osteoarchaeo...
#ArchaeologyJobs #Osteoarchaeology #IrelandJobs
CT scans of a 1,100 year old mummy from Chile reveal death by mine collapse. A rare look at the risks ancient miners faced to extract turquoise traded across the Andes. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Osteoarchaeology #AncientMining #Atacama www.anthropology.net/p/the-cost-o...
BABAO statement on the 10-Minute Rule Bill outlawing the buying and selling of human remains to be introduced in the House of Commons by MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy on Wednesday 4th Feb.
Read here👉babao.org.uk/bill-to-stop-barbaric-pr...
We are running a 1 day short course all about teeth 🦷
Come join us on the 14th March at the Cambridge Campus
store.anglia.ac.uk
#archaeology #bones #osteology
Haha love this 😀
I updated the archaeology 🏺 job sites directory again today and moved it to Zenodo. You can now find it here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Person looking into a stereomicroscope, holding a stone axe under its lens.
Do you want to publish on a fieldwork discovery, innovative use of technology, or ongoing project?
Project Galleries are 1500 words, online only, and free to read, making them perfect for showcasing research of broad relevance 🏺 #Archaeology
Submit one 👇
antiquity.ac.uk/submit
Scientists managed to extract a high-coverage genome of an extinct woolly rhino from an undigested piece of its flesh found in the stomach of a permafrost-preserved 14kyo wolf pup. 🧪🏺
Bar chart showing percentage prevalence rates of palaeopathological changes, such as dental enamel hypoplasia and bone infections, in non-adult skeletons from southern Britain, separated into three datasets based on whether the skeletons were found in Iron Age, rural Roman or urban Roman contexts.
The health of a mother during pregnancy has a profound effect on their child's health. By examining mother and infant skeletons from Iron Age & Roman Britain, Rebecca Pitt explores the long-term impact of Roman occupation on health #WaybackWednesday
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
We are running a 1 day short course all about teeth 🦷
Come join us on the 14th March at the Cambridge Campus
store.anglia.ac.uk
#archaeology #bones #osteology
Still in a boot but can start weaning off it and the crutches 🩼(slowly) woohoo🤩
Who doesn't love a talk on infectious diseases 🤩
The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories
Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses 13 Jan. 2026 5 PM CET=11 AM EST online lecture @monicamedhist.bsky.social csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social
Non-British ECR interested in working with me on #bioarchaeology, the @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowship scheme will shortly open. V keen on Egyptian bioarchaeology, human evo or #disAbility research 🏺www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/internat...
Poster showing a photo of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. team in the field, lecture title Recovery and identification of WWII aircraft wreckages - insights into the work of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. and place/date of talk, logos of VolkswagenStiftung, BoCAS and Uni Bonn
Our first talk in the new year takes us into WWII archaeology: Jörg Dietsche and Julian Weller present the work of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. This Friday, 4PM in HS 2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
