Really exciting, large scale, isotope data paper for medieval Britain!

🌟New OA Publication🌟 doi.org/10.1086/738364 🧪🏰 "Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article" in @medievalacademy.bsky.social w @janetekay.bsky.social & an awesome team of ECR #WomeninSTEM 🧵⬇️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social

We are grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for funding Sam Leggett’s work on this article as part of ArchaeoFINS (Grant No.: ECF-2021-467), as well as to the Princeton University Humanities Council for funding Open Access APC and color printing costs through part of a David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Grant.

We present short synopses of exciting new interdisciplinary projects in biomolecular archaeology, as well as predictions on how the field is changing and the benefits for such developments for other related realms of research.

Our team of early career women scholars includes historian and archaeologist Janet E. Kay (Princeton University); osteoarchaeologist Alexandra Johnson (Forensic Access Group); Eleanor Farber (University of St. Andrews); Megan Fry (University of Cincinnati) and Sam Leggett (University of Edinburgh)

Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1

Our team is delighted to announce the Open Access publication of our illustrated article on Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies in the medieval studies journal Speculum. It is intended not only as a research review article, but also as a teaching tool, so please share widely!

2025 Magnus Magnusson Prize Winner Announced - Scottish Society for Northern Studies Congratulations to Amanda Boeing, who has been awarded this year's Magnus Magnusson Essay Prize

The Society is happy to announce Amanda Boeing as the winner of the 2025 Magnusson Prize! She received the award for her insightful comparative essay on the Battle of Brunanburh poem and Egill Skalla-Grímsson's Höfuðlausn.

Many congratulations to Amanda!

Including a round table discussion on migration: online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article/...

Interested in learning more about how paleogenomics and biomolecular archaeology are changing the way we write late antique history? Check out the fantastic series of articles in this recent issue of Studies in Late Antiquity

Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press

New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4 Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity @ucpress.bsky.social @janetekay.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social @r-c-jackson.bsky.social

New book on early medieval medicine coming down the line: boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...

🤣 IYKYK… Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🧙

Thank you, Clare!!

Brand new podcast appearance on Infectious Historians! We discussed our team’s recent burial archaeology article in Speculum, as well as the methods and applications of bioarchaeology

Episode 135 – Avian Flu with Natalie Porter, Infectious Historians Marian Devotion and Plague in Late Medieval Italy with Bianca Lopez Episode 134 - March 7, 2025 Bianca Lopez (Southern Methodist University) joins the...

New timely episode (#135 for those of you keeping track) on "Avian Flu." Lee and I talked to Natalie Porter about her work on outbreaks in Vietnam as an anthropologist and also her move to a non-academic career. Listen: infectioushistorians.com/2025/04/13/a....

Also, gotta love that the Atlantean language was invented by the same person who invented Klingon (I’m deep in a Wikipedia dive at this point)

Watching Disney’s Atlantis for the first time in probably a decade. As an archaeologist and historian familiar with both Iceland and Ireland, I am blown away by how well-researched this movie is (they even utilized the fact that Iceland is volcanic). I wish I had known this as a kid!

The SSNS logo in white against a blue background

With vol. 55 of our journal, Northern Studies, having been out for a little while, you can now read the previous volume (54) for free in Open Access! 🔓

www.ssns.org.uk/journal/nort...

To friends and colleagues in #archaeology, @naturecities.bsky.social is looking for articles that combine archaeology and history! 6k word limit, more details at website. Submit and/or spread the word! www.nature.com/natcities/

Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before Contested discovery achieved by experiment firing laser pulses into eyes, stimulating retina cells

Reminds me very much of Jasper Fforde’s excellent novels, he was onto something!

@jasperfforde.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Worth reading this thread in full. The only thing I can see positively is that at least the Guardian didn't write about the even more problematic idea in the article that connected this one event to the "fall" of Rome 100 years later. But, anyway, huge problems.

Stone Age tombs for Irish royalty aren't what they seem, new DNA analysis reveals A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

DNA and tomb styles suggest they might have been communal rather than dynastic burial spots. 🧪🏺

Marian Devotion and Plague in Late Medieval Italy

New Episode alert: "Marian Devotion and Plague in Late Medieval Italy." Lee and I spoke with Bianca Lopez (SMU) about her book on plague, piety and power in late medieval Italy. A great convo on Santa Maria di Loreto & the impact of the Black Death. Listen: infectioushistorians.com/2025/03/07/m...

Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 on jobs.ac.uk!

New job at Oxford - do please share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

Congratulations to ‪‪Merle Eisenberg‬ ‪@merleeisenberg.bsky.social‬
on winning yesterday's contest for best map for teaching the Carolingian Empire! The image will be featured in a gallery on the MAFE website with any commentary Merle would like to append to it.

An invaluable guide for scholars stifled by the traditional academic route

An invaluable guide for scholars stifled by the traditional academic route.

Ilana M. Horwitz's The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond is out now.

Explore a free sample and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A new book just published by Ian Wood; it may not have a fancy cover but I'll bet it'll be good and useful. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists unearth a 3,600-year-old tomb from the lost Abydos dynasty | Penn Today The excavation will continue through 2025, which includes protection, site management, and conservation of the structures. "This discovery is a new window to understanding the origins of the enigmatic...

Exciting discovery at Abydos! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-mu...

Norse Heaven is a place on Earth The Iron age site of Gudme, home of the gods

#ironage #medievalsky #scandinavia