Bioarchaeology Postdoc Researcher – Sapienza University, Italy | HigherJobz Fully Funded Bioarchaeology Postdoc Researcher Position at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy – PhD Required | Apply by 25 April 2026

🦷 Bioarchaeology Postdoc Position in Anthropology – Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
🔬 Study dental calculus, and paleopathology from Prehistory to historical periods
🎓 Eligibility: PhD in Anthropology / Archaeology
📅 Deadline: 25 Apr 2026
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#Postdoc #Bioarchaeology

What Sumerian Teeth Reveal About the People History Ignored A new isotopic method unlocks diet and daily life at a third-millennium BCE Iraqi site where conventional analysis has long been impossible.

Cuneiform tablets say Sumerians ate fish. Their teeth say otherwise. New zinc isotope analysis of dental enamel from 4,500-year-old Abu Tbeirah reconstructs diet where collagen has long since vanished. #Bioarchaeology #AncientMesopotamia #IsotopeArchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/what-sumer...

Congenital Syphilis Was Supposed to Be a Reliable Marker. Three Children in Neolithic Vietnam Complicate That. A diagnostic assumption decades in the making may not hold outside western clinical contexts

Three children in Neolithic Vietnam show classic signs of congenital treponematosis — but the evidence points to yaws, not syphilis. A new study challenges a foundational assumption in ancient disease research. #Paleopathology #Treponematosis #Bioarchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/congenital...

Poster presentations at the Paleopathology Association Conference in Denver this year! @christinejlee.bsky.social #PPA #paleopathology #biologicalanthropology #bioarchaeology

Assistant Professor Bioarchaeology - Utah State University | HigherJobz Apply for the fully funded Assistant Professor role in Bioarchaeology at Utah State University, USA. Tenure-track - apply by 10 July 2026.

📢 Assistant Professor in Bioarchaeology
📍 Utah State University, USA
🔬 Focus on bioarchaeology research: demography, disease, conflict & food systems
🎓 Eligibility: PhD in Anthropology or related field
🗓️ Deadline: 10 Jul 2026
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#FacultyJobs #Bioarchaeology

When a Skeleton Lies About Its Age The problem with reading disease from bone is that disease changes the bone you're reading

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...

What a Fractured Skull Can Tell You About How Someone Died A new bioengineering framework helps archaeologists distinguish violent from accidental cranial trauma in the archaeological record.

New bioengineering study on 329 experimental skull impacts offers archaeologists a framework for reading cranial fractures, and distinguishing ancient violence from accidental trauma. Bone thickness and fracture morphology are clues. #Bioarchaeology #ForensicAnthropology #HumanEvolution

A Young Man in the Philippines, 2,000 Years Ago, Was Slowly Coming Apart at the Seams A Metal Period burial at Nagsabaran reveals how scurvy and hip ankylosis combined to reshape one life — and how a community responded.

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...

Lead exposure in the Roman Empire: a review of the written, material, and bioarchaeological evidence | Journal of Roman Archaeology | Cambridge Core Lead exposure in the Roman Empire: a review of the written, material, and bioarchaeological evidence

A new review reassesses lead use and exposure in the Roman world, integrating texts, archaeology, and bioarchaeology. The findings challenge long-held assumptions about poisoned wine and instead highlight everyday domestic sources.

#RomanEmpire #Bioarchaeology #AncientHealth

In today's edition of @diepressecom.bsky.social , I had the great pleasure to present my work in the field of #zooarchaeology in the Young Researchers section:
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Many thanks for the lovely interview! 🙏

#bioarchaeology #science #research #Romanarchaeology

News - Study Suggests the Maya Traded Dogs Over Long Distances - Archaeology Magazine CALGARY, CANADA—According to a statement released by the University of Calgary, Elizabeth Paris of the […]

CALGARY, CANADA—New isotope research suggests the Maya moved dogs over long distances—likely from lowland kingdoms to highland sites in what is now southern Mexico—pointing to robust exchange networks.

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#Archaeology #Maya #Mexico #Bioarchaeology #AncientTrade #Mesoamerica

CT Scans of Inca Child Sacrifices Reveal New Details About Capacocha Rituals What happened to four children on Andean peaks 500 years ago, and what their frozen bodies are still telling us

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...

The Gomolava Massacre: What a 2,800-Year-Old Mass Grave Reveals About Targeted Violence in Prehistoric Europe A new bioarchaeological study of an Early Iron Age burial pit in Serbia finds that the victims were overwhelmingly women and children — and that this was almost certainly not an accident.

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

🦷 A new study by @marinemorvan.bsky.social

High-throughput paleoproteomics method using MALDI-CASI-FTICR mass spectrometry to estimate biological sex from tooth enamel.
Great success on 130 individuals from medieval Great Moravia.

#Bioarchaeology #Archaeology #Proteomics #TooMS 😉 #Teammasspec

Registration is open for the 2026 Jucu de Sus bioarchaeology field school! Go to the website in the poster for more details. I may be making an appearance...please share with anyone who might be interested!

*dissolves into a cloud of bats and flies away *

#archaeology #osteology #bioarchaeology

What Two Neolithic Cemeteries in Hungary Tell Us About How Gender Gets Made Bones and burials from the same microregion, 500 years apart, tell a surprisingly complicated story

Two Neolithic communities, 4km apart, genetically related — and radically different ideas about how gender should be marked in life and death. New bioarchaeology from Hungary is genuinely strange. #Bioarchaeology #Neolithic #Osteology www.anthropology.net/p/what-two-n...

11-02-2026:
Very interesting talk from @pennybickle.bsky.social about LBK burial practices in Neolithic Central Europe. Especially interested by the development of ‘bounded’ cemeteries from settlement burials, and the variation between them!
#BioAnthSeminar #Archaeology #Neolithic #Bioarchaeology

Plague’s Procrustean Bed: Problems in Interdisciplinary Studies of Pre-Modern Disease Research objective(s) Until the 20th century, plague’s (Yersinia pestis) epidemiological history was based on the documentary record, which only captured manifestations visible to humans. Bioarchaeology and paleogenomics can now document plague’s material history, while phylogenetics constructs a theoretical account of plague’s long-term evolution across Eurasia. These new scientific fields have, however, built their narratives of the 2nd and largest plague pandemic—the episode commonly called the Black Death—on the earlier documentary record without acknowledging its inherent limitations. The so-called Quick Transit Theory (QTT) still holds that the entire intercontinental pandemic unfolded within a 10-15 year period before 1346. Materials and Methods This study uses intellectual history methods of history of science and medicine to survey European and Islamic plague historiography (13th to 21st centuries) and pinpoint the moments when chronological markers of the 2nd Plague Pandemic became established. It then examines the intellectual histories of bioarchaeology and paleogenomics to document when and how these markers were adopted into scientific fields. Results. Three junctures are identified when the pandemic’s narrative was defined in decisive ways. Conclusions. Episodes of mass mortality that may predate the 1340s have either not been investigated or been forced into the narrow QTT chronology. Significance Since dating medieval burial sites by archaeological or radiocarbon methods is inherently imprecise, medical-historical methods must be used to assess late 13th and early 14th-century plague events. Limitations. Challenges remain in coordinating dating methods across different disciplines. Future research. Future work should engage with the parallel historical and phylogenetic analyses already pushing plague’s Asian history back into the 13th century. Ethics Statem…

This is the talk I'll be giving at the Paleopathology Association meeting next month. Note the Ethics Statement! #histmed #historiography #bioarchaeology #MedievalSky 🧪🗃️

"It was a sobering experience to identify ever more disarticulated bones and realise the extent of the suffering that had taken place," Grace Grandfield, a Cambridge undergraduate student who took part in the dig

DNA w/help identify if these were Vikings.

#Bioarchaeology #Archaeology #Research

Severed Heads at the Southern Border New skull fragments push the boundaries of an Iron Age ritual in Iberia

New evidence of “severed heads” among Iberian peoples expands the geographic range of an Iron Age ritual beyond the Llobregat River. Skull analysis reveals violence, defleshing, and treatment with pine resin. #IronAge #Bioarchaeology #IberianPeninsula www.anthropology.net/p/severed-he...

Coupling geometric morphometrics and machine learning for mandibular sex estimation in Late Pleistocene and Late Modern populations - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Coupling geometric morphometrics and machine learning for mandibular sex estimation in Late Pleistocene and Late Modern populations

♂️♀️ AI achieves 90% accuracy sex estimation from Ice Age jawbones? #ICArEHB's Ricardo Godinho leads the breakthrough study: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Bioarchaeology #MachineLearning #Palaeoanthropology

Placed in Clay, Remembered in Silence Two fetal burials from prehistoric Iran challenge simple stories about care, loss, and ritual

Two fetal burials from 6,500-year-old Iran show strikingly different treatments despite close proximity. Reused pots, selective offerings, and domestic settings reveal how prehistoric families navigated loss and care. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #Prehistory www.anthropology.net/p/placed-in-...

Milk on the Steppe How mineralized plaque is rewriting the food history of Iron Age Scythians

Milk leaves traces even on the steppe. Iron Age Scythians consumed dairy from cattle, sheep, goats, and sometimes horses, preserved in dental plaque. Proteins tell personal stories. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Bioarchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/milk-on-th...

🧬 #ICArEHB researcher Ricardo Miguel Godinho will present on Virtual Anthropology at the Bioarchaeology Seminar, Univ. of Seville (29 Jan), exploring new approaches to studying and safeguarding human skeletal remains.
#Bioarchaeology #HumanEvolution

An amazing selection of talks & seminars coming up this term. All details available on our website Events page #archaeologicalscience #seminars #world #archaeology #medieval #bioarchaeology #archaeobotany #palaeoclimates #evolution #ancientRome etc. etc. etc.

News - Study Suggests Prehistoric Teenager Survived for Several Months After Lion Attack - Archaeology Magazine SOFIA, BULGARIA—According to a Live Science report, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Bulgarian […]

Excellent article spotlighting Victoria Russeva, a long-time ICORB presenter and contributor. Well done! #Bioarchaeology #RomanBioarchaeology

Read the full piece below ⬇️
"Study Suggests Prehistoric Teenager Survived For Several Months After Lion Attack"
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Uncovering Childhood in the Roman Army: A Perinatal Burial from the Roman Castrum of the Legio VI in León, Spain 🏛️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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#archaeology #bioarchaeology #history #ancientrome

What Ancient Teeth Remember How Iron Age Italians carried childhood stress and daily meals in their smiles

Iron Age teeth from southern Italy reveal childhood stress, fermented foods, and daily survival written in enamel and plaque. A reminder that archaeology starts with bodies, not ruins. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #AncientDiet #IronAge www.anthropology.net/p/what-ancie...

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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...