Wet acidic soils can extract bone mineral, if this osteolytic process reaches the marrow it can simulate the effects of osteomyelitis. However, there will be none of the new bone formation that accompanies osteomyelitis. #archaeology #osteoarchaeology #palaeopathology

Fully Funded PhD in Human Osteoarchaeology – NTNU | HigherJobz Apply for a fully funded PhD in Human Osteoarchaeology at NTNU, Norway. Gain lab experience, research skills, and access museum collections.

🦴 Fully Funded PhD in Human Osteoarchaeology – NTNU, Norway
🔬 Research infant feeding and maternal-infant health using stable isotope analysis and osteology collections
🎓 Eligibility: Master’s in Archaeology / Bioarchaeology

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#PhDJobs #Osteoarchaeology

Research Associate Osteoarchaeology – University of York, UK | HigherJobz Apply for Research Associate in Human Osteoarchaeology at University of York, UK. Fully funded, interdisciplinary research. Deadline 15 April 2026.

🦴 Research Associate in Osteoarchaeology – University of York, UK
🔬 Conduct advanced osteological & palaeopathological research on older adults in prehistoric & Roman Europe.
🎓 Eligibility: PhD
⏰ Deadline: 15 Apr 2026
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#Postdoc #Osteoarchaeology @york.ac.uk

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Wet acidic soils can extract so much bone mineral that the bones resemble those with osteoporosis. This mineral depletion can also lead to bones bowing under soil pressure. #archaeology #osteoarchaeology #taphonomy

Come to #Orkney, you know you want to...
#Archaeology #Osteoarchaeology #Vikings #ThinkUHI

DNA reveals rare dwarfism in teenager who lived in Italy 12,000 years ago...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/01/rare...

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#archaeology #archaeologynews #stoneage #archaeogenetics #osteoarchaeology #anthropology

Osteoarchaeologist Position – AMS Consultancy,Ireland | HigherJobz Apply for a full-time Osteoarchaeologist position at AMS Consultancy, Kilrush, Ireland. Post-graduate degree required. Deadline 30 Jan 2026.

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

The Cost of Blue Stone What a crushed spine in the Atacama Desert reveals about danger, labor, and ancient mining

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...

The Quiet Precision of Bone: How Arrow Points Tell the Story of Late Prehispanic Life in Argentina In the Sierras de Córdoba, bone arrow points reveal a disciplined craft tradition shaped by mobility, kinship, and conflict. A new technological study reframes how prehistoric communities organized.

Bone arrow points from Argentina’s Sierras de Córdoba reveal careful craft traditions, family-based learning, and social signaling in mobile Late Prehispanic communities. Weapons made from guanaco bone carried meaning as well as force. #Archaeology #Osteoarchaeology #SouthAmerica #Prehistory

Since the #Vráble #skeletons have arrived from Nitra, there has been some progress in the #bone department 💀🦴🧹💧📷📐👀 cleaning routine, #photogrammetry & #3Dmodelling are being established!
#humanosteology #osteoarchaeology #neolithic #LBK #vrableneolithicbodies
@clusterroots.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

Associate Lecturer in Archaeology at University of Exeter |HigherJobz Full-time Associate Lecturer in Archaeology at University of Exeter, UK. Teaching and research in osteoarchaeology & forensic anthropology.

Associate Lecturer – University of Exeter, UK
Full-time academic post in #Archaeology
Focus: Human #Osteoarchaeology, Forensic #Anthropology & #Zooarchaeology
Deadline: 12 Nov 2025
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#AcademicJobs #UKJobs #Postdoctoral #ResearchOpportunities @exeter.ac.uk

Presenting this morning at our first CIfA Osteoarchaeology online conference 🤩🤓 @cifaosteoarch.bsky.social
#archaeology #osteoarchaeology

Today we've had @deathrevol.bsky.social with us at @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social as a gest lecturer, talking to students of #Archaeology and #Osteoarchaeology about the origins of human funerary behaviour. Such a pleasure, thank you so much for coming! @cenieh.bsky.social @fatapuerca.bsky.social 💀🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Person stood with seated people at table with bones laid out on table top

Today was our final post-ex day, where we explored #osteoarchaeology.

We took a deep dive into the excavation of the early med. Bowl Hole cemetery, which sits just outside the castle.

This pm we were then joined by osteo, Giselle Kiraly, who taught us the basics of osteoarch.

A fascinating day!

I always forget to post here! I had the absolute pleasure to be part of #BABAO2025 !
Thank you for having me 💖
It was brilliant to catch up with all of you 💀✨🧚‍♀️

#biologicalanthropology #osteoarchaeology #archaeology #labrats #dentalanthropology

Dr Miguel Ángel Moreno-Ibáñez, Teaching Fellow in Human Osteoarchaeology, investigates a 4000-year-old murder case in the Catalan Pyrenees. Read more at edin.ac/4nIdwqZ

#History #Classics #Archaeology #Osteoarchaeology #Edinburgh #HCA #EdinburghUniversity

I had such a great time at the Irchester Field School these past two weeks!
Here's some highlights ✨

I love these guys, thank you @sinskip.bsky.social for having me ❤️❤️❤️

#osteoarchaeology #bones #archaeology

CIfA Human #Osteoarchaeology 2025 conference - #CallForPapers here!👇

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...what lies beneath? Recently our MSc Human #Osteoarchaeology students acquired excavation & recording skills during a mock excavation exercise with plastic replica skeletons ☠️ with the Scottish weather at its best! ☀️ #EdinArch #osteo #archaeology #Scotland #EdinburghUni @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Oooh, I did not know this! #osteoarchaeology #bitemarks #forensics #bioanthropology

Today it has been 1 YEAR since I started my current job as a Teaching Fellow in Human #Osteoarchaeology 💀 at the University of Edinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, a stage full of new things, in which I am still learning. #HappyBirthday to that #TimeFlies! 🎉🫣😱

Bites on gladiator bones first evidence of combat with lion - BBC News Experts say the discovery provides the first physical evidence of gladiatorial combat with animals.

Bites on #gladiator bones prove combat with #lion

#osteoarchaeology #roman

Bones That Spoke: What Prehistoric Body Modifications Reveal About Ancient South Texas Grooved, snapped, notched, and repurposed—human bones from the western Gulf Coast may carry the echoes of war, kinship, and musical ceremony

Carved and transformed human bones from prehistoric South Texas suggest a deep cultural memory—war trophies, ancestor veneration, or echoes of distant civilizations? #Osteoarchaeology #SouthTexas #Prehistory #Anthropology

A Harsh Childhood: Bioarchaeologists Examine Health and Survival in the Pre-Columbian Andes Life and Death in a Changing World

Children at Quebrada Chupacigarro (500–400 BCE) suffered high mortality due to malnutrition and disease. Researchers are investigating whether this pattern was common across the ancient Andes. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #AndeanHistory #AncientPeru #Osteoarchaeology

The 15yo has been doing anatomical and skeletal art for his GCSE, and is enthusiastically flicking through my osteology and anatomy textbooks from my MSc days. 💀

I knew they'd be useful again someday! 😂

#archaeology #osteoarchaeology #parenting #GCSEs

The physico-chemical characteristics of bone mineral remain heavily debated. On the nanoscale, bone mineral resides both inside and outside the collagen fibril as distinct compartments fused together into a cohesive continuum. On the micrometre level, larger aggregates are arranged in a staggered pattern described as crossfibrillar tessellation. Unlike geological and synthetic hydroxy(l)apatite, bone mineral is a unique form of apatite deficient in calcium and hydroxyl ions with distinctive carbonate and acid phosphate substitutions (CHAp), together with a minor contribution of amorphous calcium phosphate as a surface layer around a crystalline core of CHAp. In mammalian bone, an amorphous solid phase has not been observed, though an age-dependent shift in the amorphous-to-crystalline character is observed. Although octacalcium phosphate has been postulated as a bone mineral precursor, there is inconsistent evidence of calcium phosphate phases other than CHAp in the extracellular matrix. In association with micropetrosis, magnesium whitlockite is occasionally detected, indicating pathological calcification rather than a true extracellular matrix component. Therefore, the terms ‘biomimetic’ or ‘bone-like’ should be used cautiously in descriptions of synthetic biomaterials. The practice of reporting the calcium-to-phosphorus ratio (Ca/P) as proxy for bone mineral maturity oversimplifies the chemistry since both Ca2+ and PO43- ions are partially substituted. Moreover, non-mineral sources of phosphorus are ignored. Alternative compositional metrics should be considered. In the context of bone tissue and bone mineral, the term ‘mature’ must be used carefully, with clear criteria that consider both compositional and structural parameters and the potential impact on mechanical properties.

🔥Hot off the press🔥 "Revisiting the physical and chemical nature of the mineral component of bone" 🦴🔬
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#bone #biomaterials #apatite #mineral #biomineralization #collagen #calcium #phosphate #hydroxyapatite #osteocyte #biology #medicine #osteology #osteoarchaeology

Analysis of butchered bones suggests violent ‘othering’ of enemies in A study led by the University of Oxford has uncovered the largest-scale example of interpersonal violence from British prehistory. At least 37 individuals from Early Bronze Age England were found to

We closed 2024 as the lead item on the CNN Science round up with our stocking filler research paper on Bronze Age cannibals in Britain. 🎁🎄🦴💀
Hard to imagine how we can top that kind of festive cheer ever again. #prehistory #BronzeAge #osteoarchaeology www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-12...

Analysis of butchered bones suggests violent ‘othering’ of enemies in A study led by the University of Oxford has uncovered the largest-scale example of interpersonal violence from British prehistory. At least 37 individuals from Early Bronze Age England were found to

Try as I might, there is no way to make this research story seasonally festive @RickSchulting. Cannibalism in Early Bronze Age England @AntiquityJ #prehistory #archaeology #osteoarchaeology

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Image shows Jessica pictured outside the Lanyon Building wearing her PhD graduation gown which is purple, blue and red.

Image shows Jessica pictured outside the Lanyon Building wearing her PhD graduation gown which is purple, blue and red. She is pictured alongside another graduand and a family member.

When Jess began her research into people who faced mobility challenges in medieval Ireland, she never imagined that she’d be in their shoes, until a serious #Motorbike accident.

Today she graduated with a #PhD in #Osteoarchaeology.

Congrats, Dr White!

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#LoveQUB #LoveQUBGrad

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#archaeology #osteoarchaeology
#bioarchaeology