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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · 5d

Brown bears participated in Roman spectacles, read more in our latest paper! @lpcg.bsky.social #BaBBe

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 5d

At the Roman legionary fortress and provincial capital of Viminacium, modern Serbia, was an amphitheatre #RomanFortThursday
Analysis of a bear cranium found there provides the first direct evidence for the participation of brown bears in Roman spectacles.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Aerial photograph of modern farmland, divided into different-coloured, rectilinear fields. Overlaid are diagrams indicating the boundaries of the city and legionary fortress, as well as an illustration of a circular building representing the amphitheatre in its location.

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Lindsay Powell FRHistS @lindsaypowell.bsky.social · Sep 14

"According to a study published in @antiquity.ac.uk, the skull belonged to a six-year old brown bear from the Balkans, who chewed on the bars of its cage between fights against gladiators."
#AncientBluesky
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

The Skull of an Ancient Brown Bear Tells a Story of Brutality and Abuse at the Hands of Roman Entertainers

The bear was caught in the Balkans and caged for years to perform in an amphitheater

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'm also glad to have met you - see you here and at the next conference! 😀

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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · Jul 22

#SMBE2025 in Beijing and @lpcg.bsky.social is here to present our work on small and big mammals! Come to poster sessions 1 and 3 to learn more. #BaBE

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 9

New paper 🧵

A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬

The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!

👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Pictures of a woolly mammoth molar dated to 216kya. The earliest in North America.

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Apr 10

Did llamas make it to southeast South America before Europeans? 🦙

Our manuscript used #archaeology, isotopes, and palaeogenomics #aDNA to find out 🦙🦴🧬

In summary, nope. Just guanacos hanging on into early historical times.

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kvQy,rVDB...

Reposts appreciated 😁

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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · Feb 24

We are seeking a PhD student to join our team on an exciting new project focused on the study of brown bears in the Balkans. If you’re interested in ancient DNA and wildlife conservation, come to work with us! @lpcg.bsky.social #NCN #OPUS27 #ancientDNA
www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

www.uw.edu.pl

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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · Apr 2

#ECM9 is ongoing, and we are here, the first conference of the #BaBBe project! We will be discussing our new project and hope to meet new collaborators and to get new samples for the analysis! Stay tuned!

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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · Feb 24

We are seeking a PhD student to join our team on an exciting new project focused on the study of brown bears in the Balkans. If you’re interested in ancient DNA and wildlife conservation, come to work with us! @lpcg.bsky.social #NCN #OPUS27 #ancientDNA
www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

www.uw.edu.pl

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is going to be good!

Free conference from @aarc-community.bsky.social

AaRConference 2025
30 May 2025 Online

Laurent Frantz (LMU) and Evon Hekkala (Fordham University) are headlining.

Abstracts opening soon

www.animal-adna.org/events/2025/...

AaRConference 2025 · AaRC

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