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Dr Barbara Veselka
@osteolady.bsky.social
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Bioarchaeologist with a focus on human remains, burnt and unburnt. Particularly interested in palaeopathology (vitamin D deficiency) and mobility studies.
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Anneminne Frère @anneminnefrere.bsky.social · Apr 30
Huge thanks to my brilliant co-authors! ❤️‍🔥@tloeffelmann.bsky.social @osteolady.bsky.social @elliestam.bsky.social @toothdetective.bsky.social @christophe-fire.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social (6/6)
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Apr 4
Celebrate life peeps, it too short not to!
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Mar 27
It was hard work…what can I say…..🤣
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Mar 25
📞 Ypres calling! Special delivery📦🚚

Barbara, Martijn, and Charlotte visited the BAAC depot last Friday and collected the first batch of skeletons from the Sint-Maarten parish in Ypres🦴

But who were these medieval city-dwellers, and where did they come from..?🧪💀

Like for part 2?🤔

#Sr&O #osteology
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Mar 12
Always wondered what those tiny things are? Check out this amazing paper by @rosaliehermans.bsky.social and colleagues!
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Mar 12
Great work by @rosaliehermans.bsky.social and team on developing an expanded baseline for NW Europe 🌱🔬🔥
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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Mar 12
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
(1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species.

If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Feb 25
Let’s explore the prehistoric landscapes of the Netherlands: enjoy our open access article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lively landscapes: Sex- and age-related differences in diet and land use characterising a Late Bronze-Early Iron Age community from Tilburg, the Netherlands
The Late Bronze-Early Iron Age (LBA-EIA)urnfield of Tilburg-Udenhoutseweg yielded 229 cremation graves with various features.This large cemetery is a …
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Feb 13
Sooo yeah….we totally own your furniture…
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Feb 6
Student Information Day: convincing students to come to study Archaeological Science at the VUB! @amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Feb 4
Fantastic paper on Medieval Ypres. Great job Rachel Spros and the rest of the team!
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SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social · Feb 4
Ypres was one of 13th-century Europe’s economic powerhouses. Bart Lambert’s MOTC project drew on isotopic analyses of human skeletons to reconstruct mobility patterns of its inhabitants. Their new paper discusses evidence of regional, female and children’s mobility.
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Mobility in a medieval industrial city: an isotopic study of skeletal evidence from 13th -14th century Ypres (Belgium) - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Mobility to and from cities represents an essential aspect of urban development in Flanders (Belgium) during the second half of the Middle Ages (AD 1000 – AD 1500). The city of Ypres was situated in o...
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 28
Sunrise at the Nile (with courtesy of Bob Mittelstaedt)
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Jan 23
Great work @jbioarch.bsky.social, @toothdetective.bsky.social, @isotopistrachel.bsky.social, @carinagerritzen.bsky.social, @philippeclaeys.bsky.social, @christophe-fire.bsky.social, @chrischeung.bsky.social, @osteolady.bsky.social, Prof Steven Goderis, Dr. Teresa Fernández-Crespo & Dr. Javier Ordoño
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 23
Awesome job @jbioarch.bsky.social and team!!!
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Jacob I. Griffith @jbioarch.bsky.social · Jan 23
Today my new paper was published in Plos One. High-resolution Neolithic life history reconstructions using Incremental dentine, bone collagen, and multi-enamel sampling! I'm really pleased with this one

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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain
Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recent...
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SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social · Jan 21
"‘Plain and Old’: Why Did Paintings Go out of Fashion?" is the new article by SHOC member Bas Spliet! His freshly published work is now available to read at the link below:
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'Plain and Old': Why Did Paintings Go out of Fashion? | TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economi...
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 20
Indeed! I ended up playing just Blitzball for a while. This game is addictive!
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 19
OMG! We just recently bought FFX again. Brings back so many memories!!!!
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 18
Westbank shrines 😍
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 12
My new office for the next three weeks: researching New Kingdom skeletons at Gebel el-Silsila, Egypt @amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 11
I can get used to this view 😍
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 10
From snow to sand and sun 🥳
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Jan 9
On my way to trade this scenery:
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Jan 8
PhD opportunity 🏺
🎓 @Aarhus_Uni: "Cradles of Agrodiversity in Northern Europe"

Explore pre-Roman agriculture using soil science & bio-archaeology. Perfect for Geoscience/Archaeology grads.

Start: May 2025
Apply by: Feb 1, 2025
Info: [email protected]

#PhDPosition #Archaeology #Research
The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Dec 18
Apparently an AI generated photograph, but still…..awaiting the White Walkers?
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Dec 14
Archaeobotany practical. Thank you Frits and Annette! @amgc-vub.bsky.social @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Dec 12
Ready for the launch ?
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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Dec 11
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) is a two-year archaeological research project, in partnership between UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
(photos variously by CEAMC, John Sunderland, Conor McDermott, NMS)
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Dr Barbara Veselka @osteolady.bsky.social · Dec 11
Great achievement Amanda and team!
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Dec 11
The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!

Paper here👇
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Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
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