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Alex Burnett @archaeoalex.bsky.social · 8d

Really excited to share the preprint for @halbevi.bsky.social and I’s new paper! Lithic tools from the Mesolithic and Neolithic were analysed with palaeoproteomics, use-wear, radiocarbon and optical microscopy residue analyses to find evidence of bovine butchery!

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 9d

Palaeoproteomics reveals bovine carcass processing with 6,000-year-old flint tools https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679186v1

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · 20d

Vacature praktijkassistent Oude Nabije Oosten (20%) ⛏️🐐

Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeologie van het Oude Nabije Oosten? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature:

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Praktijkassistent Oude Nabije Oosten

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · 20d

Vacature praktijkassistent archeobotanie (20%) 🌿🔬

Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeobotanie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature:

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Praktijkassistent Archeobotanie

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · 20d

Vacature praktijkassistent archeometrie (20%) 🥼🔬

Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen archeometrie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature:

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Praktijkassistent Archeometrie

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · 20d

Vacature praktijkassistent fysische antropologie (20%)🦴💀

Zin om ons team te versterken tijdens praktijklessen fysische antropologie? Bekijk dan zeker deze vacature: jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Pra...

Praktijkassistent Fysische antropologie

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎉 Colleague dr. Possum Pincé was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her FROST project ❄️. she and her team will look at the impact of climate events, namely the Younger Dryas, on prehistoric societies by studying in detail natural archives and refining site chronologies. www.ugent.be/en/news-even...

No fewer than seven new ERC Starting Grants for Ghent University researchers

This year, seven young Ghent University researchers will receive an ERC Starting Grant. This grant will enable them to expand their research group and conduct groundbreaking research. Ghent University...

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Aug 26

Vanaf vandaag kan je Mos'anne en de tentoonstelling "Face to Face with Prehistory" bewonderen in het Gallo-Romeins Museum in Tongeren!
Wil je meer weten over de wetenschappelijke achtergrond? Lees dan het volledige verhaal 👉 www.roam-ugent.be/fullstory
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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Aug 21

Are you confronted with human remains during fieldwork, research, museum curation or your studies? Do you want to learn about the information skeletal remains can give? 🦴🧪
Then @archeosugent.bsky.social's one-week, hands-on course on Human Osteology is perfect for you! More info and registration 👇

Human Osteology | Humanities Academie

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Glauke Wylin @glauke-wylin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Back from the Malcolm H. Wiener Lab in Athens after the first steps in data collection for my PhD project! 🦴 We looked through all the skeletal remains from Lavrio to get first insights into the demographics, health and activities and prepare the sampling procedures. Stay tuned for CT-scanning soon!

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Aug 18

Go have a look at @tristande3.bsky.social first paper: "Archaeofaunal record of the Lower to early Middle Palaeolithic in Belgium" 👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z6QTW...

And stay tuned for many more exciting results!

Tristan Dedrie @tristande3.bsky.social · Aug 14

Paper alert 🦣
Archaeofaunal record of the Lower to early Middle Palaeolithic in Belgium

The first of many to come on the fauna associated with the earliest hominin presence in Belgium.

Read the article now at: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z6QTW...

Funding: @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social (FWO)

Archaeofaunal record of the Lower to early Middle Palaeolithic in Belgium

New perspectives and developments prompted a reassessment of the Belgian Lower and Early Middle Palaeolithic record from a bioarchaeological perspective. Focus rests on the review of the faunal ass...

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Maxime Poulain @mpoulain.bsky.social · Aug 12

Medieval Bruges: come for the art, stay for the parasites. 🏰

Our new study of a 15th-century apothecary and Spanish traders uncovers a city brimming with global goods: silks, spices, perfume sprinklers, olives, rice… and yes, an African parasite.

📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/0076...

At the Apothecary: Life in an International District in 15th-Century Bruges

IN 1996, A CESSPIT was uncovered in the backyard of Bruges’ Spanish nation house. The interdisciplinary study of this old rescue excavation sheds new light on life in the city’s international distr...

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Aug 12

Met droefheid melden wij het overlijden van Jacques Semey op 6/08/25. Jacques was piloot en archeoloog, bekend om zijn collectie archeologische luchtfoto’s. Sinds de jaren 80 werkte hij samen met de UGent en andere archeologische diensten. We wensen zijn vrienden, familie en collega's sterkte toe.

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ROAM- Regional Outlook on Ancient Migration @roam-ugent.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fantastic news!

After two weeks of public voting, the Mesolithic woman found in Grotte Margaux has a name: Mos’anne!

Come and visit her in one of your neighbouring museums.
Mos’anne is awaiting you!

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Museum | ROAM-UGENT

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ROAM- Regional Outlook on Ancient Migration @roam-ugent.bsky.social · Jun 16

Meet the Lady from Grotte Margaux! How should we name her? Join the vote ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
📸 copyright 2025: roam-ugent

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Jun 16

📣Job opening: funded PhD position 📣
Interested in Finale Paleolithic and Mesolithic lithic assemblages in the Belgian Meuse Valley and their evolution across time?
Apply before the 27th of June 2025 to be part of an interesting project! All information in the link below www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Doctoral fellow

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Apr 29

Wil je nog meer weten over de baby in het Aalsters bordeel? Neem dan zeker eens een kijkje naar dit vrt artikel 👉 www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Een baby in een Aalsters bordeel: hoe nieuw onderzoek het beeld over middeleeuwse prostituees weer wat bijkleurt | VRT NWS: nieuws

Een middeleeuwse prostituee in Aalst heeft haar baby wellicht met veel zorg proberen groot te brengen, zo leert archeologisch onderzoek met nieuwe technieken op een bijna 30 jaar oude vondst. Het baby...

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Apr 27

📜 Nieuw artikel: “Born in a brothel: new perspectives on childcare with medieval sex workers”
Maxime Poulain, Jessica Palmer (UGent) en Céline Bon (Musée de l’Homme, Parijs) onderzoeken het skelet van een baby, gevonden in een 14e-eeuws bordeel in Aalst.

👉 Volledige artikel: rdcu.be/eh4Lj

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Apr 23

A team from the UGent (Prof. Maud Devolder) participated to the study of the limestone quarries exploited for the construction of the 4th c. BC Temple of Apollo in Delphi. The project 'Stone in Delphi' is directed by Prof. Amélie Perrier (Orléans University) for the EFA.
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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Apr 5

Deze week bevonden onze BA3 studenten zich in Athene en omstreken. In het kader van het vak Buitenlands Veldwerk bezochten en presenteerden ze enkele prachtige sites en musea en breidden zo hun kennis uit over antieke tempels, theaters, funeraire cultuur, verdedigingswerken en zo veel meer. 🏛️☀️🏺

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Maxime Poulain @mpoulain.bsky.social · Mar 25

Al gehoord van Monnikerede of Hoeke? Het zijn nochtans wereldsteden, of eerder, dat waren ze. Lees alles over hun op- en ondergang en die van de andere Zwinsteden in onze bijdrage voor de 'Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen', vanaf vandaag in de boekhandel! 📚 met @jtrachet.bsky.social en Wim De Clercq

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ArcheOs UGent @archeosugent.bsky.social · Jan 31

Maxime Poulain and @idegroote.bsky.social from @archeougent.bsky.social presenting their research at Les journées de la Societe d’antropologie de Paris @museedelhomme.fr

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Jan 31

In particular, the fieldwork project in the Potenza Valley (Le Marche, Italy) became groundbreaking through its combination of non-invasive prospections and excavations.

We thank him for his many years of tireless efforts and wish him all the best for the future!

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Jan 31

He transitioned from fieldwork in rainy Flanders to various projects in the more sunny western Mediterranean (Italy, Corsica, Portugal). He published numerous articles and books on various topics such as #urbanization and #settlement-archaeology, #geoarchaeology and #landscape-archaeology.

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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent @archeougent.bsky.social · Jan 31

After a career of 42 years, colleague Frank Vermeulen, professor of Roman-Mediterranean archaeology, will retire on Feb 1.

Prof. Vermeulen obtained his PhD at #UGent with a thesis on Roman habitation in sandy Flanders, and afterwards specialized in Roman-Mediterranean archaeology.

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ROAM- Regional Outlook on Ancient Migration @roam-ugent.bsky.social · Jan 30

Dr. Maïté Rivollat presented the ROAM project on the genetic analysis of #Mesolithic and #Neolithic people from Belgium at the annual meeting of the Societe d’antropologie de Paris held this year at the @museedelhomme.fr @archeosugent.bsky.social @archeougent.bsky.social

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