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Elisavet Stamataki

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FWO Vlaaderen PhD researcher in archaeology #VUB #CRUMBEL🔥 archaeological sciences🧪 Radiocarbon dating 🦴⏳ osteology&palaeopathology💀🦴 funerary practices🏺🔥⚰️ experimental archaeology⚒️

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Nov 29

Hello everyone! Let me introduce myself 🙋🏼‍♀️

I am from Greece 🇬🇷 but I live in Belgium🇧🇪I am a joint PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Université libre de Bruxelles. For my PhD I investigate how cremation was performed in past societies using infrared and isotope analyses.

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎉 Thrilled to share our new paper just published in @PLOSONE!

In this study we explored how weather & seasonality impact cremation conditions using experimental archaeology, FTIR-ATR, and isotope analysis.

👉 Read it here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · May 25

@elliestam.bsky.social talked about how seasonality affects the cremation environment ❄️🌸☀️🍁, and what happens when bone reaches extremely high temperatures 🌡️🔥🦴

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

The dating of Fouches to the Early Roman period could potentially explain that Roman cremation expertise was not immediately widespread but rather transferred gradually to the edges of the Roman Empire.

Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

The evidence from Fouches suggests a gradual transition from the Metal Ages to Roman cremation practices.

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

Finally, the Gallo-Roman cemetery of Fouches is particularly interesting, as it dates to the Early Roman period and presents similarities in ventilation conditions with the cemeteries from the Metal Ages instead of the other Gallo-Roman cemeteries.

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

Differences were also observed in cremation conditions between the Metal Ages and the Gallo-Roman cremations from Belgium, with Roman cremations presenting better oxygen availability during combustion.

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

However, high variability in δ13C and δ18O values indicates differences in fuel selection and environmental factors.

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

The results suggest similar pyre structure, size, temperature, and body positioning across Gallo-Roman cremations.

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

This study assesses cremation conditions in the Roman period using a multi-proxy analysis (FTIR-ATR and carbon and oxygen isotope analysis) on 332 burned bones from five Belgian Gallo-Roman cemeteries.

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Apr 22

Paper Alert 🔥
Want to learn more about Roman cremations?
Can’t sleep because you keep thinking about how the Romans burned their dead?
Then don't miss our latest paper & download it for free here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzX5,rVDBnN…

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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! 📩

Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline

AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Jan 23

New paper out by @jbioarch.bsky.social on Legaire Sur (Álava, Spain), a Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic transition burial tomb. This period was a time of notable population expansion, technological advancement, as well as social and economic change.

Isotopic analysis of 🦷& 🦴tells us more 🧵1/6

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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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Dec 6

This month @elliestam.bsky.social and @osteolady.bsky.social have been working on the excavation of LBA/EIA cremation graves at Steenwijk in The Netherlands. The cremation depositions will come back to AMGC to be CT scanned and then micro-excavated!

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Dec 1

Thanks for making this list! I would love to be added!

Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thanks 😊

Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thanks 🙏🏻

Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thanks 😊

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Nov 17

And a starter pack devoted to Isotope Experts in Archaeology and Ecology

Hey, I'm one of those! So be sure to check it out because isotopes are really revolutionizing our understanding of archaeology and ecology in many different ways

And go follow @isoarch.bsky.social!

bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Nov 17

There's a related starter pack from @sntipper.bsky.social focusing on bioarchaeologists

Do check it out for a wide variety of insights into studying archaeological skeletal material and its context in an interdisciplinary study of ancient humans

and be sure to follow Sam!

bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Nov 16

And another great starter pack from @vcampanacho.bsky.social is this great list of biological anthropologists

From ancient funerary ritual to human evolution to, more broadly, what can ancient skeletal remains tell us about our ancestors?

go.bsky.app/CnJLf95

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · Nov 10

Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack!

Help build community with this starter pack.

This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that!
go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU

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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · Nov 17

Started up a bioarch starter pack 🤩
Let me know if you want to be added or have suggestions 😊
#archaeology #bioarchaeology

go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hello, we are the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab, a team based at VUB researching archaeological mobility, diet, health, cremation conditions, plants, animals and more from all around the 🌍 and from the Neolithic to the present. 🦴⚱️🔥🦷🗺👩‍🔬

Follow us and our team here:

go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thank you for making this list! I would love to be added!

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Elisavet Stamataki @elliestam.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thank you for making this list! I would love to be added!

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