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Hannah Leonard
@hannahleonard.bsky.social
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PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🎓 @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social Expect to hear about isotopes, climate change and funerary practices in the Bronze Age 🔥🦴🏺💀⚰️🦷🪦🧪 LEArning from the Past (LEAP) https://www.leap-belgium.be/
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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hello everyone! A little introduction to myself 🙋🏼‍♀️

I am from the UK originally 🇬🇧 but have spent time in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 doing my masters and am now a second year PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🇧🇪
Photo of myself. I am white, have blonde mid-length hair, blue eyes and am smiling with my hand on my chin. I am wearing a white fluffy jumper sat at a brown table with a white background and green plant to my left.
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Emma Legrand @emmalegrand.bsky.social · Sep 5
🗣️ New paper! 🗣️

The mobility patterns of the population of Gallo-Roman Tienen (Belgium) are keeping you up at night? Wondering if there is more than mobility reflected in these 87Sr/86Sr results? This is very relatable, and conveniently, I have the right paper for you! It's accessible right there 👇
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · May 25
This weekend our team traveled to Thessaloniki to celebrate the end of the #TEFRA project with two days of exciting conferences! 🔥🔥
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Anneminne Frère @anneminnefrere.bsky.social · Apr 30
📢 New paper alert! 📢

I’m really happy to share our latest publication in AJBA! We explore how sampling cremated petrous parts & teeth helps reconstruct life histories and cremation practices 🔥. You can find our paper through this link: doi.org/10.1002/ajpa... (1/6)
Reconstructing Life Histories: New Insights Into Cremation Practices, Mobility, and Food Consumption Patterns Through Isotope and Infrared Analyses of Petrous Parts and Teeth
This graph shows the strontium results of the individuals from Herstal, Belgium.
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Maura De Coster @mauradecoster.bsky.social · Apr 22
On #EarthDay we post about loving our planet while VU Amsterdam cuts its Earth Sciences department. Dismissing 42 earth scientists reveals the gap between stated values and actual priorities. What we fund is what we truly value #RedAardwetenschappen (Image by @thelittlebluedood.bsky.social)
The image shows a simple blue line drawing on a white textured background. There's a figure of a person pointing at a rectangular sign or board that contains text. The text on the board reads: "DO UNTO THE EARTH AS YOU WANT DONE UNTO THE EARTH" - a environmental take on the golden rule. The drawing has a handmade, sketch-like quality with the person and message rendered in blue ink.
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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · Apr 22
Who wouldn't want to learn more about Roman cremations!?!? Thanks Ellie 😍
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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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Christophe Snoeck @christophe-fire.bsky.social · Apr 1
The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025 😀
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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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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! 📩
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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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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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 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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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 · 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
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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

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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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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Kévin Salesse @kevinsalesse.bsky.social · Jan 20
Media spotlight on the opening of my isotope lab at the Department of Anthropology, Masaryk University - marking a new research center for isotope research and innovation!

www.em.muni.cz/en/science/1...
Department of Anthropology has new isotope lab
International cooperation is well underway at the Faculty of Science Masaryk University thanks to a new isotope lab, dedicated to studying both ancient and modern human populations.
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Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social · Jan 16
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Jan 6
Massive congrats to @Christophe-fire.bsky.social on winning a VUB Brussel Excellent PhD Supervisor Award. Your support and enthusiasm mean the 🌍 to the team 🔥

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Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social · Dec 17
So excited to share our accepted manuscript! It sets up a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe.

Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.

Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!
Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in North-western 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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Jacob I. Griffith @jbioarch.bsky.social · Dec 16
A recap of this year's research with the FWO. Plant sampling in Latvia with the team (inc. @christophe-fire.bsky.social / @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social ). Bring back the summer!
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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👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
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The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · Dec 7
Classical Cat Problems 🐈‍⬛
Various representations of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion.
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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · Dec 6
What does research on the past bring to people living today? This was discussed live on national radio last Sunday, when @isotopistrachel.bsky.social was interviewed by De Ochtend on VRT Radio 1 about her research on medieval Ypres. Missed it? You find it here: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
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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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Charlotte Van Riet @charlottevanriet.bsky.social · Dec 5
On 01.11, I started my PhD @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel with @amgc-vub.bsky.social & @shoc-vub.bsky.social thanks to funding from the FWO. I will be researching: The first (medieval) city-dwellers; where they came from, their socio-eco background, and how they shaped their urban environments. 💀🏚
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