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Sam Tipper

@sntipper.bsky.social

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🦴 Senior lecturer @ARU, Bioarchaeologist, Roman and Medieval periods, Community archaeology, Ancient Nubia, 💀 🦷 all things bone related 😜 Chair Cifa Osteo group

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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

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 20h

🏺🧪 Potentially for any zooarchaeologists out there!

Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 22h

The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!

If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.

@aarc-community.bsky.social

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UCL Archaeology South-East @archsoutheast.bsky.social · 22h

We’re excited to share that our Placement Year has been shortlisted for the 2025 Archaeological Achievement Awards in the Learning, Training and Skills category!

We’ll be crossing our fingers when the winners are announced on 28 November!

@uclarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social

Four students in high visibility vest smile for a group photo on an archaeological site. Text on the image says Archaeological Achievement Awards, Learning, Training and Skills.

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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · 3d

2nd day of finds cleaning with our Malandry Project Volunteers 🤩
#archaeology #pottery #community

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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hey evereyone i finally set up my instagram follow me there too 🤩
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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · Aug 18

Follow me on instagram 🤩
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Kentish Fran #FBPE @kentishfran.bsky.social · Aug 12

Archaeology is one of the best degrees for onward employment. Lots of transferable skills from mapping and geology to ethics and osteology plus team working which employers find important - also we have a huge heritage sector. #Canterbury
#clearing #archaeology
#cccuarchaeology #instagram

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hi! My new kids’ book is about the Stone Age — it doesn’t do loads on osteology, but we explain human evolution in a fun way

The awesome @profaliceroberts.bsky.social has a children’s book about human anatomy, and her adult book Crypt is all about bones and bodies

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · Jun 18

I spoke with several leading archaeologists to better understand the impact recent federal funding cuts will have on archaeology in the US. The future doesn’t look good.

#NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage

New at @science.org 🏺🧪

Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future

A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training

www.science.org

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Laura Geggel @laurageggel.bsky.social · Jun 18

Meanwhile, at White Sands National Park ...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Evidence is building that people were in the Americas 23,000 years ago

A new analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are around 23,000 years old.

www.livescience.com

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The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · Jun 19

Roman-Era City Found Beneath France’s Modern Melun.

🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

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Roman-Era City Found Beneath France’s Modern Melun - GreekReporter.com

Archaeologists uncovered remains of a Roman-era city beneath Melun, France, revealing Roman homes, roads and wells.

greekreporter.com

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · Jun 15

🚨New paper alert!🧪 Led by @armandofalcucci.bsky.social, this paper explores the internal variability of the Protoaurignacian at Riparo Bombrini by analyzing lithic assemblages from layers A2 and A1, and a previously undescribed Early Aurignacian assemblage from layer A0. 1/4 🏺🦣

Front page of a paper published int he Journal of Anthropological Archaeology entitled "A crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Alps: Lithic technology, raw material procurement, and mobility in the Aurignacian of Riparo Bombrini" by Armando Falcucci, Stefano Bertola, Martina Parise, Matteo Del Rio, Julien Riel-Salvatore and Fabio Negrino.

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Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social · Jun 16

🏺 Interested in dissemination of digital bioarchaeological data?

Read Solange Bohlong's Internet Archaeology article visit: buff.ly/wQ7jqff
Or read her blog post written last year: buff.ly/KwzVKwo

Content warning: This blog post contains images of human remains.

Online dissemination of 3D bioarchaeological data: An exploration of ethics, user preferences, and contextualisation in an official digital repository setting

This article explores how ADS users prefer to be presented with bioarchaeological data and investigates how these preferences can inform the ADS's protocol for the dissemination of digital…

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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · Jun 11

Booking page has opened for the next Human Osteology Short Course on the 8th & 9th November 2025. Click the link to book your place. 🤩

store.anglia.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · Jun 8

#OnThisDay - 8 June - in AD 218 Elagabalus' forces defeated the incumbent emperor Macrinus at the Battle of Antioch (Dio 79.38-39). The latter fled, in an unsuccessful bid to reach Rome. #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RIC IV Macrinus 79; ANS 1967.153.174. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Bust of Macrinus, laureate, long bearded, draped, cuirassed, right.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Macrinus and Diadumenian, seated left on platform; behind, officer standing; in front; Liberalitas standing left; citizen standing below platform.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Jun 8

New tomb excavated at Gordion! 🏺🧪

2,800-year-old royal tomb discovered near King Midas' home in Turkey

Turkey's minister of culture and tourism announced the discovery of a new tomb in an eighth-century-B.C. city that was the homeland of King Midas.

www.livescience.com

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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · May 30

Info on the head

Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · May 30

Lovely evening at the Uni of Lincoln conservation student exhibition 🤩👏👏👏 some lovely work! 🏺 🍾💀🪵📰🪕👏👏

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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · May 30

Really looking forward to this tonight! 🤩 🏺👏

Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · May 30

Nice! Love community excavations 🤩

Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · May 30

Had a lovely evening at the Guildhall in Lincoln last night talking about the Malandry project and Leprosy 🤩💀🤓 🏺

Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · May 23

My UG student did a project on this and the result showed people were very positive about keeping archaeological remains for study and display as long as treated with respect. She presented it at Babao at Keele 🤩

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · May 23

In an early medieval grave at Gültlingen a warrior was buried with a gold hilt spatha (sword) - a status symbol that displays his high rank - and a ‘Spangenhelm‘. Helmets like this were part of the equipment of the late Roman army. Not only the helmet was...🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology

A collection of objects displayed on a dark background, including a decorated iron helmet with gold accents, a long sword with a gold hilt, a glass bowl, a round shield boss, a large iron axe head, several small gold and metal objects.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · May 23

A method for sex determination using peptides in enamel

Raman Spectroscopy Dataset of Permanent Human Teeth from a Historical Swiss Medical Collection🏺🧪
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Measurements of permanent teeth from an anonymized medical collection at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine

Diagram illustrating sex determination using amelogenin proteins in tooth enamel. The top shows X and Y chromosomally encoded protein isoforms (AMELX in blue, AMELY in red) with their amino acid sequences highlighted.

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