First celebratory cake was a blueberry pound cake inspire by the @VWStiftung logo 🍰

We just kicked off a citizen science project in @bocas-news.bsky.social where we’re teaming up with retired + active medical doctors to help interpret complex paleopathological cases while having fun. Our 1st session of the Ärtze-Konsil was great ✨🦴🧬 #citizenscience #paleopathology #bioarchaeology

This morning I sampled some African elephant material from the amazing collection of #museumkoenig @leibnizlib.bsky.social. I received the warmest welcome from Dr. Decher and his team, and I left a little sketch behind in their guest book. I hope this is the start of a long lasting collaboration.

The summer semester lineup of #debatesinarchaeosciences is here! Join us in person if you are in Bonn, or online by dropping us an email at bocas(at)uni-bonn.de. This semester we travel from the Mediterranean to the steppe and from the 4th millennium to forensic cases. Come along!

This week we are in the lab with the 2nd cohort of our Grundlagen Archäologische Naturwissenschaften module. In a week-long block seminar students learn to extract collagen, interpret isotopes and basic notions in osteoarchaeology and skeletal anatomy. It's an intense 30hrs but I love it!

Absolutely blown away by the beautiful exhibition of the Archaeology Museum of Luxembourg city. The display and the explanation were just right and not overwhelming. I loved the concept of the 8 floors going from Prehistory to Present. Highly recommend!

📣 This coming Friday, January 10th at 16:15 the first talk of this new year will be by Dr. Olalla López-Costas on “PollutedPast: Human remains and environmental metal exposure”. 🦴🌳🔩
If you cannot join in person, please email us at bocas@uni-bonn.de and you'll receive a zoom link!

#bocas_unibonn

Lovely to see Shinya again and share a Brauhaus experience. Fermented millet drinks were not available but we found a good replacement. 🍻 #BoCAS #debatesinArchaeoSciences

This Friday, December 13th at 16:15 the next talk of #debatesinArchaeosciences will be by Dr. Shinya Shoda (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Japan, University of York, University of Turin) on “Millet Eastwards and Westwards: Penetration into culinary traditions”.

Next Friday, December 6th at 16:15 we continue with the #debatesinarchaeosciences with Léa Drieu (CNRS) on “Exploring the potential of water-soluble
compounds in Organic Residue Analysis”. Email us at bocas@uni-bonn.de for the link!

The BA students of the Einführung in die Archäologischen Naturwissenschaften have completed 30hrs in our BoCAS labs learning how to extract collagen for isotopic analysis + learning the ropes in skeletal anatomy and sex and age-at-death estimation. We are very proud of this cohort!

The line up of our summer term ⛱️#debatesinarchaeoscience is here! Email us for a Zoom link or even better join us in person!

We are all booked for #UKAS2024 Myself and a small German compound will travel to York in April and I personally cannot wait. @York_BioArCh is my second home and I haven't been back since before covid times! I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone again 🧪🥼👩‍🔬

A little late but Happy International Day of Women and Girls in science from my incredible team. #bioarchaeology #bocas_unibonn

Birth is hard work for both - the baby's skull and the mother's pelvis. Several traits are discussed as parturition scars in adult skeletons, but @LukWaltenberger shows us this Friday which of them are reliable proxies for parity. Join us at 16PM in Römerstraße HS2 or online!

I will be in Lisbon next week delivering a key note at this international Congress on Olisipo. I can't wait to be there and hope to meet again many friends and colleagues I haven't seen since before covid times! Até já!

The full programme for this semester's lecture series #debatesinarchaeosciences is finally here! Tune in or come down to Römerstraße!

Myself and colleagues from the @IAK_Bonn and beyond were invited as panelists at the Opening ceremony of the Academic Year 2023/2024 @UniBonn. The topic was "The Wonders of Science: a high-tech dig into the past in search of clues". Really fun!