BoCAS
@bocas-news.bsky.social
Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences based
at @unibonn.bsky.social and funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de, posts by @evarosenstock.bsky.social
at @unibonn.bsky.social and funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de, posts by @evarosenstock.bsky.social
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@bocas-news.bsky.social
· Oct 30
A new academic year means new classes, new faces, and new Debates! You all are welcome to join us - come along in person Friday s at 4PM or get in touch for the Zoom link !
250 BC to 150 AD, the Xiongnu formed one of the earliest nomadic polities in Eastern Eurasia. Linked to the later Huns in Europe or not, their foodways were far more agricultural and diverse than assumed. Join us and @cmcarolus.bsky.social this Friday in HS2 — or get in touch for the Zoom link!
December 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
250 BC to 150 AD, the Xiongnu formed one of the earliest nomadic polities in Eastern Eurasia. Linked to the later Huns in Europe or not, their foodways were far more agricultural and diverse than assumed. Join us and @cmcarolus.bsky.social this Friday in HS2 — or get in touch for the Zoom link!
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We are delighted to learn that our Çatalhöyük archaeogenetics study published in @science.org was chosen as one of @archaeologymag.bsky.social 's top 10 discoveries of 2025. 💃🏻👩🏻🔬 🧪 🏺
archaeology.org/issues/janua...
archaeology.org/issues/janua...
Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - A Feminine Touch - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026
Çatalhöyük, Turkey
archaeology.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
We are delighted to learn that our Çatalhöyük archaeogenetics study published in @science.org was chosen as one of @archaeologymag.bsky.social 's top 10 discoveries of 2025. 💃🏻👩🏻🔬 🧪 🏺
archaeology.org/issues/janua...
archaeology.org/issues/janua...
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Past beers and ways to archaeologically detect them: contribution by Alisa Scheibner and me to this yummy #bierinderantike volume edited by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe and @kai-ruffing.bsky.social 🍻
Since @kai-ruffing.bsky.social isn’t very active on here… Very interesting newly published volume on beer in antiquity - which I can say with confidence, as I read all the chapters in order to write a brief conclusion.
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Past beers and ways to archaeologically detect them: contribution by Alisa Scheibner and me to this yummy #bierinderantike volume edited by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe and @kai-ruffing.bsky.social 🍻
Brace yourself for Stefan Potente's talk! Blunt and sharp force are daily fare in contemporary forensics. Crossbows and sabres have mostly disappeared, but fresh bone injuries still raise questions — especially “fall or assault?” This Friday 16h in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Brace yourself for Stefan Potente's talk! Blunt and sharp force are daily fare in contemporary forensics. Crossbows and sabres have mostly disappeared, but fresh bone injuries still raise questions — especially “fall or assault?” This Friday 16h in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
Huge congrats to our @barahuber.bsky.social and colleagues for their new book on the evidence for fragrance and smoke in archaeology! 💨Scents of Arabia 💨brings this invisible, long-lost aspect back to the surface for the first time: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
www.archaeopress.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Huge congrats to our @barahuber.bsky.social and colleagues for their new book on the evidence for fragrance and smoke in archaeology! 💨Scents of Arabia 💨brings this invisible, long-lost aspect back to the surface for the first time: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
The term has started with a talk by James Fellows Yates on FAIR data in ArchaeoScience! Stay tuned - the next talk in our Debates in ArchaeoSciences series will be on December 5th!
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The term has started with a talk by James Fellows Yates on FAIR data in ArchaeoScience! Stay tuned - the next talk in our Debates in ArchaeoSciences series will be on December 5th!
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A journey into the sensory world of ancient Arabia: incense, ritual, trade, memory & scent 🌿🔥🏺🧪
www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...
www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...
DAI - Scents of Arabia
www.dainst.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A journey into the sensory world of ancient Arabia: incense, ritual, trade, memory & scent 🌿🔥🏺🧪
www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...
www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...
A new academic year means new classes, new faces, and new Debates! You all are welcome to join us - come along in person Friday s at 4PM or get in touch for the Zoom link !
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A new academic year means new classes, new faces, and new Debates! You all are welcome to join us - come along in person Friday s at 4PM or get in touch for the Zoom link !
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Happy to appear in this one together with Çiler Çilingiroğlu: www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft...
Catalhöyük und Matriarchat: DNA gibt neue Hinweise auf Rolle der Frauen
Lange galt diese These als Idee von Spinnern. Nun liefert eine Analyse von DNA und Fundobjekten aus dem Fundort in der Türkei neue Argumente.
www.nzz.ch
August 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Happy to appear in this one together with Çiler Çilingiroğlu: www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft...
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Making the impossible possible: @alicetoso.bsky.social wants to develop reliable methods for determining the concentration of steroid #hormones in centuries-old human bones.
Another exciting pioneering project 👍 – we wish you every success!
Another exciting pioneering project 👍 – we wish you every success!
🎉 Our own @alicetoso.bsky.social won a €1.4 million grant from @volkswagenstiftung.de! In this groundbreaking project, she’ll trace hormones in historically contextualized archaeological skeletons, shedding light on pregnancy, menopause and more across 200 years. www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/135-...
How fertile have humans been over the past 200 years?
www.uni-bonn.de
July 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Making the impossible possible: @alicetoso.bsky.social wants to develop reliable methods for determining the concentration of steroid #hormones in centuries-old human bones.
Another exciting pioneering project 👍 – we wish you every success!
Another exciting pioneering project 👍 – we wish you every success!
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First celebratory cake was a blueberry pound cake inspire by the @VWStiftung logo 🍰
July 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
First celebratory cake was a blueberry pound cake inspire by the @VWStiftung logo 🍰
🎉 Our own @alicetoso.bsky.social won a €1.4 million grant from @volkswagenstiftung.de! In this groundbreaking project, she’ll trace hormones in historically contextualized archaeological skeletons, shedding light on pregnancy, menopause and more across 200 years. www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/135-...
How fertile have humans been over the past 200 years?
www.uni-bonn.de
July 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🎉 Our own @alicetoso.bsky.social won a €1.4 million grant from @volkswagenstiftung.de! In this groundbreaking project, she’ll trace hormones in historically contextualized archaeological skeletons, shedding light on pregnancy, menopause and more across 200 years. www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/135-...
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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
July 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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
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ich freue mich auf morgen! veranstaltungskalender.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/veranstaltun...
July 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
ich freue mich auf morgen! veranstaltungskalender.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/veranstaltun...
We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known, We take the Golden Road to Samarkand (J E Flecker) 🕌 Stop over with us and Shannon Monroe in Buchara for the last debates talk this semester - in HS2 or via Zoom!
July 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known, We take the Golden Road to Samarkand (J E Flecker) 🕌 Stop over with us and Shannon Monroe in Buchara for the last debates talk this semester - in HS2 or via Zoom!
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8,000 years ago, two babies were buried at Çatalhöyük West. Excavated and analyzed during our excavations, their DNA links them to East Mound — now part of this amazing paper. Very, very happy to contribute & huge thanks to the teams involved!
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...
www.science.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
8,000 years ago, two babies were buried at Çatalhöyük West. Excavated and analyzed during our excavations, their DNA links them to East Mound — now part of this amazing paper. Very, very happy to contribute & huge thanks to the teams involved!
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What did people cook in Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery on the Atlantic coast? Martine Regert will present lipid results from dairy 🥛 to beeswax 🐝, but a surprising lack of seafood 🐟. Join us today at 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
June 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
What did people cook in Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery on the Atlantic coast? Martine Regert will present lipid results from dairy 🥛 to beeswax 🐝, but a surprising lack of seafood 🐟. Join us today at 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
Join us this Friday when Silvia Amicone shares her material science perspective on pottery production in Etruria between the end of the early Iron Age and the beginning of the Orientalising period: 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
June 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Join us this Friday when Silvia Amicone shares her material science perspective on pottery production in Etruria between the end of the early Iron Age and the beginning of the Orientalising period: 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
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Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/
WAC-10 – Darwin 22-28 June 2025
worldarchaeologicalcongress.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/
Gestern war BoCAS beim wunderbaren #Stiftshoffest in #Nideggen: Ernährungsrekonstruktion anhand von Gefäßrückständen, stabilen Isotopen und Skeletten. Ein schöner Tag und interessante Gespräche mit Laien und Fachleuten - danke an das Team der LVR-Bodendenkmalpflege für die Einladung!
June 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Gestern war BoCAS beim wunderbaren #Stiftshoffest in #Nideggen: Ernährungsrekonstruktion anhand von Gefäßrückständen, stabilen Isotopen und Skeletten. Ein schöner Tag und interessante Gespräche mit Laien und Fachleuten - danke an das Team der LVR-Bodendenkmalpflege für die Einladung!
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Reparieren, gemeinsam nutzen, weiterverwenden: Wir suchen Praxisbeispiele zum Thema "Forschungsgeräte #nachhaltig nutzen"!
👉 Die überzeugendsten Projekte können ihre Ideen beim Workshop (8./9.12.2025) gemeinsam mit anderen Teilnehmenden weiterentwickeln.
🗓️ Bewerbungsschluss: 12.6.2025
🌐 Infos:
👉 Die überzeugendsten Projekte können ihre Ideen beim Workshop (8./9.12.2025) gemeinsam mit anderen Teilnehmenden weiterentwickeln.
🗓️ Bewerbungsschluss: 12.6.2025
🌐 Infos:
Forschungsgeräte nachhaltig nutzen: Workshop zur Weiterentwicklung von Best Practice Beispielen | VolkswagenStiftungCloseWeiter
Bis zum 12. Juni für den Workshop am 8./9. Dezember 2025 bewerben! Gesucht werden die besten Maßnahmen für die nachhaltige Nutzung wissenschaftlicher Geräte.
www.volkswagenstiftung.de
June 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reparieren, gemeinsam nutzen, weiterverwenden: Wir suchen Praxisbeispiele zum Thema "Forschungsgeräte #nachhaltig nutzen"!
👉 Die überzeugendsten Projekte können ihre Ideen beim Workshop (8./9.12.2025) gemeinsam mit anderen Teilnehmenden weiterentwickeln.
🗓️ Bewerbungsschluss: 12.6.2025
🌐 Infos:
👉 Die überzeugendsten Projekte können ihre Ideen beim Workshop (8./9.12.2025) gemeinsam mit anderen Teilnehmenden weiterentwickeln.
🗓️ Bewerbungsschluss: 12.6.2025
🌐 Infos:
Yamnaya = mobile? Probably — but what about their subsistene economy?Join us + Dr. Martin Riesenberg tomorrow at 4PM in HS 2 (or online) to see how sequential analysis on livestock teeth🦷🐄🐑🐐 help track mobility.
June 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Yamnaya = mobile? Probably — but what about their subsistene economy?Join us + Dr. Martin Riesenberg tomorrow at 4PM in HS 2 (or online) to see how sequential analysis on livestock teeth🦷🐄🐑🐐 help track mobility.
Das "Rheinische Ärzteblatt" berichtet in seiner aktuellen Ausgabe über unsere Arbeit! Dazu unsere herzliche Einladung an interessierte Ärztinnen und Ärzte in der Region, ehrenamtlich an einem Konsil zu unseren "archäologischen Patienten" mitzuwirken:
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Rheinisches Ärzteblatt 06/2025
16 Rheinisches Ärzteblatt / Heft 6 / 2025
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May 31, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Das "Rheinische Ärzteblatt" berichtet in seiner aktuellen Ausgabe über unsere Arbeit! Dazu unsere herzliche Einladung an interessierte Ärztinnen und Ärzte in der Region, ehrenamtlich an einem Konsil zu unseren "archäologischen Patienten" mitzuwirken:
show.epaper-archiv.de/aekno/ePaper...
show.epaper-archiv.de/aekno/ePaper...
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A landmark success! The University of Bonn secured funding for all six existing Clusters of Excellence and both new initiatives – more than any other German university. More: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/095-...
© G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich
© G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich
May 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A landmark success! The University of Bonn secured funding for all six existing Clusters of Excellence and both new initiatives – more than any other German university. More: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/095-...
© G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich
© G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich
Congratulations to all BCDSS members!
🎉The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) has been awarded an additional seven years of funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of Germany’s prestigious Clusters of Excellence program.
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
May 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Congratulations to all BCDSS members!