Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab
@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
BB-LAB was established in 2021 at Vrije Universiteit Brussel by @christophe-fire.bsky.social to increase the synergy between bioarchaeological researchers in Brussels and beyond! Based at @amgc-vub.bsky.social
Celebrating the start of the academic year with our @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social friends 🥼😎🎓🔥☀️
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Celebrating the start of the academic year with our @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social friends 🥼😎🎓🔥☀️
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
We are on our way to @isba11.bsky.social 🚅 Ready for a week of archaeology and science
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August 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We are on our way to @isba11.bsky.social 🚅 Ready for a week of archaeology and science
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Finally, @christophe-fire.bsky.social extinguished the fire with a Keynote presentation 🔥🧯
May 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Finally, @christophe-fire.bsky.social extinguished the fire with a Keynote presentation 🔥🧯
@elliestam.bsky.social talked about how seasonality affects the cremation environment ❄️🌸☀️🍁, and what happens when bone reaches extremely high temperatures 🌡️🔥🦴
May 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@elliestam.bsky.social talked about how seasonality affects the cremation environment ❄️🌸☀️🍁, and what happens when bone reaches extremely high temperatures 🌡️🔥🦴
Yannis Chatzikonstantinou presented his work on cremations from Crete and results of experimental work 🏺🔥
May 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yannis Chatzikonstantinou presented his work on cremations from Crete and results of experimental work 🏺🔥
Paula Becerra talked about her research on chalcolithic cremations of Los Milanes (Spain), presenting results about analytical and experimental approaches 🧪🦴🪵🔥
May 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Paula Becerra talked about her research on chalcolithic cremations of Los Milanes (Spain), presenting results about analytical and experimental approaches 🧪🦴🪵🔥
Vasso Papathanasiou showed us how people cremated their death in Macedonian Iron Age at the sites of Polichni and Nea Philadelphia 🔥🪵
May 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Vasso Papathanasiou showed us how people cremated their death in Macedonian Iron Age at the sites of Polichni and Nea Philadelphia 🔥🪵
Guy de Mulder and @orianachiappa.bsky.social presented their most recent research on the lime burials of the Balearic Islands 🏝️⛰️🔥
May 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Guy de Mulder and @orianachiappa.bsky.social presented their most recent research on the lime burials of the Balearic Islands 🏝️⛰️🔥
📣 Data, data, data 📣
The BBLAB crew spent the day compiling our isotope data in the @isoarch.bsky.social version 3.0 database! Thanks @isotopistrachel.bsky.social & @tloeffelmann.bsky.social for teaching us the ropes 🧗🏻♀️
#openaccessdata #archaeology #fairandcare
The BBLAB crew spent the day compiling our isotope data in the @isoarch.bsky.social version 3.0 database! Thanks @isotopistrachel.bsky.social & @tloeffelmann.bsky.social for teaching us the ropes 🧗🏻♀️
#openaccessdata #archaeology #fairandcare
May 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📣 Data, data, data 📣
The BBLAB crew spent the day compiling our isotope data in the @isoarch.bsky.social version 3.0 database! Thanks @isotopistrachel.bsky.social & @tloeffelmann.bsky.social for teaching us the ropes 🧗🏻♀️
#openaccessdata #archaeology #fairandcare
The BBLAB crew spent the day compiling our isotope data in the @isoarch.bsky.social version 3.0 database! Thanks @isotopistrachel.bsky.social & @tloeffelmann.bsky.social for teaching us the ropes 🧗🏻♀️
#openaccessdata #archaeology #fairandcare
📞 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
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
March 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📞 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
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
BBLAB has so much to celebrate! 🎉 @christophe-fire.bsky.social's 10-year milestone at VUB and his recent PhD Supervisor Prize, plus the arrival of new members set the stage for an exciting 2025. Here’s to a year filled with research, isotopes and collaboration!
February 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BBLAB has so much to celebrate! 🎉 @christophe-fire.bsky.social's 10-year milestone at VUB and his recent PhD Supervisor Prize, plus the arrival of new members set the stage for an exciting 2025. Here’s to a year filled with research, isotopes and collaboration!
Welcoming our newest postdoc Dr Danaé Guiserix with a morning of mass spec training!
@isotopistrachel.bsky.social
@christophe-fire.bsky.social
@toothdetective.bsky.social
@tloeffelmann.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
@isotopistrachel.bsky.social
@christophe-fire.bsky.social
@toothdetective.bsky.social
@tloeffelmann.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Welcoming our newest postdoc Dr Danaé Guiserix with a morning of mass spec training!
@isotopistrachel.bsky.social
@christophe-fire.bsky.social
@toothdetective.bsky.social
@tloeffelmann.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
@isotopistrachel.bsky.social
@christophe-fire.bsky.social
@toothdetective.bsky.social
@tloeffelmann.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
Provenance and childhood mobility histories were reconstructed using δ13C, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr, δ88Sr, and [Sr] values from dental enamel of successionally forming molars. The results indicate that all but one individual likely grew up local to the site. 4/6
January 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Provenance and childhood mobility histories were reconstructed using δ13C, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr, δ88Sr, and [Sr] values from dental enamel of successionally forming molars. The results indicate that all but one individual likely grew up local to the site. 4/6
To reconstruct lives, we used multiple sampling techniques & isotope proxies. Incremental dentine was used to reconstruct breastfeeding strategies & dietary histories into early adulthood. These were complemented by bone collagen sampling, creating a dietary life history 3/6
January 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
To reconstruct lives, we used multiple sampling techniques & isotope proxies. Incremental dentine was used to reconstruct breastfeeding strategies & dietary histories into early adulthood. These were complemented by bone collagen sampling, creating a dietary life history 3/6
Inside the tomb, the remains of at least 25 individuals were found, 18 of which were analysed within this study. The remains of a singular dog were also found, but radiocarbon dating reveals that this dog was buried thousands of years later, in the medieval period! 2/6
January 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Inside the tomb, the remains of at least 25 individuals were found, 18 of which were analysed within this study. The remains of a singular dog were also found, but radiocarbon dating reveals that this dog was buried thousands of years later, in the medieval period! 2/6
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 🔥
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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 🔥
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
@amgc-vub.bsky.social
Last week, @christophe-fire.bsky.social was in Trento, to attend the MOLA workshop, part of Dr Giacomo Capuzzo's MSCA post-doc fellowship. The first exciting results were presented, which use multi-isotope analyses of inhumation & cremations in the Italian Alps from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
December 16, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Last week, @christophe-fire.bsky.social was in Trento, to attend the MOLA workshop, part of Dr Giacomo Capuzzo's MSCA post-doc fellowship. The first exciting results were presented, which use multi-isotope analyses of inhumation & cremations in the Italian Alps from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
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
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
December 11, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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
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
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!
December 6, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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!