Ioannis (Yannis) Chatzikonstantinou
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Ioannis (Yannis) Chatzikonstantinou
@chatzikon.bsky.social
PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology. Exploring Minoan and ancient greek funerary practices, human bones, experimental archaeology, analytical methods, and cremations.

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Happy to welcome once again @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social lab in Thessaloniki!
This weekend our team traveled to Thessaloniki to celebrate the end of the #TEFRA project with two days of exciting conferences! 🔥🔥
May 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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…
April 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The Annual Meeting of the Belgian School at Athens

@christophe-fire.bsky.social will talk about “Mobility and funerary practices in Prehistoric Greece through the lens of isotope research”.

The cover shows the Pre- and Proto-palatial tholos tomb cemetery of Koumasa, Crete.
April 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Οur open access paper «Experimental insights into different funerary burning conditions on Crete island, Greece» is now available in JAS: Reports

If you investigate cremations, have a look to the different burning dynamics that can affect a burning event

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The best team! Happy celebrations BB-Lab!
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 8:04 PM
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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
January 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you are interested in #cremations and especially the study of burnt bones, this paper may be useful for your research. 💀 🔥

In this paper, we present the guidelines we have been using when dealing with burned human remains . 🥼

Aegis vol. 29 Louvain, Belgium.
January 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
ARCHAEOZOOMS volume, combining archaeological theory and method, has reached the end of its first six-month period of availability, with over 1000 electronic downloads from 44 countries (!) worldwide. A free of charge copy can be obtained through the link doi.org/10.11588/pro...
December 17, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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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
December 11, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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New BB-LAB paper out 👍🏻 Marta Hlad and the team identified and characterised patterns in cremation analysis practices through an online survey of those working on cremated human remains 👇
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation
Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research...
journals.plos.org
December 3, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Last poster before my PhD defence. From the conference of Fitch Lab at the @BSAthens dedicated to archaeological science in Greece. The poster presented some of the final outcomes from the interdisciplinary research conducted on the human remains from Prepalatial Koumasa Tholos Tomb B on Crete.
December 2, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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We are looking forward to welcoming @christophe-fire.bsky.social from @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
to #HEASVienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience next Monday.
Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗 👇

www.heas.at/events/heas-...
HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Christophe Snoeck from Vrije Universiteit Brussel will give a talk on ‚Behind the scenes of isotope bioarchaeology – new developments and ...
www.heas.at
November 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Hello, we are the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab, a team based at VUB researching archaeological mobility, diet, health, cremation conditions, plants, animals and more from all around the 🌍 and from the Neolithic to the present. 🦴⚱️🔥🦷🗺👩‍🔬

Follow us and our team here:

go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev
November 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM