Dr Emma Tollefsen
@emmatollefsen.bsky.social
Bioarchaeologist: Histotaphonomy, Archaeothanatology, Funerary Archaeology 💀🩻 #IronAge 🛖 #VikingAge ⚔️ | 🔬 Honorary Fellow 🏛️ @archanchistleic.bsky.social |📍 Leicester | 📩Committee: Bog Body Research Network | 🇳🇴 in 🇬🇧 🐾🧶🪴☕️📸 #DeathPositive - Views my own
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🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨
My first co-authored paper with the #BODYPOLITICS team is available now in #CAJ 💫
Read our study ‘Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence’ in Viking Age Scandinavia HERE:
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My first co-authored paper with the #BODYPOLITICS team is available now in #CAJ 💫
Read our study ‘Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence’ in Viking Age Scandinavia HERE:
👉🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org #OpenAccess
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Today is the day!
We are excited to immerse ourselves in all things bioarchaeology with a stellar line-up of brilliant workshops and talks for the next 3 days at the#BABAO2025 conference here in Leicester! 💀🦷🔬🩻🧬🦠🔍
#bioarchaeology #conference
We are excited to immerse ourselves in all things bioarchaeology with a stellar line-up of brilliant workshops and talks for the next 3 days at the#BABAO2025 conference here in Leicester! 💀🦷🔬🩻🧬🦠🔍
#bioarchaeology #conference
a black and white photo of a skeleton flexing his arm .
ALT: a black and white photo of a skeleton flexing his arm .
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September 18, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Today is the day!
We are excited to immerse ourselves in all things bioarchaeology with a stellar line-up of brilliant workshops and talks for the next 3 days at the#BABAO2025 conference here in Leicester! 💀🦷🔬🩻🧬🦠🔍
#bioarchaeology #conference
We are excited to immerse ourselves in all things bioarchaeology with a stellar line-up of brilliant workshops and talks for the next 3 days at the#BABAO2025 conference here in Leicester! 💀🦷🔬🩻🧬🦠🔍
#bioarchaeology #conference
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September 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨 36 HRS UNTIL #BABAO2025! 🚨
📢 We look forward to welcoming all our delegates to Leicester 🏛️, and for a day of engaging #workshops on Thursday 🔬, and what promises to be an amazing 2 full days of talks and discussions about all things #bioarchaeology from Friday to Saturday! 💀
#conference #BABAO
📢 We look forward to welcoming all our delegates to Leicester 🏛️, and for a day of engaging #workshops on Thursday 🔬, and what promises to be an amazing 2 full days of talks and discussions about all things #bioarchaeology from Friday to Saturday! 💀
#conference #BABAO
September 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🚨 36 HRS UNTIL #BABAO2025! 🚨
📢 We look forward to welcoming all our delegates to Leicester 🏛️, and for a day of engaging #workshops on Thursday 🔬, and what promises to be an amazing 2 full days of talks and discussions about all things #bioarchaeology from Friday to Saturday! 💀
#conference #BABAO
📢 We look forward to welcoming all our delegates to Leicester 🏛️, and for a day of engaging #workshops on Thursday 🔬, and what promises to be an amazing 2 full days of talks and discussions about all things #bioarchaeology from Friday to Saturday! 💀
#conference #BABAO
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A so-called antenna-hilted dagger, dating 6th century BC, found in a burial mound at Niederraunau. The corroded blade is partly enclosed in the remains of its sheath, with bronze fittings and traces of degraded organic material. The name of this type of daggers...🧵1/2
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August 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A so-called antenna-hilted dagger, dating 6th century BC, found in a burial mound at Niederraunau. The corroded blade is partly enclosed in the remains of its sheath, with bronze fittings and traces of degraded organic material. The name of this type of daggers...🧵1/2
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Thank you @elwhitten.bsky.social for writing a really cool article about our work in Battle Harbour, Labrador this summer!
#archaeology #gravestones 🏺
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#archaeology #gravestones 🏺
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Archaeology duo took to Battle Harbour to restore graves, which included one iconic resident | CBC News
Husband and wife archaeology duo Robyn Lacy and Ian Petty were recently in Battle Harbour to restore more than 50 grave stones, including one belonging to a man immortalized in an iconic photograph.
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August 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Thank you @elwhitten.bsky.social for writing a really cool article about our work in Battle Harbour, Labrador this summer!
#archaeology #gravestones 🏺
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#archaeology #gravestones 🏺
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Dr Heather Scott is a very dear friend and my academic work is infinitely richer for the discussions we have & reading her perspectives. Right now she should be able to focus on writing her first book- which I can't wait to read. Instead, she is fighting a UK ban:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Canadian who could not renew visa due to mental health crisis faces UK ban
Academic Heather Scott has been told by Home Office that being ‘acutely ill’ is not an exceptional circumstance
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August 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Dr Heather Scott is a very dear friend and my academic work is infinitely richer for the discussions we have & reading her perspectives. Right now she should be able to focus on writing her first book- which I can't wait to read. Instead, she is fighting a UK ban:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland
The assessment of sex is fundamental in osteoarcheological analysis, yet traditional morphological methods are less reliable for children due to the incomplete development of sexually dimorphic trait....
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August 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The CfP for TRAC2025 is now open! Send me an abstract of 200-300 words about 'What do the monuments stand for? The materiality of Roman architecture' if you have a suitable talk at ulla.rajala(a)antiken.su.se Deadline August 30. www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-con...
Upcoming Conferences
TRAC 2025 The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology ConferenceWe are pleased to announce that TRAC 2025 conference will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format through the Gathe…
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July 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The CfP for TRAC2025 is now open! Send me an abstract of 200-300 words about 'What do the monuments stand for? The materiality of Roman architecture' if you have a suitable talk at ulla.rajala(a)antiken.su.se Deadline August 30. www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-con...
Been a bit quiet on here for the past few weeks, because I’m happy to say I’ve got a new job with the University of Leicester Archaeological Services as a field archaeologist for the next 6 months — so I’m happy being a big kid in a big sandbox again ⛏️🏺🧱
@archanchistleic.bsky.social #archaeologyfun
@archanchistleic.bsky.social #archaeologyfun
June 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Been a bit quiet on here for the past few weeks, because I’m happy to say I’ve got a new job with the University of Leicester Archaeological Services as a field archaeologist for the next 6 months — so I’m happy being a big kid in a big sandbox again ⛏️🏺🧱
@archanchistleic.bsky.social #archaeologyfun
@archanchistleic.bsky.social #archaeologyfun
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Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.
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June 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.
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Our newest #BODYPOLITICSERC publication — ‘Womb Politics — is CAJ’s #ThePaperOfTheMonth ‼️
💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 #ECRlife
💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 #ECRlife
The Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is 'Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence' by Marianne Hem Eriksen et al., available #openaccess!
📚 https://cup.org/4dzpcb8
#PaperOfTheMonth
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#PaperOfTheMonth
June 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Our newest #BODYPOLITICSERC publication — ‘Womb Politics — is CAJ’s #ThePaperOfTheMonth ‼️
💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 #ECRlife
💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 #ECRlife
Superb new study of the ‘war cemetery’ at the iconic Iron Age hillfort of Maiden Castle by Martin Smith and colleagues at @buarchanth.bsky.social — a thorough contextual and chronological reconsideration of numerous remains exhibiting violent trauma 💀⚔️
#IronAge #Dorset #Britain #Bioarchaeology
#IronAge #Dorset #Britain #Bioarchaeology
The #Roman massacre that never happened according to a new study of an iconic #archaeological site
The Roman massacre that never happened according to a new study of an iconic archaeological site
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May 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Superb new study of the ‘war cemetery’ at the iconic Iron Age hillfort of Maiden Castle by Martin Smith and colleagues at @buarchanth.bsky.social — a thorough contextual and chronological reconsideration of numerous remains exhibiting violent trauma 💀⚔️
#IronAge #Dorset #Britain #Bioarchaeology
#IronAge #Dorset #Britain #Bioarchaeology
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It’s #WorldGothDay, the perfect day to listen to our episode with Professor Claire Nally!
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Professor Claire Nally on literature, Goth, Steampunk, death memoirs, representations of dead women, death positive libraries & working in academia
Podcast Episode · The Death Studies Podcast · 01/04/2025 · 43m
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May 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It’s #WorldGothDay, the perfect day to listen to our episode with Professor Claire Nally!
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I’ve been lucky enough to spend a day exploring the brilliant exhibition of the Battle of Visby at Gotland Museum — seeing some absolutely mind blowing skeletal trauma 💀⚔️🛡️ A fascinating and bloody history being sensitively presented, contextualised and narrated throughout! #Visby #Gotland #Sweden
This medieval skull is fused with (chain)mail. The soldier died at the Battle of Visby in 1361 on the island of Gotland, Sweden. The dead were buried in mass graves and discovered in the early 20th century. The victors didn't strip them before burial due to the heat and the number of bodies.
May 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🚨 DEADLINE TODAY 🚨
📃 max. 250 words outlining:
— Research aims/objectives
— Materials
— Methods
— Results
— Conclusions
Submit your #BABAO2025 abstract HERE:
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@babao2025meeting.bsky.social
#bioarchaeology #conference
📃 max. 250 words outlining:
— Research aims/objectives
— Materials
— Methods
— Results
— Conclusions
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📧 BABAOconference2025@gmail.com
@babao2025meeting.bsky.social
#bioarchaeology #conference
May 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🚨 DEADLINE TODAY 🚨
📃 max. 250 words outlining:
— Research aims/objectives
— Materials
— Methods
— Results
— Conclusions
Submit your #BABAO2025 abstract HERE:
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📧 BABAOconference2025@gmail.com
@babao2025meeting.bsky.social
#bioarchaeology #conference
📃 max. 250 words outlining:
— Research aims/objectives
— Materials
— Methods
— Results
— Conclusions
Submit your #BABAO2025 abstract HERE:
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📧 BABAOconference2025@gmail.com
@babao2025meeting.bsky.social
#bioarchaeology #conference
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Analysis of the skeleton revealed clear signs of prolonged medical intervention and care. Researchers believe he received pain relief typical of the time, possibly including ointments containing lavender oil, opium, or alcohol.
Analysis of the skeleton revealed clear signs of prolonged medical intervention and care. Researchers believe he received pain relief typical of the time, possibly including ointments containing lavender oil, opium, or alcohol.
Medieval Man with Crippled Knee Offers Clues to Disability Care - Medievalists.net
A new study reveals how the remains of a disabled man buried in medieval Lund shed light on medical care and societal attitudes toward disability in the Middle Ages.
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May 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Analysis of the skeleton revealed clear signs of prolonged medical intervention and care. Researchers believe he received pain relief typical of the time, possibly including ointments containing lavender oil, opium, or alcohol.
Analysis of the skeleton revealed clear signs of prolonged medical intervention and care. Researchers believe he received pain relief typical of the time, possibly including ointments containing lavender oil, opium, or alcohol.
Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Roman Archaeology
University of Birmingham - Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, School of History and Cultures #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB535/a...
University of Birmingham - Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, School of History and Cultures #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB535/a...
Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Roman Archaeology at University of Birmingham
Discover Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Roman Archaeology jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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May 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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#FindsFriday
Pair of showy fibulae. Part of the Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, from an East Germanic (Gepidic) grave discovered in 1910. #Gold plating on silver with inlaid garnet, glass, enamel.
#Archaeology
#Art #History #artwork #Jewellery
Pair of showy fibulae. Part of the Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, from an East Germanic (Gepidic) grave discovered in 1910. #Gold plating on silver with inlaid garnet, glass, enamel.
#Archaeology
#Art #History #artwork #Jewellery
May 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#FindsFriday
Pair of showy fibulae. Part of the Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, from an East Germanic (Gepidic) grave discovered in 1910. #Gold plating on silver with inlaid garnet, glass, enamel.
#Archaeology
#Art #History #artwork #Jewellery
Pair of showy fibulae. Part of the Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, from an East Germanic (Gepidic) grave discovered in 1910. #Gold plating on silver with inlaid garnet, glass, enamel.
#Archaeology
#Art #History #artwork #Jewellery
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We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📅 Date: June 30, 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00 CET
📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)
📅 Date: June 30, 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00 CET
📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)
May 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📅 Date: June 30, 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00 CET
📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)
📅 Date: June 30, 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00 CET
📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/9775805212...)
⏰ 2.5 days left to get your #BABAO2025 abstracts in before the end of this weekend!
📅 DEADLINE: midnight 18 May!!
📅 DEADLINE: midnight 18 May!!
May 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
⏰ 2.5 days left to get your #BABAO2025 abstracts in before the end of this weekend!
📅 DEADLINE: midnight 18 May!!
📅 DEADLINE: midnight 18 May!!
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The British School at Rome is inviting expressions of interest from postdoctoral researchers for a range of fellowship schemes, including the British Academy, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Leverhulme Trust International Fellowships: bsr.ac.uk/call-for-exp...
Call for Expressions of Interest: Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities at the BSR - bsr.ac.uk
The British School at Rome (https://bsr.ac.uk) invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral scholars who wish to apply for a range of fellowships schemes: The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellows...
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May 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The British School at Rome is inviting expressions of interest from postdoctoral researchers for a range of fellowship schemes, including the British Academy, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Leverhulme Trust International Fellowships: bsr.ac.uk/call-for-exp...
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After a Melsonby-hoard-related delay, the announcement of this is finally official - I've been on tenterhooks waiting!
Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)
Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)
May 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
After a Melsonby-hoard-related delay, the announcement of this is finally official - I've been on tenterhooks waiting!
Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)
Viking North is going to showcase a wonderful collection, including the first public presentation of finds from the Great Army camp at Aldwark. I'm very pleased and excited :)