Working at Uni Tübingen is ... wild! 🕷️🕸️

Some of the star finds:
🏺 Sublimation vessels, used in the production of the red pigment vermillion
🧪A glass alembic, used for distilling medicinal waters such as alcohol
🪡 Silk dyed with kermes
👃 Near-Eastern perfume sprinklers

🏺 New research just published! 🧪

A rare case from a 14th-century brothel in Aalst reveals an infant that was likely breastfed and buried with care — challenging long-held assumptions about medieval sex workers and infanticide.

👉 Read it here in Open Access: rdcu.be/eh4Lj

Umziehen – to move.

A new chapter begins! 🎉

Yesterday, I started as a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Tübingen, researching medieval sex work in Flanders through aDNA analysis.

Excited for the next two years—come find me at the castle! 🏰

Goodbye ugly green floor and lovely colleagues at Ghent University 🥲 getting ready for my #MSCA at @unituebingen.bsky.social ! 🥳

Al gehoord van Monnikerede of Hoeke? Het zijn nochtans wereldsteden, of eerder, dat waren ze. Lees alles over hun op- en ondergang en die van de andere Zwinsteden in onze bijdrage voor de 'Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen', vanaf vandaag in de boekhandel! 📚 met @jtrachet.bsky.social en Wim De Clercq

Lees nu Ex Situ, het tijdschrift voor Vlaamse archeologie, met onder andere onze bijdrage over een Afrikaanse parasiet te Brugge, alsook onderzoek van @jtrachet.bsky.social naar de betrouwbaarheid van de 16de-eeuwse Pourbus-kaart 🏺🪱🗺🧪

Join us next week if you're in or around the Basque Country!
#archaeology 🏺

⛵ Likely via Mediterranean trade. Spanish merchants in late medieval Bruges may have unknowingly brought S. mansoni along during trade journeys. Bruges, as an international hub, connected Europe with Africa through goods like gold, ivory, and spices.

📜 In 1996, a 15th-c. cesspit was excavated in Bruges' Spanjaardstraat. Recent analysis revealed an S. mansoni egg—marking the northernmost discovery of this parasite, typically confined to Africa and its specific freshwater snails. How did it get here?

🌍🐛 An unexpected traveler: An African parasite was discovered in a medieval cesspit in Bruges! This unique find offers insights into the spread of infectious diseases through migration and trade. Read on for details. 🧵 🏺🧪