Dr Emma Tollefsen
@EmmaTollefsen
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Join @SscipChildhood for our Annual Lecture by @Maryosteokids on 20th March... it's going to be a fascinating talk Link to register below
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📰 Burials uncovered at a Gallic cemetery discovered are unusual: the individuals are seated upright and facing west, an atypical arrangement for the time #ArchaeologyNews via @Gizmodo
https://t.co/dLsd5dioHt
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The cluster of 13 burials, all facing west, includes a skeleton still wearing a black wristband.
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Glass bead, sub-triangular, blue with white cabled scroll on each corner and collar of same on end, the other end broken away. Dates to 500-1100AD, discovered in Ireland #FindsFriday Image and description @britishmuseum
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FELIZ de compartir la publicación del libro "Antropología virtual: Innovación y aplicaciones metodológicas para la identificación humana" que hemos editado con @MirshaQuinto como resultado nuestro proyecto financiado por la @DAAD_Germany Link de descarga: https://t.co/ofHSip6LHE
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🚨🚨🚨Join us in sunny Zagreb this August for the 4th Annual ICORB Meeting! Abstract submission opens April 21st - we welcome submissions in the areas of Roman zooarchaeology, human osteology, paleoethnobotany, mortuary archaeology, and more! 🦴🍇🌾🐷🐐🐄
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Coming to paperback next month: The Vikings in the Hebrides by Niall Sharples.
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3200+ year old drawing on papyrus showing two cats attending a mouse dressed in elite linen garments 😻😹🧡 #Egypt #Egyptology #ancientegypt #Caturday #papyrus #rolereversal
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New paper out by @JBioarch 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
Today my new paper was published in Plos One. High-resolution Neolithic life history reconstructions using Incremental dentine, bone collagen, and multi-enamel sampling! I'm really pleased with this one! https://t.co/UVVKOgJ5wb
@BrusselsBioarch @AMGC_VUB
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WE ARE HIRING - TWO RESEARCH ASSOCIATES FOR 15 MONTHS We are looking for someone who can use their expertise in ancient languages such as Coptic, Syriac, or Middle Persian to investigate late antique / early medieval sources for domestic slavery. Link in the replies!
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🎭It’s not carnival yet, but bring your antler mask and turtle rattle to HS2 (or online) this Friday at 4PM! Jörg Orschiedt (@FUBerlin & @MuseumHalle) unveils new archaeological insights into a key Mesolithic burial in Central Europe🦌🐺🐢#DebatesInArchaeoSciences
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📢10th BONE DIAGENESIS MEETING #BD2025 Where: Athens 🇬🇷 When: 24-26 September 2025 ☀️ 📞 FOR ABSTRACTS Submission deadline: 31 March Early 🐥 registration: 15 July For more information check https://t.co/JfqrgvFtkW And 👇🏻
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From the Age of Beowulf: 6th century gold and silver brooch from Sjælland, Denmark 🇩🇰
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Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt
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The @ArchAncHistLeic Wednesday Research Seminars start up this week with @EmmaBaysal and @seramandalina on 'Decolonial Perspectives on Identity and Archaeology: a view from within / Türkiye'. Hybrid from 5pm (UK) on Weds 22nd. Email arch-wedseminar@leicester.ac.uk for a link!
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🦷🚨Are you into teeth? Here is the @TobacHistory projects latest work on an index for assessing oral health in the past. https://t.co/JvEomiaQlJ Congrats @DrDaviesB for leading this, and @NickJakubovics and @DrRichHolliday for their contributions!
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Kicking off the new year, our paper by @leo_speidel et al. is out describing what to me is a breakthrough in ancient genomics. By using genealogies to study ancestry we can get much more resolution to study finer-scale history. We call this method Twigstats.
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📢 We're hiring! We’re looking for someone with a fieldwork background to support an early career archaeologist in our Salisbury team. You’ll be confident building rapport and advocating for the neurodivergent community in the workplace. Apply by 10 Jan https://t.co/5SW6DTLmip
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