Our PhD students, @VikingBodiesBM and @emlthom , have been getting some intensive osteoarchaeology training with project friend, @DrDaviesB, this term! 🦴🔎📒 It's been a great opportunity to expand their skillsets and gain new ways of looking at the people we study in the past.

We're excited about the release of the new volume 'Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates' by @uroshmatic, Bisserka Gaydarska, Laura Coltofean and Marta Díaz-Guardamino, which includes a new Body-Politics publication among its chapters! 📖🖊️

The new monograph by archaeologist and friend of the project @cratican is now out for publication! Keep an eye out for "Bodies, Beings, and the Multiple Burial Rite of the Western Viking World" (Routledge 2024) 📚👏 https://t.co/L39hu8H0pV

This summer, our PhD researcher @VikingBodiesBM was awarded a visiting research studentship at @EdinburghUni 🎓 Brad received training in extraction of bone collagen for isotopic analyses in collaboration with project affiliate @samleggs22 on the #ArchaeoFINS project 🔬🦴

Just over a week since the team got back from #eaa2024 and we're still buzzing! @VikingBodiesBM started us off with an exciting and multi-stranded appraisal of the burial record of, hereto understudied, unfree children in the Viking Age.

Five of our fantastic researchers (@mariheri , @EmmaTollefsen , @emlthom , Renate Larssen and @VikingBodiesBM) are heading to Rome this week to present their research at this year's EAA conference! Swipe through to see when you can hear about what we've been working on ✨️

Half of our team has headed over to Sweden and Denmark this month for some exciting data collection! Watch this space to see what @emmatollefsen @VikingBodiesBM and Renate get up to… 👀🔍

Yesterday we had an exciting mid-masterclass excursion to Whetstone Prehistoric Farm 🌾 Thanks to The Prehistoric Workshop team for guiding us through flint knapping, hafting and much more! We then rounded the day of hard work up with some grub 🍽️ @ArchAncHistLeic

Today is the first day of our annual Material Worlds masterclass! ✨ We have taken a deep dive exploration into papers submitted from members of our centre and talked all things theory 🧐🪨Thank you to our day’s convenor @clmorgan for navigating our conversations!

Last week, the Body-Politics team hosted Professor Neil Price of @UU_University for a project workshop at @uniofleicester 📕✍️ We had a great discussion with Neil and members of @ArchAncHistLeic about new ways of thinking about the body-politics of Viking worlds – thanks all!

We are hiring (again)! Who doesn’t want to join this superstar team (if we may say so ourselves)? ✨👌 We are looking for a second osteoarchaeologist to collaborate with us in interpreting and disseminating the weird and rich data we are collecting:👇 https://t.co/NNyvSXEOVu

@ArchAncHistLeic @emlthom Finally, @VikingBodiesBM asked the important question: "where are the children?" in the Iron and Viking Age burial records in Scandinavia. 🔍🚸 It was a great showing for the department all around; we were honoured to take part! 🥳 #bioarchaeology #mortuaryarchaeology

I really enjoyed this conversation with Kate Lister @WhoresofYore about our ongoing @ERC_Research 🤩

Back in September last year #BodyPoliticsERC PI @mariheri & PhD researcher @VikingBodiesBM, along with trace wear specialist Christina Tsoraki, headed to Stockholm to look at some fabulous late Iron Age & Viking Age anthropomorphic figurines and pendants at @historiskamuse 🧿🪞✨

There @EmmaTollefsen is looking at intriguing deposits of human remains and ‘body-objects’ from Migration Period and Viking Age settlements 💀🛖 And @VikingBodiesBM is examining important grave material and children from Vendel and Viking cemeteries 🪦🗡️ (2/4) #BodyPoliticsERC

Body-Politics data collection is storming ahead 🏎️💯 This time our osteologist @EmmaTollefsen and two of our brilliant PhD students, Brad (@VikingBodiesBM) and Renate, are in Sweden  🛫🇸🇪  (1/4) #BodyPoliticsERC #DataCollection #Research #VikingAge #Scandinavia #Archaeology

Our PI @mariheri out and about — this time presenting our project in the department of religion @AarhusUni_int ✨ Marianne lectured on anthropomorphic imagery beyond visual approaches in IA-VA Scandinavia

We officially celebrated the opening of our new @ArchAncHistLeic project space a couple of weeks ago! ✨🥳 The team also gave some excellent flashtalks from our Bodies That Matter exhibition, which were very well received 🙌🏻 #NewOfficeSpace #BodyPoliticsERC #VikingAge

📣 #BodyPoliticsERC NEWS 📸 We’ve made our #Instagram debut, so please do follow us over there - @bodypoliticsercs - for more exciting news from the project! We’ll still be cross-posting on here but our Instagram will be the best place to keep up with us going forward  👁️🔍

This project sounds fascinating. Can't wait to see the results! https://t.co/KKijDdsazU