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#BioarchClimateConference #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Bioarchaeology #NaturalSciences_DAI #Groundcheck  @dai_weltweit On the 2nd and 3rd of December 2021, the Human Bioarchaeology Unit (Division of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute) organised the free online conference “Back(Bone) to the Future – Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Climate Change and Climate Crisis”. The conference presented a global, long-term Read more…

#Bioarchaeology #methodology #workshop #ZWA_DAI @DAI_weltweit Members of the Human Bioarchaeology Unit participated in a workshop to discuss different methods of age estimation and sex determination in subadults on the base of a collection of identified subadult skeletons. The workshop was held by the AG Freiberufliche Osteoanthropologen (AFOA, WG Freelance Osteo-Anthropologists) Read more…

#BioarchClimateConference #Bioarchaeology #Paleopathology #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NaturalSciences_DAI @dai_weltweit Registration is now open for the free online conference BACK(BONE) TO THE FUTURE. Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Climate Change and Climate Crisis, taking place on the 2nd and 3rd of December 2021.   The Call for Papers is still open until the 21st of Read more…

#Ba‘ja #Bioarchaeology #ZWA_DAI @DAI_weltweit @ex_oriente_eV @ORF @ARTEpresse This year’s short field campaign in Neolithic Ba’ja, Jordan, with ex oriente e. V. produced exciting findings. Excavations in one of the larger rooms helped clarifying structures belonging to a multiple burial and revealed another juvenile individual with a few but unique beads Read more…

Ancient human bones find new life in the digital era. #digitisation #3D #Bioarchaeology #ZWA_DAI @DAI_weltweit Monice Timm, our former assistant researcher, digitised (Artec Spider light scanner, courtesy of KLIB) the bones from Khyinga, Mustang District, Nepal, to build up a reference collection (Photo by Julia Gresky, German Archaeological Institute). Digitisation Read more…

#ancientraredisease #ZWA_DAI @DAI_weltweit @sciencedirect Our Special Issue on Ancient Rare Diseases is finally out! We got virtually together with the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Paleopathology (IJPP) and most of the authors to celebrate this milestone and to have a chat on the next steps to promote the study Read more…

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Our latest work on the ancient rare diseases is now out! Read all about it in the October 2020 issue of the Lancet D&E. This innovative study presents a case of osteopetrosis from Neolithic Albania. You will find in it a thorough photographic and radiographic documentation, including also μCT images, Read more…

Within the framework of the Ground check project our team is currently working on a challenging skeletal sample from Khyinga, Nepal (Photo by Julia Gresky, German Archaeological Institute). The bones from a large multiple burial date back to approximately 300 BCE. They are commingled and have to be sorted, cleaned, restored, and Read more…