As last year, our new ArchaeoSciences students wrapped up their first term with a poster session. Complete with conference-grade coffee, strategic cookie placement, and a nosy audience asking *very* specific questions. ☕🍪👀
Poster for a lecture titled “Bridging the gap between zooarchaeology and machine learning.” At the top, a stylized blue silhouette of a deer is shown alongside a line drawing of a deer skeleton. To the right, icons representing machine learning and a colorful heatmap matrix with animal silhouettes illustrate computational analysis. The lecture is by Dr. Manon Vuillien (CEPAM / CNRS), scheduled for 6.2. 2026 at 16:15. Logos of VolkswagenStiftung, the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (BoCAS), and the University of Bonn appear at the bottom.
How can machine learning support archaeozoological research? Meet Manon Vuillien for our last talk of this term in HS2 this Friday or get in touch for the Zoom link!
Cosima Hebel presenting in front of a projection of her title slide that reads: Tracing archaic Greek trade through biomolecular archaeology and techno typology. The case of the transport amphorae from Marseille.
In the Classical Archaeology Colloquium on Friday, our student assistant Cosima Hebel presented initial findings of her M.A. thesis on the contents of a sample of transport amphorae from Marseille. Well done, Cosima!
poster for a lecture featuring close-up images of gold jewelry from the early bronze age Hisarlik/Troy "treasures", including basket earrings and butterfly beads. Text reads: "Reminder! Schliemann’s golden treasures of Troy and related finds: Composition and provenance. Prof. Dr. Ernst Pernicka, CEZA Mannheim, 23.01.2026 at 16:15." Logos of VolkswagenStiftung, Bonn Center for Archaeosciences (BoCAS), and Universität Bonn appear along the bottom. The background is a pale green-grey.
Where did the gold for the treasures of Early Bronze Age centers in the Eastern Mediterranean such as Hisarlık/Troy and Ur originate? Find out about new ICP-MS results presented by Ernst Pernicka this Friday at 4PM HS2 or e-mail us for the Zoom link!
Researchers standing on the "RheinKrake"“ — a floating litter trap installed in 2022 near the Zoobrücke bridge in Cologne. A large amount of trash can be seen that has already been collected by the “RheinKrake.”
🗑️ #ScienceSnack: Some 53,000 items of litter flow past Cologne daily in the Rhine – an amount many times larger than previously believed. That's the “dirty” result from a citizen science project led by @unibonn.bsky.social. Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/mblomiuhmr
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Poster showing a photo of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. team in the field, lecture title Recovery and identification of WWII aircraft wreckages - insights into the work of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. and place/date of talk, logos of VolkswagenStiftung, BoCAS and Uni Bonn
Our first talk in the new year takes us into WWII archaeology: Jörg Dietsche and Julian Weller present the work of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. This Friday, 4PM in HS 2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
Poster showing a birds-eye view photo of a green steppe landscape with meandering river channels. Text announces Dr. Christina Carolus, Yale University and lecture title: Reconsidering the Steppe and the Sown: Archaeobotanical and Biomolecular Insights into Foodways Transformations and Early Political Complexity in Mongolia. Logos of VolkswagenStiftung, uni Bonn and BoCAS
250 BC to 150 AD, the Xiongnu formed one of the earliest nomadic polities in Eastern Eurasia. Linked to the later Huns in Europe or not, their foodways were far more agricultural and diverse than assumed. Join us and @cmcarolus.bsky.social this Friday in HS2 — or get in touch for the Zoom link!
We are delighted to learn that our Çatalhöyük archaeogenetics study published in @science.org was chosen as one of @archaeologymag.bsky.social 's top 10 discoveries of 2025. 💃🏻👩🏻🔬 🧪 🏺
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Past beers and ways to archaeologically detect them: contribution by Alisa Scheibner and me to this yummy #bierinderantike volume edited by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe and @kai-ruffing.bsky.social 🍻
Poster showing an axial CT of a human skull with a fracture in the eoccipital part text announcing PD Dr. Stefan Potente's (Uni Bonn) talk "Injuries in fresh bone – as seen by the forensic pathologist" 5.12.2025, 16:15
Brace yourself for Stefan Potente's talk! Blunt and sharp force are daily fare in contemporary forensics. Crossbows and sabres have mostly disappeared, but fresh bone injuries still raise questions — especially “fall or assault?” This Friday 16h in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
Huge congrats to our @barahuber.bsky.social and colleagues for their new book on the evidence for fragrance and smoke in archaeology! 💨Scents of Arabia 💨brings this invisible, long-lost aspect back to the surface for the first time: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
The term has started with a talk by James Fellows Yates on FAIR data in ArchaeoScience! Stay tuned - the next talk in our Debates in ArchaeoSciences series will be on December 5th!
A journey into the sensory world of ancient Arabia: incense, ritual, trade, memory & scent 🌿🔥🏺🧪
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Poster with BoCAS and Uni Bonn Logos DEBATES IN ARCHAEOSCIENCES FRIDAYS AT 16h (c.t.) AVZ III, Römerstr.164 / 0.007 HS 2 To join online get in touch at bocas@uni-bonn.de 07.11.2025 JAMES FELLOWS YATES Poor metadata and data archiving is holding back archaeological sciences 05.12.2025 STEFAN POTENTE Injuries in fresh bone – as seen by the forensic pathologist 12.12.2025 CHRISTINA CAROLUS TBA 09.01.2026 JÖRG DIETSCHE & JULIAN WELLER Recovery and identification of WWII aircraft wreckages. Insights into the word of the AG Luftkriegsgeschichte Rhein/Mosel e.V. 23.01.2026 ERNST PERNICKA Schliemann’s golden treasures of Troy and related finds: Composition and provenance 06.02.2026 MANON VUILLIEN Bridging the gap between zooarchaeology and machine learning
A new academic year means new classes, new faces, and new Debates! You all are welcome to join us - come along in person Friday s at 4PM or get in touch for the Zoom link !
Happy to appear in this one together with Çiler Çilingiroğlu: www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft...
Making the impossible possible: @alicetoso.bsky.social wants to develop reliable methods for determining the concentration of steroid #hormones in centuries-old human bones.
Another exciting pioneering project 👍 – we wish you every success!
First celebratory cake was a blueberry pound cake inspire by the @VWStiftung logo 🍰
🎉 Our own @alicetoso.bsky.social won a €1.4 million grant from @volkswagenstiftung.de! In this groundbreaking project, she’ll trace hormones in historically contextualized archaeological skeletons, shedding light on pregnancy, menopause and more across 200 years. www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/135-...
We just kicked off a citizen science project in @bocas-news.bsky.social where we’re teaming up with retired + active medical doctors to help interpret complex paleopathological cases while having fun. Our 1st session of the Ärtze-Konsil was great ✨🦴🧬 #citizenscience #paleopathology #bioarchaeology
Erste Vortragsfolie des Vortrags "Grenzen des Wachstums: Wirtschafts- und sozialarchäologische Aspekte menschlicher Körperhöhe" (Eva Rosenstock 8.7. 14h Forschungskolloquium Zentrum für Altertumswissenschaften der Uni Heideblberg); sie zeigt neben dem Titel eine Visualisierung der Sonde Pioneer 10 im All
ich freue mich auf morgen! veranstaltungskalender.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/veranstaltun...
Congratulations from us upstream!
@vfg-arch-bonn.bsky.social
Poster showing a photo of a view over Buchara, with a Madaras in foreground and the Ark citadel in the background. Title of the talk is "Surviving, Thriving, and Dying in a Medieval Islamic Oasis: Skeletal Evidence for Nutrition and Disease in Qarakhanid (12th-13th cen. CE) Bukhara, Uzbekistan”, Shannon Monroe, New York University, 11.7.25, 16:15
We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known, We take the Golden Road to Samarkand (J E Flecker) 🕌 Stop over with us and Shannon Monroe in Buchara for the last debates talk this semester - in HS2 or via Zoom!
8,000 years ago, two babies were buried at Çatalhöyük West. Excavated and analyzed during our excavations, their DNA links them to East Mound — now part of this amazing paper. Very, very happy to contribute & huge thanks to the teams involved!
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Poster showing aerial view of the Beg ar Loued settlement under excavation at low tide. ©Marine nationale, 2009. Text reads: Reminder! What did people cook in Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery on the Atlantic coast? A new way of understanding foodways and culinary practices based on the lipid content of ceramic vessels. Dr. Martine Regert, CNRS
What did people cook in Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery on the Atlantic coast? Martine Regert will present lipid results from dairy 🥛 to beeswax 🐝, but a surprising lack of seafood 🐟. Join us today at 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
Poster showing a birds eye view across a deforested hilly landscape under a blue sky with fluffly white clouds. An elongated blue mountain with three summits is looming in the distance on the horizon. Text announces the talk "Crafting the City: Ceramic Production and Urbanisation in Etruria (late 10th – mid 7th century BCE)”.
Join us this Friday when Silvia Amicone shares her material science perspective on pottery production in Etruria between the end of the early Iron Age and the beginning of the Orientalising period: 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!
Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/
Gestern war BoCAS beim wunderbaren #Stiftshoffest in #Nideggen: Ernährungsrekonstruktion anhand von Gefäßrückständen, stabilen Isotopen und Skeletten. Ein schöner Tag und interessante Gespräche mit Laien und Fachleuten - danke an das Team der LVR-Bodendenkmalpflege für die Einladung!
Reparieren, gemeinsam nutzen, weiterverwenden: Wir suchen Praxisbeispiele zum Thema "Forschungsgeräte #nachhaltig nutzen"!
👉 Die überzeugendsten Projekte können ihre Ideen beim Workshop (8./9.12.2025) gemeinsam mit anderen Teilnehmenden weiterentwickeln.
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