Congress

30th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting in Rome, 2024

Settembre 2, 2024 /

Last week the 30th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting was held at Sapienza University of Rome where BIOANTH laboratory participated with a keynote speech by Prof. Luca Bondioli, 24 contributions by international researchers and “Advanced Methodologies for Life History Reconstruction in Bioarchaeology” session dedicated to advanced techniques in bioarchaeological studies from different archaeological areas and periods.

Session contributions →

  • Göhring, Andrea et al. Sea spray effect on 14C dating and beyond: 13C and 14C analysis sheds light on sea spray induced physiological reactions
  • Lugli, Federico et al. Sr isotopes spatial distribution in Italy: geocomputational tools to track the geographical origin of humans and animals
  • Stuart, Emma et al. Tracing mobility: exploring isoscapes and statistical methods in assessing allochthony of past populations
  • Esposito, Carmen et al. Nothing goes to waste: a novel protocol to optimize destructive sampling of ancient teeth
  • Griffith, Jacob et al. How long in the tooth? Discussing the trials and tribulations of multi-sampling human teeth for isotope analysis
  • Barlow, Aimee et al. Unravelling hormonal histories: preliminary findings from a novel method to detect reproductive hormones in human remains using enzyme immunoassay analysis
  • Gigante, Melania et al. “The age of wisdom”. Exploring age-at-menarche in women’s wisdom teeth: a tool for the bioarchaeological study of female reproductive life-histories
  • Galbusera, Alessia et al. Blood of my blood: maternal health and diet inferred from high-resolution histology-driven, biogeochemical analysis of prenatal deciduous tooth enamel
  • Oldershaw, Leigh et al. A blessing or a curse: using lead contamination to supplement Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca studies of Roman infant nursing practices
  • Smith, Tanya et al. Testing isotopic and elemental approaches to documenting nursing behavior in the teeth of living children
  • Magri, Stefano et al. Growth patterns and developmental trajectories of first deciduous molars: a multidisciplinary approach combining histomorphometric and amelogenin analyses
  • Witzel, Carsten et al. Tooth histology and stable oxygen and strontium isotope profiles to resolve a climate-stress-relationship over individual human early life courses
  • Anczkiewicz, Robert et al. High spatial resolution measurements of Sr isotopes and trace element abundance in dental tissues: implications for mobility and seasonality studies
  • Rand, Asta & Madgwick, Richard. A multi-proxy analysis of life and death histories at maya archaeological sites: introducing the iso-histological approach
  • Laffoon, Jason. Life history reconstructions of enslaved Africans in Caribbean colonial contexts
  • Loeffelmann, Tessi et al. Scorching the surface: creating more nuanced life mobility histories of the cremated dead
  • Capasso, Giusy et al. Isotopes and peptides. The multi-disciplinary study of the Middle Iron Age necropolis of Cus-Piovego, Padua, Italy
  • Lemmers, Simone et al. Virtual bone histology for the assessment of life history: a multimodal approach for the characterization of Krapina Neanderthal skeletal microstructure
  • Parker, Glendon et al. Sex estimation and phylogenetic characterization of Pleistocene faunal enamel
  • Boric, Dusan et al. Seasonality of red deer (C. Elaphus) revisited using tooth cementum annulation and elemental analysis by field-emission SEM-EDS
  • Holt, Emily & Madgwick, Richard. Animal life histories and the economy of an early nuraghe: zooarchaeology and isotope analysis at Sa Conca ‘e Sa Cresia
  • Jones, Jennifer & Mulville, Jacqui. Understanding animal life histories and biocultural adaptations to challenging environments through multi-isotope analysis of neonatal faunal remains
  • Knipper, Corina & Geschwinde, Michael. Stable isotope analyses of cattle teeth from a neolithic earthwork in lower Saxony, Germany: insights into birthing seasons and mobility
  • Vuillien, Manon et al. Tracking archaeological sheep breed diversity in southwest Asia in paleoproteomic

EAA Abstract book and programme here. Many thanks to all participants and congratulations!