Christophe Snoeck
@christophe-fire.bsky.social
Isotope Bioarchaeologist, head of the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab of AMGC, VUB, Belgium
The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025 😀
April 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025 😀
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Last Friday I had the pleasure to give a talk at the @ulbruxelles.bsky.social on radiocarbon dating in archaeology.
Thanks to Alicia Van Ham-Meert, Yaël Antonaros and Kristin Bartik for the invitation! Lovely to catch up with you all, @christophe-fire.bsky.social, & @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social 🙏💙
Thanks to Alicia Van Ham-Meert, Yaël Antonaros and Kristin Bartik for the invitation! Lovely to catch up with you all, @christophe-fire.bsky.social, & @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social 🙏💙
April 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Last Friday I had the pleasure to give a talk at the @ulbruxelles.bsky.social on radiocarbon dating in archaeology.
Thanks to Alicia Van Ham-Meert, Yaël Antonaros and Kristin Bartik for the invitation! Lovely to catch up with you all, @christophe-fire.bsky.social, & @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social 🙏💙
Thanks to Alicia Van Ham-Meert, Yaël Antonaros and Kristin Bartik for the invitation! Lovely to catch up with you all, @christophe-fire.bsky.social, & @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social 🙏💙
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
(1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species.
If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩
(1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species.
If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩
Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline
AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p
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March 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
(1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species.
If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩
(1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species.
If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩
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BBLAB has so much to celebrate! 🎉 @christophe-fire.bsky.social's 10-year milestone at VUB and his recent PhD Supervisor Prize, plus the arrival of new members set the stage for an exciting 2025. Here’s to a year filled with research, isotopes and collaboration!
February 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BBLAB has so much to celebrate! 🎉 @christophe-fire.bsky.social's 10-year milestone at VUB and his recent PhD Supervisor Prize, plus the arrival of new members set the stage for an exciting 2025. Here’s to a year filled with research, isotopes and collaboration!
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Welcoming our newest postdoc Dr Danaé Guiserix with a morning of mass spec training!
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February 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Welcoming our newest postdoc Dr Danaé Guiserix with a morning of mass spec training!
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@christophe-fire.bsky.social
@toothdetective.bsky.social
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New paper out by @jbioarch.bsky.social 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
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
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain
Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recent...
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January 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New paper out by @jbioarch.bsky.social 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
Isotopic analysis of 🦷& 🦴tells us more 🧵1/6
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So excited to share our accepted manuscript! It sets up a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe.
Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.
Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!
Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.
Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!
Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in North-western Europe: Establishing a baseline
AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p
academic.oup.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:39 PM
So excited to share our accepted manuscript! It sets up a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe.
Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.
Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!
Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.
Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!
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Great work by @rosaliehermans.bsky.social & the team on developing a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe to make it easier accurately interpret archaeological and palaeoecological data!
@tloeffelmann.bsky.social @christophe-fire.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social 🌱🌿
@tloeffelmann.bsky.social @christophe-fire.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social 🌱🌿
So excited to share our accepted manuscript! It sets up a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe.
Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.
Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!
Phytolith researchers working on reference materials know how time-consuming this type of work is 🥵, I hope it will be useful to many.
Happy reading soon and feel free to reach out!
Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in North-western Europe: Establishing a baseline
AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p
academic.oup.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Great work by @rosaliehermans.bsky.social & the team on developing a dicot phytolith baseline for NW Europe to make it easier accurately interpret archaeological and palaeoecological data!
@tloeffelmann.bsky.social @christophe-fire.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social 🌱🌿
@tloeffelmann.bsky.social @christophe-fire.bsky.social @caestromberg.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social 🌱🌿
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Last week, @christophe-fire.bsky.social was in Trento, to attend the MOLA workshop, part of Dr Giacomo Capuzzo's MSCA post-doc fellowship. The first exciting results were presented, which use multi-isotope analyses of inhumation & cremations in the Italian Alps from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
December 16, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Last week, @christophe-fire.bsky.social was in Trento, to attend the MOLA workshop, part of Dr Giacomo Capuzzo's MSCA post-doc fellowship. The first exciting results were presented, which use multi-isotope analyses of inhumation & cremations in the Italian Alps from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
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A recap of this year's research with the FWO. Plant sampling in Latvia with the team (inc. @christophe-fire.bsky.social / @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social ). Bring back the summer!
December 16, 2024 at 3:03 PM
A recap of this year's research with the FWO. Plant sampling in Latvia with the team (inc. @christophe-fire.bsky.social / @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social ). Bring back the summer!
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Hear Rachèl Spros talk about her research on Belgian Radio 1 📻 Rachèl was part of the multidisciplinary Make-Up of the City project and used isotopes to reconstruct the mobility and diet of city-dwellers in medieval Ypres 🏰
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December 6, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Hear Rachèl Spros talk about her research on Belgian Radio 1 📻 Rachèl was part of the multidisciplinary Make-Up of the City project and used isotopes to reconstruct the mobility and diet of city-dwellers in medieval Ypres 🏰
www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
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This month @elliestam.bsky.social and @osteolady.bsky.social have been working on the excavation of LBA/EIA cremation graves at Steenwijk in The Netherlands. The cremation depositions will come back to AMGC to be CT scanned and then micro-excavated!
December 6, 2024 at 3:28 PM
This month @elliestam.bsky.social and @osteolady.bsky.social have been working on the excavation of LBA/EIA cremation graves at Steenwijk in The Netherlands. The cremation depositions will come back to AMGC to be CT scanned and then micro-excavated!
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New BB-LAB paper out 👍🏻 Marta Hlad and the team identified and characterised patterns in cremation analysis practices through an online survey of those working on cremated human remains 👇
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Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation
Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research...
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December 3, 2024 at 11:42 AM
New BB-LAB paper out 👍🏻 Marta Hlad and the team identified and characterised patterns in cremation analysis practices through an online survey of those working on cremated human remains 👇
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Marta (as well as @tloeffelmann.bsky.social, @toothdetective.bsky.social, @christophe-fire.bsky.social, @osteolady.bsky.social and myself) has a new paper out in Plos One!
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journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation
Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research...
journals.plos.org
December 3, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Marta (as well as @tloeffelmann.bsky.social, @toothdetective.bsky.social, @christophe-fire.bsky.social, @osteolady.bsky.social and myself) has a new paper out in Plos One!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Taking place now online and in-person at @univie.ac.at @christophe-fire.bsky.social being introduced by #KatarinaRebaySalisbury as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #ArchaeologicalScience
November 25, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Taking place now online and in-person at @univie.ac.at @christophe-fire.bsky.social being introduced by #KatarinaRebaySalisbury as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #ArchaeologicalScience
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So thought about what to post first….I guess what I am really proud of: our wonderful paper on really weird burial rituals. Have fun reading!
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Assembling ancestors: the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman skeletal remains at Pommerœul, Belgium | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Assembling ancestors: the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman skeletal remains at Pommerœul, Belgium
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November 17, 2024 at 2:50 PM
So thought about what to post first….I guess what I am really proud of: our wonderful paper on really weird burial rituals. Have fun reading!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A lot has happened since then! We began the process of acquiring permits for sampling human remains by visiting the Museu de Mallorca (twice!) and the Museu de Menorca and Museu de Ciutadella.
November 19, 2024 at 9:20 AM
A lot has happened since then! We began the process of acquiring permits for sampling human remains by visiting the Museu de Mallorca (twice!) and the Museu de Menorca and Museu de Ciutadella.
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This weekend is the Wetenschapsfestival Brussel 2024, and we are doing a (temporary) tattoo parlour for children with Archaeology & Cosmo-Geochemistry designs - coming two of the many disciplines in our department. if you're in Brussels, the event is free, the tattoos are also free!
November 21, 2024 at 9:46 AM
This weekend is the Wetenschapsfestival Brussel 2024, and we are doing a (temporary) tattoo parlour for children with Archaeology & Cosmo-Geochemistry designs - coming two of the many disciplines in our department. if you're in Brussels, the event is free, the tattoos are also free!
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Hello, we are the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab, a team based at VUB researching archaeological mobility, diet, health, cremation conditions, plants, animals and more from all around the 🌍 and from the Neolithic to the present. 🦴⚱️🔥🦷🗺👩🔬
Follow us and our team here:
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Follow us and our team here:
go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev
November 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Hello, we are the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab, a team based at VUB researching archaeological mobility, diet, health, cremation conditions, plants, animals and more from all around the 🌍 and from the Neolithic to the present. 🦴⚱️🔥🦷🗺👩🔬
Follow us and our team here:
go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev
Follow us and our team here:
go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev
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We are looking forward to welcoming @christophe-fire.bsky.social from @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
to #HEASVienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience next Monday.
Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗 👇
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HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Christophe Snoeck from Vrije Universiteit Brussel will give a talk on ‚Behind the scenes of isotope bioarchaeology – new developments and ...
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November 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
We are looking forward to welcoming @christophe-fire.bsky.social from @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
to #HEASVienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience next Monday.
Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗 👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
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👋Hello Bluesky, I'm Hannah, a postdoc fellow at @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social, working on unravelling archaeological diets by using stable (δ⁸⁸Sr) & radiogenic (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) strontium isotopes & concentrations in tooth enamel & cremated bones. I'm a big fan of anything isotopic & archaeological! 🦴🦷🔥
November 18, 2024 at 9:45 AM
👋Hello Bluesky, I'm Hannah, a postdoc fellow at @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social, working on unravelling archaeological diets by using stable (δ⁸⁸Sr) & radiogenic (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) strontium isotopes & concentrations in tooth enamel & cremated bones. I'm a big fan of anything isotopic & archaeological! 🦴🦷🔥
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Hello everyone! A little introduction to myself 🙋🏼♀️
I am from the UK originally 🇬🇧 but have spent time in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 doing my masters and am now a second year PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🇧🇪
I am from the UK originally 🇬🇧 but have spent time in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 doing my masters and am now a second year PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🇧🇪
November 18, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Hello everyone! A little introduction to myself 🙋🏼♀️
I am from the UK originally 🇬🇧 but have spent time in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 doing my masters and am now a second year PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🇧🇪
I am from the UK originally 🇬🇧 but have spent time in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 doing my masters and am now a second year PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🇧🇪
Here we are 😊 A new adventure begins @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Here we are 😊 A new adventure begins @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social