#BABAO2025
Do you do #bioarchaeology? Do you have some great research you want to share? 💀🩻🔬

📃 Then submit an #abstract for this year’s #BABAO2025 #conference HERE:

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📅 Deadline: midnight 16 May

@babao2025meeting.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#BABAO2025 Poster Sessions:

3 — ‘Biomolecular analyses in bioarchaeology’ 💀⚗️🧬
September 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📢 You have 1 WEEK to submit your abstract for #BABAO2025❗️

📃 max. 250 words outlining:

— Research aims/objectives
— Materials
— Methods
— Results
— Conclusions

Submit your abstract HERE:

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📅 Deadline: midnight 16 May

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May 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Had the pleasure of presenting my poster at @babao2025meeting.bsky.social

My research focused on #climate and maxillary sinusitis in #roman and early medieval populations

#BABAO2025 #Archaeology #paleopathology #climateheritage
September 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚨 DEADLINE TODAY 🚨

📃 max. 250 words outlining:

— Research aims/objectives
— Materials
— Methods
— Results
— Conclusions

Submit your #BABAO2025 abstract HERE:

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📧 BABAOconference2025@gmail.com

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#bioarchaeology #conference
May 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It’s the final countdown to #BABAO2025 🙌🏻

HAPPENING TOMORROW ‼️
September 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
💀 Conference PROGRAMME:

📆 Thursday 18 September

#BABAO2025
September 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
KEYNOTE 1

Now we have our first Keynote Lecture of #BABAO2025:

Ben Donnelly-Symes, Dale Munn & Carmel Crawley talk about ‘Building community through osteology: Volunteering at the Northamptonshire Archaeological Resource Centre’ 💡⛏️🤝🏻
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This afternoon we’ll be gamifying osteobiographies in Workshop 5 — to explore the theoretical process of making narrative interpretations of human skeletons 💀♟️📜 #BABAO2025
September 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
KEYNOTE 2

To round off Day 2 of #BABAO2025, we have our second Keynote Lecture:

Linda Mbeki discusses their research on ‘From bones to ancestors: Embodiment, structural violence, and social justice’ 👩🏿‍🦱⛓️⚖️
September 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
3.24 — Next Xander King et al. discusses ‘Refitting in dry dock: Considering archaeological naval cemetery populations through commingling and fragmented human remains’ 🪖🪦🦴 #BABAO2025
September 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🚨🚨 Just over 1 week until #abstract submissions close for #BABAO2025 😱 where has the time gone!

Send us your 250 word abstracts by May 16th 11:59 PM. Results are definitely not necessary!
May 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#BABAO2025 in person registration closes tomorrow 🙈🙈
August 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
1.5 — WORKSHOP 5 sees John Robb and Marianne Hem Eriksen discussing ‘Bone Lives: Interpreting Human Remains through Osteobiographies’ 🪦🕵🏻‍♀️💀

#BABAO2025
September 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
And finally...

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to all the brilliant speakers and poster presenters at #BABAO2025 — you put on the most impressive and fabulously engaging showcase of the value and importance of continuing researching in the fields of biological anthropology & osteoarchaeology!

#TheBestPeople
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September 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
PRIZES

And congratulations to Rachael Hall for her fabulous research on 'Exploring proteomic analysis as a method for identifying brucellosis in archaeological human skeletons' — which won the best Student Podium presentation at #BABAO2025! 💀🎤🏆
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September 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
2.2 — Next we look at commensal connections with Alice Rose et al. in their talk on ‘Investigating rat dietary ecology and human-rat interactions in medieval and post-medieval Europe through stable isotope analysis’ 🐀💀🔬 #BABAO2025
September 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🚨 DEADLINE EXTENDED 🚨

The deadline for submitting your abstract to #BABAO2025 has been extended till midnight on 1️⃣8️⃣ May‼️

More info HERE:

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@babao2025meeting.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
3.35 — Our final talk of #BABAO2025 examines ‘Evidence of anatomisation from the 19th century Bristol Union workhouse cemetery’ with Sharon Clough et al. 🪦💀🏛️
September 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
3.27 — Our session on ‘The state of our bones: mortuary practices, taphonomy, and the conundrum of commingling’ continues now (6B); where Catherine Roberts et al. are ‘Testing the waters: The effect of deposition environment on dental diagenesis’ 🌊🦷🔬 #BABAO2025
September 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🦷 Conference PROGRAMME:

📆 Friday 19 September

#BABAO2025
September 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
3.34 — The penultimate talk of #BABAO2025 sees Lauren McIntyre et al. questioning [if] “… many would rather die” (?) when investigating ‘Osteological evidence for deprivation in post-medieval Hull’ 🍴💀🪦
September 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🔬 Conference PROGRAMME:

📆 Saturday 20 September

#BABAO2025
September 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
2.16 — We travel north with Astrid A. Noterman et al. to explore ‘Bonds of doing: Dental modifications and activity markers in early churchyard burials from Gotland, Sweden’ 🦷⚔️🇩🇰 #BABAO2025
September 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
How lucky are we to host our #BABAO2025 Drinks Reception in the stunning Leicester Cathedral on a gorgeous evening like tonight!?!

Cheers to a brilliant day of engaging workshops! 🍷🍷
September 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM