It's so wonderful that Sharon DeWitte is here to tell us about her groundbreaking work on the plague pandemic. 😁

Very proud of my PhD student Jack Eggington for giving an excellent presentation on his research into infant feeding practices in early modern England! Paleopathology Association Uni of Reading Archaeology@Reading

Some amazing talks at the EuroPPA 2024 Leiden yesterday including George Maat talking about scurvy including historical books documenting this Paleopathology Association

LOVED the talk by Jack Eggington and Mary Lewis investigating maternal-infant health, diet and social status in industrial London EuroPPA 2024 Leiden Paleopathology Association

Super looking forward to the keynote by Rebecca Gowland this morning EuroPPA 2024 Leiden Paleopathology Association

The final morning and the final keynote from the always inspirational Rebecca Gowland!

Congratulations to Dr Anna Davies-Barrett for winning the Early Career Prize at the EuroPPA 2024 Leiden presenting our work on creating an Oro-health index for palaeopath. Also to project collaborator and friend Maia Casna 🐝💀🍉 she/her for also winning on her work on respiratory disease in Dutch groups 👏🏼🥳

Beyond happy to win the Early Career Prize at the Paleopathology Association European Conference this year on work I've done on the TobaccoHealthHistory Project 🎉🥳🎉🥳 Also just an all-round fantastic conference this year! Well done Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology!!!

Dr Lucy-Anne Taylor, expert in Anglo-Saxon instruments, drawing our bone flute! #CookhamDig24

It's out!! Thank you to the team in Elsevier and the wonderful Julia Gresky for all their hard work making our first supplement happen!

Visually impaired Archaeology student Jonathan Charmley spoke to BBC Radio 4's Peter White about losing his sight and how he continues to follow his passion at the Archaeology@Reading's Cookham field school. Listen now at rdg.ac/3X7t8YG

Catch up on our recent webinar where there is me talking about Bronze Age cremation burials

We are already halfway through pur session on #respiratorydisease at #EAA2024! So many interesting talks 🤩 Thank you to all of our fantastic speakers and audience. Looking forward to seeing more after the coffee break!

Does anyone know a way to find out if your work has been included in teaching reading list? Is this data even available? Incidentally, if anyone has included my book on their list I'd be very grateful to hear from you! (cambridge.org/core/books/pal…)

Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️mpg.de/career/max-pla…

"There’s hardly any population on Earth that hasn’t been affected by migration and mixing of populations" 🧬 As part of #ScotlandDigs2024: International Connections, Tom Booth explains what archaeology can tell us about prehistoric migration in Scotland: digitscotland.com/what-can-archa…

It's out! Happy to share my recent collaborative research with the wonderful Dr. April Nowell and Dr Jennifer French to name a few, on puberty timing in Ice age teens! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Research reveals reality of Ice Age teen puberty❄️ Research using a new technique devised by Dr Mary Lewis at Reading shows Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago went through similar puberty stages to modern-day adolescents. rdg.ac/3MMJbGs #IceAge #HomosapienResearch

Our (Dr. April Nowell Mary Lewis + others) new paper applying-for the first time- bioarchaeological methods of puberty assessment to Upper Palaeolithic individuals! Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology at Liv Uni Humanities & Social Sciences @ Uni of Liverpool

Check out the beautiful new reconstruction of Romito 2 integrating new data on his physical appearance (maturation) from our study! 😍 Mary Lewis Dr. April Nowell Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology at Liv Uni