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Bara Huber

@barahuber.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher at Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences and @MPI_GEA. Archaeological chemistry • Archaeo-Metabolomics • Past Smells and Perfumes• Ancient Egypt and Arabia

459 Followers  |  475 Following  |  26 Posts  |  Joined: 26.11.2023  |  2.2063

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I am so happy to co-author this #preprint review on archaeal tetraether lipids, aka #GDGTs, as marine paleoenvironmental indicators led by @lipidorama.bsky.social and @climategordon.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
@cerege.bsky.social
@climatecerege.bsky.social
#TeamArchaea
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#PaleoSky
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01.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

I recently had one of these. Reviewer complained about lots of trivial things, for example the way we named the samples (sampling code) etc. 🙄

27.11.2025 15:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover des Bandes "Scents of Arabia. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds", herausgegeben von Arnulf Hausleiter und Barbara Huber. Auf dem hellen Cover sind im Hintergrund angedeutete Dunstschleier in gesetzten Rot- und Brauntönen zu erkennen.

Cover des Bandes "Scents of Arabia. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds", herausgegeben von Arnulf Hausleiter und Barbara Huber. Auf dem hellen Cover sind im Hintergrund angedeutete Dunstschleier in gesetzten Rot- und Brauntönen zu erkennen.

👃 Wie roch die Vergangenheit?

Ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt nimmt uns mit einer neuen Publikation (hrsg. von A. Hausleiter & @barahuber.bsky.social) zu #Duftstoffe​n u.a. aus der Oase #Tayma im Nordwesten #SaudiArabien​s mit in die Welt antiker #Düfte.

🏺 www.dainst.org/newsroom/sce...

17.11.2025 12:30 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
DAI - Scents of Arabia

A journey into the sensory world of ancient Arabia: incense, ritual, trade, memory & scent 🌿🔥🏺🧪

www.dainst.org/en/newsroom/...

10.11.2025 19:45 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

That would be such a fun project!

28.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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History Smelled. Here’s How We’re Sniffing It Out How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?

Really nice coverage on our research on ancient scents by @sciam.bsky.social and @gayoung.bsky.social
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

28.10.2025 18:08 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

27.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 14    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 3
Book cover for Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds

Book cover for Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds

Interested in the kinds of information archaeologists can gain from metabolic profiling? Check out this wonderful new book and our chapter on the ancient oasis of Tayma.

This work builds on our 2022 paper on reconstructing ancient scents in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

24.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, Eslem 🫶

24.10.2025 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Archaeopress Archaeopress Publications

Available here: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

24.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌿✨ New Book Out! ✨🌿
Our new volume #Scents_of_Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds is now published with
@archaeopress.bsky.social

Thank you to all contributors who made this book possible!
@dai-weltweit.bsky.social
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#PastScents #Heritage #Archaeology

24.10.2025 10:53 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
Archaeopress Archaeopress Publications

Available here: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

24.10.2025 10:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats!! Well done Gopesh and team 🥳

15.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So looking forward to ISBA11!! See you in Turin 💚

25.08.2025 10:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Frontiers | Collagen peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species Recent advancements in biomolecular archaeology, such as stable isotope and ancient DNA research, have expanded our understanding of megafauna extinction pro...

Our latest paper is out now in Frontiers in Mammal Science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...

We characterized ZooMS peptide markers for three extinct Australian megafauna species 🦴🧪

03.06.2025 08:11 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2
This is figure 2, which shows alkaloids in archeological residues linked to Peganum harmala and its psychoactive and therapeutic properties.

This is figure 2, which shows alkaloids in archeological residues linked to Peganum harmala and its psychoactive and therapeutic properties.

Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used for medicinal and hygienic purposes, according to a paper in Communications Biology. go.nature.com/3HhFV6D 🏺 🧪

29.05.2025 22:14 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Metabolic profiling reveals first evidence of fumigating drug plant Peganum harmala in Iron Age Arabia - Communications Biology Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic con...

"Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic contexts for medicinal and hygienic purposes.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

27.05.2025 21:13 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1
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Smoke and Memory: How Iron Age Arabia Burned Plants to Heal and Cleanse At a desert oasis in Qurayyah, the scent of tradition lingers 2,700 years later

Smoke and Memory: How Iron Age Arabia Burned Plants to Heal and Cleanse
www.anthropology.net/p/smoke-and-...

26.05.2025 04:58 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 3

Same here! I only knew Syrian rue as a stubborn weed until I saw its seeds burned for the first time a few years ago in Iran – such a striking smell.

23.05.2025 17:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Schon Eisenzeit-Menschen verwendeten psychoaktive Steppenraute Ein österreichisch-deutsches Forschungsteam analysierte Rückstände auf archäologischen Funden – und wies die früheste Verwendung der Pflanze vor 2700 Jahren auf der Arabischen Halbinsel nach.

Nice media coverage about our new study on psychoactive and medicinal plants in the past 🌿🧪
@diepressecom.bsky.social

www.diepresse.com/19717652/sch...

23.05.2025 14:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant ‘harmal’ identified in Iron Age Arabia A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind therapeutic and psychoactive plant use in ancient Arabia.

Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant ‘harmal’ identified in Iron Age Arabia | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

23.05.2025 12:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This was a wonderful collaboration between @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social, @climatecerege.bsky.social, @maxplanck.de and the Saudi Heritage Commission.

Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Marta Luciani and @thibaut-d.bsky.social

23.05.2025 11:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Metabolic profiling reveals first evidence of fumigating drug plant Peganum harmala in Iron Age Arabia - Communications Biology Metabolic profiling of Iron Age residues from the oasis of Qurayyah, Northwest Arabia, reveals the earliest material evidence for the fumigation of the drug plant Peganum harmala, used in domestic con...

🧪 New Research Alert! 🧪

Our latest study, published in @commsbio.nature.com uncovers the earliest known evidence of the medicinal and psychoactive plant Peganum harmala (harmal) in ancient Arabia. 🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#Metabolomics 🧪 #BiomolecularArchaeology #AncientMedicine

23.05.2025 11:45 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
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Paper alert, @nature.com. Our study reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. We document environmental variability - ranging over the entire course of human evolution. Arabia is a key bridge at the cross-roads of continents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.04.2025 15:00 — 👍 51    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 1
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Barbara Huber Awarded GNAA Science Award 2025 for Excellence in Archaeological Science and Archaeometry

🌿✨ I’m so happy to share that I’ve been awarded the #GNAA_Science_Award 2025 for Excellence in Archaeological Science and Archaeometry.

A heartfelt thank you to all my mentors, collaborators, and colleagues along the way ☺️

www.gea.mpg.de/140806/barba...

03.04.2025 10:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🌿 Excited to share our new Research Topic:

Biomolecular Insights into Food, Medicine, and Scent in Environmental Archaeology

👇🏼 Check out the full Research Topic here:
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

@ancientproteins.bsky.social

26.03.2025 19:37 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Could you please add me as well? Thank you 🙏

05.02.2025 14:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Screenshot of the paper title. It's published in the special issue "Special Issue: What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics" and the title of the paper is "Paleoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations,
to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution".

Screenshot of the paper title. It's published in the special issue "Special Issue: What’s in a Name? Late Middle and Early Late Pleistocene Hominin Systematics" and the title of the paper is "Paleoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations, to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution".

📣 Paper alert! 📣 In this review, available as early view in @paleoanthjourn.bsky.social, we discuss "Paleoproteomic Contributions, and Current Limitations, to Understanding Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Evolution". Thanks to all coauthors! paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

05.02.2025 09:02 — 👍 27    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2
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An unclean slate, discrepancies between food input and recovered protein signal from experimental foodcrusts Organic residues are a rich source of biomolecular information on ancient diets. In particular, foodcrusts, charred residues on ceramics, are commonly analysed for their lipid content and to a lesser ...

Very interesting preprint from @matthewcollins.bsky.social @jessiehendy.bsky.social and others on experimental foodcrusts and recovered proteins to identify the ingredients.

It's complicated.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

05.02.2025 07:22 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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The ancestral genome’s tale Narratives that invoke ancient DNA must be crafted with care, argues an archaeologist

Excellent book review on "The trouble with ancient DNA" by my colleague Kathrin Nägele at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #adna #books #science

22.01.2025 07:12 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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