Alice Toso

Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory Population movements constitute a significant driver of cultural change in prehistoric societies. In recent years, sulfur isotopes have emerged as a valuable approach for distinguishing human/animal p...

Our new paper is out:

Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory
#stableisotopes

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I am pleased to present my new Article Collection, "Stable Isotope Approaches to Human–Aquatic Interactions in Archaeological Contexts.” invt.io/1txbh73aizn

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The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.

📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Thank you!

Thank you @volkswagenstiftung.de ! I am so thrilled and forever grateful for your support! This funding line is really allowing bold ideas to come to life and I couldn't be happier!

Making the impossible possible: @alicetoso.bsky.social wants to develop reliable methods for determining the concentration of steroid #hormones in centuries-old human bones.

Another exciting pioneering project 👍 – we wish you every success!

Thank you Sonia! It took me a while to find the right funder but I'm thrilled to finally start!

@unibonn.bsky.social

🎉 Our own @alicetoso.bsky.social won a €1.4 million grant from @volkswagenstiftung.de! In this groundbreaking project, she’ll trace hormones in historically contextualized archaeological skeletons, shedding light on pregnancy, menopause and more across 200 years. www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/135-...

First celebratory cake was a blueberry pound cake inspire by the @VWStiftung logo 🍰

🚨 New project funded!
Thrilled to receive €1.4M from the @VWStiftung for “Archaeology of Hormones”—we’ll develop methods to detect steroid hormones in ancient bones to study fertility, reproduction & resilience in past societies.
@unibonn
🔗 www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/135-...

Anthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @amnh.org in New York! Additional info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509

We just kicked off a citizen science project in @bocas-news.bsky.social where we’re teaming up with retired + active medical doctors to help interpret complex paleopathological cases while having fun. Our 1st session of the Ärtze-Konsil was great ✨🦴🧬 #citizenscience #paleopathology #bioarchaeology

This Friday we round up our summer series of the Debates in Archaeosciences with a bioarchaeological study of Bukhara! Don't miss it!

Gestern war BoCAS beim wunderbaren #Stiftshoffest in #Nideggen: Ernährungsrekonstruktion anhand von Gefäßrückständen, stabilen Isotopen und Skeletten. Ein schöner Tag und interessante Gespräche mit Laien und Fachleuten - danke an das Team der LVR-Bodendenkmalpflege für die Einladung!

Poster showing a birds eye view across a deforested hilly landscape under a blue sky with fluffly white clouds. An elongated blue mountain with three summits is looming in the distance on the horizon. Text announces the talk "Crafting the City: Ceramic Production and Urbanisation in Etruria (late 10th – mid 7th century BCE)”.

Join us this Friday when Silvia Amicone shares her material science perspective on pottery production in Etruria between the end of the early Iron Age and the beginning of the Orientalising period: 4PM in HS2 or get in touch for the Zoom link!

Poster showing photo of a sampled animal tooth and announcing Dr. Martin Riesenberg, CEZA Mannheim on "Invisible nomadism? An isotopic perspective on subsistence mobility in the North Black Sea steppe in the 4th and 3rd millennium BC", Friday, on June 6th at 16:15

Yamnaya = mobile? Probably — but what about their subsistene economy?Join us + Dr. Martin Riesenberg tomorrow at 4PM in HS 2 (or online) to see how sequential analysis on livestock teeth🦷🐄🐑🐐 help track mobility.

Funded PhD on natural and cultural heritage on islands! www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...

The Rheinische Ärzteblatt came to our lab to have a chat about what we do and how we study human remains. It was great to have them over and show them some of our work. Click below for a direct link to the magazine

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?

From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:

• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)

More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

20,000-year-old whale bone tools discovered in Spain Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a study conducted by scientists from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Au...

20,000-year-old whale bone tools discovered in Spain. 🌊🐳

New study carried out by ICTA-UAB researcher Krista McGrath

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A collage with symbolic images of all eight clusters of excellence. A man working on a machine, an observatory, two people in a field, a woman writing something on a piece of paper, a woman in front of a device, a man writing something on a blackboard, an exhibition, a woman looking through a telescope.

A landmark success! The University of Bonn secured funding for all six existing Clusters of Excellence and both new initiatives – more than any other German university. More: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/095-...

© G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich

Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!

Don't miss out on this Friday talk! #debatesinarchaeosciences

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@unibonn.bsky.social covering our last paper on childhood weaning and diet in Iberia 👇

Poster showing photo of a person pipetting in the lab, announcing Laura Lacher's talk on "Archaeogenetic insights into the demography of the Rhineland during the Early Middle Ages" Logos of BoCAS, VolkswagenStiftung and Uni Bonn.

Towards a genomic history of the Rhineland! In our first debates session, Laura Lacher shares new insights into Early Medieval DNA 🧬. This Friday 4PM, Römerstraße 164, or e-mail us for the Zoom link.

Poster with lecture dates, names and titles. For a readable pdf version, see https://www.iak.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/bocas/media/poster-debates-summer2025.pdf

The summer term has started, so please mark your calendars for the Debates in ArchaeoSciences! Fridays at 4PM, HS 2 in Römerstraße 164 or get in touch for the Zoom link.

Job Vacancy: Lecturer (Teaching) in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for an Lecturer (Teaching) in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology (Ref.: B03-02432). The deadline for applications is 30 April 2025.

🚨 Job Vacancy 🚨 Deadline 30th April 2025

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Lecturer (Teaching) in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology (Ref.: B03-02432).

Note: The post is funded from 15 Sept '25 - 14 Sept '26, as cover for Katie Hemer for when on research leave as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow

This morning I sampled some African elephant material from the amazing collection of #museumkoenig @leibnizlib.bsky.social. I received the warmest welcome from Dr. Decher and his team, and I left a little sketch behind in their guest book. I hope this is the start of a long lasting collaboration.

Child-mother relationships and childhood dietary patterns in the Iberian Peninsula uncovered by Bayesian isotopic approaches - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Child-mother relationships and childhood dietary patterns in the Iberian Peninsula uncovered by Bayesian isotopic approaches

🍼 What did babies eat 1000 years ago?

Our new study uncovers breastfeeding & weaning patterns in Roman & Medieval Portugal using isotopes + Bayesian modeling. Religious and cultural change shaped childhood diets, but women's agency was also at play. Read more www.nature.com/articles/s41...