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Ioannis (Yannis) Chatzikonstantinou

@chatzikon.bsky.social

PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology. Exploring Minoan and ancient greek funerary practices, human bones, experimental archaeology, analytical methods, and cremations. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ

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Happy to welcome once again @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social lab in Thessaloniki!

26.05.2025 19:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Paper Alert ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Want to learn more about Roman cremations?
Canโ€™t sleep because you keep thinking about how the Romans burned their dead?
Then don't miss our latest paper & download it for free here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

22.04.2025 08:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Annual Meeting of the Belgian School at Athens

@christophe-fire.bsky.social will talk about โ€œMobility and funerary practices in Prehistoric Greece through the lens of isotope researchโ€.

The cover shows the Pre- and Proto-palatial tholos tomb cemetery of Koumasa, Crete.

07.04.2025 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ฮŸur open access paper ยซExperimental insights into different funerary burning conditions on Crete island, Greeceยป is now available in JAS: Reports

If you investigate cremations, have a look to the different burning dynamics that can affect a burning event

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

26.02.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The best team! Happy celebrations BB-Lab!

14.02.2025 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New paper out by @jbioarch.bsky.social on Legaire Sur (รlava, 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 ๐Ÿฆท& ๐Ÿฆดtells us more ๐Ÿงต1/6

23.01.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(PDF) An Osteoarchaeological Guideline for the Study of Commingled Burnt Human Remains PDF | The excavation of burnt human remains derived particularly from collective burials in a commingled state of deposition requires expertise and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

An offprint is available here:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

15.01.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ScapeCon 2022 - i6doc Thรฉrรจse Claeys, Louis Dautais, Roxane Dubois - This volume encompasses studies of diverse archaeological data, such as bones, vases and sherds, seals, jewellery, and architecture but also digital data...

i6doc.com/en/book/?GCO...

13.01.2025 12:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you are interested in #cremations and especially the study of burnt bones, this paper may be useful for your research. ๐Ÿ’€ ๐Ÿ”ฅ

In this paper, we present the guidelines we have been using when dealing with burned human remains . ๐Ÿฅผ

Aegis vol. 29 Louvain, Belgium.

13.01.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ARCHAEOZOOMS volume, combining archaeological theory and method, has reached the end of its first six-month period of availability, with over 1000 electronic downloads from 44 countries (!) worldwide. A free of charge copy can be obtained through the link doi.org/10.11588/pro...

17.12.2024 11:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The first Belgiumโ€™s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengelรธv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!

Paper here๐Ÿ‘‡
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social ๐Ÿ‘‡https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001

11.12.2024 08:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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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...

New BB-LAB paper out ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป Marta Hlad and the team identified and characterised patterns in cremation analysis practices through an online survey of those working on cremated human remains ๐Ÿ‘‡
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

03.12.2024 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Last poster before my PhD defence. From the conference of Fitch Lab at the @BSAthens dedicated to archaeological science in Greece. The poster presented some of the final outcomes from the interdisciplinary research conducted on the human remains from Prepalatial Koumasa Tholos Tomb B on Crete.

02.12.2024 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 โ€šBehind the scenes of isotope bioarchaeology โ€“ new developments and ...


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 ๐Ÿ”— ๐Ÿ‘‡

www.heas.at/events/heas-...

19.11.2024 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

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 ๐ŸŒ and from the Neolithic to the present. ๐Ÿฆดโšฑ๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿฆท๐Ÿ—บ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ

Follow us and our team here:

go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev

18.11.2024 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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