Kathryn E Marklein

Some of my research investigating the urban-rural dichotomy in Roman period bioarchaeology has been published in this new edition by Bews & Marklein. The edition is full of great chapters by notable researchers in the field and is well-worth the read!

🚨🚨🚨Join us in sunny Zagreb this August for the 4th Annual ICORB Meeting! Abstract submission opens April 21st - we welcome submissions in the areas of Roman zooarchaeology, human osteology, paleoethnobotany, mortuary archaeology, and more! 🦴🍇🌾🐷🐐🐄

Valentina Vittori introduced us all to the individuals excavated at the Great Baths Necropolis of Vada Volaterrana! Looking forward to future studies on this exciting site! 🏛️💀🇮🇹 #ICORB2024

Natalia Garzon Osorio just started her talk on a case for care at the site of Cortijo Coracho! Really enjoying this talk! #ICORB2024 🇪🇸🩻🦴

Caterina Davinia presents the results on adolescent individuals from Cortijo Coracho #ICORB

What’s happening currently at #ICORB2024 you ask? Oh, just @AnnaOsterholtz sharing osteobiographies of individuals at Roman Tragurium! Another interesting talk from Roman period Croatia!!

Federica Riso now tells us about interconnectedness in the Roman Empire and how that informs our analysis of archaeobotanical remains #ICORB2024 🌽🍎🫛

Kicking off day 2 of #ICORB2024 with a talk by Theoni Baniou about archaeobotanical remains from Roman Iesso (Spain) 🌱🍇🌾

Elissavet Ganiatsou rounding out session 1 at #ICORB2024 with an analysis of diachronic dietary trends from Thessaloniki 🐮🌽🐠

Dr. Ricardo Ortega-Ruiz is introducing us to Cortijo Coracho in Lucena before sharing results on the paleopathology of children from this Late Roman site! #ICORB2024 👶🧒🏛️

PhD student, Panagiota Bantavanou @bantavanou_p , presents exciting research on histological age estimation techniques in cremated human remains!! Really important for the Roman period where cremation was a wide practice. #ICORB2024 🔥🦴🏛️

@Romanbioarch @Sterling1Wright

Postdoctoral scholar, Sterling Wright, shows us how we can better understand Roman period populations through the study of their oral microbiomes! 🦷🏛️💀

Alice Tomaino takes us to another area of Egypt to learn about Greco-Roman tombs!

Susana Carrascal Olmo now takes us to late Roman-period Spain!

Kenneth Tremblay takes us on a journey to Croatia! #ICORB2024

Dr. Sandra Wheeler is kicking off #ICORB2024 with her keynote speech on life and death in the Dakhleh Oasis! @BewsElizabeth @KatyMarklein

Loving #EAA2024? Keep the fun going by registering to attend #ICORB2024 from 24-26 October! Learn about all things #Roman plant, animal, and human remains!🍃🐐🦴🍎🩻🦷🐮 icorb.org/register

In the latest #CASChronicles, we meet Elizabeth Bews, a PhD candidate in Anthropology who received the John S. Freeman Scholarship in Public Archaeology. Learn more about the #research that earned her this award on our news site, CAS Chronicles ⬇️ ow.ly/TBBO50T3izt

🚨🚨🚨The 3rd annual ICORB conference will take place virtually from October 24-26th 2024! We welcome all contributions related to Roman zooarchaeology 🦌🐖🐑 archaeobotany 🍄🍇🌿 and human osteoarchaeology 🦷🩻🦴Submit your abstract to teamicorb@gmail.com by August 1 2024!