PollutedPast

📢IMPORTANT📢 Deadline has been extended until 15 March. Call for Papers for the panel “Lives in Motion: Con-disciplinary Approaches to Mobility in the Classical World”. Proposals devoted to mobility in the classical world from a variety of perspectives. cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io

¡¡AMPLIAMOS PLAZO HASTA EL 10/02/2026!! 🥰🥰 #PINT26ES

Join us in this adventure!! We are organizing a sesion about migration in the Next Celtic Conference. cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io

This week our PI will be in Sevilla showing our project to the bioarchaeology community. Everybody is welcomed.

We started 2026 with very good news, a new publication for the project. "Limited or willing? Dietary pathways of the Mudejares of the Kingdom of Valencia through stable isotopes analysis." Dr. Júlia Olivé-Busom & Dr. Olalla López-Costas. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The last 09th January we celebrated a seminar with Dr. Núria Armentano Oller (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya), was talking about this interesting project in which we will begin to collaborate. "The osteoarchaeological study of the Counts of Urgell." A great talk.

🎓 A new PhD at @eco_past Congratulations to #ClaraVeiga for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Patróns de Alimentación e Nutrición Infantil a través da Patoloxía Oral en Coleccións Osteoarqueolóxicas do Noroeste da Península Ibérica (Tardoantigüidade - Idade Moderna)”.

In 2025 we processed many samples processed ... and was also full good moments of coffee and lunchs. 😉

Xmas is coming... Feliz Navidad. Boas festas. God Jul. ❄️

Fieldwork experience in peatlans is always a great feeling and a bit exhausting. We core in depth this peatland from North Galicia. We take small cores of 50 cm to analyse at the lab the evolucion of forest coverage, climate and metal pollution. The best way to end 2025. 🥰

PollutedPast & InOsteo Yesterday we were analyzing by SEM ribs and humerus from the project about soldiers from Lisbon led by our visiting researcher Ana Curto, PhD in Anthropology at Laboratório HERCULES - Herança Cultural, Estudos e Salvaguarda, Universidade de Évora.

GUEST RESEARCHER Dr. Ingrid Horák Terra is a researcher at the Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), in Brazil, and is a specialist in peatlands and veredas soils. Ingrid works with us on the molecular composition and mercury of Brazilian peat.

New seminar next Monday by Dr Ana Curto, PhD in Anthropology in the HERCULES Lab - Cultural Heritage Studies and Protection, University of Évora: "UNCOVERING SOLDIERS’ LIVES: Integrating Osteology, History and Biomolecular Science at St George’s Castle Military Hospital".

#MeetTheTeam Irune Valderrábano Gonzalez is the new postdoc of the PollutedPast team and is in charge of researching for mentions of metals in Greek medical texts. Her specialty is the History of women in the Greek world. Being able to count on her is a luxury for our project.

In recent days, one of the members of PollutedPast, Irune Valderrábano, has given a couple of talks in Basauri (Bizkaia) and in Bárcena de Cicero (Cantabria). Both increasing our view of the past including women.

Members of PollutedPast project from @cretus_usc are teaching at the subject "Necropoleis and Human Remains" in the Msc of Archaeology at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. See what we do.

The last 15th November we celebrated our Open Day at CRETUS. It was a pleasure to show children and adults the pollen, the texts, and the skeletons we work with. Everyone was part of PollutedPast for a day. Thank you to all visitors.