Archaeological Proteomics Lab

Our workshop abstract booklet is live! 📘 Check out the upcoming talks and don’t miss your chance to join us online — registration closes this Wednesday, March 4. All info: research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/worksh…

Registration is now open for our free online workshop on maximising data from Palaeolithic bone. Exciting program of talks on chronology, taphonomy, diet and method advancement. Open to all but please complete registration form: forms.gle/7W8MP6YQDmDxyf…

🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨 We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit your abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!

New paper alert! Sulfur isotopes evidence Pleistocene faunal spatial ecology - 100s of data points, years of combined research effort, and an isotope-zooarch-zooms collab. Congrats to @Sarah_Barakat_ who led this to fruition! @UKRI_News @LeverhulmeTrust doi.org/10.1016/j.quas…

Currently stuck on a broken down Eurostar, but do come meet @tait_frankie and Anna Wagner at the @ESHE_society poster session Friday afternoon to learn more about their COEXIST projects on refining late Neanderthal chronologies and integrating #Zooarchaeology and #ZooMS.

AT ICAZ AGPM (Copenhagen) Anna will give a talk contrasting her current #ZooMS results from Germany and Romania, while Geoff will present his #ZooMS results from the British Middle Pleistocene site of Victoria Cave. @ICAZ_News

At ESHE (Paris) both COEXIST PhD students will be presenting posters on faunal assemblages in Central and Southeast Europe, @tait_frankie on refining chronologies, and Anna Wagner on rethinking subsistence integrating #Zooarchaeology and #ZooMS. @ESHE_society

We are approaching conference season! We are currently preparing 9 presentations for 4 conferences, and look forward to sharing some of our first COEXIST project results, and more! #archsci #Palaeoproteomics #ZooMS #Zooarchaeology

Did you know that early humans hunted woolly mammoths? Join us at the @UniofReading #CommunityFestival2025 this Saturday (15.30, Palmer Building 109) to hear archaeology PhD students Frankie Tait & Anna Wagner reveal the secrets we learn from bones. 🔗rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ

📢 The recording of the Integrating #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology "Ask Us Anything" forum held on 30 June 2025 is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/loAgeUuK08g?si… 📄 We also created a summary document that can be downloaded on the IZAZ website: izaz2024.sciencesconf.org

@chris_harrod @PrehistoricEdge @archaeoprotein @Sarah_Barakat_ @UoA_Archaeology @ERC_Research @UKRI_News It’s so cool! We just had a site (Mesolithic) where we had analysed unidentified mammal bone - a small amount of zooms with @archaeoprotein doubled the species representation and the isotopes (before we got the zooms results) told us we had a marine feeder. It was a cetacean!

Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to @archaeoprotein for offering this wonderful training opportunity to @Sarah_Barakat_ and helping us develop our ZooMS capacity @UoA_Archaeology - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us! @ERC_Research @UKRI_News funded

We are hosting a free online ‘Ask Us Anything’ event as part of the Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology workshop series. For more info and to submit questions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 📅 Date: June 30, 2025 🕒 Time: 15:00 CET 📍 Location: Online (link: univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/97758052124?…)

The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now! Volume 2025, Issue 1 #openaccess 📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/… #paleoanthropology #humanevolution

New publication from our lab 🚨 Can we enhance ZooMS workflow for degraded samples using different mass spectrometry ?🤔 We tried with MALDI-FTICR, check out our insights & recommendations here 👉…iencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rc…

Excited to announce that Prof. Steve Weiner (Weizmann) and Prof. Matthew Collins (Cambridge/Copenhagen) will be our keynote speakers #BD2025!🐐+🐐= 🤯 Stay tuned for more! Register bd-2025.com/registration Submit your abstract (Deadline: 31 March) bd-2025.com/abstracts