Archaeologia Mediaevalis 2020, the annually meeting of medievalists, building historians and urban archaeologists from the three Belgian regions and adjacent areas, was organised by the Walloon Heritage Agency (AWAP). The conference was held on the 12th and 1...

On Saturday 29th of February, Giacomo Capuzzo and Charlotte Sabaux attended the 28th Journée de Contact de la Cellule Archéologie des Ages des Métaux, organised by Guy De Mulder and Eugene Warmenbol. The conference was a great opportunity to be upda...

In the last week of January, the CRUMBEL team set out on an adventure. The whole crew committed to a whole week of osteoarchaeological analyses of two mass graves. Both mass graves date to the Roman period, one was from Oudenburg and the other from Destelbergen. Each m...

During these crazy times, CRUMBEL is holding on. All CRUMBEL team members work from home to stay safe and healthy. Although apart, we are still united via social media, email, and other forms of digital communication. Fortunately, we undertook a tremendous amount of an...

In November, Charlotte and Sarah presented a poster at a special Metal Ages edition of the ‘Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques’ (UISPP) conference held in Edinburgh. The conference was named “Where are you going? Reconsidering Migratio...

Dr. Giacomo Capuzzo attended the SPATIAL Isotopes in Biogeochemistry & Ecology Course at the University of Utah. The course, organized by Prof. Gabriel Bowen, has been a unique opportunity for him to get in touch with highly recognized experts in isotopic systems and i...

Marta Hlad, Barbara Veselka and Christophe Snoeck are currently analysing about one hundred cremated human remains at the Forensic Anthropology Center of the University of Tennessee. This collection provides a unique opportunity to test various sexing and ageing method...

Kevin Salesse and colleagues just published a new contribution in the International Journal of Paleopathology.

This paper aims at investigating the possible existence of isotopic offsets in δ 13 C col and δ 15 N col values in relation to tertiary syphilis. For this stud...

In the past week, the first radiocarbon dates within the CRUMBEL project have been obtained at the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels (IRPA/KIK). 

Thirty-five cremated bone samples from 13 archaeological sites located...