September brought us an unforgettable highlight: the 10th International Meeting on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA10), themed “New Horizons in Biomolecular Archaeology.” From September 13th to 16th, 2023, Tartu, Estonia, was host to this remarkable event at the Estonian National Museum, offering a glimpse of what’s to come as the European Capital of Culture in 2024. We…
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We’re thrilled to announce the publication of a recent scientific study titled “Parallel worlds and mixed economies: multi-proxy analysis reveals complex subsistence systems at the dawn of early farming in the northeast Baltic.” Farming arrived in the NE Baltic with migrating Corded Ware cultures in the early 3rd millennium cal BCE, but here this new…
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We congratulate our masters’ students Kristi, Mairi and Sandra, who graduated this summer. Kristi researched the diet of Viimsi tarand-graves with stable isotope analysis. Mairi’s research focused on the preservation of ancient DNA. Sandra’s MA project was on experimental plant macrofossils, namely stable isotope analysis of charred plant remains and seeds to understand different cultivation…
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The opening conference for the “European Horizon” Twinning Grant Program at the University of Tartu Library took place on April 26th, 2023. The event was organized by the Estonian Research Council. Among the speakers was Mari Tõrv, who presented our project PaleoMIX and shared her experiences and ideas on enhancing the research and administrative capacity…
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The Baltic Kindergarten: Investigating non-adult health and diet in medieval and early modern Estonia through paleopathology and stable isotope analysis. This multidisciplinary study investigates child diet, feeding practices, and disease in a large dataset of non-adults from medieval and early modern Estonia (13th-18th cent.) combining Paleopathology and Stable Isotope Analysis (SIA). This fills a large…
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Our leader Ester received the honorary Badge of Distinction from the University of Tartu! This is awarded to those the University wishes to thank for all their hard work. We are all very proud of her! The photo was taken by Andres Tennus. For more information: Click here!
Archemy and The Collegium for Transdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Genetics and Linguistics are inviting you to join the seminar “Interdisciplinary Possibilities in the Studies of the Past” on the 9th of December. The seminar will start 10 o’clock AM (programme above). You can join the seminar through Zoom. Link: https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93967539879?pwd=cENGU0lGcW1JTWlhWXRKc2M1QzJ0dz09 Meeting ID: 939 6753 9879…
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Our team members started celebrating Christmas early in Sandra’s countryside. Archemy members enjoyed the snow, sauna, saw different domestic animals (cows, horses, chicken, dogs, cats), made traditional Christmas food, got a farm tour and enjoyed some good traditional Estonian Christmas songs.
On 22 November at 10:15 our own Alessandra Morrone will defend her doctoral thesis “Children of the Grave: a multidisciplinary study of non-adult diet and disease from medieval and early modern southern Estonia”. Alessandra’s PhD research is about the skeletal remains of non-adults provide numerous insights into the complexity of their personal and social lives,…
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The Estonian Research Council (ETAG) has submitted the names of 65 Estonian researchers for inclusion in the AcademiaNet portal of successful women scientists, two of whom are Mari and Eve. The aim of the portal is to highlight successful women scientists and to raise their international profile. The portal is also a good tool for…
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