CityLife

We thank all participants for their valuable contributions and collaborative spirit that continue to advance the goals of CityLife.

We were delighted to welcome our collaborators from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Fribourg, University of Bern, University of Geneva, University of Cambridge, University of Athens, and University of Thessaly.

🇪🇺ERC “CityLife” Working Meeting in Komotini, Greece✅
From October 7th to 10th, our laboratory had the pleasure of hosting the ERC “CityLife” project working meeting in Komotini.

Incisive 🏺thread - bone stored in a museum for decades shows greater DNA degradation and abundance of potentially deleterious bacteria than bone that had been left in the ground from the same site, suggesting museum storage had a detrimental effect on biomolecular preservation.

Histomorphometric method for age-at-death estimation using the anterior side of the femoral midshaft Age-at-death estimation on poorly preserved human skeletons is a challenging task. Histological methods in most cases can overcome this limitation and…

‼️Hey histology people, Panagiota Bantavanou, PhD student from our team, just dropped a paper on age-at-death estimation of inhumed individuals using her fancy new histomorphometric method! Go have a look🔬 #anthropology #archaeology

Our article “Human-environment interaction during the Holocene in eastern South America: Rapid climate change and population dynamics” has just been published in Plos One. Link: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#archaeology #humandispersal #humanmigration #southamerica #climatechange

So here we are, just an ERC funded project using osteoarchaeology, aDNA, stable isotopes, and histology to study the social, biological, environmental, and historical processes behind the universal prevalence of urban living. Give us a follow!

We finally decided to make the leap from that other bird app—because, well, the old nest started feeling too hostile to call home anymore.