One of the core objectives of the ENGIMA project is to explore how Synchrotron Radiation X-ray tomography can be used to study the evolution of human ontogeny. For this, we often want to zoom out, take a step back, and look at the bigger picture of human development across time and places, crossing 10.000s of years and regions. However, at other times, it’s necessary to actually zoom in and look a bit ‘closer to home’. During one of our beamtimes, we examined growth and development in Chalcolithic Cyprus and explored how these Copper Age children compare to what we know about the growth and development of modern humans. At the Palloures Winter Symposium, we presented a primer—our first results from the beamtime—which were very well received by the audience. The team is currently working on writing up these results, so stay tuned!
