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Virtual Bone PI and Elena Longo in Firenze Newspaper!
Transmitting knowledge, sharing expertise, and forging new collaborations is what allows us to...
SUMMER SCHOOL ALERT!
From the 28th till the 30th of May, the Enigma Project PI Participated as a teaches for the...
Invited Talk (and a Virtual Twist) at the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency
On Thursday, March 27th, I had the pleasure of being an invited speaker at a thematic event organized by the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency), which focused on cremated remains as a rich source of archaeological information....
Publication Alert! – Reliability is Key for histologists: and.. for every scientist
Publication Alert (19 March): Reliability is Key — For Histologists and for Every Scientist I'm excited to share that our latest article is now online: Inter-rater reliability of stress signatures in exfoliated primary dentition – Improving scientific rigor and...
Science Communication – Sumo Science !
Today, we’re stepping into the ring for a FIGHT! But don’t worry—it’s all in the spirit of friendly competition. We’re taking part in SUMO SCIENCE, an exciting contest as part of the Marie Curie Championship Sharper 2024/25! The event is described as follows:"A...
ENIGMA at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
The ENIGMA project had a strong presence at this year’s 94th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) in Baltimore, Maryland! From March 12–15, 2025, ENIGMA PI Simone Lemmers, along with project colleagues and secondment hosts...
Publication Alert: First Steps in Applying Tensor Tomography to Archaeological Bone
A small side project I was involved in has just been published as an open access article in the Journal of Instrumentation:🔗 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/20/02/C02028 In this exploratory study, we applied X-ray scattering tensor tomography...
Talking Chalcolithic! Participation in the Palloures Winter symposium
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...
A Night at the Beamline: In-House Experimentation
One big perks of being based at Elettra for my project? The chance to squeeze in a few extra measurements outside of official proposals—if there’s an open slot between scheduled users. And of course, we’re not going to say no to that! Together with my colleagues Marko...
A Curious Fragment from a Bronze Age Tomb – Tomography to the Rescue!
How do you tell if an ancient artifact is bone or ivory? Sometimes, even with careful examination, the distinction isn’t obvious. Histology can give a quick and easy answer, but, what to do if this concerns an antiquity, and sectioning is not an option? That’s where...
Synchrotron XRF Beamtime – exploring incremental elemental update in archaeological and modern tissues
One of the objectives of the ENIGMA project is to explore how we can use Synchrotron Radiation MicroXRF to examine life history variables through ancient hard tissues, in the context of preservation and diagenesis. Synchrotron radiation micro-XRF (micro X-ray...
