How “Roman” were Roman cremations in Belgium?

We welcomed the historians for a guided tour through our laboratories 

New research from the BB-lab, led by FWO doctoral fellow Jacob I. Griffith.

BB-lab sent a team of archaeological scientists to the Roman Archaeological Museum in Oudenburg.

AMGC took part in the Metal Ages Day conference 2025 in the Netherlands!

Camille Lacorne had the pleasure of participating in the AméricAnimal summer school organized by the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid.

We’re proud to have been part of this exciting and enriching journey from start to finish

PhD researcher Rosalie Hermans investigates phytoliths—microscopic silica bodies formed in plant tissues.

Recently the BB-lab has been expanding its zooarchaeological research.

This April, the BB-LAB travelled to York for the 2024 UK Archaeological Sciences conference.

Rachèl Spros and Barbara Veselka represented AMGC at the annual SAA conference in New Orleans, USA.

Several BB-LAB members are featured in the upcoming book Cremation in the Early Middle Ages

Successful exhibition about postmedieval livestock in Bruges

The sampling campaign of the CRIME project was completed in August 2023

Recent research by Tessi Loeffelmann, Christophe Snoeck and Philippe Claeys.

The Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab at the VUB celebrates its 2 year anniversary!!

BBLab hosted the first Cremations in Archaeology (CIA) conference to celebrate the end of the CRUMBEL project.

The article was published in Scientific Reports in June.

VUB-researchers for the first time identify interglobular dentine in cremated human teeth 

A large delegation from the BB-Lab was present at the Bone Diagenesis conference in person, enjoying the opportunity to present live.

Finally after several lockdowns and delays due to the pandemic some of the BB-labbers were able to travel outside of Belgium again. 

BB-LAB members presenting their latest results at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA).

The first version of the BB-LAB website is live