Year of publication: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

Publications

An overview of all my publications.

Contact me if you would like to recieve the full-text of any of these publications.

2024

Bioarchaeological analyses of the cremated remains from the elite graves of Wijshagen - De Rieten.

In: Roijmans, N. (ed.) Chariots on Fire . ( in press)

Veselka, B., Gruwier, B., Annaert, R., Dalle, S., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Dalle, S., De Mulder, G., Hlad, M., Sabaux, C., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Vercauteren, M., Warmenbol, E., Snoeck, C.

Cremation in context: scientific approaches going from 'Meh' to 'Yeah'.

In: Williams, H. Lippok, F. (eds.) Cremation in the Early Middle Ages. ( in press)

Veselka, B.

2023

MEMOR: a database of archeological human remains collections from Flanders, Belgium.

American Journal of Biological Anthropology 181: 677-681 (IF: 3.0)

De Groote, I., Van de Vijver, K., Veselka, B., De Potter, P., Massagê, L., Van Der Dooren, L., Vandenborre, J., Larmuseau, M.H.D., Danckers, J., Robberechts, B.

Precarious adolescence: adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18^th-19^th centuries.

International Journal of Paleopathology 40: 63-69 (IF: 1.6)

Lamer, M., Veselka, B., Schrader, S., Hoogland, M.L.P., Brickley, M.B.

Hidden transitions: New insights into changing social dynamics between the Bronze and Iron Age in the cemetery of Destelbergen (Belgium).

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49: 103797 (IF: 0.7)

Dalle, S., Capuzzo, G., Hlad, M., Veselka, B., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Sabaux, C., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Vercauteren., M., Warmenbol, E., Snoeck, C., De Mulder, G.

Final Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary practices and population dynamics in Belgium, the impact of radiocarbon dating of cremated bones.

Radiocarbon 65: 51-80 (IF: 6.3)

Capuzzo, G., De Mulder, G., Sabaux, C., Dalle, S., Boudin, M., Annaert, R., Hlad, M., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Veselka, B., Warmenbol, E., Snoeck, C, Vercauteren, M.

2022

An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers.

PNAS, published online (IF: 12.291)

Marciniak, S., Bergey, CM., Silva, AM., Haluszko, A., Furmanek, M., Veselka, B., ......Pinhasi, R., Perry, GH.

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age.

Nature 601: 588-594 (IF: 49.962)

Patterson, N., Isakov, M.,.........Veselka, B., ,.....Armit, I., Reich, D.

2021

Interglobular dentine attributed to vitamin D deficiency visible in cremated human teeth.

Scientific Reports 11: 20958 (IF: 4.379)

Veselka, B, Snoeck, C.

These boots are made for burnin’: Inferring the position of the corpse and the presence leather footwears during cremation through isotope (δ13C, δ18O) and infrared (FTIR) analyses of experimentally burnt skeletal remains. conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium.

PLoS ONE 16: e0257199 (IF: 3.240)

Salesse, K., Stamataki, E., Kontopoulos, I., Verly, G., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Claeys, P., Dalle, S., Hlad, M., De Mulder, G., Sabaux, C., Sengeløv, A., Veselka, B., Warmenbol, E., Vercauteren, M., Snoeck, C.

Is it hot enough? A multi-proxy approach shows variations in cremation conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium.

Journal of Archaeological Science 136: 105509 (IF: 3.040)

Stamataki, E., Kontopoulos, I., Salesse, K., McMillan, R., Veselka, B., Sabaux, C., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Claeys, P., Dalle, S., Hlad, M., Sengeloøv, A., Vercauteren, M., Warmenbol, E., Tys, D., De Mulder, G., Snoeck, C.

Divergence, diet, and disease: The identification of group identity, landscape use, health, and mobility in the 5^th to 6^th-century burial community of Echt, the Netherlands.

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13: 97 (IF: 2.144)

Veselka, B., Capuzzo, G., Annaert, R., Mattielli, N., Boudin, M., Dalle, S., Hlad, M., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Tys, D., Vercauteren, M., Warmenbol, E., De Mulder, G. Snoeck, C.

Multi-proxy analyses of the Late Bronze Age site of Herstal reveal new information about funerary practices and landscape use in the Belgian Meuse Valley.

Journal of Archaeological Science, 132:105437 (IF: 3.030)

Sabaux, C., Veselka, B., Capuzzo, G., Snoeck, C., Sengeløv, A., Hlad, M., Warmenbol, E., Stamataki, E., Boudin, M., Annaert, R., Dalle, S., Debaille, V., Kontopoulos, I., Salesse, K., Tys, D., Vercauteren, M., De Mulder, G.

Revisiting metric sex estimation of cremated human remains via supervised learning using a reference collection of modern identified individuals. (Knoxville, USA).

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175: 777-793. (IF: 2.662)

Hlad, M., Veselka, B., Steadman, D.W., Herregods, B., Elskens, M., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Dalle, S., De Mulder, G., Sabaux, C., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Vercauteren, M., Warmenbol, E., Tys, D., Snoeck, C.

A joint medico-historical and palaeopathological perspective on vitamin D deficiency prevalence in post-Medieval Netherlands.

International Journal of Paleopathology, 32: 41-49. (IF:1.614)

Veselka, B., Brickley, M.B., Waters-Rist, A.L.

Estimating age-at-death in burnt adult human remains using the Falys–Prangle method.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175: 128-136. (IF:2.662)

Veselka, B., Hlad, M., Wolfe Steadman, D., Annaert, H., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Dalle, S., Kontopoulos, I., De Mulder, G., Sabaux, C., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Vercauteren, M., Tys, D., Snoeck, C.

2020

Strontium isotope ratios related to childhood mobility: Revisiting sampling strategies of the calcined human pars petrosa ossis temporalis.

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, published online. (IF: 2.200)

Veselka, B., Locher, H., De Groot, J.C.M.J., Davies, G.R., Snoeck, C., Kootker, L.M.

Revisiting the Middle Neolithic cremated remains from a unique stone crypt from Stein, the Netherlands.

Anthropologica et Praehistorica: 129/2018: 7-18.

Veselka, B.

2019

Taking sides: an osteoarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains from the south and north sides of St. Andrew’s Church (Andreaskerk) in Hattem, the Netherlands.

in: Van Oosten, R., Schats, R., Fast, K. (eds.), Osteoarchaeology in historical context, cemetery research in the Low Countries, Urban Graveyard proceedings 3: 139-153.

Veselka, B., Klomp, M.

D-Lightful Sunshine Disrupted: vitamin D deficiency as a method for the reconstruction of changes in sociocultural practices due to industrialisation in 17^th - 19^th century Netherlands.

PhD thesis Leiden University

Veselka, B.

Micro-CT assessment of dental mineralization defects indicative of vitamin D deficiency in two 17^th - 19^th century Dutch communities.

PhD thesis Leiden University

Veselka, B., Brickley, M.B., D’Ortenzio, L.L., Kahlon, B., Hoogland, M.L.P., Waters-Rist, A.L.

2018

Four possible cases of osteomalacia: the value of a multidisciplinary diagnostic approach.

International Journal of Paleopathology 23: 15-25 (IF: 1.301)

Van der Merwe, A.E., Veselka, B., Van Veen, H.A., Van Rijn, R., Colman, K.L., De Boer, H.H.

Gender-related vitamin D deficiency in a Dutch 19^th century farming community.

International Journal of Paleopathology 23: 69-75 (IF 1.301)

Veselka, B., Van der Merwe, A.E., Hoogland, M.L.P., Waters-Rist, A.L.

2017

Excavations of the Late Neolithic arable, burial mounds and a number of well-preserved skeletons at Oostwoud-Tuithoorn: a re-analysis of old data.

Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 47: 95-150

Fokkens, H., Veselka, B., Bourgeois, Q.P.J., Olalde, I., Reich, D.

2016

Begraven bij de Sint-Janskerk: analyse van 17^e tot 19^e eeuwse menselijke skeletten uit Roosendaal.

In: Jaarboek de Gulden Roos, Roosendaal, chapter 2: 33-44.

Veselka, B.

Een brandrestengraf uit de midden-Bronstijd te St-Gillis-Waas-Kluizenmolen III (prov. Oost-Vlaanderen, België).

LUNULA Archaeologica Protohistorica XIV: 41-46.

Lauwers, B, Veselka, B., Van Strydonck, M, Boudin, M.

2015

Rural rickets: vitamin D deficiency in a Post-Medieval farming community from the Netherlands

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 25: 665-675

Veselka, B., Hoogland, M.L.P., Waters-Rist, A.L.

2014

Deliberate selective deposition of Iron Age cremations from Oosterhout (prov. Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands): a ‘pars-pro-toto’ burial ritual.

LUNULA Archaeologica Protohistorica XXII: 151-158

Veselka, B. and Lemmers, S.A.M.oogland, M.L.P., Waters-Rist, A.L.

Publications

An overview of all my publications.

Contact me if you would like to recieve the full-text of any of these publications.

“MEMOR: a database of archeological human remains collections from Flanders, Belgium.”

De Groote, I., Van de Vijver, K., Veselka, B., De Potter, P., Massagê, L., Van Der Dooren, L., Vandenborre, J., Larmuseau, M.H.D., Danckers, J., Robberechts, B.
American Journal of Biological Anthropology 181: 677-681 (IF: 3.0), 2023

“Precarious adolescence: adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18^th-19^th centuries.”

Lamer, M., Veselka, B., Schrader, S., Hoogland, M.L.P., Brickley, M.B.
International Journal of Paleopathology 40: 63-69 (IF: 1.6), 2023

“Hidden transitions: New insights into changing social dynamics between the Bronze and Iron Age in the cemetery of Destelbergen (Belgium).”

Dalle, S., Capuzzo, G., Hlad, M., Veselka, B., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Sabaux, C., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Vercauteren., M., Warmenbol, E., Snoeck, C., De Mulder, G.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49: 103797 (IF: 0.7), 2023

“Final Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary practices and population dynamics in Belgium, the impact of radiocarbon dating of cremated bones.”

Capuzzo, G., De Mulder, G., Sabaux, C., Dalle, S., Boudin, M., Annaert, R., Hlad, M., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Veselka, B., Warmenbol, E., Snoeck, C>, Vercauteren, M.
Radiocarbon 65: 51-80 (IF: 6.3), 2023

“Strontium isotopes and concentrations in cremated bones suggest an increased salt consumption in Gallo-Roman diet.”

Dalle, S., Snoeck, C., Sengeløv, A., Salesse, K., Hlad, M., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Gerritzen, C.T., Goderis, S., Sabaux, C., Stamataki, E., Vercauteren, M., Veselka, B., Warmenbol, E., De Mulder,
Scientific Reports 12:9280 (IF: 4.6) 2022

“An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers.”

Marciniak, S., Bergey, CM., Silva, AM., Haluszko, A., Furmanek, M., Veselka, B., ... ... Pinhasi, R., Perry, GH.
PNAS, published online (IF: 12.291), 2022

“Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age.”

Patterson, N., Isakov, M., ... ... Veselka, B., ... ... Armit, I., Reich, D.
Nature 601: 588-594 (IF: 49.962), 2022

“Radiocarbon dating the urnfields at Sint-Gillis-Waas (prov. East-Flanders, Belgium).”

De Mulder, G., Dalle, S., Snoeck, C., Tys, D., Vercauteren, M., Boudin, M., Warmenbol, E., Capuzzo, G., Salesse, K., Sabaux, C., Stamataki, E., Sengeløv, A., Hlad, M., Annaert, R. & Veselka, B..
LUNULA 29: 149-154, 2021

“Recent data on Early Iron Age cremations in the northern group of Ardennes burial mounds: Hastape and Fosse del Haye (Gouvy, prov. of Luxembourg, Belgium).”

Draily, C., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Dalle, S., De Mulder, G., Hanut, F., Hlad, M., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Tys, D., Vercauteren, M., Veselka, B., Vrielynck, O., Warmenbol, E., Snoeck, C. & Sabaux, C.
LUNULA 29: 165-168, 2021

“Interglobular dentine attributed to vitamin D deficiency visible in cremated human teeth”

Veselka, B., Snoeck, C.
Scientific Reports 11: 20958, 2021

“These boots are made for burnin’: Inferring the position of the corpse and the presence leather footwears during cremation through isotope (δ13C, δ18O) and infrared (FTIR) analyses of experimentally burnt skeletal remains.”

“Is it hot enough? A multi-proxy approach shows variations in cremation conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium.”

Stamataki, E., Kontopoulos, I., Salesse, K., McMillan, R., Veselka, B., Sabaux, C., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Claeys, P., Dalle, S., Hlad, M., Sengeloøv, A., Vercauteren, M., Warmenbol, E., Tys, D., De Mulder, G., Snoeck, C.
Journal of Archaeological Science 136: 105509 (IF: 3.040), 2021

“Divergence, diet, and disease: The identification of group identity, landscape use, health, and mobility in the 5th to 6th-century burial community of Echt, the Netherlands.”

Veselka, B., Capuzzo, G., Annaert, R., Mattielli, N., Boudin, M., Dalle, S., Hlad, M., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Tys, D., Vercauteren, M., Warmenbol, E., De Mulder, G., Snoeck, C.
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13: 97. (IF: 2.144) , 2021

“Multi-proxy analyses of the Late Bronze Age site of Herstal reveal new information about funerary practices and landscape use in the Belgian Meuse Valley.”

Sabaux, C., Veselka, B., Capuzzo, G., Snoeck, C., Sengeløv, A., Hlad, M., Warmenbol, E., Stamataki, E., Boudin, M., Annaert, R., Dalle, S., Debaille, V., Kontopoulos, I., Salesse, K., Tys, D., Vercauteren, M., De Mulder, G.
Journal of Archaeological Science, 132:105437 (IF: 3.030), 2021

“Revisiting metric sex estimation of cremated human remains via supervised learning using a reference collection of modern identified individuals. (Knoxville, USA).”

Hlad, M., Veselka, B., Steadman, D.W., Herregods, B., Elskens, M., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Dalle, S., De Mulder, G., Sabaux, C., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Vercauteren, M., Warmenbol, E., Tys, D., Snoeck, C.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175: 777-793 (IF: 2.662), 2021

“A joint medico-historical and palaeopathological perspective on vitamin D deficiency prevalence in post-Medieval Netherlands”

Veselka, B., Brickley, M.B., Waters-Rist, A.L.
International Journal of Paleopathology 32: 41-49. (IF: 2.662), 2021

“Estimating age‐at‐death in burnt adult human remains using the Falys–Prangle method”

Veselka, B., Hlad, M., Wolfe Steadman, D., Annaert, H., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Dalle, S., Kontopoulos, I., De Mulder, G., Sabaux, C., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Vercauteren, M., Tys, D., Snoeck, C.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175, 128-136 (IF:2.662), 2021

“Le projet CRUMBEL et l'apport de la recherche l'archéométrique..”

Dalle, S., Sabaux, C., De Mulder, G., Annaert, R., Hlad, M., Stamataki, E., Kontopoulos, I., Veselka, B., Tys, D., Capuzzo, G., Sengeløv, A., Vercauteren, M., Snoeck, C., Salesse, K., Boudin, M., Warmenbol, E.
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie 159: 36-40, 2020

“Pommeroeul et ses restes incinérés, un cas du projet CRUMBEL, Dis Manibus. Tombes sous a loupe.”

Hlad, M., Sabaux, C., Veselka, B., Stamataki, E., Sengeløv, A., Dalle, S., Annaert, R., Salesse, K., Capuzzo, G., Kontopoulos, I., Snoeck, C., De Mulder, G., Boudin, M., Warmenbol, E., Vercauteren, M., Tys, D., & Polet, C.
Etudes et Documents du Cercle royal d'Histoire et d'Archéologie d'Ath et de la région 30: 117-119, 2020

“The Late Iron Age cemetery of Kemzeke/Kwakkel (prov. Of East-Flanders, Belgium): first radiocarbon dates on cremated bone and new insight in the funerary practices of the Iron Age.”

De Mulder, G., Snoeck, C., Tys, D., Vercauteren, M., Boudin, M., Warmenbol, E., Capuzzo, G., Salesse, K., Sabaux, C., Dalle, S., Stamataki, E., Sengeløv, A., Hlad, M., Annaert, R., Veselka, B. & Kontopoulos, I.
LUNULA 28: 133-137., 2020

“The CRUMBEL project and research possibilities for early medieval cremations”

Annaert, R., Snoeck, C., Tys, D., Boudin, M., De Mulder, G., Vercauteren, M., Warmenbol, E., Capuzzo, G., Dalle, S., Hlad, M., Kontopoulos, I., Salesse, K., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., & Veselka, B.
Archaeologia Mediaevalis: 43-46., 2020

“Strontium isotope ratios related to childhood mobility: Revisiting sampling strategies of the calcined human pars petrosa ossis temporalis.”

Veselka, B., Locher, H., De Groot, J.C.M.J., Davies, G.R., Snoeck, C., Kootker, L.M.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 35: e9038. (IF: 2.200), 2020

“Revisiting the Middle Neolithic cremated remains from a unique stone crypt from Stein, the Netherlands.”

Veselka, B.
Anthropologica et Praehistorica: 129/2018: 7-18, 2020

“The CRUMBEL project takes a closer look at the human cremated bone collections from Belgium”

Snoeck, C., Salesse, K., Annaert, R., Boudin, M., Capuzzo, G., Dalle, S., De Mulder, G., Hlad, M., Kontopoulos, I., Sabaux, C., Sengeløv, A., Stamataki, E., Veselka, B., Warmenbol, E., Tys, D., Vercauteren, M.
Anthropologica et Praehistorica 127/2016 , 2019

“Cremation vs inhumation, modelling cultural changes in funerary practices from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages in Belgium using Kernel Density Analysis.”

Capuzzo, C, Snoeck, C, Boudin, M, Annaert, R, Dalle, S, Hlad, M, Kontopoulos, I, Sabaux, C, Salesse, K, Sengeløv, A, Stamataki, E, Veselka, B, Warmenbol, E, De Mulder, G, Tys, D, Vercauteren, M.
Radiocarbon 62: 1809 - 1832 (IF 1.531), 2019

“Crémations, urnes et mobilité - la dynamqieu du peuplement de la Belgique.”

Sabaux C., Snoeck C., Tys D., Vercuateren M., Boudin m., Warmenbol E., Annaert A., Capuzzo G., Dalle S., Hlad M., Kontopoulos I., Salesse K., Sengelov A., Stamataki E., Veselka B. & De Mulder G
Arduinna 108, 2019

“Preliminary results in the collecting of protohistoric cremation samples for the CRUMBEL project.”

Dalle S., Sabaux C., Capuzzo G., Tys D., Snoeck Ch., Vercauteren M., Warmenbol E., Boudin M., Annaert R., Stamataki E., Kontopoulos I., Veselka B., Sengeløv A., Hlad M., Salesse K. & De Mulder G.
Lunula 27: 9-14, 2019

“An urn from Tongerlo in the archaeological collection of Ghent University (Belgium).”

Stamataki E., Sabaux C., Hlad M., Tys D., Snoeck C., Vercauteren M., Warmenbol E, Boudin M., Annaert R., Kontopoulos I., Veselka B., Dale S., Sengeløv A., Capuzzo G., Salesse K., Monsieur P. & De Mulder G
Lunula 27: 79-83, 2019

“Taking sides: an osteoarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains from the south and north sides of St. Andrew’s Church (Andreaskerk) in Hattem, the Netherlands. in: Van Oosten, R., Schats, R., Fast, K. (eds.), Osteoarchaeology in historical context, cemetery research in the Low Countries.”

Veselka, B., Klomp, M.
Urban Graveyard proceedings 3: 139-153., 2019

“D-Lightful Sunshine Disrupted: vitamin D deficiency as a method for the reconstruction of changes in sociocultural practices due to industrialisation in 17^th - 19^th century Netherlands.”

Veselka, B.
PhD thesis Leiden University, 2019

“Micro-CT assessment of dental mineralization defects indicative of vitamin D deficiency in two 17^th - 19^th century Dutch communities.”

Veselka, B., Brickley, M.B., D’Ortenzio, L.L., Kahlon, B., Hoogland, M.L.P., Waters-Rist, A.L.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 169: 122-131 (IF 2.662), 2019

“Four possible cases of osteomalacia: the value of a multidisciplinary diagnostic approach.”

Van der Merwe, A.E., Veselka, B., Van Veen, H.A., Van Rijn, R., Colman, K.L., De Boer, H.H.
International Journal of Paleopathology 23: 15-25 (IF: 1.301), 2018

“Gender-related vitamin D deficiency in a Dutch 19th century farming community.”

Veselka, B., Van der Merwe, A.E., Hoogland, M.L.P., Waters-Rist, A.L.
International Journal of Paleopathology 23: 69-75 (IF 1.301) 2018

“Begraven bij de Sint-Janskerk: analyse van 17e tot 19e eeuwse menselijke skeletten uit Roosendaal.”

Veselka, B.
In: Jaarboek de Gulden Roos, Roosendaal, chapter 2: 33-44. 2016

“Een brandrestengraf uit de midden-Bronstijd te St-Gillis-Waas-Kluizenmolen III (prov. Oost-Vlaanderen, België).”

Lauwers, B, Veselka, B, Van Strydonck, M, Boudin, M.
LUNULA Archaeologica Protohistorica XIV: 41-46.. 2016

“Rural rickets: vitamin D deficiency in a Post-Medieval farming community from the Netherlands”

Veselka, B., Hoogland, M.L.P., Waters-Rist, A.L.
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 25: 665-675 (IF 1.180). 2015

“Deliberate selective deposition of Iron Age cremations from Oosterhout (prov. Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands): a ‘pars-pro-toto’ burial ritual”

Veselka, B., and Lemmers, S.A.M.
LUNULA Archaeologica Protohistorica XXII: 151-158. 2014

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Podium and Poster Presentations

An overview of all my presentations.

“Revealed by fire: Interglobular dentine attributed to vitamin D deficiency visible in cremated human teeth.”

Oral presentation at the UKAS conference in Aberdeen
2021

“The invisible ‘elderly’ estimating mature adult age-at-death in burnt human remains using the Falys-Prangle method.”

Oral presentation at (digital) EAA in Kiel
2021

“Diet and deficiency, using strontium isotope ratios and concentrations to investigate the development of cranial lesions in a Dutch Early Medeival cremated human remains collection.”

Oral presentation at the FOST workshop at the VUB
2021

“The invisible ‘elderly’ estimating mature adult age-at-death in burnt human remains using the Falys-Prangle method.”

Invited speaker, at the lecture series of the NVFA
2021

“CRUMBEL case study; Early Medieval Echt.”

At the Sachen Symposium
2021

“Kindersterfte in 17e-18e eeuws Gouda: Begravingen bij het Kraamvrouwenportaal van de Sint-Janskerk.”

Health and Wellbeing in the Cities of the Low Countries (Later Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century)
Gezondheid en Welzijn in de Steden van de Nederlanden (Late Middeleeuwen tot 20e Eeuw)
2021

“Penetrating the pars petrosa: investigating the influence of bone turnover and diagenesis on strontium isotope ratios related to childhood mobility.”

Veselka, B, Locher, H, De Groot, J, Davies, G, Snoeck C, Kootker, L.
Bone Diagenesis conference, Evora, Portugal 2021
2021

“The invisible 'elderly': estimating mature adult age-at-death in burnt human remains using the Falys-Prangle method.”

IVeselka, B, Hlad, M, Steadman, D, CRUMBEL team, and Snoeck, C.
Nederlandse Vereniging Fysische Antropologie 2021
2021

“Diet and deficiency: using strontium isotope ratios and concentrations to investigate the development of cranial lesions in a Dutch Early Medieval cremated human remains collection. ”

IVeselka, B, Capuzzo, G, Annaert, R, Snoeck, C, and the CRUMBEL team.
FOST workshop 2021
2021

“The invisible 'elderly': estimating mature adult age-at-death in burnt human remains using the Falys-Prangle method.”

IVeselka, B, Hlad, M, Steadman, D, CRUMBEL team, and Snoeck, C.
European Archaeology Association 2021 in Kiel, Germany
2021

“Divergence, diet, and disease: The identification of group identity, landscape use, health, and mobility in the 5th-6th century burial community of Echt, the Netherlands”

IVeselka, B, Capuzzo, G, Annaert, R, Snoeck, C, and the CRUMBEL team,
Bioarchaeology Early Career Conference 2021
"Best Oral Presentation on Isotopes" Award at BECC2021
2021

“A joint medico-historical and paleopathological perspective on rickets in 17th-19th-century nonadult remains from the Netherlands”

Invited speaker to the virtual Gesellshaft für Anthropologie workshop ‘Kinderskelette', Germany
2021

“Femoral dysplasia and vitamin D deficiency: differential diagnosis of female skeletal remains from Zwolle, the Netherlands”

At the virtual PPA conference in Baltimore, USA
2021

“A curious case of prehistoric patchwork: the manipulation of Neolithic skeletal remains from Pommeroeul, Belgium”

At AAPA conference in LA, USA (postponed)
2020

“Cremated remains from the Early Medieval cemetery of Echt,
the Netherlands”

At the CRUMBEL lecture series, Belgium
2019

“Debunking the Dentine: micro-CT and histological assessment of a mineralisation defect in teeth attributed to vitamin D deficiency in two 17th-19th century Dutch communities”

At the UKAS 2019 conference in Manchester, United Kingdom
2019

“Friend or Foe: bioarchaeological analysis of individuals from a Spanish War (1568 – 1648 AD) mass grave from Boksum, the Netherlands”

At the BABAO conference in Liverpool, UK
2017

“The impact of sociocultural habits on childhood vitamin D deficiency visible as residual rickets in five post-Medieval populations from the Netherlands”

Invited speaker to the Vitamin D deficiency symposium of the PPA in New Orleans, USA
2017

Life and Death in West-Frisia, the Netherlands: vitamin D deficiency in a Bronze Age child”

At the BABAO conference in Kent, UK
2016

“What’s in a weight: cremated remains as a proxy for the reconstruction of social roles in Bronze Age Ermelose Heide, the Netherlands“

At the BABAO conference in Sheffield, UK
2015

“Regents and the rich: life and death of the Gouda elite in post-Medieval Netherlands”

At the Conference for Environmental Archaeology of European Cities in Brussels, Belgium
2015

“Human remains from Oman”

Invited speaker for the lecture series of Archol B.V., Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2015

"The role of the sunshine vitamine in human evolution"

Invited speaker for the Human Origin Research Group at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2014

"Gender-related vitamin D deficiency in a Dutch post-Medieval farming community"

At the BABAO conference in Durham 2014, UK
2014

Oral presentation on post-graduate research on the prevalence of rickets in 49 subadults

With a publication of the abstract at 19th European Paleopathology Association Meeting
in Lille, France,
2012

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2024

Bioarchaeological analyses of the cremated remains from the elite graves of Wijshagen - De Rieten.

In: Roijmans, N. (ed.) Chariots on Fire . ( in press)

Cremation in context: scientific approaches going from 'Meh' to 'Yeah'.

In: Williams, H. Lippok, F. (eds.) Cremation in the Early Middle Ages. ( in press)

2023

MEMOR: a database of archeological human remains collections from Flanders, Belgium.

American Journal of Biological Anthropology 181: 677-681 (IF: 3.0)

Precarious adolescence: adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18th-19th centuries.

International Journal of Paleopathology 40: 63-69 (IF: 1.6)

Hidden transitions: New insights into changing social dynamics between the Bronze and Iron Age in the cemetery of Destelbergen (Belgium).

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49: 103797 (IF: 0.7)

Final Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary practices and population dynamics in Belgium, the impact of radiocarbon dating of cremated bones.

Radiocarbon 65: 51-80 (IF: 6.3)

2022

An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers.

PNAS, published online (IF: 12.291)

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age.

Nature 601: 588-594 (IF: 49.962)

2021

Interglobular dentine attributed to vitamin D deficiency visible in cremated human teeth.

Scientific Reports 11: 20958 (IF: 4.379)

These boots are made for burnin’: Inferring the position of the corpse and the presence leather footwears during cremation through isotope (δ13C, δ18O) and infrared (FTIR) analyses of experimentally burnt skeletal remains. conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium.

PLoS ONE 16: e0257199 (IF: 3.240)

Is it hot enough? A multi-proxy approach shows variations in cremation conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium.

Journal of Archaeological Science 136: 105509 (IF: 3.040)

Divergence, diet, and disease: The identification of group identity, landscape use, health, and mobility in the 5th to 6th-century burial community of Echt, the Netherlands.

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13: 97 (IF: 2.144)

Multi-proxy analyses of the Late Bronze Age site of Herstal reveal new information about funerary practices and landscape use in the Belgian Meuse Valley.

Journal of Archaeological Science, 132:105437 (IF: 3.030)

Revisiting metric sex estimation of cremated human remains via supervised learning using a reference collection of modern identified individuals. (Knoxville, USA).

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175: 777-793. (IF: 2.662)

A joint medico-historical and palaeopathological perspective on vitamin D deficiency prevalence in post-Medieval Netherlands.

International Journal of Paleopathology, 32: 41-49. (IF:1.614)

Estimating age-at-death in burnt adult human remains using the Falys–Prangle method.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175: 128-136. (IF:2.662)

2020

Strontium isotope ratios related to childhood mobility: Revisiting sampling strategies of the calcined human pars petrosa ossis temporalis.

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, published online. (IF: 2.200)

Revisiting the Middle Neolithic cremated remains from a unique stone crypt from Stein, the Netherlands.

Anthropologica et Praehistorica: 129/2018: 7-18.

2019

Taking sides: an osteoarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains from the south and north sides of St. Andrew’s Church (Andreaskerk) in Hattem, the Netherlands.

in: Van Oosten, R., Schats, R., Fast, K. (eds.), Osteoarchaeology in historical context, cemetery research in the Low Countries, Urban Graveyard proceedings 3: 139-153.

D-Lightful Sunshine Disrupted: vitamin D deficiency as a method for the reconstruction of changes in sociocultural practices due to industrialisation in 17th - 19th century Netherlands.

PhD thesis Leiden University

Micro-CT assessment of dental mineralization defects indicative of vitamin D deficiency in two 17th - 19th century Dutch communities.

PhD thesis Leiden University

2018

Four possible cases of osteomalacia: the value of a multidisciplinary diagnostic approach.

International Journal of Paleopathology 23: 15-25 (IF: 1.301)

Gender-related vitamin D deficiency in a Dutch 19th century farming community.

International Journal of Paleopathology 23: 69-75 (IF 1.301)

2017

Excavations of the Late Neolithic arable, burial mounds and a number of well-preserved skeletons at Oostwoud-Tuithoorn: a re-analysis of old data.

Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 47: 95-150

2016

Begraven bij de Sint-Janskerk: analyse van 17e tot 19e eeuwse menselijke skeletten uit Roosendaal.

In: Jaarboek de Gulden Roos, Roosendaal, chapter 2: 33-44.

Een brandrestengraf uit de midden-Bronstijd te St-Gillis-Waas-Kluizenmolen III (prov. Oost-Vlaanderen, België).

LUNULA Archaeologica Protohistorica XIV: 41-46.

2015

Rural rickets: vitamin D deficiency in a Post-Medieval farming community from the Netherlands

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 25: 665-675

2014

Deliberate selective deposition of Iron Age cremations from Oosterhout (prov. Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands): a ‘pars-pro-toto’ burial ritual.

LUNULA Archaeologica Protohistorica XXII: 151-158

Publications

An overview of all my publications.

“MEMOR: a database of archeological human remains collections from Flanders, Belgium.”

“Precarious adolescence: adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18th-19th centuries.”

“Hidden transitions: New insights into changing social dynamics between the Bronze and Iron Age in the cemetery of Destelbergen (Belgium).”

“Final Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary practices and population dynamics in Belgium, the impact of radiocarbon dating of cremated bones.”

“Strontium isotopes and concentrations in cremated bones suggest an increased salt consumption in Gallo-Roman diet.”

“An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers.”

“Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age.”

“Radiocarbon dating the urnfields at Sint-Gillis-Waas (prov. East-Flanders, Belgium).”

“Recent data on Early Iron Age cremations in the northern group of Ardennes burial mounds: Hastape and Fosse del Haye (Gouvy, prov. of Luxembourg, Belgium).”

“Interglobular dentine attributed to vitamin D deficiency visible in cremated human teeth”

“These boots are made for burnin’: Inferring the position of the corpse and the presence leather footwears during cremation through isotope (δ13C, δ18O) and infrared (FTIR) analyses of experimentally burnt skeletal remains.”

Precarious adolescence: adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18^th-19^th centuries.

Divergence, diet, and disease: The identification of group identity, landscape use, health, and mobility in the 5^th to 6^th-century burial community of Echt, the Netherlands.

D-Lightful Sunshine Disrupted: vitamin D deficiency as a method for the reconstruction of changes in sociocultural practices due to industrialisation in 17^th - 19^th century Netherlands.

Micro-CT assessment of dental mineralization defects indicative of vitamin D deficiency in two 17^th - 19^th century Dutch communities.

Gender-related vitamin D deficiency in a Dutch 19^th century farming community.

Begraven bij de Sint-Janskerk: analyse van 17^e tot 19^e eeuwse menselijke skeletten uit Roosendaal.

“Precarious adolescence: adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18^th-19^th centuries.”

“D-Lightful Sunshine Disrupted: vitamin D deficiency as a method for the reconstruction of changes in sociocultural practices due to industrialisation in 17^th - 19^th century Netherlands.”

“Micro-CT assessment of dental mineralization defects indicative of vitamin D deficiency in two 17^th - 19^th century Dutch communities.”

“Cremated remains from the Early Medieval cemetery of Echt,
the Netherlands”