Publications

An overview of all my publications.

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2025

The Roman Way: investigating the cremation conditions during the Roman period in Belgium using a multi-proxy an multi-sampling approach.

In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 64: 105156

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

Reconstructing Life Histories: New insights into cremation practices, mobility, and food consumption patterns through isotope and infrared analyses of petrous parts and teeth.

In; American Journal of Biological Anthropology 187: e70058

Frère, A, Löffelmann, T, Veselka, B, Stamataki, E, Sengeløv, A, James, HF, De Mulder, G, Claes, B, De Backer, F, Snoeck, C.

 Lively Landscapes: sex- and age-related difference in diet and land use charaterising a Late Bronze-Early Iron Age community from Tilburg, the Netherlands.

.In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 62: 105054

Veselka, B, Löffelmann, T, James, HF, Brattinga, J, Louwen, A, De Mulder, G, Meurkens, L, Sabaux, C, Van den Eynde, G, Snoeck, C

Mobility in a medieval industrial city: an isotopic study of
skeletal evidence from 13th-14th century Ypres (Belgium).

In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17: 1-17. 

Spros, R, Snoeck, C, Löffelmann, T, Stamataki, E, Jackson, V, Veselka, B, James, HF, Sengeløv, A, Haneca, K, De Groote, K, Ervynck, A, Provyn, S, Snoeck, T, Claeys, P, Lambert, B.

Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain

In: PLoS ONE 20: 30316387.

Griffith, JI, James, HF, Ordoño, J, Fernández-Crespo, T, Gerrtizen, CT, Cheung, C, Spros, R, Claeys, P, Goderis, S, Veselka, B, Snoeck, C.

From plants to patterns: constructing a comprehensive online strontium isoscape for Belgium (IsoBel) using high density grid mapping.

In: Geodrema 453: 117123

Sengeløv, A, Capuzzo, G, Dalle, S, James, HF, Sabaux, C, Stamataki, E, Hlad, M, Gerrtizen, CT, Legrand, EM, Veselka, B, De Mulder, G, Annaert, R, Boudin, M, Salesse, K, Warmenbol, E, Mattielli, N, Snoeck, C, Vercauteren, M.

2024

Practitioner preferences
in the analyses of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation

In: PLoS ONE 19: 30316387

Hlad, M, Löffelmann, T, Griffith, J, James, HF, Vercauteren, M, Snoeck, C, Veselka, B

Assembling Ancestors: the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman
skeletal remains at Pommerœul, Belgium.

In:  Antiquity 98: 1576-1591.

Veselka, B, Reich, D, Capuzzo, G, Olalde, I, Callan, K, Zalzala, F, Altena, E, Goffette, Q, Ringbauer, H, Van der Velde, H, Polet, C, Toussaint, M, Snoeck, C, Cattelain, L.

Novel multidisciplinary approach detects multiple individuals within the same Late Bronze-Early Iron Age cremation graves

In: Radiocarbon 66: 761-773. 

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

The Lady under the hill: an osteobiography of a Middle Bronze Age cremated
female from Ermelose Heide (Ermelo, prov. Gelderland, the Netherlands)

In:  Lunula Archaeologia protohistorica 32: 49-55

Veselka, B, Fontijn, D, Bourgeois, Q

Early La Tène elite burials from the Lower Rhine-Meuse region and their Northwest European Context.

In: Roymans. N, Theunissen. L, Swinkels. L, Van der Vaart-Verschoof (eds.)  Chariots on Fire, Reins of Power. 273-284

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. Death, Fire and identity in North-West Europe 281-920 ( in press)

Veselka, B.

2023

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

American Journal of Biological Anthropology 181: 677-681

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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 

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

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 

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 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 169: 122-131

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 

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 

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.

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