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We welcome contributions from all areas related to Roman bioarchaeology, including (but not limited to):

Human osteoarchaeology

Zooarchaeology

Archaeobotany

Mortuary archaeology

Paleopathology

Isotopic analysis

Biomolecular approaches

The 2026 conference theme “Bodies and Environments in the Roman World,” invites participants to consider the many ways that local environments shaped Roman experiences of life and death across the Empire and its territories.

Please note that registration for ICORB 2026 will be free!

Additional information regarding presenter registration, keynote speakers, and potential publication opportunities will be announced soon. The general registration portal will open later this year.

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ICORB 2026

ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED 18 May - 1 August 2026

Conference Registration will open later this year…stay tuned!

Past Podium Presentations

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ICORB 2025 Posters

  • Burial Practices and Population Structure in Roman Imperial Cist Graves from Aravoras (Nurallao, Sardinia, Italy)

    Laura Caria, Chiara Pilo, Stefania Dore, Rossella Paba, Francesca Candilio

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  • Winter is Coming: Climate Change and Maxillary Sinusitis in Britain in the Late Antiquity Little Ice Age

    Leon Corneille-Cowell

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  • Dental Calculus as a Forensic and Archaeological Archive: Methodological Advances from the PRIN Project Roman Calculus

    Emanuela Cristiani, Fabio Vaiano, Livia Ottolenghi, Alessandra Sperduti, Viola Cecconi, Alexandra Dimitrova, Elena Fiorin, Ilenia Gentile, Arianna Giordano, Artnora Ndocaj, Dulce Neves

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  • Dead and the City: The Cremations of a Woman and a Child in a Caleti Necropolis During the High Roman Empire

    Mélanie Gadacz, Jonas Parétias, Pierre Wech

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  • Tarsal Variation in a Late Antique Rural Context from Capo Frasca (Sardinia, Italy)

    Alice Gallisai, Laura Caria, Anna Piga, Massimo Casagrande, Francesca Candilio

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  • Bioarchaeological Insights into Diet and Genetic Diversity in the Roman Colony of Castrum Novum (Santa Marinella, RM)

    Giulia Orefice, Allegra Pusceddu, Aurora Viti, Flavio Enei, Cristina Martinez-Labarga

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  • Post-Butchery Use of Faunal Remains: Evidence from Late Antique Site 97 in Novi Kneževac, Serbia

    Simeun Srdanović, Mladen Mladenović, Teodora Mladenović, Neda Mirković-Marić

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  • Life and Death in the Northern Periphery of the Roman Imperium: From the Archaeological Material of Hermonassa

    Natalia G. Svirkina, Tatiana A. Ilyina, Evgeniy B. Prokhorchuk, Christina V. Zhur, Maria V. Leonova

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