[Bonetools] Sabine Deschler-Erb

[Steve Ashby]

That's so sad, Alice; I can't really believe it.  I'd not seen Sabine for
some time but she was always so lively, kind, and supportive. She'll be a
massive loss in so many ways.

Thanks for letting us all know.

Steve







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On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 at 22:14, Alice Choyke <choyke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>     I have learned that our colleague, Sabine Deschler-Erb, has died after
> a long illness. Sabine was a full and very active professor in the
> Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel in
> Switzerland. She worked in a number of research areas as a
> zooarchaeologist, focused on Roman Studies,  notably including Roman worked
> bone. Until several years ago, Sabine was a long-time editor at *Instrumentum,
> *a journal dealing with ancient technology and particularly worked bone.
> For her PhD she studied bone tool manufacturing from Roman Augusta Raurica
> and produced a two volume,seminal study of these several thousands of
> objects.
>       Most of all, she was a hard-working, kind person with a very
> positive outlook on life. It is very difficult for me to imagine the
> laboratory at the University of Basel without her. Her death is a personal
> loss and a loss for scholarly work on the European part of the Roman Empire.
>
> Alice Choyke
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