Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to welcome you to Oxford, UK for the 8th Bone Diagenesis Meeting, jointly organized by the University of Oxford and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The meeting will take place from the 12th to the 16th of September, 2017. The call for abstracts <https://bonediagenesis2017.wixsite.com/bd17/participate> is open until the *5**th** of April, 2017*. More information is available on the website <https://bonediagenesis2017.wixsite.com/bd17>. We look forward to seeing you in Oxford. On behalf of the organising committee, Julia Lee-Thorp, Rick Schulting, Christophe Snoeck, Scott Blumenthal Contact: [log in to unmask] -- Scott A. Blumenthal, PhD Newton International Fellow Research Laboratory for Archaeology University of Oxford