Happy to announce that reflections on our workshop about non-biological kinship in Vienna last year is already published! @anahcorral.bsky.social @sabinacvecek.bsky.social www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...

🚩👀💀🦴🌱If you are a #Turkish undergraduate or master’s student in #archaeology and are interested in a Summer school (without fees) in #bioarchaeology ( #archaeobotany, #archaeozoology, #archaeoanthropology), send me a message! More information to come 😀

Don't miss this hybrid event! For registration, please contact me! #heritage #heritagescience #E-RIHS @oeaw.bsky.social #HERITAGESCIENCEAUSTRIA funding programme

📹 New OeAI project on geoarchaeology at #Göbeklitepe identified traces of new structures believed to be dwellings. @dai-weltweit.bsky.social #TaşTepelerProject

M. Hernández Cordero and me are organizing a session on airborne lidar data capture and processing at #CAA2026 in Vienna. Submit your abstract and join us in S51 2026.caaconference.org/conference-s...

The OeAI now new to the Kulturpool! We provide images, 3D models, and metadata on Roman fibulae and components of historical costumes. Accessible through the cfir.science digital research platform, which seeks to make archaeological treasures available to everyone at no cost. >>> Check out now

Early Neolithic and Bronze Age Svinjarička Čuka in many facettes. open access in English and Serbian 🔓 doi.org/10.1553/978O...

New article about the archaeometric online database oeai.METRIX developed by the Digital Archaeology and Classics unit of the @oeai.bsky.social in JAS Reports 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... 👈 co-author on bsky: @pamelafragnoli.bsky.social funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

Want to join us at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities? We are currently looking for a DH Consultant with focus on Machine Learning! Apply here: www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=ip68... #DigitalHumanities #JobOffer

New Pazyryk tattoos dropped! 🤩

Such great news and so deserved!! Congratulations, Dr Burke! 🤩

Calling early career researchers! 📣 The Austrian Academy of Sciences’ #JESH Programme is a #mobility scheme which promotes #international collaboration and is now open for applications! 🎓 ⏰ Funding Duration: 1–6 months 📅 Deadline: September 16, 2025 📮 Apply now: stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/stipendie...

Vor welchen Herausforderungen stehen die Geistes-, Sozial- und Kunstwissenschaften bei der Nutzung von KI? ⬇️ Lesen Sie mehr über einen Mittelweg zwischen technikoptimistischer Naivität und dystopischer Fantasie: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

The @oeai.bsky.social 's archaeological reconstruction specialist Ferenc Zámolyi got interviewed about the use of AI in visualizing the past. He will present on this topic at the AI meets humanities & social sciences conference tomorrow.

Early career researchers @oeai.bsky.social present their poster @univie.ac.at this week! Great way to show students the next step in their archaeology careers! uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

This week's @oeai.bsky.social »World Archaeology Seminar«: Mateusz Jaeger with "The Cemetery in Nižná Myšľa (Slovakia): A New Chapter in Research on the History of the Local Early Bronze Age Community", 18.6., 17:30 CET, in person and online. info and zoom link here: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/even...

The Museum of Mining and Metallurgy Bor made a short video about @mariogavranovic.bsky.social / @oeai.bsky.social in cooperation with the Museum and the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade's excavation of the Middle Bronze Age cemetery Hajdučka Česma near Bor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJV...

Learn more about the extraordinary find of mammoths in a wine cellar in Lower Austria last year. ➡️ Full video: buff.ly/4o38rez #mammoth #iceage #archaeology

Come work with me! I am looking for a new prae-doc assistant: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

You are a post graduate in Archival Studies or Archaeology and are interested in the digital humanities side of archaeology? Join us in the Digital Archaeology and Classics group as a trainee for a year! www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/inst...

This week's @oeai.bsky.social »World Archaeology Seminar«: Mateusz Jaeger with "The Cemetery in Nižná Myšľa (Slovakia): A New Chapter in Research on the History of the Local Early Bronze Age Community", 18.6., 17:30 CET, in person and online. info and zoom link here: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/even...

This week's @oeai.bsky.social »World Archaeology Seminar«: Justyna Baron with her presentation "Archaeometric Perspective on the Bronze Age Craft Organization". 11.6.2025, 17:30 CEST. As always hybrid, so join us via zoom if you aren't in Vienna! www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/even...

We proudly present our Early Career Researchers at the @oeai.bsky.social ! Here's the new online presentation for a quick overview of current projects by these great PhD students & postdocs: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/medi... @heasvienna.bsky.social

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Learn more about the activities of the OeAI in 2024 in its new Annual Report: 🏺 142 research projects 🏺 24 monographs and anthologies 🏺~ 200 contributions to journals and anthologies 🏺82 events 🏺~ 1150 media contributions buff.ly/suATjwp

Very impressive performance by our early career researchers at the OeAI today. Special thanks to our Scientific Advisory Board 🙏 & the entire team for this productive meeting! @oeai.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting the amazing Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz. One of its many stunning objects is this Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast with a willow handle. Lime bast fibre is a flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for ...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

The online publication of the Ice Age exhibition catalogue (German/English) is available open access #Palaeolithic doi.org/10.1553/978O...

Check out our new article on gender archaeology doi.org/10.1017/S095.... Here, we test the chromosomal sex of Early Bronze Age individuals from Franzhausen and Gemeinlebarn that were not conforming to the dominant gendered burial practices.

14C data from #BronzeAge urn cemeteries etc in eastern Serbia challenge the traditional chronology of the region. @mariogavranovic.bsky.social et al from @oeai.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social and A. Kapuran from Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade in Radiocarbon 🔓 doi.org/10.1017/RDC....

🦣🔍 New mammoth bone discoveries in Lower Austria reveal insights into Ice Age hunters' daily life. OeAI archaeologists found remains of 5 mammoths, with stone tools, dismembered bones, and tusk fragments showing the use of meat and ivory processing by hunters 25,000 years ago.

🎧 Jetzt nachhören: Die Sendung "Dimensionen" in Ö1 zum Thema Archäogenetik

🌍 Could you Help Shape the Cultural Heritage Cloud? 🏛️ The ECHOES project invites cultural heritage professionals, researchers, and institutions across Europe to complete an online questionnaire about their use of digital tools. Learn more at: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thank you for bringing the Archaeo-Sexism exhibition to Vienna, @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social and @barbarahorejs.bsky.social, @uhaunivienna.bsky.social, @oeai.bsky.social, ÖGUF and everyone else involved! The full house during the opening shows the topic's importance.

Morgen geht es los! Die Archäo-Sexismus Ausstellung ist zwei Wochen in der Franz-Klein-Gasse zu besichtigen! uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

This is what a Tgfa, Krt27, Fgf5, Mc1r, mouse looked like. This is the mammothiest mouse of all of Colossal's mice experiments, genetically speaking. *drum roll*

Was würde passieren, wenn Frauen in der Wissenschaft streiken? 👩‍🔬 Zum kommenden #Weltfrauentag spricht ÖAW-Mitglied Verena Winiwarter über die Sichtbarkeit von Forscherinnen, die "leaky pipeline" und was ein Frauenstreik für die Wissenschaft bedeuten würde. Mehr dazu ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/keine-e...

For all archaeologists & friends in Vienna: come around to @uhaunivienna.bsky.social on 6.3. 18:00! We present past female prehistorians & discuss strategies for the future w/ @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

I wrote a brief article on the challenge that AI presents to archaeological visualisation. Check it out here: theconversation.com/how-ai-image... Though I have done a lot of scicomm, it was the first time I'd written for The Conversation. 🏺 +

A science journalist from @derstandard.at visited Viola Schmid (@oeai.bsky.social ) and Will Archer (National Museum in Bloemfontein)'s excavation in Rose Cottage Cave in South Africa in November. I did the 3D photogrammetry documentation during that season. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Very interesting paper on kinship, exogamy and patrilineality under Avar rule in VI-VII century Central Europe. A lot of valuable conclusions are drawn here. I personally found it quite insightful for my own area of research. #medievalsky #archaeology #anthropology 🏺

Tomorrow @ 17.30 the @oeai.bsky.social hosts a hybrid lecture in the World Seminars series on archaeological investigations conducted in southern Spain by M. Bartelheim‼️ More info here: www.oeaw.ac.at/oeai/veranst...

Today I started into the new work year and got greeted by a great view at the Postsparkasse.

Calling all folk with an interest in archaeology and classical studies 🔬👩‍🔬🏛️📜⛏️⚱️🦴 We have created a starter pack of our colleagues active on Blue Sky. Follow us and our team here: go.bsky.app/9qeVQbA

We need YOU! If you are working in archaeology in Germany or Austria, please share your experience with us. For an exhibition & scientific study on 'sexism in archaeology', 100% anonymous data only 🙏 www.umfrageonline.com/c/quruyhze @oeai.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social

Pretty cool to discuss some recent interpretations of our ancestors at the #CradleOfHumankind excursion of our @oeai.bsky.social & @heasvienna.bsky.social team 🙂

576 Silbermünzen und ein abgetrennter Finger: In der neuen Folge von MAKROMIKRO spricht Archäologe Stefan Groh über einen Fall aus dem Salzkammergut um die Mitte des 3. Jahrhunderts. Hört rein 🎧

There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead: A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹 #FindsFriday Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...

#FindsFriday Beautiful Mesolithic baskets! So well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago! A rare glimpse of ancient crafts still in use today! Cave of Los Murciélagos, southern Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #Archaeology