*Spits coffee out…. 🤣 #BookSky

It‘s #EuropeanArchaeologyDay 🏺, and at the Cluster exciting things are happening! The first fieldwork projects of HUMAN ORIGINS are underway, and one of it is Yerevan-1. Armenia is a place of stunning landscapes, and potentially of new insights into the time Neanderthals disappeared. #paleosky

The team of Andrew Kandel and @emilypigott.bsky.social is working in cooperation with the Armenian National Academy of Science at the Middle Palaeolithic cave site. It was discovered in the 1960’s and shows promise of new insights into climate, environment and human‘s life 50-30,000 years ago.

PhD defended @univie.ac.at @vdsee-univie.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social 🎓 What a time the last three years has been at the Higham/Douka Lab under the supervision of @tommyhigham.bsky.social 🧪 I am eternally grateful for everyone who was part of my journey 🦴

🎓 PhD Defense Announcement Emily (@emilypigott.bsky.social) will defend her PhD on the 30th of March! You’re very welcome to join! Check out her Invitation below!👇 #PhD #Defense #AcademicLife @univie.ac.at

Thesis done and printed 🎓 at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology - @univie.ac.at 🦴🧪 The past 2 years and 10 months has flown by. I can not believe how much I have done when looking back at the publications/other work. Where did time fly ? I have no idea. Still in bewilderment 🍃

Very happy to hear today we are successful in gaining the HEAS Seed Grant at @heasvienna.bsky.social at the @univie.ac.at. Looking forward to progressing with this project and seeing the results 🦴

Had the pleasure of presenting at two seminar series at the @ox.ac.uk this week, within the @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social and @oxford-anthro.bsky.social. The talks were centred on my PhD research, using methods such as radiocarbon dating, ZooMS and Stable Isotopes on late Neanderthal sites etc.

New seminars in our PalEvo series

A short video on who we are. @univie.ac.at @nhmwien.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social @barbarahorejs.bsky.social #heasvienna #humanevolution #archaeologicalscience #ancientgenomics

We are in the paper #derstandard Based on our new publication - 'A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia' | PNAS @konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social

New paper on a late Neanderthal, with contribution from the lab: dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very happy to share our new paper in PNAS, revealing a new late Neanderthal discovered through biomolecular techniques, revealing long-distance connections across Eurasia 🦴 @konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We have a new #HEASBlog on our website. This week twenty one HEAS members went to the #NationalMuseumPrague to see #LucyandSelam. www.heas.at/activities/b...

A really nice trip visiting the Willendorf site and museums in the Wachau area

78,000-year-old footprints from Neanderthal man, child and toddler discovered on beach in Portugal 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... At Monte Clérigo, dated to 78 ± 5 ka, trackways of three individuals demonstrate how Neanderthals navigated dune landscapes.

@heasvienna.bsky.social at @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

ISBA conference in Torino 🦴 🧪@isbarchaeology.bsky.social and @isba11.bsky.social Presented a poster on our recent work, prominently based our paper which is coming out soon. A really nice time seeing so many talks in/around/completely out of my field of research.

ISBA 2025, what a nice week :D

Another fun year at the Pinilla Del Valle excavation (Valley of the Neanderthals), Spain. Such a nice team :D #PinilladelValle

Un nuevo yacimiento está siendo explorado en el Valle de los Neandertales de Pinilla del Valle cadenaser.com/cmadrid/2025...

An amazing time excavating in Galería de las Estatuas, Atapuerca 🦴⛏️ Such an interesting and rich area of archaeological sites with so many nice people to work alongside @fatapuerca.bsky.social

Wooden tools point to ancient taste for plants in China www.science.org/content/arti...

This International Women's Day we are proud to celebrate the amazing international women who are members of #HEASVienna. Here is a selection of them working in the lab, field and office.

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Something beautiful to start the week! A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

Dorothy Garrod (1892-1968) who led excavations at Tabun, Skhul and in Gibraltar was Cambridge's first female professor. Born #OTD in 1892.

A recent study describes 400,000-year-old ivory tools in Ukraine, pushing back the earliest evidence of ivory working by thousands of years. Researchers suggest these may have been "practice tools" for teaching knapping or were created due to limited lithic raw material medium.com/the-academic...

@vdsee-univie.bsky.social 2nd Symposium and 1st Art and Science event, mixing crochet and drawings in archaeological sciences with Konstantina Cheshmedzhieva at the @univie.ac.at 🦴

Happy festive season from all of us at the Douka/Higham lab - University of Vienna! Have a safe and happy Christmas break wherever you are! See you in 2025 for more 14C, palaeoproteomics, DNA and arch-sci fun! 🔔🎄☃️❄️🔔🎄☃️❄️🔔🎄☃️❄️ @katerinad.bsky.social highamlab.univie.ac.at doukalab.univie.ac.at