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

How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread. #archaeology #boardgame

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