Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

Join us in Poznań for the XXI #UISPP2026 congress: Session S -1F: Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in #pyroarchaeology organized by @segovandevelde.bsky.social Chris Miller and myself. Abstract submission deadline Feb 28th! uispp2026.syskonf.pl

The University of Vienna has opened its STEM Prae-Doc Call — and the (VDSEE) is participating. 🎉 We invite outstanding candidates in STEM fields to apply and join an international research environment with structured doctoral training. Details & deadlines: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań Join our session - Moving on: updated scales, concepts and approaches to mobility in the Late Pleistocene (Thematic Session 4D) Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 uispp2026.syskonf.pl @timocanessa.bsky.social @palomadelalasca.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social

📢Deadline Extended📢 Final week of abstract submissions for EAA2026 and Session 178 - Cave Sediments as Archives of Human-Environment Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Geoarchaeology & Micro-contextual Research! We look forward to seeing you all in Athens!

📢 PhD position in Geoarchaeology (4y) – Ghent University within the ERC project FROST. The PhD combines archaeological dating methods with geoarchaeological analyses of sediments to investigate Late Glacial human–environment interactions. www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Deadline: 23 February 2026

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Stud...

The earliest confirmed evidence of an adult cremation pyre has been discovered in Malawi! 🔥 theconversation.com/oldest-known...

“GenAI for Africa, a funding call from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme…Out of 215 submissions, only two projects are expected to be funded, giving a success rate of under 1%” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Upgraded micromorphology toolbox for the last sampling day of the year @heasvienna.bsky.social

📢Do you work on the (micro-) geoarchaeology of cave sediments? Join our Session #178 at the EAA 2026 Annual Meeting in Athens (26–29 August 2026)! For further details, please scan the QR code below! Abstract submissions open on 19 December 2025! 📢

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Beautiful text, we cannot wait to see Lucy next week on our HEAS trip from Vienna @heasvienna.bsky.social !

#ESHE2025 Giulia Gallo ‘ Estimating fire duration through bioapatite crystallite growth in Middle Palaeolithic contexts’ Bioapatite crystals: XRD/point of calcination. Nice experiment! Roc de Marsa (~90Ka) & Le Moustier (~55Ka): 10-20 hrs fire duration, at Le Moustier assoc w burning megafauna

Morgen noch nichts vor? Dann schauen Sie beim Tag der Offenen Grabung in Grubgraben bei Kammern vorbei. Unsere Archäolog:innen führen von 9 bis 14 Uhr durch die Ausgrabung und beantworten Ihre Fragen! #TagderOffenenGrabung #KulturNiederoesterreich

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

We had a lovely time at ISBA in Torino and almost managed to gather everyone from Vienna in one pic @heasvienna.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

#wearehiring Das NHM Wien sucht Vermittler*innen in den Bereichen: - 🐛 Biologie - 🪨 Erdwissenschaften - 🦴 Archäologie / Anthropologie 👉 Zu den Ausschreibungen: jobs.nhm.at Bewerbungsmöglichkeit bis 03.07.2025. #nhmwien #nhmvienna #jobs #jobseekers #jobalert #Jobsuche #chancenergreifen

#savethedate Archäologie am Berg | Metallkunst in der Eisenzeit Erlebe aktuelle archäologische Bergbau- und Gräberfeldforschung des NHM Wien mit zahlreichen Partnern am und im Salzberg. ⏰ Sa, 14./So, 15.6. | ab 10:00 Uhr 📌 "Alte Schmiede" am Salzberg in Hallstatt 👉 Programm: tinyurl.com/mpnj9vt6

Great to have you here!!

There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie... Deadline 25.05.2025 Please distribute widely! 🏺🦣

Mehrere Promotionsstellen an der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des DAI ausgeschrieben! Jetzt bewerben, gerne weiterleiten! www.dainst.org/karriere/bew... Mehr über uns erfahren: www.dainst.org/rgk

|✨ Publication Alert! ✨| Our latest research on #pyroarchaeology has just been published with @springernature.com in the #JournalOfArchaeologicalMethodAndTheory! -> Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis 🔥 Read here: rdcu.be/ehqag

📢Job alert! W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen. ⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓 Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩 For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.

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Exciting study with the most wonderful illustrations. Bones buried below a fire event can show high degrees of heat alteration! 🔥

Job alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

PhD position in archaeozoology and omics at the University of Vienna! 🤠🦊🐯🦁🐱🐰🐍🦬🐂🦣🐄 The student will be based in Vienna and co-supervised in Santander!

#wearehiring Neue Herausforderung gesucht? Zur Verstärkung unseres Teams suchen wir ab sofort eine Mitarbeiter*in im Eventmanagement (m/w/d) | Vollzeit (37,5 Wochenstunden) Zur #Stellenausschreibung: tinyurl.com/ykebbwr3 Bewerbungsfrist: 16. März 2025 #job #nhmwien #nhmvienna #eventmanagement

Don‘t miss out on this #HEAS talk combining Paleolithic archaeology and computational linguistics!

The #EAA25 abstract submission deadline is today, submit here submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/login and join one of our fire sessions organized by members of the pyroarchaeology commission:

Deadline today to submit a session proposal under our theme “Archaeological Sciences: State of the Art and New Advances in Archaeology” at the World Archaeology Congress 2025 worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-... Rosa Albert, Yannick Devos, Monica Alonso, Sally Hoare

Working in the field of Human Evolution and using Microarchaeology to make sense of it all? Please consider submitting a paper abstract to our session in this exciting theme at WAC-10 this year. Drop me a DM for more info.

Congrats again to Pedro García for winning last year‘s microphotograph contest for students at ViMi 5! The prize was an edition of Stoops 2020 + a personalized sampling knife sponsored by @heasvienna.bsky.social. We are still looking for someone to organize ViMi6!!!

There's still time to register or submit your abstract for the Vienna Geoarchaeology Conference: Pushing Borders – Expanding Horizons! Deadline extended to January 17th. Registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... event funded by: @heasvienna.bsky.social, @dshcs.bsky.social, VDSEE

The deadline for #EGU25 is coming up fast, January 15th. Join us to talk fire at @eurogeosciences.bsky.social and potentially to be continued at some traditional Viennese Kaffeehaus afterwards!

Geoarchaeology in Vienna Conference @univie.ac.at Pushing Borders - Expanding Horizons February 12th - 14th 2025 A cooperation with the Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution & @heasvienna.bsky.social Call for Abstracts & Participation is open! dshcs.univie.ac.at/en/activitie...

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

Got our samples ready for the seed grant, thank you @heasvienna.bsky.social

Indiana Jones and the fireplace that wasn‘t 😆 #pyroarchaeology

Colleagues from #geoarchaeology, spread the information: The german "Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie" celebrates its 20th anniversary with a joint conference with the international group Developing International Geoarchaeology DIG: May 21st to 25th 2025 in #Tübingen sites.google.com/view/dig2025...

It is wonderful to have Verena back in the building and to hear about her research on human environment relations from an ancient pathogens genomics perspective!

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We can identify bone in micromorphology blocks to taxa using ZooMS! Great presentation by Larissa Bartsch. For the UP site Satsurblia Cave we had a success rate of 77% and can now add a taxa dimension to microcontexts such as coprolites, dumped features or hearths

Two new papers on sedaDNA in archaeology: its potential link.springer.com/article/10.1... and the importance of context www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...