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geoarchaeolgist interested in human evolution, fire, ancient dna and most of all dirt
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Nina Willburger
4 days ago
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...
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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/schliessung-des-instituts-fur-archaologie-an-der-hu-berlin?share=be6555a9-dd57-4d41-a001-fd9ad9a772d2&source=mailto_link&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=mailto_link
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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
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XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
https://uispp2026.syskonf.pl
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Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution
8 days ago
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...
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Philip R Nigst
21 days ago
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
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Yannis Oikonomou
22 days ago
📢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!
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Ghent Archaeology Department / Archeologie Ugent
26 days ago
📢 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
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Doctoraatsbursaal
https://www.ugent.be/nl/jobs/oap/doctoraatsbursaal-19
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Katerina Harvati
27 days ago
🚨 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 🚨
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Tom Higham
about 2 months ago
Fully funded PhD studentship here with
@katerinad.bsky.social
on palaeoproteomics. Apply below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Stud...
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https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Student-in-Evolutionary-Anthropology-%28with-a-focus-on-Palaeoproteomics%29/1275167601/
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Emma Caton
about 2 months ago
The earliest confirmed evidence of an adult cremation pyre has been discovered in Malawi! 🔥
theconversation.com/oldest-known...
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Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age hunter-gatherers
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What was behind this unexpected funeral ritual?
https://theconversation.com/oldest-known-cremation-in-africa-poses-9-500-year-old-mystery-about-stone-age-hunter-gatherers-268074
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John Hawks
2 months ago
“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...
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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04060-x
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Ben Williamson
2 months ago
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...
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Upgraded micromorphology toolbox for the last sampling day of the year
@heasvienna.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Yannis Oikonomou
2 months ago
📢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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I am sat!
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Beautiful text, we cannot wait to see Lucy next week on our HEAS trip from Vienna
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5 months ago
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Marta Mirazon Lahr
5 months ago
#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
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Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut
5 months ago
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
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Tom Higham
5 months ago
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...
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University assistant predoctoral 1
University assistant predoctoral 1
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral-1/1247735001/
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Tom Higham
6 months ago
Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum.
@nhmwien.bsky.social
jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...
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Stellenangebot Curator for the osteological collection of human remains (m/f/d) bei Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Forschung, wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit in Wien
https://jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-the-osteological-collection-of-human-remains-m-de-j215.html
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Shumon T. Hussain
6 months ago
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
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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
6 months ago
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
8 months ago
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...
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Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
https://elevanth.org/blog/2025/07/09/which-kind-of-science-reform/
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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
8 months ago
#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
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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
9 months ago
#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
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Great to have you here!!
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9 months ago
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Shumon T. Hussain
10 months ago
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! 🏺🦣
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Lukas Werther
10 months ago
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
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Ségolène Vandevelde
10 months ago
|✨ 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
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Harvati Lab
11 months ago
📢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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Erella Hovers
11 months ago
Please help spreading the word
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Exciting study with the most wonderful illustrations. Bones buried below a fire event can show high degrees of heat alteration! 🔥
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12 months ago
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Tom Higham
12 months ago
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...
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Pere Gelabert
about 1 year ago
PhD position in archaeozoology and omics at the University of Vienna! 🤠🦊🐯🦁🐱🐰🐍🦬🐂🦣🐄 The student will be based in Vienna and co-supervised in Santander!
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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
about 1 year ago
#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
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Don‘t miss out on this
#HEAS
talk combining Paleolithic archaeology and computational linguistics!
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about 1 year ago
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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:
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EAA 2025
https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/login
about 1 year ago
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Dr Sally Hoare
about 1 year ago
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
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THEME 12: Archaeological Sciences: State of the Art and New Advances in Archaeology – WAC-10
https://worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-12-archaeological-sciences-state-of-the-art-and-new-advances-in-archaeology/
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Mike Morley
about 1 year ago
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.
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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!!!
about 1 year ago
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Doralice Klainscek
about 1 year ago
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
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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!
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about 1 year ago
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Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies
about 1 year ago
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...
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@BarbaraHorejs
about 1 year ago
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
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Got our samples ready for the seed grant, thank you
@heasvienna.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Indiana Jones and the fireplace that wasn‘t 😆
#pyroarchaeology
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over 1 year ago
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Dr. Felix Henselowsky
over 1 year ago
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...
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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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over 1 year ago
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Follow this account for updates on
#pyroarchaeology
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over 1 year ago
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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
over 1 year ago
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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/...
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Archaeology meets environmental genomics: implementing sedaDNA in the study of the human past - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has become one of the standard applications in the field of paleogenomics in recent years. It has been used for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, detecting the pres...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-024-01999-2
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