New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member #LumilaPaulaMenendez on 'It Takes Two to Tango: A Pluralist Account for Building Comprehensive Explanations in Human Evolution' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

We are looking forward to welcoming #AlessiaNava to #HEASVienna for the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience. More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗

#JobFairy Administrator position at the University of Vienna at the new Faculty Centre for Archaeology. More details below 👇🔗 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Organisa...

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXo3...

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky18...

#IrmgardHein from #HEASVienna introducing #GeorgiosPolymeris as part of the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience taking place now online and in-person @univie.ac.at

Happy to share our new paper on non-destructive FTIR analysis on silcrete artefacts from Mertenhof and Diepkloof with heating temperature reconstructions. Is the data beautiful and clean? No. But is it still meaningful? Yes! Study led by Will Archer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member #NicoleGrunstra on Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals. #HEASPublications www.heas.at/activities/n...

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

#HEASVienna members took to the streets of Vienna today along with 21,000 colleagues and students from across the Universities in Austria to protest the proposed budget cuts to University funding. #unisretten

Demonstrating against University budget cut plans in Austria today.

“Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick” Aidan O’Sullivan UCD School of Archaeology, & Cathy Moore, describe a carved wooden object from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick dated to 7th century

We are looking forward to welcoming #GeorgiosPolymeris to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience. More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

Call for a demonstration, Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 13:00, starting on the Universitätsring in front of the Main Building of the University of Vienna! www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta... Please join us and support #Science in Austria! @univie.ac.at @vdsee-univie.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member #José-MiguelTejero et al. #HEASPublications

@peregx9.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @thaispansani.bsky.social for a #HEASTalk taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

We are looking forward to the #HEASSeminar with #DiyendoMassilani taking place next Monday at the later than normal time of 16:00 CEST. This is an online only event. More information and registration on our website. 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel 🎞️👇

We are looking forward to welcoming @thaispansani.bsky.social to #HEASVienna for a #HEASTalk this upcoming Thursday. More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗

@philipnigst.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @burkeam.bsky.social as part of the #HEASSeminar in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

The recording from this talk is now on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. 👇🎞️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5_Q...

We are looking forward to welcoming #ArianeBurke @burkeam.bsky.social to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. @philipnigst.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

#KerstinKowarik introducing #FrankMaixner for the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience taking place now online and in-person at @univie.ac.at

Amazing to be back at home to organise the first course of Paleogenetics at the University of Barcelona. Strengthening the connections with the archaeological community there, orienting bachelor and MSc students and seeing friends! Great venue :) @heasvienna.bsky.social

The BEAM lab team lineup for 2026 (except for Carla :) ). Amazing team! beamlabwien.univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social If you are interested in possible opportunities at the intersection of biology, archaeology and evolution, please get in touch with me!

Nice recent article in Nature about sediment DNA and its impacts on human evolution and archaeology, featuring two of our great colleagues here in Vienna, Pere Gelabert and Ben Vernot @heasvienna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#HEASMember @undeaddandy.bsky.social introducing @niallcooke.bsky.social for a #HEASTalk taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

We are looking forward to welcoming #NiallCooke to #HEASVienna for a #HEASTalk. More information and registration is on our website 👇🔗

We are looking forward to welcoming #FrankMaximer to Vienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience next Monday. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna members @nisaiduna.bsky.social and #KarlKunst. #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

We have a new #HEASBlog on our website! #HEASVienna member #ThomasBeard writes about the MicroStratDNA Group visit to the ESRF over the Easter break this year. @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social www.heas.at/activities/b...

We have a new #HEASBlog on our website! #HEASVienna member Emese Vegh @emesevegh.bsky.social has written about the #langenachtderforschung (Long night of Research) which took place at locations all over Vienna last Friday night. www.heas.at/activities/b...

@peregx9.bsky.social introducing #VanesaVillalbaMouco as part of the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB at @univie.ac.at

@undeaddandy.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing #KevinDaly for a #HEASTalk taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

We are looking forward to welcoming #VanesaVillalbaMouco to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics online and in-person in the #UBB at @univie.ac.at More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna members #SylviaKirchengast, #BirgitBühler and @dominik-hagmann.bsky.social #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

We are looking forward to welcoming #KevinDaly for a #HEASTalk taking place online and in-person at the #UBB at @univie.ac.at this Friday. Registration is on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

@philipnigst.bsky.social from #HEASVienna welcoming #JoãoCascalheira for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person at the #UBB @univie.ac.at

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna members #LumilaPaulaMenéndez and #AnneLeMaitre et al. on µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step workflow for archaeological petrous portions. #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna Deputy Head #RonPinhasi et al. on 'Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasi' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

We are looking forward to welcoming #JoãoCascalheira to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. More information and registration on our website 🔗👇

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, the upcoming #HEASSeminar with #KrishSeetah has to be postponed. We will advertise as soon as we have an alternative date.

We are looking forward to the next #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience with #KrishSeetah taking place online only next Monday at 10:30 CEST. More information and registration on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member #MagdalenaBlanz et al. on 'Tracing Seaweed as Food and Fodder in Archaeology: A Review of Current Methods' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

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 🦴

This was applied to a newly compiled dataset of lithic assemblages which has also been uploaded to Zenodo. #OpenScience #EarlyUpperPalaeolithic #Aurignacian #IberianPeninsula Repository: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We are pleased to share our new paper on the Iberian Aurignacian. We employed a quantitative approach to explore techno-typological variability and test its spatio-temporal dimension. @palomadelalasca.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member @timocanessa.bsky.social et al. on 'Unpacking lithic assemblage variability in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: A multivariate approach to the structure of the Iberian Aurignacian' #HEASPublications More informaton on our website 👇🔗

This talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLV...