Very predictable book choices from me: shells and Orkney, of course! To prove my credentials, here is a bonus picture of me enjoying a classic Orcadian summer on site at the Ness of Brodgar about 15 years ago (so essentially Prehistoric in its own right!) 🐚🏺

Likely no hunters of Elephants nor masters of fire - new paper on taphonomic analysis challenges former assumptions on Homo floresensis. Congratulations to Grace Veatch, who recently started her position as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead at Human Origins! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Huge congratulations to Viola Schmid on her stand-alone project ROSES!! So excited to contribute to this research on the LSA in the eastern Free State Province in South Africa @oeai.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social

We’re hiring a Research Assistant🚨 Interested in human evolution and African prehistory? We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills who will be based in Cambridge, with fieldwork opportunities in Kenya🇰🇪 Deadline: 01.07.2026 🔗 Apply online:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Z8...

Our new special issue in @archaeometry.bsky.social on "What can lithics tell us about anthropological archaeology's grand challenges?" edited by @benjaminutting.bsky.social and Isis Mesfin. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754754...

Happy to share our new article "Evaluation of DNA and collagen preservation in Late Pleistocene and Holocene bovid fossils from South Africa" for a project led by @ddj-sa.bsky.social! Notably, we extracted ancient DNA from fossil Syncerus antiquus (Giant Long-Horned Buffalo)! Article linked below

#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

Proud dad post! Hugh Foley shortlisted for Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets, for his ‘Recent Poems’ michaelmarksawards.org/shortlist/hu...

🪨 The Nubian Spectrum at Tweefontein? #ICArEHB researchers Emily Hallinan and Osama Samawi, with M. Shaw and C. Shaw, show Nubian Levallois is one extreme of a broader prepared core reduction spectrum. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419... #Levallois #MiddleStoneAge

Abel Bosman, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, @martamlahr.bsky.social, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, Rainer Gruen, Qinfeng Shao & @katharv.bsky.social

Check out our latest paper in JAMT on measuring tool complexity across different contexts 👇🏼 Big thanks to @jclark997.bsky.social for leading this project!

#ICArEHB welcomes Louise Leakey on 22 April for a seminar on the #TurkanaBasin and the #OriginsOfHumanity, sharing major discoveries that have transformed our understanding of #HumanEvolution. Free and open to the public.

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...

It's official. The dark side of the moon is 10YR 4\6 Dark Yellowish Brown #ArtemisII

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...

No serious scholars are using AI to do their writing for them. If you're using LLMs to write up research articles, review grants or manuscripts, or grade, you're a joke.

Fancy ground-truthing functional morphological inference for ecological niche shifts in island giants? Apply to work with @drphilcox.bsky.social, @nannonstevens.bsky.social, Jesse Hennekam and me on our V COOL new project: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

MatrixERC StG works across archaeological sites from all over Europe, following the microscopic traces of late Neandertals and the first modern humans. We study intact sediment samples, checking whether the archaeological layers are truly preserved and looking for ancient DNA, proteins, and lipids.

🗺️ SASSI: New database of Southern African Stone Age sites! #ICArEHB Emily Hallinan in J Open Archaeology Data: doi.org/10.5334/joad... #StoneAge #OpenScience

Here we are again! The new edition of the Summer School in Island Archaeobotany will take place in Tenerife at the end of September 2026. *Completely Free of Charge* Please send us your cv&motivation letter by the 10th of April and share as much as possible! #Archaeology #islands #archaeobotany

There is still time to submit abstracts to our #UISPP session on Gravettian and Epigravettian! - Join our session: Before, during and after the Big Dry! Deadline: 20 March. @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

#MSCA Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2026 – Support Programme Now Open! 🚨 Are you an outstanding #postdoc researcher ready to take the next step in your #academic career? Our EoI programme for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 at #univie is now open. ⤵️ 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 #phdsky careers.univie.ac.at/en/research-...

Ethnographic meta-analysis shows that thermoregulation activities predict needle and awl use in North America journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Open position for a 2-year postdoc working on sedaDNA at the NHM London and the University of Reading with Selina Brace and Aleks Pluskowski. Deadline is March 1st. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PhD position available in Pleistocene animal genomics, combining cutting-edge deep sequencing and pangenome analysis approaches. Join us! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań Join our session - Before, during and after the Big Dry—Exploring the Gravettian and Epigravettian occupation of Europe (Thematic Session 14A) Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 uispp2026.syskonf.pl @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Bald ist Ferienzeit! 🌞 In den Semesterferien hat das Museum auch am Dienstag, 3. Februar geöffnet! 🙌 Im Zuge des WienXtra-Ferienspiels hat die neue Augmented Reality-Show „Zurück in die Urzeit“ Premiere! Ferienspiel: Mittwoch, 4. Februar, bis Freitag, 6. Februar. www.nhm.at/veranstaltun...

We are looking forward to welcoming #EmmaPomeroy to #HEASVienna next week as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic More information and registration on our website 🔗👇

I'll just leave you with this (scallops, otherwise known as clams in Scotland)

The world has lost one of the biggest figures in Anthropology, Biology, and Conservation to have ever lived. Science will be an emptier place without her, and I can only take solace in knowing that she has inspired entire new generations of researchers who will continue her work. Rest in peace, Jane

HEAS Member @philipnigst.bsky.social has been awarded an FWF grant for the project “Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe” @palarchgroup.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social 👇

👏👏 Congratulations to our colleague Marjolein D. Bosch on receiving an #ERC Starting Grant for her COPE project. She will explore how Ice Age hunters and gatherers responded to cold temperatures, resource scarcity 💦 🦌 🌱 , and environmental changes 30,000 years ago. More info: buff.ly/EGicG8z

Justus Erus Edung was only 25 years old when he discovered Kenyanthropus platyops in a team led by Prof. Meave Leakey in 1999. This 3.5 million year old “flat-faced” skull quickly grabbed international headlines and changed the course of human evolution. #fossils #turkana #humanevolution

@deadbovids.bsky.social amazing work on the fauna from #Lokodongot!! 31 mammals 🤩🤩🤩

Check out our new paper, led by former postdoc and current colleague Daniel Green on 18 Ma proteins in fossil teeth! Tim Cleland, a proteomics wizard, did the measurements. What's the take home? We hope to use protein fingerprints to study mammal and hominin phylogenetics! bit.ly/OldProteome

Ancient proteins have been recovered from fossil relatives of rhinoceroses and other animals that are at least 18 million years old, according to evidence from two papers in Nature. go.nature.com/4081H3m go.nature.com/3Ik78Gj #Paleosky 🧪

🧵1/5 📢 New paper out in Journal of Archaeological Science! We present a regional analysis of fallow deer in Middle Paleolithic Levant and propose a methodological refinement for aging that has major implications for understanding human hunting behavior. Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at 11am (UK/Lisbon time) to hear from @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and @tansybranscombe.bsky.social in the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...

after 6 years, finally out in @nature.com! ‪Huge expansion of the human #niche in Africa ~70kya likely equipped later #outofAfrica dispersals with unique ecological flexibility co-led with Emily Hallett @eegcam.bsky.social & @elliescerri.bsky.social #prehistory #humanevolution #paleoecology #SDM

DNA from 146,00-year-old tooth plaque helped Chinese researchers identify the "Dragon Man" as a Denisovan, an archaic species of human: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

Around 70,000 years ago, our ancestors in Africa began exploiting different habitats. Flexibility to survive in deserts to rainforests enabled their successful spread ‘Out of Africa’. Find out more about the study co-led by Andrea Manica @eegcam.bsky.social 👇 bit.ly/4e6i9H7

Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social. Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.

I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.

Amazing work with a fabulous team 🤩

Archaeology meets modern art in the exhibition’The language of the goddesses’, curated by Elisabeth von Samsonov and I. Looking forward to the opening on Saturday #MAMUZ Asparn!

We presented our research on the Gravettian sites of Grub-Kranawetberg I & II @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @wcmurph.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social

New paper on Fire Use during the Last Glacial Maximum! - published today in Geoarchaeology. tinyurl.com/5n8j98ry @philipnigst.bsky.social @wcmurph.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @veraaldeias.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

Check out our new article on gender archaeology doi.org/10.1017/S095.... Here, we test the chromosomal sex of Early Bronze Age individuals from Franzhausen and Gemeinlebarn that were not conforming to the dominant gendered burial practices.