www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology

👏👏 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

Today @palarchgroup.bsky.social's Samuel Kasemann defended his Master dissertation @univie.ac.at on raw material economy at the Upper Palaeolithic sites Grub-Kranawetberg I & II. Big congratulations to Samuel 🎉 @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @philipnigst.bsky.social

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Eiszeitkinder und ihre Welt! Die neue Ausstellung im NHM Wien zeigt die Eiszeit aus Kinderperspektive. Im neu gestalteten Saal steht das Leben der Jüngsten in dieser faszinierenden Epoche der Erdgeschichte im Mittelpunkt. Zu den Highlights: tinyurl.com/ywf7hjvb #iceage #nhmwien #wien #fossile

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

Memories of this time last year - some of the most fun I’ve had discussing rocks. An opportunity I will treasure. Have a fab field season, your lithics there are so interesting and what a great team

Such fun & fantastic team 🤩🤩🤩

What does the Ng'ipalajem team do? Ng’ipalajem, meaning Ancestors in Turkana, is an ERC-funded project. Led by @martamlahr.bsky.social, the project investigates how the emergence of Homo sapiens is deeply intertwined with Africa’s long-term environmental and ecological history. #humanevolution

Another exciting collaboration led by @armandofalcucci.bsky.social now out in Scientific Data! It's hard to underscore how meaningful it is to have data from these four sites excavated by different teams together in a single paper and available for anyone to access! 🏺🦣🧪

#NewPaperAlert: We're delighted to present The Open Aurignacian Project — an open-access 3D database of 2,000+ lithics from four key Italian Paleolithic sites. Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #FlintFriday #FossilFriday #3Darchaeology #OpenScience #DigitalHeritage @julienrs.bsky.social 🦣 🏺 (1/6) 🧵

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

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...

Come work with me! I am looking for a new prae-doc assistant: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Cool research combining #bigdata from #Archaeology legacy collections and #AI using object detection and neural networks by a team around @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social Early Career Community Chair Maxime Brami: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🥳 Bravo!

This just out from the HDRG team @SpringerNature in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eqPpc

🚨New paper alert!🧪 Led by @armandofalcucci.bsky.social, this paper explores the internal variability of the Protoaurignacian at Riparo Bombrini by analyzing lithic assemblages from layers A2 and A1, and a previously undescribed Early Aurignacian assemblage from layer A0. 1/4 🏺🦣

#NewPaperAlert: Our latest research at Riparo Bombrini shows how internal variability in the Protoaurignacian reflects shifting mobility and site-use strategies. 🏺 #Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #FlintFriday #FossilFriday @julienrs.bsky.social Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The recording from the #HEASSeminar with #NickAshton is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1fX...

The entire board of the Fulbright program reportedly resigned today after accusing the Trump administration of illegal interference www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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.

There is still time to register for this talk taking place today online and in-person @univie.ac.at

We are looking forward to welcoming #NickAshton to Vienna for the final #HEASSeminar in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic for 24/25. More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

A permanent job here at @archsoton50.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social in #Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or #Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪 Please share widely! jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

#MSCA Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2025 – Call now open! 🚨 Are you a #postdoc looking to take the next big step in your #academic journey? The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is officially open - and we'd love to welcome you to the University of Vienna! 🏛️ More here: ⤵️

Re: Neanderthal fingerprints, it's time again for this. I found this quartzite cobble with mysterious red spots* in NE Brazil in 2013. There are clear finger-whorls. What was the maker symbolising? *they're blood prints from a wild capuchin, who injured her finger using the stone to open nuts 🧪🏺🐒🎨

New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna member #LauravanderSluis et al. on 'Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.' #HEASPublications

Good to be back at Mitoc-Malu Galben in northeastern Romania with Cristina Cordoș, Anaïs Vignoles and Samuel Kasemann. We are working in the middle of the 12m long sequence in levels dated to ~28-21 kya. Great archaeology, stunning landscape and wonderful people!

The second PhD position will explore the costs and benefits of plant foods, through the nutritional analysis of wild plants and energetics experiments designed to measure the caloric costs of food collection and processing. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

🔥New paper in ScienceAdvances about redating of the Schöningen spear horizon🔥 World’s oldest wooden hunting weapons 100,000 years younger than previously claimed. @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social Read now 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #paleomonrepos #palaeolithic #archaeology

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.

The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now! Volume 2025, Issue 1 #openaccess 📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #paleoanthropology #humanevolution

New position with @phytolith.bsky.social www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

We are looking forward to welcoming @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik to Vienna next week for the #HEASSeminar in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇

@aliceleplongeon.bsky.social introducing @mmartinont.bsky.social to open the #HumanEvo25 conference with a keynote lecture 🤩 ‘East meets West’

We’re deeply concerned about the disappearance of our colleague Pierre Noiret. Please share and help us spread the word. For more information please check: www.police.be/avis-de-rech...

Please help spreading the word

Tracing the elusive fire use during the LGM: check out our paper lead by @wcmurph.bsky.social on fire features at Korman' 9 in Ukraine. @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social with open access provided by @icarehb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very excited to share our new paper on Fire Use during the LGM at Korman'9, Ukraine! Check it out! #geoarchaeology, #micromorphology, #pyrotechnology, #LGM, #Paleolithic, #archaeology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

We are looking forward to welcoming Matthew Skinner @matthewskinnerphd.bsky.social to Vienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Samuel Kasemann presented on his MA research: lithic raw material economy at Grub-Kranawetberg I & II @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social

Vitalii Usyk presented our research on the Gravettian/Epigravettian of Korolevo II @romangarba.bsky.social @philipnigst.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social

Just spent two wonderful days in Brno at the Klíma 100 conference (www.arub.cz/klima-100/) at the ARUB - Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno.

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.

📢 We have a new paper out!! Led by the incredible @eshallinan.bsky.social we introduce a novel application of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (GM) to quantify the shape variability of Nubian Levallois cores. #archaeology #openscience @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...