Now Open: SSH Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 40+ fully funded 4yr PhD positions @univie.ac.at careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... (Application Deadline 2 Mar 2026) Contact me for #Palaeolithic projects! palaeo.univie.ac.at

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

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

We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. @univie.ac.at More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

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

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

Very pleased to share this paper on Fire Use during the LGM! Three combustion features from Korman' 9 in the Dnister valley, Ukraine. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @heasvienna.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social @wcmurph.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @veraaldeias.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

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.

For all archaeologists & friends in Vienna: come around to @uhaunivienna.bsky.social on 6.3. 18:00! We present past female prehistorians & discuss strategies for the future w/ @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

Very pleased to share our latest paper on an Upper Palaeolithic site in Austria: stratigraphy, organic preservation & combustion activity. doi.org/10.1007/s419... @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @philipnigst.bsky.social @margajambrina.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @oeai.bsky.social

Results indicate an important, previously underappreciated and comparatively unusual role of biotic interactions in Homo macroevolution, and speciation Diversity-dependent speciation and extinction in hominins 🏺🧪 Laura van Holstein, Robert Foley @robfoley.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Pleased (and surprised!) to announce the publication of my new book ‘Notes from Ivory Flats: Reflections on the Changing Landscape of Academic Life’.

Available on Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Ivory-... The perfect stocking filler for the over-worked and under-appreciated academic!