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HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Amanda Henry from Leiden University will give a talk on Plant foods and the evolution of hominin diets on the 16th March 2026...

We are looking forward to welcoming @phytolith.bsky.social to #HEASVienna as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic next Monday the 16th March at 10:30 CET.

More information and registration on our website 🔗👇
@univie.ac.at @philipnigst.bsky.social

10.03.2026 16:51 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

09.03.2026 13:46 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There is still time to submit abstracts for our session on mobility…
Join our session - Moving on….

#UISPP abstract deadline is now 20 March!

@timocanessa.bsky.social @palomadelalasca.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @dshcs.bsky.social

09.03.2026 13:42 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Frühlingsgefühle! Unsere Begleitbroschüre zur Ausstellung „Die Sprache der Göttinnen“ ist da. Wir freuen uns auf eine neue Saison @mamuz Asparn 😊

05.03.2026 16:21 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Marcos Martinon-Torres from the University of Cambridge will give a talk on Sustaining complex technologies through collective action: ins...

We are looking forward to the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience with #MarcosMartinon-Torres taking place online only at 12:30 CEST on Monday the 9th March.

More information and registration on our website 🔗👇

@univie.ac.at

www.heas.at/events/heas-...

04.03.2026 09:33 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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No sudden upheaval: Researchers retell the long history of the Stone Age How did people live 50,000 years ago—and how did their everyday lives change? An international study from South Africa, conducted in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, shows that…

💎⚙️ New study: The transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age wasn’t abrupt. Quartz finds from Umhlatuzana in South Africa show step-by-step changes in technology, mobility, and resources—varying across regions.
#Archaeology #StoneAge
buff.ly/Xra8dJw

02.03.2026 09:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Register now for our free online workshop hosted by the #COEXIST project and @archaeoprotein.bsky.social: Maximising data from #Palaeolithic bone. Exciting program on chronology, diet, taphonomy and method advancement:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🦣🧪🏺

20.02.2026 11:53 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
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@humendylab.bsky.social & #TransCause Project invite you to our symposium on Middle Pleistocene behavioral variability with special focus on Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia)!
📍Room 520, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
💻Also online (via zoom)!
See you all there!

13.01.2026 10:36 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
Unravelling the Palaeolithic Welcome to the website for the Unravelling the Palaeolithic conference 2026! Unravelling the Palaeolithic is an ECR and student-led conference with a history of showcasing excellence in research in P...

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026!

Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.

Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information.

sites.google.com/view/unravel...

09.02.2026 11:11 👍 28 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 2
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📢 #jobopportunity 🚨

9️⃣ PhD position within the #MSCA #PALPROX Doctoral Network!

🔗 More info: bit.ly/4kjoi5W

05.02.2026 09:34 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Join our session at the upcoming UISPP conference in Poznań!

05.02.2026 11:52 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

📣 Reminder: Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
Deadline: 📅2 March 2026, 14:00 CET
The University of Vienna invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions in the #SocialSciences, #humanities and cultural studies. #AcademicSky #univie
Find all information here: ⤵️

05.02.2026 12:58 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

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

04.02.2026 21:51 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

@heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @dshcs.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social

03.02.2026 14:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@uhaunivienna.bsky.social @palarchgroup.bsky.social

03.02.2026 14:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

03.02.2026 14:48 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
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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

03.02.2026 14:42 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 👍 97500 🔁 40882 💬 4302 📌 5361
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📢Call for Papers #UISPP 2026

Join our session with Emilie Berlioz, @fridowelker.bsky.social & @wagneranna.bsky.social :
Multidisciplinary approaches to reconstruct human-environment relationships in the Pleistocene

📍Poznań (Poland)
📆31 Aug - 4 Sep 2026

Deadline: 28 Feb

uispp2026.syskonf.pl

28.01.2026 13:35 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Doctorate SSH Call 2026!

40+ fully funded doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies @univie.ac.at

#PhD #PhDposition #Phdsky

Join and international research community at one of Europe’s leading universities & apply now ⬇️⬇️⬇️

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

07.01.2026 07:08 👍 19 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1
Justus Erus Edung holding the HEAS Bottle while on fieldwork in Kenya

Justus Erus Edung holding the HEAS Bottle while on fieldwork in Kenya

It's always lovely to see where the #HEASBottle ends up - here is #JustusErusEdung from the #NationalMuseumsinKenya who was gifted the bottle from HEAS Speaker @martamlahr.bsky.social using it on TransEvol fieldwork led by HEAS Speaker #AurelienMounier with #HEASMember #MarjoleinD.Bosch.

22.12.2025 15:54 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm pleased to announce that Natalie Munro and I have authored an Element through @universitypress.cambridge.org on "The Behavioral Ecology of Food: Bridging the Archaeological and the Contemporary."

It will be released in February, and you can pre-order it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

17.12.2025 19:49 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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New paper alert! Sulfur isotopes evidence Late Pleistocene faunal spatial ecology - 100s of data points, years of combined research effort, and an isotope-zooarch-zooms collab. Congrats to @sarahbarakat.bsky.social who led this to fruition!
@ukri.org @leverhulme.ac.uk doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

17.12.2025 13:23 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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HEAS Talk with Daniel Green - HEAS We are looking forward to welcoming Daniel Green from Harvard University for a HEAS Talk on Dental Records and the Origins of the Modern African World taking place on the 12th December 2025 at 10:30 C...

We are looking forward to welcoming #DanielGreen to Vienna for a #HEASTalk.

More information and registration is on our website 🔗👇

11.12.2025 14:15 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Emma Pomeroy from University of Cambridge will give a talk on Neanderthal life and death at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan o...

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 🔗👇

27.11.2025 15:38 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
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Wonderful talk by @jclark997.bsky.social for the great UoL Evo Anth Seminar Series - fabulous to see the synthesis of so much fantastic work and so many dxciting ideas and models 🤩

27.11.2025 14:01 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing #Emmaloftus as part of the #HEASSeminar in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic

10.11.2025 09:37 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Looking forward today to the “Paleoenvironmental DNA and Human Evolution” Symposium here in our department, featuring talks by Viviane Slon, Mikel Pedersen, Karina Sand, Ben Vernot, Pere Gelabert, Mareike Stahlschmidt and Susanna Sawyer. sedaDNA, so exciting! @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social

07.11.2025 08:41 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
PaleoAnthropology

check out this new issue of PaleoAnthropology including a special issue on late Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin systematics
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

07.11.2025 04:10 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Front Cover of the 2025, Issue 2 PaleoAnthropology Journal. Featuring images from Balzeau et al.

Front Cover of the 2025, Issue 2 PaleoAnthropology Journal. Featuring images from Balzeau et al.

The latest issue of PaleoAnthropology is out now!
Volume 2025, Issue 2 #openaccess

📖Read Here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

#paleoanthropology #humanevolution

06.11.2025 12:54 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2