HEAS Member awarded FWF grant for project “Residential Mobility in Upper Palaeolithic Europe”
HEAS Team Leader Philip R. Nigst has been awarded an FWF Principal Investigator grant for his project REMO (Residential Mobility…
HEAS Member Marjolein Bosch Announces New ERC Funded Project: COPE
The project is called COPE. Full title: „The role of climate change on past human living conditions: Resource acquisition strategies…
Apéro Musette at the Musette Shop with Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
As part of the current focus on „Pioneers from the Neolithic,“ a conversation with Professor of Prehistory at the University…
NHM Vienna Archaeologists Discover Earlier Traces of Settlements of Early Farming Communities in Hallstatt
During excavation work in Hallstatt (on the property of the Kocsar-Riezinger family in the Seestraße), archaeological layers of scientific importance…
HEAS Member Discusses Tischoferhöhle on Austrian National Television
Mareike Stahlschmidt, Susanna Sawyer and Omaima Zaki from the working group microarchaeology visited the Tischoferhöhle to sample for ancient sedaDNA…
HEAS Seed Grants June 2025 Round
We are delighted to announce the results of the June 2025 Seed Grants: They are: Time is of the…
International Mountain Conference (IMC) taking place in Innsbruck in September 2025
The program for the International Mountain Conference (IMC), taking place in Innsbruck from September 14–18, 2025, is now available online.…
New Publication by HEAS Member Offers New Insights into Ancient Roman Settlement Patterns in Austria
Dominik Hagmann’s latest research, „Home is Where my Villa Is: A Machine Learning-based Predictive Suitability Map for Roman Features in…
HEAS Keynote with Necmi Karul Takes Place in Vienna
The HEAS Keynote with Necmi Karul took place on the 26th June 2025 at the ÖAW Theatersaal in the first…
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HEAS Talk with César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay
We are looking forward to welcoming César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay fromPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile to Vienna for a HEAS Talk on ‚Discontinuous archaeological records an...
You, Robot: Experiencing Robotics First-Hand at General Laser
31. August 2025
By: Dominik Hagmann As part of the University of Vienna’s course “AI and Interdisciplinary Research” held at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in the summer term of 2025, students from diverse academic fields participated in a hands-on robotics workshop and [...]
Exploring Ancient Foodways - An archaeological journey into Roman dietary habits at Kinderuni Wien 2025
17. Juli 2025
By: Dominik Hagmann and Nisa Kirchengast On Monday, July 7th, we had the delightful opportunity to dive into the fascinating world of Roman cuisine with a group of 50 young explorers at Kinderuni Wien. The session, titled „Römisches Essen: Alles [...]
Round 2 of Geoarchaeology in Vienna: Pushing Borders – Expanding Horizons
13. März 2025
Authors: Valentina Laaha, Thomas Beard, Doris Jetzinger, and Doralice Klainscek From the 12th to the 14th of February 2025, the second edition of the ‘Geoarchaeology in Vienna’ workshop took place at the University of Vienna. It was generously funded [...]
HEAS WELCOMES OUR FIRST JUNIOR INTERN DR BHAVNA AHLAWAT
28. November 2024
Bhavna Ahlawat is our first Junior Intern and is visiting HEAS currently working on exciting new research concerned with biomolecules from ancient Indian sites. I am a molecular biologist specializing in ancient DNA and population genetics, focusing on different archaeological [...]
HEAS Excursion to Hallstatt’s Prehistoric Salt Mine: A Journey Through Time
7. Oktober 2024
On Friday, October 4th, 2024, 17 members of the Human Evolution and Archaeological Science (HEAS) research network from the University of Vienna set off for a remarkable two-day excursion to Hallstatt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for its prehistoric [...]
Roman Cuisine: A Vegan and Organic Feast? Our Kinderuni Session on Ancient Diets
26. Juli 2024
Authors: Dominik Hagmann and Nisa Iduna Kirchengast Description: In this blog post, we, Dominik and Nisa, reflect on our Kinderuni session „Römisches Essen: alles bio und vegan? Mit der Archäologie der antiken Ernährung auf der Spur“ (Roman Food: All Organic [...]
The first 'Geoarchaeology in Vienna' Workshop
4. April 2024
Authors: Thomas Beard, Valentina Laaha, Doris Jetzinger At the beginning of this year, from the 11th to the 12th of January 2024, the first ‘Geoarchaeology in Vienna’ workshop took place at the University of Vienna, generously funded by HEAS. [...]
A Bell Beaker workshop in Vienna
20. April 2023
Blog post by Eve Derenne and Karina Grömer On March 21, 2023, members of two partner institutions from the HEAS network — the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science and the Natural History Museum Vienna — co-organised a workshop titled ‘Interweaving [...]
Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles. By Karina Grömer
14. Dezember 2022
For decades, textile remains from archaeological contexts have come more and more into the focus of archaeological research. Recently, the book Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles, edited by [...]
Review of the 10th Radiocarbon & Archaeology Conference (Zürich, 11-14th September). T. Higham
11. Juli 2022
The 10th Radiocarbon and Archaeology conference was held at the ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich), in parallel with the 24th Radiocarbon conference. The meeting got underway on Sunday 11/09, with a series of workshops at the Hönggerberg ETH [...]