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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. We would like to highlight the following (geo)archaeological focus sessions (4 in total), workshops (1), and keynote lectures (1) that may be of particular interest. In addition to these, the conference features over 150 sessions covering a wide range of topics related to mountain research across the world’s high-altitude regions. We encourage you to explore the program and discover the diverse opportunities for engagement and collaboration. Focus Sessions on Mountain Archaeology https://imc2025.info/imc25/sessions-n-workshops/focus-sessions/?filter_thematic-focus=archaeology Synthesis workshop: People and Mountains: Stories from an Archaeological Perspective: https://imc2025.info/imc25/sessions-n-workshops/synthesis-workshop/sw-3-103-people-and-mountains-stories-from-an-archaeological-perspective/ Key Note: AI, Extra Credit, and the Andes: Discovering World’s Highest Communal Hunting Traps https://imc2025.info/imc25/keynotes/ai-extra-credit-and-the-andes-discovering-worlds-highest-communal-hunting-traps/ Michael Meyer (Univ. Innsbruck, Austria) Bonnie Pitblado (U. Oklahoma, USA)  

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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 Northern Noricum (ca. 50–500 CE/Lower Austria/AUT)," was recently published in the Journal of Maps. The study applies the Maxent machine learning (ML) algorithm to identify suitable locations for Roman archaeological features in Lower Austria. It offers new insights into ancient Roman settlement patterns and provides valuable support for heritage management and archaeological research.   https://www.heas.at/research/publications/home-is-where-my-villa-is-a-machine-learning-based-predictive-suitability-map-for-roman-features-in-northern-noricum-ca-50-500-ce-lower-austria-aut/

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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 district of Vienna. The talk, titled 'The Land of Great Transformation. Karahantepe and The Last Hunter-Gatherers of The Şanliurfa Plateau' was delivered to a hybrid audience and was followed by the HEAS Summer Party.   Press Coverage (in German) https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000275682/oesterreichische-archaeologieteams-werden-an-monumentaler-grabungsstaette-goebekli-tepe-mitarbeiten

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HEAS Members Publish Nature Communications Article with HEAS Speaker

In the article recently published in Nature Communications, the team looked at the dynamics of Late Neolithic and Copper Age (4,800-3,900 BCE) Carpathian populations. The study revealed that, despite contemporaneity and geographical proximity, individual communities can display very different patterns. The site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya (present-day Hungary) was represented by numerous, close familial relationships with high levels of consanguinity, whereas the cemetery of Urziceni-Vamă (present-day Romania), located only about 100 km away, was represented by a genetically diverse population, with indications of a matrilocal society.   https://www.heas.at/research/publications/ancient-dna-reveals-diverse-community-organizations-in-the-5th-millennium-bce-carpathian-basin/     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl0eefznpyw&t=4s

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Ancient DNA reveals diverse community organizations in the 5th millennium BCE Carpathian Basin

Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Virag, C., Jakab, K., Rohland, N., Ringbauer, H., Anders, A., Raczky, P., Hajdu, T., Kiss, K., Szeniczey, T., Évinger, S., Keszi, T., M. Virág, Z., Cheronet, O., Mallick, S., Akbari, A., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D., Siklósi, Z., 2025. Ancient DNA reveals diverse community organizations in the 5th millennium BCE Carpathian Basin. Nature Communications 16, 5318. read more

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HEAS Member Awarded GO.INVESTIGATIO Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences

HEAS Member Doris Jetzinger has recently been awarded a grant by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. I have been awarded a GO.INVESTIGATIO fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for a 6 months research stay at CERSA luminescence, the luminescence laboratories within the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, for my research project “How old are these sediments? Promoting the use of pOSL profiling for archaeological features with unclear chronological contexts in Austria”. My aim is to study chronostratigraphic contexts, construction histories and (post-) depositional and formation processes of Austrian archaeological sites and features via portable optically stimulated luminescence profiling (pOSL profiling) and OSL dating of sediment samples. pOSL profiling generates relative chronostratigraphic data through stratigraphies as well as proxy data to interpret geomorphic contexts, formation processes, and variations in mineralogy. My project acts as a case study that will lay the groundwork for a larger research project and helps underline the potential of pOSL profiling and the benefits of further establishing this approach for archaeological applications in Austria.

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PhD position in Virtual Anthropology Group

The Virtual Anthropology group at University of Vienna (Prof. Gerhard Weber) is now offering a position as a Ph.D. candidate (PraeDoc) in the area of 3D dental morphology. The position is funded by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) project “Variation of the 3D shape and size of human teeth” running from November 2024 to October 2027 and will be available from July 2025 onwards. The successful candidate will have an eligible master’s degree in biology or related fields, and have extensive knowledge in human dental anatomy, 3D image data processing (e.g, Amira-Avizo) and Geometric Morphometric analyses. Fluent English skills and team-work ability are required. Salary will be paid according to the official FWF/University scheme in Austria and full social security benefits will be provided. Please send your application to gerhard.weber@univie.ac.at.

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Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.

McGrath, K., van der Sluis, L.G., Lefebvre, A., Charpentier, A., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Baleux, F., Berganza, E., Chauvière, F.-X., Dachary, M., Duarte Matías, E., Houmard, C., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., de la Rasilla Vives, M., Tapia, J., Thil, F., Tombret, O., Torres-Iglesias, L., Speller, C., Zazzo, A., Pétillon, J.-M., 2025. Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay. Nature Communications 16, 4646. read more

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Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden

Beneker, O., Molinaro, L., Guellil, M., Sasso, S., Kabral, H., Bonucci, B., Gaens, N., D’Atanasio, E., Mezzavilla, M., Delbrassine, H., Braet, L., Lambert, B., Deckers, P., Biagini, S.A., Hui, R., Becelaere, S., Geypen, J., Hoebreckx, M., Berk, B., Driesen, P., Pijpelink, A., van Damme, P., Vanhoutte, S., De Winter, N., Saag, L., Pagani, L., Tambets, K., Scheib, C.L., Larmuseau, M.H.D., Kivisild, T., 2025. Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden. Genome Biology 26, 127.   read more

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Life satisfaction around the world: Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) across 65 Nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups.

Swami, V., Stieger, S., Voracek, M., Aavik, T., Abdollahpour Ranjbar, H., Adebayo, S.O., Afhami, R., Ahmed, O., Aimé, A., Akel, M., Al Halbusi, H., Alexias, G., Ali, K.F., Alp-Dal, N., Alsalhani, A.B., Álvarez-Solas, S., Amaral, A.C.S., Andrianto, S., Aspden, T., Argyrides, M., Aruta, J.J.B.R., Atkin, S., Ayandele, O., Baceviciene, M., Bahbouh, R., Ballesio, A., Barron, D., Bellard, A., Bender, S.S., Beydaǧ, K.D., Birovljević, G., Blackburn, M.-È., Borja-Alvarez, T., Borowiec, J., Bozogáňová, M., Bratland-Sanda, S., Browning, M.H.E.M., Brytek-Matera, A., Burakova, M., Çakır-Koçak, Y., Camacho, P., Camilleri, V.E., Cazzato, V., Cerea, S., Chaiwutikornwanich, A., Chaleeraktrakoon, T., Chambers, T., Chen, Q.-W., Chen, X., Chien, C.-L., Chobthamkit, P., Choompunuch, B., Compte, E.J., Corrigan, J., Cosmas, G., Cowden, R.G., Czepczor-Bernat, K., Czub, M., da Silva, W.R., Dadfar, M., Dalley, S.E., Dany, L., Datu, J.A.D., de Carvalho, P.H.B., Coelho, G.L.d.H., De Jesus, A.O.S., Debbabi, S.H., Dhakal, S., Di Bernardo, F., Dimitrova, D.D., Dion, J., Dixson, B., Donofrio, S.M., Drysch, M., Du, H., Dzhambov, A.M., El-Jor, C., Enea, V., Eskin, M., Farbod, F., Farrugia, L., Fian, L., Fisher, M.L., Folwarczny, M., Frederick, D.A., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Furnham, A., García, A.A., Geller, S., Ghisi, M., Ghorbani, A., Gomez Martinez, M.A., Gradidge, S., Graf, S., Grano, C., Gyene, G., Hallit, S., Hamdan, M., Handelzalts, J.E., Hanel, P.H.P., Hawks, S.R., Hekmati, I., Helmy, M., Hill, T., Hina, F., Holenweger, G., Hřebíčková,…

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Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors

Ringbauer, H., Salman-Minkov, A., Regev, D., Olalde, I., Peled, T., Sineo, L., Falsone, G., van Dommelen, P., Mittnik, A., Lazaridis, I., Pettener, D., Bofill, M., Mezquida, A., Costa, B., Jiménez, H., Smith, P., Vai, S., Modi, A., Shaus, A., Callan, K., Curtis, E., Kearns, A., Lawson, A.M., Mah, M., Micco, A., Oppenheimer, J., Qiu, L., Stewardson, K., Workman, J.N., Márquez-Grant, N., Sáez Romero, A.M., Lavado Florido, M.L., Jiménez-Arenas, J.M., Toro Moyano, I.J., Viguera, E., Padilla, J.S., Chamizo, S.L., Marques-Bonet, T., Lizano, E., Riaza, A.R., Olivieri, F., Toti, P., Giuliana, V., Barash, A., Carmel, L., Boaretto, E., Faerman, M., Lucci, M., La Pastina, F., Nava, A., Genchi, F., Del Vais, C., Lauria, G., Meli, F., Sconzo, P., Catalano, G., Cilli, E., Fariselli, A.C., Fontani, F., Luiselli, D., Culleton, B.J., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Nigro, L., Coppa, A., Caramelli, D., Pinhasi, R., Lalueza-Fox, C., Gronau, I., Reich, D., 2025. Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors. Nature. read more

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Earliest members of genus Homo may have ditched hard foods on the road to becoming human

Title: Earliest members of genus Homo may have ditched hard foods on the road to becoming human   Subtitle: New study finds Homo habilis was biomechanically limited in producing high bite forces— forcing scientists to re-think the timing of dietary shifts in human evolution   Body: New work by an international team of researchers suggests that the earliest member of the genus Homo, a species known as Homo habilis (“handy man”), was limited in its ability to bite forcefully into hard foods—offering new insights into the dietary and evolutionary shifts that helped shape the human lineage.   The study, published this week in Royal Society Open Science, uses advanced computer simulations to analyze bite force mechanics in Homo habilis. Results show that Homo habilis was structurally constrained in its ability to crunch into hard foods with its molars—a limitation that persists in modern humans.   “Our results point to a fundamental change in feeding behavior with the appearance of Homo habilis,” said Dr. Justin Ledogar, assistant professor in ETSU’s Department of Biomedical Health Sciences and the study’s lead author. “The ability to process exceedingly hard or tough foods with high bite forces was reduced in Homo habilis compared with earlier hominin species.”   The research team created a biomechanical model of the Homo habilis skull and subjected it to simulated…

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A review on Pyrenean Pleistocene leopards paleoecology, paleobiogeography and adaptative convergences with snow leopards.

Prat-Vericat, M., Marciszak, A., Bartolini-Lucenti, S., Fidalgo, D., Rufí, I., Tura-Poch, C., Vizcaíno-Varo, V., Jovells-Vaqué, S., Ramada, N., Díez-Canseco, C., Gelabert, P., Tornero, C., Terradas, X., Rook, L., Madurell-Malapeira, J., 2025. A review on Pyrenean Pleistocene leopards paleoecology, paleobiogeography and adaptative convergences with snow leopards. Quaternary Science Reviews 358, 109327. read more

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HEAS Member Gerhard Weber Featured on Podcast

HEAS Member Gerhard Weber was recently interviewed for a popular german language podcast on, among other things, the origin of the human species and the development of the human brain over the course of evolution. Is our brain getting bigger? Are we on the verge of a leap in our biological evolution? You can listen to the podcast on the following links: www.dguz.at Podigee-Blog: https://dguz.podigee.io/ Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fn6MzZ9RdGWK8HOH8UaSj?si=0c55549b32094eee Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/die-geschichte-unserer-zukunft/id1800278307?i=1000703155950

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HEAS Deputy Head Promotes Archaeological Publications in Vienna

HEAS deputy head Barbara Horejs has developed a temporary focus on archaeology with the bookshop musette shop (Neubaugasse 72, 1070 Vienna), which will run for several months from the 29th April 2025. For three months, the acclaimed bookshop will have a focus on Archaeology for their book and object selection. More information on their website https://www.musetteshop.com/

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A short and sickly life. Multi-indicator analysis of an infant from a late antique Italian burial site (Piano della Civita, Artena, 3rd-5th cent CE).

Cecconi, V., Nava, A., Lugli, F., Mittnik, A., Sawyer, S., Gadeyne, J., Brouillard, C., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D., Sperduti, A., 2025. A short and sickly life. Multi-indicator analysis of an infant from a late antique Italian burial site (Piano della Civita, Artena, 3rd-5th cent CE). International Journal of Paleopathology 49, 93-103. read more

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Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman‘ 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine

Murphree, W.C., Ferro-Vázquez, C., Kulakovska, L., Usyk, V.I., Kononenko, O., Bosch, M.D., Haesaerts, P., Damblon, F., Pirson, S., Nigst, P.R., Aldeias, V., 2025. Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine. Geoarchaeology 40, e70006. read more

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New Paper Published!

HEAS members Philip R. Nigst and Marjolein D. Bosch published new paper on Fire Use during the Last Glacial Maximum at Korman' 9, Ukraine We are very pleased to announce our latest publication on our research on fire use and combustion activties during the Last Glacial Maximum in collaboration with William Chase Murphree, University of Algrave (Faro, Portugal). We analysed three combustion features at the Epigravettian site of Korman' 9 in the Middle Dnister valley, Ukraine. Our paper was published in Geoarchaeology. Open-access. The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka BP), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource stress throughout Eurasia. Arguably, one of the most fundamental tools for human survival during this cold and arid period was the ability to create, maintain and use fire. While fire is widely considered a ubiquitous tool in modern human behaviour, there are surprisingly few well‐described combustion features during the LGM in Europe. In this paper, we provide high‐resolution geoarchaeological research into three combustion features associated with Epigravettian occupations at the site of Korman' 9 (Ukraine) with ages falling in the LGM. Our results show distinct variations in the size and structure of the combustion features, potentially indicating multiple occupations within the same layer or reflect differences in…

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HEAS Seed Grants February 2025 Round

We are delighted to announce the results of the HEAS Seed Grants February 2025 round.   They are: AI-Assisted Full-Spectrum p-XRF Analysis: A New Approach to Decoding Graphite Provenance Michaela Schauer and Georg Tiefengraber Refining dentine extraction methods for detecting metabolites indicative of tobacco use in archaeological teeth Leslie Quade, Laura van der Sluis , Manasij Pal Chowdhury,  Thomas Köcher Genetic Excavation of Pathogens: Insights from the Bürgerspital Cesspit (17th-18th Century Vienna) Sojung Han, Ron Pinhasi,  Andreas G. Heiss More information on the HEAS Seed Grants can be found here: https://www.heas.at/research/seed-grants/    

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OeAW Early Career Researchers Visit the UBB

We were very happy to welcome a group of early career researchers from the OeAW from the HEAS Partner Insitute the ÖAW to the University of Vienna Biology building (the UBB). The group had a tour of the UBB followed by a tour of the Vienna Micro-CT Lab by Gerhard Weber, a tour of the Higham and Douka labs by Tom Higham and of the Pinhasi Lab by Olivia Cheronet. We were happy to have such an enthuastic group visit us and we hope to have a lot more fruitful meetings in the future.    

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HEAS Member Magdalena Blanz receives an FWF Erwin Schrödinger Grant to research compound-specific stable isotope ratios

HEAS Member Magdalena Blanz (Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science and Austrian Archaeological Institute) was awarded an FWF Erwin Schrödinger grant to study compound-specific stable isotope ratios in bone collagen and plants for improved dietary modelling. FWF Erwin Schrödinger grants are awarded to highly qualified early-career postdocs to pursue career-enhancing stays at internationally renowned research institutions, and also provides them with support after their return to Austria.   Amino acid isotope ratios to explore past plant consumption Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of bone collagen are frequently used to reconstruct past diets. However, bulk analyses of all extracted collagen suffer greatly from equifinality, whereby very different diets can result in the same bulk δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N values. By separating collagen (a protein) into its constituent amino acids, and separately analysing the δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N values of specific amino acids, much more nuanced palaeodietary information can be gained. In her Schrödinger project, Magdalena Blanz will be hosted at the University of Oxford, working with Prof. Amy Styring (Head of the Stable Isotope Ratio Laboratory) to gain more information has to how amino acid δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N values reflect past diets. On her return to Vienna, she will be working at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science in collaboration with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wanek.   Magdalena Blanz obtained a…

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HEAS Member Barbara Horejs interviewed on Austrian radio on Archaeogenetics

HEAS deputy head Barbara Horejs was recently interviewed on Austrian National Radio on Archaeogenetics. Show description: Genetics is becoming an important tool for archaeologists and historians, especially when looking far back into history. In recent years, science has frequently generated interest with new news about prehistory and early history. For example, the history of the spread of agriculture to Europe 8,000 years ago had to be rewritten. This was made possible by the introduction of genetics into archaeology. Archaeogenetics has repeatedly produced new methods in recent years: Today, DNA can be extracted from bone surfaces without drilling into the bones, or DNA can be analyzed from sediments – without bones at all. History has also recently begun using genetics, gaining new insights, for example, into the migration of peoples in the middle of the first millennium AD.   Listen Here (in German): https://oe1.orf.at/player/20250311/788102

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HEAS Members Ron Pinhasi and Olivia Cheronet Publish Nature Paper on Unraveling the eastern Maghreb’s Ancient DNA

HEAS members Ron Pinhasi and Olivia Cheronet et al. published a paper in Nature on High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb. The study published in Nature and co-led by Ron Pinhasi, University of Vienna, David Reich and Mark Lipson, Harvard Medical School, Alfredo Coppa, Sapienza University of Rome, and Giulio Lucarini, National Research Council of Italy, analyzed genome-wide data for nine individuals from the Later Stone Age through the Neolithic period from the eastern Maghreb (Algeria and Tunisia). Their results challenge the assumption that the region was merely a passive recipient of Neolithic influences - instead, they identified a striking pattern of continuity. Read More   https://www.heas.at/research/publications/high-continuity-of-forager-ancestry-in-the-neolithic-period-of-the-eastern-maghreb/

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Round 2 of Geoarchaeology in Vienna: Pushing Borders – Expanding Horizons

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 by the HEAS research network and a joint events grant from the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies and the Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution. We organised this event because in geoarchaeology, as it is very interdisciplinary and uses a wide variety of different methods from different fields, many geoarchaeologists would otherwise never meet at the same place or conference. Therefore this event was aimed at getting to know each other and the geoarchaeological research ongoing in Austria and beyond, as last year´s workshop started a network for all geoarchaeologists and those interested in the parallel branches. We were also pleased to further establish collaborations, after noting some that have developed after our initial event. You can find the booklet with the workshop programme as well as the presentation and poster abstracts for this year’s event here. Geoarchaeology in Vienna Booklet You can read about the first workshop and the network in our blog here. The 2025  workshop was conceived and organised by Doris Jetzinger, Thomas Beard,  Valentina Laaha, and Doralice Klainscek, all students from different departments…

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High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb

Lipson, M., Ringbauer, H., Lucarini, G., Aouadi, N., Aoudia, L., Belhouchet, L., Cheronet, O., Dahmani, A.-R., Genchi, F., La Pastina, F., Lucci, M., de Lumley, H., Mansouri, N., Nava, A., Touj, F., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Coppa, A., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D., 2025. High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb. Nature. read more

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Magdalena BLANZ

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS) and the Austrian Archaeological Institute, where I work on stable isotope ratios of bioarchaeological remains. Originally trained as an environmental analytical chemist, my interests have always been in analysing archaeological remains. For my PhD I focussed on the identification and interpretation of seaweed consumption by terrestrial mammals in archaeological contexts. During my postdoc, I am researching the first introductions of domesticated animals and plants into Europe, focussing on dietary patterns and plant growth conditions. I am particularly interested in method development and acquiring modern reference data for stable isotope ratio studies.

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Marjolein D. BOSCH

I am a Palaeolithic zooarchaeologist investigating a range of hominin behaviours through the lens of zooarchaeology including, organic technology, habitat exploitation, mobility and subsistence strategies. I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and an associated scientist at the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the NHM Vienna. After formal training in zooarchaeology at Leiden University, I have specialised in human-animal interactions and dietary adaptation across East Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe throughout the Pleistocene. My research further focusses on innovative ways to study organic technology including beads and personal ornaments, domestic tools and projectile technology. I obtained my PhD at the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and Leiden University and held post-doc positions at Cambridge University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.  

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HEAS Member Karina Grömer to be interviewed on Austrian National Radio (ORF) on the 7th March

HEAS Member Karina Grömer be on the O1 radio show “im Gespräch” on March 7 at 16:05. It is a 50-minute program that was created entirely with her: https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20250307/787910/Karina-Groemer-Archaeologie-ist-faszinierend   She will be talking about archaeology and archaeological research and the creator of the program, Andreas Obrecht, also interviewed her with regards to International Women's Day.   The program will be repeated on 13.3. at 21h: Karina Grömer, Textilarchäologin und Direktorin der Prähistorischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien | DO | 13 03 2025 | 21:00 - oe1.ORF.at      

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Women in Prehistory talk by HEAS Members

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury and Barbara Horejs are organizing the opening of the Archaeo-Sexism exhibition on the 6th March with a talk on “Women in Prehistory” (in German) The exhibition will be on for two weeks: https://uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/ausstellung-archaeo-sexismus/ More information: https://uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/einzelseite/news/weltfrauentag-frauen-in-der-urgeschichte/        

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