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HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
2025-11-10 10:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Vienna) | SR 1.6 UBB, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Emma Loftus from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich will give a talk on Archaeological science insights into early southern African farming communities on the 10th November 2025 at 10:30 in the UBB SR 1.6.

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Emma Loftus_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science
2025-11-24 12:30 - 14:00 | SR 1.6 UBB, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Jane Kershaw from the University of Oxford will give a talk on How lead isotope analysis of silver sheds new light on the origins of the Viking Age on the 24th November 2025 at 12:30 in SR 1.6 in the UBB.

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The Viking Age (c. 800 -1050 AD) is widely recognised as a pivotal episode of cultural expansion in Eurasia, yet its origins remain poorly understood. In a recently concluded 5-year project, we aimed to address the question of where, when and how the Viking Age began through the large-scale geochemical analysis of a major spoil of Viking expansion: silver.

Analysing over 300 Scandinavian silver products (rings/ ingots) for lead isotopes and trace elements, we quantified the relative amounts of eastern, Islamic and western European silver in use during the eighth and ninth centuries. We found a dominance of trade-related Islamic silver in most regions and, for this silver, an earlier date of import than the extant coin record suggests. Together, these results provide strong grounds for situating the origins of the Viking Age not in western Europe as normally assumed, but across the Baltic, in Eastern markets.

Jane Kershaw_new__poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
2025-12-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Privat: HEAS Seminar Series – Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
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 on the 1st December 2025 at 10:00 CET in SR 1.6 in the UBB.

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EMMA POMEROY_posters

HEAS Seminar Series – Archaeological Science
2025-12-01 12:30 - 15:00 | öaw, Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, 1010, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Ian Kuijt from the University of Notre Dame will give a talk on Rethinking “The Neolithic Revolution”: Thoughts on the Evolutionary Transition from Co to Self-insurance Risk Management on the 1st December at 12:30 CET Austrian Academy of Sciences, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna.
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Ian Kuijt_poster

HEAS Talk with Daniel Green
2025-12-12 10:30 - 12:00 | SR 1.6 UBB, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, Vienna, 1030, Austria
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 CET in SR 1.6 in the UBB.
Abstract:
Global cooling during the Cenozoic engendered several ecological transformations, including in Africa, where increasingly open landscapes witnessed the adaptive radiation of hominins alongside other clades. What do new geochemical (stable isotope) records from teeth tell us about how African fauna responded to faunal interchange with Eurasia, aridification, and increased seasonality? Why do teeth provide unique records of temporally fine-scaled climatic and behavioral processes? And how did primates and human ancestors thrive in changing African landscapes? Lastly, can the special properties of fossilized teeth extend tropical paleoproteomics further back into the Cenozoic, resolving uncertainties not only in the ecological regimes that framed evolution, but in evolutionary history itself?
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Daniel Green_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics
2025-12-15 10:00 - 12:00 | SR 1.6 UBB, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics Irene Gallego-Romero from St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research will give a talk on From Ancient DNA to Modern Immunity: Functional Genomic Diversity in Island Southeast Asian Populations on the 15th December 2025 at 10:00 CET in SR 1.6 in the University of Vienna Biology Building (UBB).
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Irene Gallego-Romero_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science
2026-01-12 10:30 - 12:00 | öaw, Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, 1010, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Dario Vujevic from the University of Zadar will give a talk on Northern Dalmatia, Recent advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research on the 12th January 2026 at 10:30 CET at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna.

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Dario Vujevic_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
2026-01-19 10:30 - 12:30 | UBB 5.1, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Paloma de la Peña from Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología Universidad de Granada, Spain will give a talk on Archaeology at the Stormberg: some thoughts about the Middle Stone Age of inland southern Africa on the 19th January 2026 at 10:30 CET in SR 5.1 in the UBB.

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PALOMA DE LA PEÑA_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics
2026-01-26 10:30 - 12:30 | SR 1.6 UBB, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Robin Allaby from The University of Warwick will give a talk on Evolutionary genomics of Andean maize on the 26th January 2026 at 10:30 CET in SR. 5.1 in the UBB.

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ROBIN ALLABY_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
2026-02-16 10:30 - 12:30 | UBB 5.1, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Armando Falcucci from University of Tübingen will give a talk on Stone Tools as a Framework for Modeling Human Dispersal, Cultural Diffusion, and Technological Convergence on the 16th February 2026 at 10:30 CET in SR 5.1 in the UBB.

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Armando Falcucci_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science
2026-03-09 12:00 - 14:30 | Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, Vienna, Austria
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: insights from pre-Hispanic Colombia on the 9th March 2026 at 12:30 in HS7 Franz Klein Gasse 1190 Vienna.
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Marcos Martinon-Torres_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
2026-03-16 10:30 - 12:30 | UBB 5.1, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria
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 at 10:30 CET in SR 5.1 in the UBB.
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AMANDA HENRY_POSTER

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics
2026-03-23 10:30 - 12:30 | UBB 5.1, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar in Ancient Genomics Stephan Schiffels from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology will give a talk on Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern genomes on the 23rd March 2026 at 10:30 in ST 5.1 in the UBB.

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STEPHAN SCHIFFELS_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science
2026-04-13 12:00 - 14:30 | Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, Vienna, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Krish Seetah from the Stanford University will give a talk on Scientific Archaeology to Study the Recent Past: What can we Learn from Historical Periods about Human Socio-Cultural ‘Evolution’ on the 13th April 2026 at 12:30 in HS7 Franz Klein Gasse 1190 Vienna.
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Krish Seetah_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
2026-04-20 10:30 - 12:00 | UBB 5.1, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic João Cascalheira from Universidade do Algarve will give a talk on FINISTERRA: New Insights into Southwestern Iberia’s Late Pleistocene Record on the 20th April 2026 at 10:30 CEST in SR 5.1 in the University of Vienna Biology Building (UBB).
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JOÃO CASCALHEIRA_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics
2026-04-27 10:30 - 12:30 | UBB 5.1, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Vanesa Villalba Mouco from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona will give a talk on Ancient Genomics of Al-Andalus: tracing identity, kinship and population dynamics in Medieval Iberia on the 27th April 2026 at 10:30 in SR 5.1 in the UBB.
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VANESA VILLALBA MOUCOposter

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
2026-05-18 10:30 - 12:00 | UBB 5.1, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Ariana Burke from the Université de Montréal will give a talk on Adapting ecological modelling techniques to investigate the spatial behaviour of past hominins on the 18th May at 10:30 in SR 5.1 in the UBB.

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ARIANE BURKE_poster

HEAS Seminar - Ancient Genomics
2026-05-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Vienna
As part of the HEAS Seminar in Ancient Genomics, Diyendo Massilani from Yale will give a talk on New genetic insights into Later Pleistocene humans on the 26th May at 16:00 CET. This event is online only.

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Diyendo Massilani_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
2026-06-15 10:30 - 12:00 | UBB 5.1, Djerassiplatz 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Luc Doyon from Université de Bordeaux will give a talk on The origin and development of bone technology during the Pleistocene and its implications for our understanding of cultural evolution dynamics on the 15th June 2026 at 10:30 CEST in SR 5.1 in the UBB.

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Luc Doyon_poster

HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science
2026-06-29 10:30 - 12:00 | öaw, Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, 1010, Austria
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Patrycja Filipowicz from the University of Poznan will give a talk on Transformations in Late Neolithic Imagery at Çatalhöyük and South- Central Anatolia on the 29th June 2026 at 10:30 in the 3rd floor Seminar Room in the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna.

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Abstract:
The Neolithic World Heritage site of Çatalhöyük is renowned for its rich visual culture, including wall paintings, reliefs, and figurines. During the Late Neolithic period, this imagery underwent a striking transformation, marked by the abandonment of in-house static elements in favor of mobile and portable objects.
Twenty-five years of Polish archaeological research across three distinct areas at Çatalhöyük have enabled a comprehensive understanding of the settlement’s character during its final three centuries. Since 2018, excavations have focused on the previously unexplored eastern part of the site (the so-called East Area), where a complex of non-residential buildings has been uncovered. This represents the first documented example of free-standing non-residential architecture at Çatalhöyük and is distinguished by a remarkable concentration of decorated objects.
This lecture presents the corpus of Late Neolithic imagery from Çatalhöyük, with particular focus on recent discoveries from the East Area. These finds are examined within the broader context of changes in the settlement’s final phase. The assemblage includes a variety of clay, bone, and stone objects, among them exceptional examples of female figurines. Notably, many of these items were recovered from special depositional contexts. The lecture will explore these transformations in visual culture in relation to broader developments across the Neolithic landscapes of South-Central Anatolia.
Patrycia Filipowicz_poster
