HEAS Publication Covered in PsyPost
A recent publication by HEAS member Berhard Fink et al. on ‚Perceptions of female age, health and attractiveness vary with…
Mining and Dining: Prehistoric Diets in the Salt Mines of Hallstatt
by HEAS Team Leader Kerstin Kowarik The FWF-funded project Mining and Dining investigates the dietary habits of Bronze and…
HEAS Member Michael Doneus Receives Award For Contribution to Archaeology
HEAS member Michael Doneus received an award from the municipality of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily in recognition of his…
HEAS Seminar Series Speakers Announced
The Team at HEAS are delighted to announce the speakers for the 2025-2026 Seminar Series. Covering Human Evolution and the…
Call for Papers: Calling all Palaeolithic and prehistoric researchers using GIS!
Calling all Palaeolithic and prehistoric researchers using GIS! The Call for Papers for Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology…
HEAS Deputy Head Ron Pinhasi and MINERVA Team Publishes on Polymer Length
HEAS Deputy Head Ron Pinhasi along with the Minerva team have recently published a paper on ‚Polymer Length Governs DNA…
HEAS Members Publish a Cambridge Elements booklet on Ceramic Analysis : Laboratory Methods
HEAS Team leaders Michaela Schauer and Irmgard Hein et al. have recently published a Cambridge Elements booklet on Ceramic Analysis:…
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…
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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...
HEAS Members Travel to See the Lucy Skeleton - In Europe for the First Time
10. Oktober 2025
by Prof. Tom Higham, head of HEAS. The visit of the world-famous Lucy skeleton to Prague in October 2025 led to the idea of a HEAS fieldtrip to the Czech Republic. “Lucy” is the remarkably complete Australopithecus afarensis [...]
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 [...]