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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New Paper Published!
HEAS members Philip R. Nigst and Marjolein D. Bosch published new paper on Fire Use during the Last Glacial Maximum…
HEAS Members awarded FWF grant for project on Geochemical ENhancEment of Ancient DNA from SedImentS
HEAS deputy head Ron Pinhasi, has been awarded an FWF grant for his project on Geochemical ENhancEment of Ancient DNA…
- Februar 12 @ 18:00 - 19:30
HEAS Talks
We are looking forward to welcoming Lisa-Marie ShillIto from Newcastle University to Vienna. Lisa-Marie will give a talk on Every Archaeological Problem starts as a Problem in Geoarchaeology on the 12...
- Februar 24 @ 12:30 - 15:00
HEAS Seminar Series – Archaeological Science
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics Lasse Sörensen from Copenhagen Museum will give a talk on FROM STONE TO HOME – exploring polished stone tool biographies and their social and ...
- März 10 @ 10:30 - 12:30
HEAS Seminar – Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Marie Soressi from Leiden Archaeology will give a talk on Excavating Homo sapiens‘ interactions with Neandertals on th...
- März 17 @ 10:30 - 12:30
HEAS Seminar Series – Ancient Genomics
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Mehmet Somel will give a talk on Social Dynamics in Neolithic Anatolia: Paleogenomic Insights on the 17th March 2025 at 10:30 CET. Registration ...
- März 24 @ 12:30 - 14:30
HEAS Seminar Series – Archaeological Science
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Erich Nau from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) will give a talk on Unveiling Norway’s Hidden Past: Recent ...
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 [...]