Events
Mai 26 @ 16:00
HEAS Seminar – Ancient Genomics
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. Register here…
April 27 @ 10:30
HEAS Seminar Series – Ancient Genomics
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…
Januar 26 @ 10:30
HEAS Seminar Series – Ancient Genomics
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…
März 23 @ 10:30
HEAS Seminar Series – Ancient Genomics
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…
Juni 8 @ 10:30
HEAS Seminar Series – Archaeological Science
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Sabine Reinhold from the Eurasien-Abteilung Deutsches Archäologisches Institut will give a talk on Bioarchaeology of innovation – How bioarchaeological research in the Caucasus transformed conceptions of mobile economies in the…
März 9 @ 12:00
HEAS Seminar Series – Archaeological Science
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…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Publications
SAI: A Python Package for Statistics for Adaptive Introgression
Huang, X., Chen, S., Hackl, J., Kuhlwilm, M., 2025. SAI: A Python Package for Statistics for Adaptive Introgression. Molecular Biology and Evolution.
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A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia
Pigott, E.M., Cheshmedzhieva, K., Zeller, E., van der Sluis, L.G., Pal Chowdhury, M., Gianni, M., Végh, E., Uthmeier, T., Chabai, V., Patou-Mathis, M., Šimková, P.G., Voglmayr, J.N., Weber, G.W., Pinhasi, R., Timmermann, A., Kuhlwilm, M., Douka, K., Higham, T., 2025. A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2518974122.
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Perceptions of female age, health and attractiveness vary with systematic hair manipulations
Will, S., Beckmann, M., Kunstmann, K., Kerschbaumer, J., Loh, Y.L., Stofel, S., Matts, P.J., Shackelford, T.K., Fink, B., Perceptions of female age, health and attractiveness vary with systematic hair manipulations. International Journal of Cosmetic Science n/a.
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Long shared haplotypes identify the southern Urals as a primary source for the 10th-century Hungarians.
Gyuris, B., Vyazov, L., Türk, A., Flegontov, P., Szeifert, B., Langó, P., Mende, B.G., Csáky, V., Chizhevskiy, A.A., Gazimzyanov, I.R., Khokhlov, A.A., Kolonskikh, A.G., Matveeva, N.P., Ruslanova, R.R., Rykun, M.P., Sitdikov, A., Volkova, E.V., Botalov, S.G., Bugrov, D.G., Grudochko, I.V., Komar, O., Krasnoperov, A.A., Poshekhonova, O.E., Chikunova, I., Sungatov, F., Stashenkov, D.A., Zubov, S., Zelenkov, A.S., Ringbauer, H., Cheronet, O., Pinhasi, R., Akbari, A., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Reich, D., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., 2025. Long shared haplotypes identify the southern Urals as a primary source for the 10th-century Hungarians. Cell 188, 6064-6078.e6011.
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Sediment talks, or: what interdisciplinary archaeological prospection of the Kreuttal microregion’s sediment archive can tell us about the landscape history
Jetzinger, D., Gallistl, J., Kinnaird, T., Truntschnig, T., Kasemann, S., Schwaiger, A., Salisbury, R.B., Doneus, M., Kucera, M., Stahlschmidt, M., Fera, M., Neubauer, W., 2025. Sediment talks, or: what interdisciplinary archaeological prospection of the Kreuttal microregion’s sediment archive can tell us about the landscape history. ArcheoSciences n° 49-1, 359-362.
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Accessible, realistic genome simulation with selection using stdpopsim
Gower, G., Pope, N.S., Rodrigues, M.F., Tittes, S., Tran, L.N., Alam, O., Cavassim, M.I.A., Fields, P.D., Haller, B.C., Huang, X., Jeffrey, B., Korfmann, K., Kyriazis, C.C., Min, J., Rebollo, I., Rehmann, C.T., Small, S.T., Smith, C.C.R., Tsambos, G., Wong, Y., Zhang, Y., Huber, C.D., Gorjanc, G., Ragsdale, A.P., Gronau, I., Gutenkunst, R.N., Kelleher, J., Lohmueller, K.E., Schrider, D.R., Ralph, P.L., Kern, A.D., 2025. Accessible, realistic genome simulation with selection using stdpopsim. Molecular Biology and Evolution.
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Late Iron Age and Roman equine breeding north of the Alps: Genetic insights and cultural implications
Sharif, M.B., Mohaseb, A.F., Orlando, L., Saliari, K., Kunst, G.K., Czeika, S., Mashkour, M., Cucchi, T., Peters, J., Trixl, S., Mohandesan, E., 2025. Late Iron Age and Roman equine breeding north of the Alps: Genetic insights and cultural implications. iScience 28.
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Self-Compassion Around the World: Measurement Invariance of the Short Form of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF) Across 65 Nations, 40 Languages, Gender Identities, and Age Groups.
Swami, V., Tran, U.S., Voracek, M., Aavik, T., Ranjbar, H.A., 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., de Holanda Coelho, G.L., 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., Martinez, M.A.G., 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, M., Ijabadeniyi, O.A., Imam, A., İnce, B., Irrazabal, N., Jankauskiene, R., Jiang, D.-Y., Jiménez-Borja, M., Jiménez-Borja, V., Johnson, E.M., Jovanović, V., Jović, M., Jović, M., Junqueira, A.C.P., Kahle, L.-M., Kantanista, A., Karakiraz, A., Karkin, A.N., Kasten, E., Khatib, S., Khieowan, N., Kimong, P.J., Kiropoulos, L., Knittel, J., Kohli, N., Koprivnik, M., Kospakov, A., Król-Zielińska, M., Krug, I., Kuan, G., Kueh, Y.C., Kujan, O., Kukić, M., Kumar, S., Kumar, V., Lamba, N., Lauri, M.A., Laus, M.F., LeBlanc, L.A., Lee, H.J., Lipowska, M., Lipowski, M., Lombardo, C., Lukács, A., Maïano, C., Malik, S., Manjary, M., Baldó, L.M., Martinez-Banfi, M., Massar, K., Matera, C., McAnirlin, O., Mebarak, M., Mechri, A., Meireles, J.F.F., Mesko, N., Mills, J., Miyairi, M., Modi, R., Modrzejewska, A., Modrzejewska, J., Mulgrew, K.E., Myers, T.A., Namatame, H., Nassani, M.Z., Nerini, A., Neto, F., Neto, J., Neves, A.N., Ng, S.-K., Nithiya, D., O, J., Obeid, S., Oda-Montecinos, C., Olapegba, P.O., Olonisakin, T.T., Omar, S.S., Örlygsdóttir, B., Özsoy, E., Otterbring, T., Pahl, S., Panasiti, M.S., Park, Y., Patwary, M.M., Pethö, T., Petrova, N., Pietschnig, J., Pourmahmoud, S., Prabhu, V.G., Poštuvan, V., Prokop, P., Winter, V.L.R., Razmus, M., Ru, T., Rupar, M., Sahlan, R.N., Hassan, M.S., Šalov, A., Sapkota, S., Sarfo, J.O., Sawamiya, Y., Schaefer, K., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Seekis, V., Selvi, K., Sharifi, M., Shrivastava, A., Siddique, R.F., Sigurdsson, V., Silkane, V., Šimunić, A., Singh, G., Slezáčková, A., Sundgot-Borgen, C., Hoor, G.T., Tevichapong, P., Tipandjan, A., Todd, J., Togas, C., Tonini, F., Tovar-Castro, J.C., Trangsrud, L.K.J., Tripathi, P., Tudorel, O., Tylka, T.L., Uyzbayeva, A., Vally, Z., Vanags, E., Vega, L.D., Vicente-Arruebarrena, A., Vidal-Mollón, J., Vilar, R., Villegas, H., Vintilă, M., Wallner, C., White, M.P., Whitebridge, S., Windhager, S., Wong, K.Y., Yau, E.K., Yamamiya, Y., Yeung, V.W.L., Zanetti, M.C., Zawisza, M., Zeeni, N., Zvaríková, M., Stieger, S., 2025. Self-Compassion Around the World: Measurement Invariance of the Short Form of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF) Across 65 Nations, 40 Languages, Gender Identities, and Age Groups. Mindfulness 16, 1569-1596.
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Decoding genomic landscapes of introgression.
Huang, X., Hackl, J., Kuhlwilm, M., 2025. Decoding genomic landscapes of introgression. Trends in Genetics.
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New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy
Oertle, A., Crezzini, J., Moroni, A., Ronchitelli, A., Benazzi, S., Falcucci, A., Marciani, G., Rossini, M., Martini, I., Arrighi, S., Higham, T., Boschin, F., Douka, K., 2025. New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy. Scientific Reports 15, 25906.
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