The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

Sexual Dimorphism in the Association Between Status Symbols and Body Height in the Early Medieval Avar Population from the Csokorgasse Burial Ground (Vienna, Austria) The relationship between material culture and body height, commonly used as a proxy for reconstructing economic conditions and social stratification, has not previously been examined for early medieva...

www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...

Stature as a Social Signal: Bioarchaeology of the Early Medieval Avars graphs.

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna members #SylviaKirchengast, #BirgitBühler and @dominik-hagmann.bsky.social

#HEASPublications

www.heas.at/research/pub...

HEAS Talk with Kevin Daly - HEAS We are looking forward to welcoming Kevin Daly from University College Dublin to Vienna for a HEAS Talk on Livestock Genomic Health During Domestication: A Palaeogenomic Perspective on the 24th April ...

We are looking forward to welcoming #KevinDaly for a #HEASTalk taking place online and in-person at the #UBB at @univie.ac.at this Friday.

Registration is on our website 👇🔗

www.heas.at/events/heas-...

@philipnigst.bsky.social from #HEASVienna welcoming #JoãoCascalheira for the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person at the #UBB @univie.ac.at

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna members #LumilaPaulaMenéndez and #AnneLeMaitre et al. on µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step workflow for archaeological petrous portions.

#HEASPublications

www.heas.at/research/pub...

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna Deputy Head #RonPinhasi et al. on 'Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasi'

#HEASPublications

www.heas.at/research/pub...

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS 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 Pl...

We are looking forward to welcoming #JoãoCascalheira to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.

More information and registration on our website 🔗👇

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, the upcoming #HEASSeminar with #KrishSeetah has to be postponed.

We will advertise as soon as we have an alternative date.

HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS 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 Hist...

We are looking forward to the next #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience with #KrishSeetah taking place online only next Monday at 10:30 CEST.

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

www.heas.at/events/heas-...

Sheep on the shore eating seaweed

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member #MagdalenaBlanz et al. on 'Tracing Seaweed as Food and Fodder in Archaeology: A Review of Current Methods'

#HEASPublications

www.heas.at/research/pub...

PhD defended @univie.ac.at @vdsee-univie.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social 🎓

What a time the last three years has been at the Higham/Douka Lab under the supervision of @tommyhigham.bsky.social 🧪

I am eternally grateful for everyone who was part of my journey 🦴

This was applied to a newly compiled dataset of lithic assemblages which has also been uploaded to Zenodo.
#OpenScience #EarlyUpperPalaeolithic #Aurignacian #IberianPeninsula

Repository: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We are pleased to share our new paper on the Iberian Aurignacian. We employed a quantitative approach to explore techno-typological variability and test its spatio-temporal dimension.
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Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

A study by HEAS member Timo Canessa has just been published in the open access journal PLOS One. - HEAS The Early Upper Palaeolithic of Iberia remains an actively debated record of human occupation, yet quantitative approaches to lithic assemblage variability are still lacking, especially among large-sc...

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member @timocanessa.bsky.social et al. on 'Unpacking lithic assemblage variability in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: A multivariate approach to the structure of the Iberian Aurignacian'

#HEASPublications

More informaton on our website 👇🔗

This talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLV...

HEAS Seminar - Stephan Schiffels YouTube video by HEAS

This talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLV...

@tommyhigham.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing #PatrickCuthbertson for a #HEASTalk taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

HEAS Talk with Patrick Cuthbertson - HEAS We are looking forward to welcoming Patrick Cuthbertson from University College London to Vienna for a HEAS Talk on The role of mountainous environments in the earliest occupation of Central Asia: A L...

We are looking forward to welcoming #PatrickCuthbertson to #HEASVienna for a #HEASTalk online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

www.heas.at/events/heas-...

4. #CarlaGomezMontes and @timocanessa.bsky.social

Clarifying the Nature of Human-Animal Occupations in Chufín Cave with Chronological and Paleoproteomic Data

3. @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social, #LauravanderSluis, #PeterSteier and #LyndelleWebster

Radiocarbon dating of bones and charcoal preserved in resin impregnated sediment blocks

2. @dklainscek.bsky.social, @pamelafragnoli.bsky.social and #JohannesHSterba

Looking at the Ground Raw Material Suitability in the Desert Landscape of NW Arabia

1. @mariogavranovic.bsky.social, #OliviaCheronet and #GáborSántaÁgnesSomogyvári

Genetic and Isotope Tests of a Tumulus Culture Population in Southern Hungary: Newcomers or Locals?

We are delighted to announce the results of the #HEASSeedGrants February 2026 round.

The following projects by #HEASVienna members will be funded:

HEAS Talk with Patrick Cuthbertson - HEAS We are looking forward to welcoming Patrick Cuthbertson from University College London to Vienna for a HEAS Talk on The role of mountainous environments in the earliest occupation of Central Asia: A L...

We are looking forward to welcoming #PatrickCuthbertson to #HEASVienna for a #HEASTalk online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

www.heas.at/events/heas-...

@barbarahorejs.bsky.social from #heasvienna introducing #elenarova for a #heastalk taking place now online and in-person @oeai.bsky.social

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@stschiff.bsky.social @stschiff.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy speaking now online and in-person in the #ubb @univie.ac.at as part of the #HEASSeminar online and in-person @univie.ac.at

Poster announcing a talk titled "SPATIAL INFERENCE OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND PREHISTORIC HUMAN MOBILITY FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN GENOMES" at the HEAS Seminar Series by Stephan Schiffels (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany), March 23rd 2026 at 10:30 CET. Location: UBB 5.1 University of Vienna.

On my way to Vienna (with punctual trains!) to visit University of Vienna. I will give a talk in the Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences seminar (HEAS) series tomorrow.

#adna #populationgenetics

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS 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 ...

Looking forward to your talk tomorow! Safe travels!

www.heas.at/events/heas-...

To students in archaeology: like to work with us in the field? #Neolithic #Balkans send your application!
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