@tommyhigham.bsky.social introducing #LucDoyon as part of the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are looking forward to welcoming @lucdoyon.bsky.social to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. More information and registration on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

The first paper of my FWF-funded @humevcol.bsky.social project entitled 'Tiny Hopes - Assessing Protein Preservation in Collagen-Depleted Bones' is out! Read now (open access) in the Journal of Proteome Research: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Tiny Hopes─Assessing Protein Preservation in Collagen-Depleted Bones

Understanding human evolution relies on biomolecular data from ancient skeletal tissues, yet warm climates often cause complete collagen loss, excluding many regions from the study. This research inve...

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We have a new #HEASBlog on our website! #HEASVienna member Emese Vegh @emesevegh.bsky.social has written about the #langenachtderforschung (Long night of Research) which took place at locations all over Vienna last Friday night. www.heas.at/activities/b...

Lange Nacht der Forschung 2026 - HEAS

By Dr Emese Végh As a postdoc at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, I usually spend my days in relatively quiet labs or in front of the computer trying to decipher questions in human evoluti...

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So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very happy to share our new paper in PNAS, revealing a new late Neanderthal discovered through biomolecular techniques, revealing long-distance connections across Eurasia 🦴 @konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia | PNAS

The Crimean Peninsula contains several important Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites, including Starosele, Kabazi II, and Siuren I. The region has b...

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Forgot to post from ISBA2025 which wrapped up 3 weeks ago. 😶‍🌫️ Many amazing talks and posters in biomolecular archaeology! I also presented some of the first proteomics results from my HUMEVCOL project ✨

I was interviewed about my FWF research at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, UniVie, by die Presse. (German only)

Die frühen Verwandten des Homo sapiens

Was können wir über Neanderthaler oder Denisova-Menschen erfahren? Ein Team in Wien macht Proteine und Fette statt alter DNA für Datierungen nutzbar, die bisher unerforscht waren.

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Job alert! In our department here in Vienna. Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics! Come and work in the world's most liveable city. Details below 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

Happy festive season from all of us at the Douka/Higham lab - University of Vienna! Have a safe and happy Christmas break wherever you are! See you in 2025 for more 14C, palaeoproteomics, DNA and arch-sci fun! 🔔🎄☃️❄️🔔🎄☃️❄️🔔🎄☃️❄️ @katerinad.bsky.social highamlab.univie.ac.at doukalab.univie.ac.at

Lab outing to the Belvedere Palace Christmas market! 🍺🍺🎉🎉

Super to welcome @christophe-fire.bsky.social to give a seminar and visit us at @heasvienna.bsky.social today. Super talk about the latest Sr research with a full house and lots of questions. Thanks Christophe!

Excited to announce the launch of a new FWF-ESPRIT project, HUMEVCOL: Human Evolution Beyond Collagen. We aim to develop a method to compound radiocarbon date gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (GLA) for dating significant early faunal and Hominin fossils from tropical regions.