The PaleoAnthropology journal is pleased to announce that we have been selected for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals! For more information see here: doaj.org/toc/1545-0031
Mareike C Stahlschmidt
@stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social
geoarchaeolgist interested in human evolution, fire, ancient dna and most of all dirt
Seit dem 27. März 2026 zeigt das Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle (Saale) die Sonderausstellung ›Die Schamanin‹. In den ersten drei Monaten konnten bereits rund 37.000 Besucherinnen und Besucher in der Ausstellung begrüßt werden. Sie wird daher bis zum 7. Februar 2027 verlängert.
Huge congratulations to Viola Schmid on her stand-alone project ROSES!! So excited to contribute to this research on the LSA in the eastern Free State Province in South Africa @oeai.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social
Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF@fwf-at.bsky.social · last mo.174 neue Forschungsprojekte mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 84,3 Millionen Euro erhalten eine #FWF-Förderung. Insgesamt wurden über 780 Förderanträge eingereicht. 📑 Die neu bewilligten Projekte sind ab sofort im Forschungsradar online abrufbar. 👉 www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...
🚨Job alert🚨We are hiring a Laboratory Technician (24 months) to support our research in Archaeological Proteomics (ZooMS) at the University of Reading (UK), including our COEXIST project. More info here: tinyurl.com/bdfvawh8 #palaeoproteomics #ZooMS
The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky18...
HEAS Seminar - Diyendo Massilani
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HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are looking forward to the #HEASSeminar with #DiyendoMassilani taking place next Monday at the later than normal time of 16:00 CEST. This is an online only event. More information and registration on our website. 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...
Happy to share our new paper on non-destructive FTIR analysis on silcrete artefacts from Mertenhof and Diepkloof with heating temperature reconstructions. Is the data beautiful and clean? No. But is it still meaningful? Yes! Study led by Will Archer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fire, temperature control, and silcrete heat treatment at Diepkloof and Mertenhof Rock Shelters, West Coast, South Africa
Transformative technologies that alter raw material properties, rather than just raw material shape and size, are key proxies for the evolution of hum…
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Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf‼️ Die Unis befürchten Einsparungen von einer Mrd. Euro im #Budget. Rektorensprecherin Brigitte Hütter sprach bei einer Pressekonferenz von einem "Supergau" für Unis, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Rektor Schütze sprach von enormen Schaden für die Reputation. ⤵️
Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf
Rektor Schütze:
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aDNA lab manager position (maternity cover for ~16 months) at UniVie. Come work with us, several cool projects, new labs and great potential for further future work. Happy to answer questions! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)
Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)
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Human childbirth is not uniquely difficult among mammals: Birth complications are widespread across mammalian species, including in the wild www.univie.ac.at/en/news/pres...
Human childbirth is not uniquely difficult among mammals
Birth complications are widespread across mammalian species, including in the wild
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We’re excited to announce that the first 2026 issue of PaleoAnthropology is now online! A big thank you to everyone who made this issue possible. 📖 Read it here: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... #PaleoAnthropology #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #OpenAccess
Looking forward to presenting our new work on evidence for recurrent and increasing control of fire at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Beeches Pit today at the Pathways to Ancient Britain workshop at Queen Mary University 🔥 🔥 🔥. Really exciting results and paper on the way soon 😃
Experience in Paleogenomics and looking for a senior position with lab responsibilities? This is for you !!! Apply here: 👍🧪🔖 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)
Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)
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Great blog post by my phd student Thomas Beard on our recent visit to the @esrf.fr doing nanoscale mapping of clay minerals on thin sections. What a joy to spend some sleep deprived days on their beamline! (side note: with only very minimal damage to our slides)
HEAS@heasvienna.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe have a new #HEASBlog on our website! #HEASVienna member #ThomasBeard writes about the MicroStratDNA Group visit to the ESRF over the Easter break this year. @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social www.heas.at/activities/b...
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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#savethedate Das versteckte Welterbe wird sichtbar Mitarbeiter*innen der Prähistorischen Abteilung und des Kuratoriums Pfahlbauten präsentieren Prähistorische Pfahlbauten- und Willendorf-Fundstellen (UNESCO-Welterbe). ⏰ Fr. 17.4. | 10:00-16:00 📌 Saal 11, NHM Wien Mehr: tinyurl.com/mwx35mc3
The latest issue of Nature features a deep dive into sedimentary ancient DNA, with insights from our Matrix ERC-StG PI, @veraaldeias.bsky.social highlighting some of the big challenges shaping the field right now.
Come by the UBB to check out our station on the Puzzle of Human Evolution organized by the various working groups of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology!
Universität Wien / University of Vienna@univie.ac.at · 4mo ago📣 Save the date: Lange Nacht der Forschung an der Uni Wien! 📅: 24.04.2026, 17:00 - 23:00 Uhr 📍: über 100 Stationen an 5 Standorten: Hauptgebäude, Fakultät für Chemie, Fakultät für Physik, Sternwarte & Biologiezentrum Das gesamte Programm der Uni Wien im Überblick: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/lange-nacht-...
Only 6 days left until the extended deadline for presenting in our #pyroarchaoelogy session at the IUSPP 2026 Congress in Poznan ! ❤️🔥 @pyroarchaeology.bsky.social
Ségolène Vandevelde@segovandevelde.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚩Just a few more days to submit your abstract! Do not miss this occasion to share you work with a dynamic pyroarchaeology community! 🔥
Deadline moved to March 20th! Go submit your pyroarchaeology abstract and join us in Poznań to talk fire! #pyroarchaeology #UISPP2026
Mareike C Stahlschmidt@stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 6mo agoJoin us in Poznań for the XXI #UISPP2026 congress: Session S -1F: Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in #pyroarchaeology organized by @segovandevelde.bsky.social Chris Miller and myself. Abstract submission deadline Feb 28th! uispp2026.syskonf.pl
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2)
Faculties & Facilities
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Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
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Join us in Poznań for the XXI #UISPP2026 congress: Session S -1F: Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in #pyroarchaeology organized by @segovandevelde.bsky.social Chris Miller and myself. Abstract submission deadline Feb 28th! uispp2026.syskonf.pl
XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
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The University of Vienna has opened its STEM Prae-Doc Call — and the (VDSEE) is participating. 🎉 We invite outstanding candidates in STEM fields to apply and join an international research environment with structured doctoral training. Details & deadlines: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
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Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań Join our session - Moving on: updated scales, concepts and approaches to mobility in the Late Pleistocene (Thematic Session 4D) Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 uispp2026.syskonf.pl @timocanessa.bsky.social @palomadelalasca.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social
📢Deadline Extended📢 Final week of abstract submissions for EAA2026 and Session 178 - Cave Sediments as Archives of Human-Environment Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Geoarchaeology & Micro-contextual Research! We look forward to seeing you all in Athens!
📢 PhD position in Geoarchaeology (4y) – Ghent University within the ERC project FROST. The PhD combines archaeological dating methods with geoarchaeological analyses of sediments to investigate Late Glacial human–environment interactions. www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Deadline: 23 February 2026
Doctoraatsbursaal
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🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Stud...
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The earliest confirmed evidence of an adult cremation pyre has been discovered in Malawi! 🔥 theconversation.com/oldest-known...
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age hunter-gatherers
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What was behind this unexpected funeral ritual?
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