Emily Pigott

An amazing time excavating in Galería de las Estatuas, Atapuerca 🦴⛏️ Such an interesting and rich area of archaeological sites with so many nice people to work alongside @fatapuerca.bsky.social

13.07.2025 09:58 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Ancient wooden tools show human ancestors ate their veggies Found in China, 300,000-year-old digging sticks reveal a lost technology

Wooden tools point to ancient taste for plants in China
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04.07.2025 10:36 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

#booksky

04.06.2025 21:55 — 👍 9358    🔁 1149    💬 109    📌 72

This International Women's Day we are proud to celebrate the amazing international women who are members of #HEASVienna. Here is a selection of them working in the lab, field and office.

08.03.2025 08:38 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 3

Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...

Hello,

Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

29.05.2025 18:51 — 👍 78    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 4

My photo shows a slightly ovoid-shaped tool knapped from rock crystal which has a slighly yellow tinge, mounted for display against a grey background. The tool measures 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. It was recovered from a Mousterian (Neanderthal) level in the Merveilles rockshelter in France during excavations in the 1920s. Six further rock crystal tools were found at the same site.

Something beautiful to start the week!

A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago.

From a Mousterian level at Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France.
6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me

#Archaeology 🏺

12.05.2025 13:06 — 👍 584    🔁 140    💬 9    📌 12

Dorothy Garrod (1892-1968) who led excavations at Tabun, Skhul and in Gibraltar was Cambridge's first female professor. Born #OTD in 1892.

08.05.2025 07:28 — 👍 71    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1

Earliest Evidence of Ivory Tool Production Uncovered in Ukrainian Site Recent discovery reveals 400,000-year-old mammoth ivory tools possibly created as part of skill development or limited resources

A recent study describes 400,000-year-old ivory tools in Ukraine, pushing back the earliest evidence of ivory working by thousands of years. Researchers suggest these may have been "practice tools" for teaching knapping or were created due to limited lithic raw material medium.com/the-academic...

10.04.2025 12:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

@vdsee-univie.bsky.social 2nd Symposium and 1st Art and Science event, mixing crochet and drawings in archaeological sciences with Konstantina Cheshmedzhieva at the @univie.ac.at 🦴

25.02.2025 13:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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!
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@katerinad.bsky.social
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