@emilypigott.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher in Archaeological Sciences at @univie.ac.at - Department of Evolutionary Anthropology. Exploring Late Neanderthal sites in the Palaeolithic - Radiocarbon dating, Paleoproteomics, Stable Isotopes. Yorkshire lass in Vienna.
Hominin footprints in Pleistocene coastal deposits.
78,000-year-old footprints from Neanderthal man, child and toddler discovered on beach in Portugal 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
At Monte Clérigo, dated to 78 ± 5 ka, trackways of three individuals demonstrate how Neanderthals navigated dune landscapes.
@heasvienna.bsky.social at @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
02.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ISBA conference in Torino 🦴 🧪@isbarchaeology.bsky.social
and @isba11.bsky.social
Presented a poster on our recent work, prominently based our paper which is coming out soon.
A really nice time seeing so many talks in/around/completely out of my field of research.
ISBA 2025, what a nice week :D
31.08.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread.
#archaeology #boardgame
Another fun year at the Pinilla Del Valle excavation (Valley of the Neanderthals), Spain.
Such a nice team :D
#PinilladelValle
Un nuevo yacimiento está siendo explorado en el Valle de los Neandertales de Pinilla del Valle
cadenaser.com/cmadrid/2025...
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
Wooden tools point to ancient taste for plants in China
www.science.org/content/arti...
#booksky
04.06.2025 21:55 — 👍 9282 🔁 1141 💬 108 📌 72This 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
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.
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 🏺
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 — 👍 72 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1
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!
🔔🎄☃️❄️🔔🎄☃️❄️🔔🎄☃️❄️
@katerinad.bsky.social
highamlab.univie.ac.at
doukalab.univie.ac.at
