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This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.

Here we look at the work of #HEASMember #KarinaGrömer at the @nhmwien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Marcos Martinon-Torres from the University of Cambridge will give a talk on Sustaining complex technologies through collective action: ins...

We are looking forward to the #HEASSeminar in #ArchaeologicalScience with #MarcosMartinon-Torres taking place online only at 12:30 CEST on Monday the 9th March.

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Fig. 6 Reconstruction of the Mesolithic ‘Shamaness of Bad Dürrenberg’ in her full regalia. © State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt, Karol Schauer

Fig. 5 Late Neolithic clay statuette depicting a breastfeeding woman from Slatina/Drenovac (Serbia) (Jagodina Museum, photo © D. Bochatz/ÖAW).

Fig. 4 Enthroned ‘Lady of the Animals’ from Çatalhöyük (Türkiye), flanked by large wild cats from the 7th millennium BCE (© Photo: N. Dilmen/Wikimedia Commons).

Fig. 3 Stone pendant in the shape of a female figure from Çukuriçi Höyük (Turkey) from the 7th millennium BCE. (© Photo: N. Gail/ÖAI).

Fig. 1 Venus of Willendorf, 29,500 BC (Photo: A. Schumacher, Natural History Museum Vienna)
Fig. 2 Clay female statuette from the Neolithic settlement of Donja Branjevina (Serbia) from approx. 5000 BC. (© Museum of Vojvodina 2003/Wikimedia Commons)

YouTube video by HEAS Celebrating women through time...and the women who study them.

This #InternationalWomensDay, join us here at #HEASVienna as we celebrate women through time...and the women who study them.

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YouTube video by HEAS New Frontiers: the Archaeology of Western Asia @ the University of Vienna Assoz. Prof Marta Luciani

The recording from the #HEASPechaKucha with #MartaLuciani is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

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Audrey Lin joins Faculty of Life Sciences through APART-USA Fellowship Audrey Lin is one of six U.S. researchers from leading American universities who will soon continue their work at the University of Vienna. Their relocation has been made possible by the APART-USA fel...

Welcoming University of Vienna's first #APARTUSA fellow: Audrey Lin. 🥳 @undeaddandy.bsky.social
She is an evolutionary molecular biologist who studies animals and viruses. 🦠
Thanks to the APART-USA fellowship program she will be able to bring her project from the @amnh.org in New York to #univie. ⤵️

The recording from the #HEASSeminar with #ElenaIreneZavala is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

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

HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Elena Irene Zavala from the University of Copenhagen will give a talk on Human Identification with Sediment DNA on the 23rd February 2026 at 10:...

We are looking forward to welcoming #ElenaIreneZavala to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics.

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HEAS Members Publish GENOVIS: a Python package for the visualization of population genetic analyses - HEAS We are proud to announce that our HEAS member Dr. Elmira Mohandesan and her postDoc (Siavash Salek Ardestani) have published a new open-access paper in BMC Genomics introducing GENOVIS, a user-friendl...

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna members #ElmiraMohandesan and #SiavashSalekArdestani

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HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Elena Irene Zavala from the University of Copenhagen will give a talk on Human Identification with Sediment DNA on the 23rd February 2026 at 10:...

We are looking forward to welcoming #ElenaIreneZavala to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics.

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New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna Head @tommyhigham.bsky.social and #CharlesHigham

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New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member #ViolaSchmid et al.

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Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań

Join our session - Before, during and after the Big Dry—Exploring the Gravettian and Epigravettian occupation of Europe (Thematic Session 14A)

Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
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#RonPinhasi introducing #RobinAllaby as part of the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

The recording from this talk with @palomadelalasca.bsky.social is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel 👇

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna members @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social, #oliviacheronet , #ronpinhasi et al. on 'Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria'

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Thanks to all co-authors and collaborators @nhmwien.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social @maxplanck.de @heasvienna.bsky.social

Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria - Nature Communications Here, the authors present genome-wide aDNA from 138 Early Bronze Age individuals from Lower Austria. Their findings point to a patrilocal society with non-strict female exogamic practices and long-dis...

Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria @natcomms.nature.com
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HEAS Seminar Series - Ancient Genomics - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Robin Allaby from The University of Warwick will give a talk on Evolutionary genomics of Andean maize on the 26th January 2026 at 10:30 CET in S...

We are looking forward to welcoming #RobinAllaby to #HEASVienna for the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics taking place online and in-person in the #UBB at @univie.ac.at

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@philipnigst.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @palomadelalasca.bsky.social as part of the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #UBB @univie.ac.at

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

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Paloma de la Peña from Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología Universidad de Granada, Spain will give a talk on Archaeolo...

We are looking forward to welcoming @palomadelalasca.bsky.social to #HEASVienna for the first #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic of 2026.

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@barbarahorejs.bsky.social introducing #DarioVujevic at the first #HEASSeminar of 2026 taking place now online and in-person

YouTube video by HEAS 2500 Years of Viral Evolution in Europe Hidden in the Human Genome - Dr. Meriam Guellil

Here is a #HEASPechaKucha on this topic delivered to an online audience by @meriamguellil.bsky.social in November last year.

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member @meriamguellil.bsky.social et al. on 'Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA'

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