Pere Gelabert

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers - Nature Combined analysis of new genomic data from 116 ancient hunter-gatherer individuals together with previously published data provides insights into the genetic structure and demographic shifts of west Eurasian forager populations over a period of 30,000 years.

Population continuity in Western Europe is the actual model, see:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Working on an article, and stumbled on this after many years. Incredible no? Camelid fiber woven bag/basket from pre-urban Tiwanaku (~AD 400-600), from Southern Peru or northern Chile. Published in Nicole Couture's chapter in the 2004 "Tiwanaku: Ancestor of the Inca" book.

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

Nice story on Reich's research on ancient DNA "Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no." 🏺🧪 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

👏👏 Congratulations to our colleague Marjolein D. Bosch on receiving an #ERC Starting Grant for her COPE project. She will explore how Ice Age hunters and gatherers responded to cold temperatures, resource scarcity 💦 🦌 🌱 , and environmental changes 30,000 years ago.
More info: buff.ly/EGicG8z

3 @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants, die mit je rund 1,4 bis 1,7 Millionen Euro dotiert sind, gehen an die #univie: Historikerin Eva-Maria Muschik, Mikrobiologin Megan Sørensen & Geschichtssoziologin Agata Zysiak erhalten die prestigeträchtige Förderung für ihre Forschung. Wir gratulieren herzlichst! 🥳

Check out our latest paper, a huge effort led by @benjaminguinet.bsky.social and @tvdvalk.bsky.social 🦣🔍🦠

Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)

Lovely new paper by @pennybickle.bsky.social and team, using some NEIF funded dates to suggest European Neolithic cemeteries were a short-lived phenomenon. 20 years on, things are still getting shorter! @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Michelle did a wonderful job presenting our work at the 11th World Mummy Congress in Cusco! What a venue

The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes @erc.europa.eu and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

An indentation in a 33,000-year-old right calcaneus of the ground sloth Lestodon (Xenarthra, Folivora) from Uruguay and its possible human agency - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology Several sites in the Americas are proposed to have evidence of human occupation before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The timing of human colonisation of the Americas is a matter of debate due to its...

[Open Access] sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Our new contribution for the understanding Gran Dolina TD10 unit at Atapuerca
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kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Saturday express at home. Demo, lobster paella and bicicle trip. Fun! ;) #niunpamdeterra #elPrat

Today it is a very nice day. The BEAM lab has expanded. Looking forward to the comming years of science! @heasvienna.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics!

Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026!

Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on!

Save the dates!

Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news

👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

YouTube video by Greger Larson MFaDNA

Then, Greger and Beth performed an original song entitled:

MFaDNA
youtu.be/Z62RTsgpHc4

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

Great to have you here!!

Labormitarbeiter nimmt Knochenprobe mit Dremel-ähnlichem Instrument

🔬📜 PhD in Paleogenomics & Geochemistry @univie.ac.at
Join the Pinhasi Lab to push boundaries in ancient DNA from sediments 🧬🪨
Fully funded (3 yrs), earliest start 07.2025.
More infos here: vds-ecology-evolution.univie.ac.at/application/...
#PhDposition #Paleogenomics #aDNA #ScienceJobs

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member #LauravanderSluis et al. on 'Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.'

#HEASPublications

Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay - Nature Communications Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 2...

Article alert!!
ZooMS, radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis on ancient whale bone tools, check it out. Absolutely thrilled to see our work published in Nature Communications 🙏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@natcomms.nature.com

Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave - Nature Communications Here, the authors present mtDNA and chronological data for sediments from excavations in the South Chamber of Denisova Cave, from which they construct a timeline of hominin and faunal occupation that ...

A nice update on the chronology of Denisova Cave! I wish more sites had this type of resolution 🥹⏳️🏺🦣🧪

Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union! We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever Several bacterial pathogens have transitioned from tick-borne to louse-borne transmission, which often involves genome reduction and increasing virulence. However, the timing of such transitions remai...

Our @ucl.ac.uk @crick.ac.uk work, out this week in @science.org, traces a genetic time series of bacterial infections to reveal when and how Borrelia recurrentis jumped from ticks to humans—via our body lice.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

Very happy to start the sampling for ERC SHADOWS in Cantabria together with Carla. Carla will work as a PhD student on the Pleistocene fauna collections of the area ⚒️🐅🦁🦊

Check out our ancient DNA paper on the maritime Punic civilization! 🦴🧬🌊

We find that their Levantine Phoenician cultural ancestors contributed surprisingly little ancestry to Punic sites in the central and western Mediterranean! (1/4)

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#aDNA #PopGen #Punic #Phoenician