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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 1d

We are in the paper #derstandard

Based on our new publication -

'A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia' | PNAS

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Martin Kuhlwilm @kuhlwilm.bsky.social · 9d

New paper on a late Neanderthal, with contribution from the lab:
dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 8d

So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 8d

Very happy to share our new paper in PNAS, revealing a new late Neanderthal discovered through biomolecular techniques, revealing long-distance connections across Eurasia 🦴
@konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia | PNAS

The Crimean Peninsula contains several important Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites, including Starosele, Kabazi II, and Siuren I. The region has b...

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 27d

We have a new #HEASBlog on our website. This week twenty one HEAS members went to the #NationalMuseumPrague to see #LucyandSelam.

www.heas.at/activities/b...

HEAS Members Travel to See the Lucy Skeleton - In Europe for the First Time - HEAS

by Prof. Tom Higham, head of HEAS. The visit of the world-famous Lucy skeleton to Prague in October 2025 led to the idea of a HEAS fieldtrip to the Czech Republic. “Lucy” is the remarkably complet...

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 23d

A really nice trip visiting the Willendorf site and museums in the Wachau area

Philip R Nigst @philipnigst.bsky.social · Sep 29

Wonderful HEAS Road Trip to Willendorf, Nussdorf and Traismauer! - We explored the prehistoric and Roman archaeology of the Traisen and Wachau valleys.
@heasvienna.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @dominikhartmann.bsky.social @uhaunivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @palarchgroup.bsky.social

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

Hominin footprints in Pleistocene coastal deposits.

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · Sep 2

@heasvienna.bsky.social at @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · Aug 30

We had a lovely time at ISBA in Torino and almost managed to gather everyone from Vienna in one pic @heasvienna.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · Aug 31

ISBA 2025, what a nice week :D

ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 29

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

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Bella Shaw @blellashaw.bsky.social · Jul 10

How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread.

#archaeology #boardgame

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · Aug 31

Another fun year at the Pinilla Del Valle excavation (Valley of the Neanderthals), Spain.
Such a nice team :D

#PinilladelValle

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Fundacion Atapuerca @fatapuerca.bsky.social · Aug 21

Un nuevo yacimiento está siendo explorado en el Valle de los Neandertales de Pinilla del Valle

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Un nuevo yacimiento está siendo explorado en el Valle de los Neandertales de Pinilla del Valle

Un equipo de más de 100 arqueólogos y paleontólogos se encuentra trabajando bajo la dirección de Enrique Baquedano, director del Museo Arqueológico y Paleontológico regional que ha estado en Hoy por H...

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jul 4

Wooden tools point to ancient taste for plants in China
www.science.org/content/arti...

Ancient wooden tools show human ancestors ate their veggies

Found in China, 300,000-year-old digging sticks reveal a lost technology

www.science.org

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Lucy Gray @lucymaygray.bsky.social · Jun 4

#booksky

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · Mar 8

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.

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Palesa @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · May 29

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.

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...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · May 12

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 🏺

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.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · May 8

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

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SandeeOster @sandeeoster.bsky.social · Apr 10

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...

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

medium.com

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · Feb 25

@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 🦴

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Dec 21

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

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