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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · 8d

Beautiful text, we cannot wait to see Lucy next week on our HEAS trip from Vienna @heasvienna.bsky.social !

Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 8d

Our famous ancestor Lucy is on display in Prague. I visited the exhibit and wrote up some early thoughts about the experience:
paigemadison.substack.com/p/circling-lucy
📸Czech Tourism

A life-like reconstruction of the fossil hominin “Lucy” (Australopithecus afarensis) created by Élisabeth Daynès. She is shown standing upright with dark hair and skin, gazing slightly to the side. She is holding green foliage to her lips. The rest of the room is dark.

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 12d

#ESHE2025
Giulia Gallo ‘ Estimating fire duration through bioapatite crystallite growth in Middle Palaeolithic contexts’
Bioapatite crystals: XRD/point of calcination.
Nice experiment!
Roc de Marsa (~90Ka) & Le Moustier (~55Ka): 10-20 hrs fire duration, at Le Moustier assoc w burning megafauna

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Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut @oeai.bsky.social · 20d

Morgen noch nichts vor?
Dann schauen Sie beim Tag der Offenen Grabung in Grubgraben bei Kammern vorbei. Unsere Archäolog:innen führen von 9 bis 14 Uhr durch die Ausgrabung und beantworten Ihre Fragen!
#TagderOffenenGrabung #KulturNiederoesterreich

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 23d

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University assistant predoctoral 1

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social
jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...

Stellenangebot Curator for the osteological collection of human remains (m/f/d) bei Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Forschung, wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit in Wien

jobs.nhm.at

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR

Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")

@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

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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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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 9

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Which Kind of Science Reform

What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

elevanth.org

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · Jul 18

what a beauty!

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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien @nhmwien.bsky.social · Jun 25

#wearehiring Das NHM Wien sucht Vermittler*innen in den Bereichen:
- 🐛 Biologie
- 🪨 Erdwissenschaften
- 🦴 Archäologie / Anthropologie

👉 Zu den Ausschreibungen: jobs.nhm.at

Bewerbungsmöglichkeit bis 03.07.2025.

#nhmwien #nhmvienna #jobs #jobseekers #jobalert #Jobsuche #chancenergreifen

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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien @nhmwien.bsky.social · Jun 12

#savethedate Archäologie am Berg | Metallkunst in der Eisenzeit

Erlebe aktuelle archäologische Bergbau- und Gräberfeldforschung des NHM Wien mit zahlreichen Partnern am und im Salzberg.

⏰ Sa, 14./So, 15.6. | ab 10:00 Uhr
📌 "Alte Schmiede" am Salzberg in Hallstatt
👉 Programm: tinyurl.com/mpnj9vt6

Dokumentation einst – Michaela Almstätter malt einen nachgestellten Grabbefund ©NHM Wien, J.Rudorfer

Georg Tiefengraber präsentiert stolz das rekonstruierte Prunkschwert eines wohl mächtigen Kriegers ©NHM Wien, Karina Grömer

Gergana Almstätter zeigt wie man heute prunkvolle Keramik restauriert ©NHM Wien, Karina Grömer

Das mehrköpfige Team vermittelt Aktuelles rund um die Obertaggrabungen des NHM Wien ©NHM Wien, J.Rudorfer

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · Jun 3

Great to have you here!!

Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · Jun 3

An exciting week at Uni Vienna working on micromorphology samples from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Barnham, UK! #fire #geoarchaeology

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · May 3

There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie...

Deadline 25.05.2025

Please distribute widely!
🏺🦣

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Lukas Werther @lukwer.bsky.social · Apr 23

Mehrere Promotionsstellen an der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des DAI ausgeschrieben! Jetzt bewerben, gerne weiterleiten!

www.dainst.org/karriere/bew...

Mehr über uns erfahren: www.dainst.org/rgk

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Ségolène Vandevelde @segovandevelde.bsky.social · Apr 23

|✨ Publication Alert! ✨|
Our latest research on #pyroarchaeology has just been published with @springernature.com in the #JournalOfArchaeologicalMethodAndTheory!
-> Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis 🔥
Read here: rdcu.be/ehqag

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Harvati Lab @harvatilab.bsky.social · Apr 10

📢Job alert!

W3 (Full) Professorship in Human Ecology at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.

⛓️‍💥 berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de

Deadline for applications: May 22, 2025 🗓

Please share and repost 🙏🏼 🤩

For questions please contact Prof. Harvati.

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Erella Hovers @ehovers.bsky.social · Apr 7

Please help spreading the word

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · Mar 13

Exciting study with the most wonderful illustrations. Bones buried below a fire event can show high degrees of heat alteration! 🔥

Giulia Gallo @giuliagallo.bsky.social · Mar 13

So happy to share that our study on the thermal alteration of buried bone is available today! @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social @veraaldeias.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Revisiting the thermal alteration of buried bone

The impacts of heat exposure directly on bone material are widely acknowledged, yet a comprehensive understanding regarding the degree of thermal alte…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · Mar 12

Job alert!
@katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

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Pere Gelabert @peregx9.bsky.social · Feb 24

PhD position in archaeozoology and omics at the University of Vienna! 🤠🦊🐯🦁🐱🐰🐍🦬🐂🦣🐄 The student will be based in Vienna and co-supervised in Santander!

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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien @nhmwien.bsky.social · Feb 19

#wearehiring Neue Herausforderung gesucht?
Zur Verstärkung unseres Teams suchen wir ab sofort eine Mitarbeiter*in im Eventmanagement (m/w/d) | Vollzeit (37,5 Wochenstunden)

Zur #Stellenausschreibung: tinyurl.com/ykebbwr3
Bewerbungsfrist: 16. März 2025

#job #nhmwien #nhmvienna #eventmanagement

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · Feb 19

Don‘t miss out on this #HEAS talk combining Paleolithic archaeology and computational linguistics!

HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · Feb 18

There will be a #HEASTalk taking place tomorrow the 19th February at 10:30 CEST.

Registration and more information on our website 🔗👇

HEAS Talk - HEAS

We are looking forward to welcoming Ewa Dutkiewicz from Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Chris Bentz from University of Passau to Vienna for a HEAS Talk on SignBase ...

www.heas.at

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Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · Feb 10

„Hearts, ovens and cooking spaces in the Mediterranean from the Late Prhistory to the Middle Ages“ organized by Belarte et al or „Reconstructing the history of fire, control and application of thermal energy and its technical, social, symbolic and environmental consequences“ by March et al

Mareike C Stahlschmidt @stahlschmidtmc.bsky.social · Feb 10

The #EAA25 abstract submission deadline is today, submit here submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/login and join one of our fire sessions organized by members of the pyroarchaeology commission:

EAA 2025

submissions.e-a-a.org

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Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social · Jan 31

Deadline today to submit a session proposal under our theme “Archaeological Sciences: State of the Art and New Advances in Archaeology” at the World Archaeology Congress 2025
worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-... Rosa Albert, Yannick Devos, Monica Alonso, Sally Hoare

THEME 12: Archaeological Sciences: State of the Art and New Advances in Archaeology – WAC-10

worldarchaeologicalcongress.com

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