Tom Higham
@tommyhigham.bsky.social
Professor at the Univ. of Vienna dating archaeological sites; bones, Neanderthals. Author of "The World Before Us" (http://tinyurl.com/2p873jy8). Kiwi.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5949-598X
https://highamlab.univie.ac.at
ORCID: 0000-0002-5949-598X
https://highamlab.univie.ac.at
Looking forward today to the “Paleoenvironmental DNA and Human Evolution” Symposium here in our department, featuring talks by Viviane Slon, Mikel Pedersen, Karina Sand, Ben Vernot, Pere Gelabert, Mareike Stahlschmidt and Susanna Sawyer. sedaDNA, so exciting! @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Looking forward today to the “Paleoenvironmental DNA and Human Evolution” Symposium here in our department, featuring talks by Viviane Slon, Mikel Pedersen, Karina Sand, Ben Vernot, Pere Gelabert, Mareike Stahlschmidt and Susanna Sawyer. sedaDNA, so exciting! @univie.ac.at @heasvienna.bsky.social
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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
HEAS Seminar this morning! 1030 CE Time. Bence Viola will talk about Denisovans!
@heasvienna.bsky.social
More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
@heasvienna.bsky.social
More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
October 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
HEAS Seminar this morning! 1030 CE Time. Bence Viola will talk about Denisovans!
@heasvienna.bsky.social
More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
@heasvienna.bsky.social
More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
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We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.
@univie.ac.at
More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
@univie.ac.at
More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Bence Viola from the University of Toronto will give a talk on Teeth, Genes, and Taxonomy – fifteen years of Denisovan discov...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.
@univie.ac.at
More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
@univie.ac.at
More information and registration on our website 👇🔗
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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
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...
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
University assistant predoctoral 1
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September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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...
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...
Talk at 10 CE time this morning online and in person :
César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on "Discontinuous archaeological records and the peopling of West Patagonia".
Register here: www.heas.at/events/heas-...
@heasvienna.bsky.social
César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on "Discontinuous archaeological records and the peopling of West Patagonia".
Register here: www.heas.at/events/heas-...
@heasvienna.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Talk at 10 CE time this morning online and in person :
César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on "Discontinuous archaeological records and the peopling of West Patagonia".
Register here: www.heas.at/events/heas-...
@heasvienna.bsky.social
César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on "Discontinuous archaeological records and the peopling of West Patagonia".
Register here: www.heas.at/events/heas-...
@heasvienna.bsky.social
Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social
jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...
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
September 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social
jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...
jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...
If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years.
tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c
tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c
BBC Four - The Lost Neanderthals
The secrets of the Neanderthal discoveries in the Mandrin Cave in France are revealed.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years.
tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c
tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c
As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds
Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena
Revisiting the Early Aurignacian in Italy: New insights from Grotta della Cala
Grotta della Cala in southern Italy is a key archaeological site spanning from the Middle Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. In the stratigraphic sequence…
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July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena
@tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena
Reposted by Tom Higham
Damn....Utah clownin.😂😂
July 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Damn....Utah clownin.😂😂
New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues.
@katerinad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@katerinad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues.
@katerinad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@katerinad.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was a great talk by Prof. Necmi Karul on an incredible site - Karahantepe. Watch for the video soon on our HEAS YouTube channel.
June 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This was a great talk by Prof. Necmi Karul on an incredible site - Karahantepe. Watch for the video soon on our HEAS YouTube channel.
Just about to start this talk here in Vienna. Tune in below online!
We are looking forward to the #HEASKeynote on the 26th June at 15:30 CEST with #NecmiKarul at the @oeai.bsky.social
More information and registration on our website. 🔗👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
More information and registration on our website. 🔗👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
HEAS Keynote - HEAS
We are looking forward to welcoming Necmi Karul from Istanbul University to Vienna for a HEAS Keynote on The Land of Great Transformation. Karahantepe and The Last Hunter-Gatherers of The Şanliurfa Pl...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Just about to start this talk here in Vienna. Tune in below online!
Reposted by Tom Higham
The warming stripes from Vienna... #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info
June 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The warming stripes from Vienna... #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info
Still struggling to comprehend how, after 4 years of this evil incompetent lunatic in his first disastrous term, the US voted him in again. They could have had Kamala Harris instead.
Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?
June 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Still struggling to comprehend how, after 4 years of this evil incompetent lunatic in his first disastrous term, the US voted him in again. They could have had Kamala Harris instead.
This is total Black Mirror.
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This is total Black Mirror.
Always brings a lump to my throat. Love this.
youtu.be/y6Wz3i_BYUc?...
youtu.be/y6Wz3i_BYUc?...
Choir! Choir! Choir! & Patti Smith sing "PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER" in NYC with Stewart Copeland
YouTube video by Choir! Choir! Choir!
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May 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Always brings a lump to my throat. Love this.
youtu.be/y6Wz3i_BYUc?...
youtu.be/y6Wz3i_BYUc?...
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You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon!
Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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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May 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon!
Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Join us this morning at 1030 CE time for a talk by a Roman Garba and Vitaly Usik on the first humans in Europe, more than 1 million years ago. Register below!
We are looking forward to welcoming @romangarba.bsky.social and #VitalyUsik to Vienna next week for the #HEASSeminar in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic.
Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇
Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 🔗👇
HEAS Seminar - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Roman Garba and Vitaly Usik will give a talk on ‚Cosmic Clock for Human History: New Insights from Korolevo, Ukraine.‘ on th...
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May 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Join us this morning at 1030 CE time for a talk by a Roman Garba and Vitaly Usik on the first humans in Europe, more than 1 million years ago. Register below!
Reposted by Tom Higham
May 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Today we welcome @helenfewlass.bsky.social from the Unversity of Bristol to give the HEAS seminar in Archaeological Science! This is a virtual event, register below.
Helen will discuss her work into near infra-red methods for detecting proteins non-destructively.
@heasvienna.bsky.social
Helen will discuss her work into near infra-red methods for detecting proteins non-destructively.
@heasvienna.bsky.social
We are looking forward to this online only talk with @helenfewlass.bsky.social as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #ArchaeologicalScience taking place on Monday the 28th April at 12:30 CEST.
Registration and more information on our website 🔗👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
Registration and more information on our website 🔗👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS
As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Helen Fewlass from Bristol University, will give a talk on Predicting ancient protein preservation with Near InfraRed spectroscopy on the ...
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April 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Today we welcome @helenfewlass.bsky.social from the Unversity of Bristol to give the HEAS seminar in Archaeological Science! This is a virtual event, register below.
Helen will discuss her work into near infra-red methods for detecting proteins non-destructively.
@heasvienna.bsky.social
Helen will discuss her work into near infra-red methods for detecting proteins non-destructively.
@heasvienna.bsky.social
Look forward to seeing you online and in-person here in Vienna for today's HEAS talk from Axel Timmermann! Register below!
We are looking forward to welcoming #AxelTimmermann to #HEASVienna for a #HEASTalk this Friday at 10.30 CEST. Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 👇
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
HEAS Talks - Axel Timmermann - HEAS
We are looking forward to welcoming Axel Timmermann to Vienna for a HEAS Talk on Simulating Mammals (Including Humans) in the Changing Environment of the Late Pleistocene on the 25th April 2025 at 10:...
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April 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Look forward to seeing you online and in-person here in Vienna for today's HEAS talk from Axel Timmermann! Register below!
There is still one day left to apply for our 4 year postdoctoral position here in Vienna...!
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...
@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...
April 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There is still one day left to apply for our 4 year postdoctoral position here in Vienna...!