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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
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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....

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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!

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Reminder. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

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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

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Look forward to seeing you online and in-person here in Vienna for today's HEAS talk from Axel Timmermann! Register below!

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There is still one day left to apply for our 4 year postdoctoral position here in Vienna...!

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Still finding it incredible that Americans chose Trump/Vance over this guy and Kamala Harris…

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I feel this sums up my academic life right now...

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I rent cars quite a bit. I couldn’t figure out how to open the boot on one I rented recently in the U.K. I just used the back seat to store the suitcase and backpack.

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Ah the old modern humans using red ochre as sunscreen theory again. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...

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So fun to see a box of books arrive. The Korean translation! #TheWorldBeforeUs

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I enjoyed writing about the Penghu mandible from Taiwan in my book "The World Before Us". I am really glad that biomolecular evidence has now confirmed that this amazing little jaw, fished out of the sea by a fishing boat, is a Denisovan! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A few hours in Oxford... How nice to see old friends and old haunts on a beautiful spring day! (@lorenabecval.bsky.social)

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We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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My MSc student gave me this t-shirt after his viva! His project was about extracting collagen from some Palaeolithic bones which has virtually zero collagen! Nice work Leslie!

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The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct. An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

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Trump's US imposes huge tariffs on Vietnam and Cambodia after everything they did to those two countries, the bombs they dropped, the people they killed... Disgraceful.

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A mass grave of around 130 Roman soldiers has been excavated just to the south of us in Vienna's Simmering district. The remains are all aged between 20 and 30 years old and were exclusively males who appeared to have been killed in battle. Dates indicate ~80-120 AD. www.dw.com/.../mass-rom...

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Congratulations to Katharina Luftensteiner on passing her defensio today with flying colours! Very proud of you.

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We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

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Ok, I’ve seen enough. This is the best thing I’ll ever watch on the internet. (Also, I’ve clearly failed as a father. Could have put my time to so much better use…) Double-decker electric “garden bus” from 1960s England.

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Great new paper out on the relationship between climate and human dispersal and occupation in South America. Congrats @lorenabecval.bsky.social

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This is a great project, and a great opportunity!

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We are looking forward to welcoming Prof. Marie Soressi to Vienna next week as part of our @heasvienna.bsky.social seminar series. This is hybrid event. Register here: www.anthropology.at/teaching/hea... And sign up for our newsletter too!

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