A detailed and extense sampling of Pleistocene bone tools with minimally invasive DNA extraction shows interesting preservation and contamination insigths. Lost of fun with Txemi and Olivia doing this research 🤘🥰 Pinhasi Lab HEAS Vienna doi.org/10.1016/j.heli…

What an exciting study! Resolving Paleolithic time using hearth constructions! Congratulations to the whole team and let me know your availability ;)

Happy Wednesday 🥳 Today, we bring you a fieldwork opportunity for members of the Southern African Archaeology Student Society! Apply to participate in the Rose Cottage Excavation season from 3rd November to 1st December 2024.

Wonderful Interview with Julie Stein and the early days of geoarchaeology Ben Marwick I definitely consider her paper „Deposits for Archaeologists“ as foundational archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.53…

1/Check out our opinion out now in PNASNews on why #sedaDNA has the potential to revolutionize #archaeology, but for that we need to understand its (micro)stratigraphic context with #geoarchaeology. pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10… Mareike C Stahlschmidt MATRIX - ERC StG ICArEHB HEAS Vienna

2/Understanding the microcontext of DNA in sediments, its origins and sources is crucial to establish if sedaDNA is in situ and make the correct archaeological inferences. It is ALL about context!

3/ By the same token, assessing if sedaDNA moved between different depositional layers is also key for #environmentalDNA studies sedaDNA scientific society

4/We propose four intersecting guidelines rooted in a microcontextual approach to sedaDNA studies, based on interdisciplinary collaborations between geneticists + geoarchaeologists and guided by archaeological questions

Context is key is archaeology and we argue here that is also very true for sedaDNA! Thanks to my wonderful co-author and fellow microcontextual sedaDNA approach proponent vera aldeias

Are you looking to implement sedaDNA analyses in Archeology but unsure about what you can apply it to? 🐯⚒️⚱️ Check out! Very nice summary read by Kadir Toykan Özdoğan link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Wonderful venue for our HEAS keynote lecture by Eszter Bánffy introduced by Tom Higham and Barbara Horejs #HEAS

The micromorphological field tool box HEAS Vienna

Go pool your samples, save on time and money, but also get more data out!

This will be a great session, so many interesting talks. I am very sorry to miss it this time around!

Getting ready for the ESHE and Reconstructing the human past EMBO meetings with a presentation practice symposium sponsored by HEAS Vienna Martin Kuhlwilm Katerina Douka

Congratulations, Pere, great things happening in Life Sciences @ univie !

Visiting V. Schmid Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut to talk Middle Stone Age and enjoying the new Henrik Åsén merch!

We can perform ZooMS on impregnated micromorphology blocks! Great presentation by Larissa Bartsch