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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had a great time in Burgos last week. IZAZ workshop and then Society for the Study of Human Evolution #ESHE2026 I presented a poster with my final PhD results #radiocarbondating, whilst also introducing my postdoc with the @humanorigins.bsky.social - Armenian project @unituebingen.bsky.social

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I defended my PhD at @univie.ac.at at the end of March. But it was really nice to also have a formal ceremony, in between lab work at Vienna University for my new postdoc position at @unituebingen.bsky.social 🧪🎓🦴

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

*Spits coffee out…. 🤣 #BookSky

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It‘s #EuropeanArchaeologyDay 🏺, and at the Cluster exciting things are happening! The first fieldwork projects of HUMAN ORIGINS are underway, and one of it is Yerevan-1. Armenia is a place of stunning landscapes, and potentially of new insights into the time Neanderthals disappeared. #paleosky

A stunning landscape with a green river valley and a city on the left site of the river. A group of three people are walking away from the camera on the right side of the alley. They wear backpacks and robust clothes. In the background are high mountains with snowy tops visible under a wide blue sky with slight clouds.

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The team of Andrew Kandel and @emilypigott.bsky.social is working in cooperation with the Armenian National Academy of Science at the Middle Palaeolithic cave site. It was discovered in the 1960’s and shows promise of new insights into climate, environment and human‘s life 50-30,000 years ago.

The photo is taken from insight a cave through its opening towards a slope into a forestall area. There are two archaeological dig sites visible, in the left one a white Woman with a brown ponytail and a khaki shirt is working. Behind her, an elder man stands inbetween backpacks at the wall of the cave. Another man is standing in the mound of the cave in front of measurement tech tools, a Tachymeter and a laptop atop of tripods.

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

PhD defended @univie.ac.at @vdsee-univie.bsky.social @heasvienna.bsky.social 🎓 What a time the last three years has been at the Higham/Douka Lab under the supervision of @tommyhigham.bsky.social 🧪 I am eternally grateful for everyone who was part of my journey 🦴

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Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution @vdsee-univie.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🎓 PhD Defense Announcement Emily (@emilypigott.bsky.social) will defend her PhD on the 30th of March! You’re very welcome to join! Check out her Invitation below!👇 #PhD #Defense #AcademicLife @univie.ac.at

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Thesis done and printed 🎓 at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology - @univie.ac.at 🦴🧪 The past 2 years and 10 months has flown by. I can not believe how much I have done when looking back at the publications/other work. Where did time fly ? I have no idea. Still in bewilderment 🍃

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Very happy to hear today we are successful in gaining the HEAS Seed Grant at @heasvienna.bsky.social at the @univie.ac.at. Looking forward to progressing with this project and seeing the results 🦴

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Had the pleasure of presenting at two seminar series at the @ox.ac.uk this week, within the @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social and @oxford-anthro.bsky.social. The talks were centred on my PhD research, using methods such as radiocarbon dating, ZooMS and Stable Isotopes on late Neanderthal sites etc.

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Dylan Gaffney @dylangaffneynz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

New seminars in our PalEvo series

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We are in the paper #derstandard Based on our new publication - 'A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia' | PNAS @konstantinache.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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 · 14/10/2025

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

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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 · 02/09/2025

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 · 31/08/2025

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

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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 · 29/05/2025

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.

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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 · 12/05/2025

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 · 08/05/2025

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 · 10/04/2025

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...

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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

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Emily Pigott @emilypigott.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

@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 · 21/12/2024

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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