News

13.11.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst presented the inaugural Heritage Series Lecture

09.11.2024
 

We adjusted the EDMpy GUI to speed up measurements

08.11.2024
 

Updating Rose Cottage Cave fieldwork's documentation system to the new EDMpy software

06.11.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst joined the 2024 fieldwork at Rose Cottage Cave

23.10.2024
 

MA student and PalArchGroup member Samuel Kasemann analyses lithic raw material

15.10.2024
 

Today we introduced HEAS Speaker Marta Mirazon Lahr to the Venus of Willendorf in the Natural History Museum, Vienna

14.10.2024
 

Talk by Marta Mirazon Lahr as part of the HEAS Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic seminar series

16.09.2024
 

ESHE Meeting excursion to famous Neanderthal sites in Croatia

16.09.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst presented a poster on our research at Korman' 9, Ukraine

16.09.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst participated in the 2024 Annual Meeting of ESHE in Zagreb, Croatia

23.08.2024
 

End of the 2024 fieldwork season after backfilling.

22.08.2024
 

We started backfilling our trenches.

21.08.2024
 

One of the tasks in our field laboratory is labelling lithic artefacts

20.08.2024
 

Our two total stations and tablets running EDMpy in use during excavation

20.08.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst explaining the stratigraphy of Grub-Kranawetberg II.

19.08.2024
 

Project geologist Stéphane Pirson at work

16.08.2024
 

Today the Dolní Věstonice Research Center team visited our excavation

15.08.2024
 

Sharpening our tools...

14.08.2024
 

Excavation in Trench 1 and 2 is progressing

13.08.2024
 

Fieldwork is progressing very well

12.08.2024
 

Quite some work is happening in our field laboratory.

08.08.2024
 

Wine tasting and visit of a wine cellar at the Staringer winery

05.08.2024
 

This year we introduced a new software for data management in the field.

01.08.2024
 

Close to our dig house we have set up a wet-sieving station

31.07.2024
 

All backfill removed and both tents up and protecting the trenches (and us) from sun and/or rain.

30.07.2024
 

Today we completed day 2 of our excavation and at the end of the day ....

29.07.2024
 

Today we started our 2024 fieldwork season at Grub-Kranawetberg II.

19.07.2024
 

New publication on handaxe morphological variability James Clark, Ceri Shipton, Marie-Helene Moncel, Robert A. Foley and Philip R. Nigst

03.07.2024
 

Timothy Canessa received a DSHCS Travel Grant for his data collection trip to Spain

25.06.2024
 

New publication by PalArchGroup team members Marjolein D. Bosch and Philip R. Nigst

19.06.2024
 

PalArchGroup PhD student Timothy Canessa passed his first-year-interview

08.06.2024
 

The AK Paläolithikum of the ÖGUF organised a visit to the Pavlov Museum

08.06.2024
 

The AK Paläolithikum of the ÖGUF organised a visit to the sites of Pavlov and Dolní Věstonice

03.06.2024
 

Talk by Marcel Weiss as part of the HEAS Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic seminar series

31.05.2024
 

New publication by PalArchGroup team members Marjolein D. Bosch and Philip R. Nigst in Archäologie Österreichs

27.05.2024
 

New paper by PalArchGroup team members Marjolein D. Bosch and Philip R. Nigst published open-access

24.05.2024
 

PalArchGroup team members Marjolein D. Bosch and Philip R. Nigst co-authored a paper in Heliyon

23.05.2024
 

Research at Korolevo II, Ukraine, presented at the 4th World of Gravettian Hunters Conference in Krakow

23.05.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst presented a poster and a brief talk on our research at Korman' 9, Ukraine

21.05.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst presented at the 4th World of Gravettian Hunters Conference in Krakow on fieldwork at Grub-Kranawetberg

21.05.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst participated in the 4th World of Gravettian Hunters Conference in Krakow, Poland, 21-24 May 2024

13.05.2024
 

Tour of the NHM (Dept Prehistory) with HEAS speaker Carolina Mallol

13.05.2024
 

Talk by Carolina Mallol (University of La Laguna, Tenerife) as part of the HEAS Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic seminar series

15.04.2024
 

Talk by Dr. Aurélien Mounier as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

04.03.2024
 

Talk by Dr. Janet Kelso as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

29.02.2024
 

Workshop participants today visited among other sites the Upper Palaeolithic site Willendorf II in Austria

28.02.2024
 
28.02.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst and Marjolein D. Bosch presented an invited podium presentation at the Hebrew University & University of Vienna Joint Seminar...

23.02.2024
 

Philip R. Nigst gave a talk on "Palaeoclimate, resource exploitation and landscape use of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in Central and Eastern...

20.02.2024
 

Talk by Prof. Wil Roebroeks as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

12.02.2024
 

On 12 February 2024 after the HEAS seminar we visited the NHM with speaker Tracy Kivell

12.02.2024
 

Talk by Prof. Tracy Kivell as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

15.01.2024
 

Talk by Dr. Thibaut Deviese part of the HEAS Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic seminar series

04.12.2023
 

Emily Hallinan visited the Department of Prehistory in the Natural History Museum

04.12.2023
 

Talk by Dr. Emily Hallinan as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

13.11.2023
 

On 13 November after the HEAS seminar we visited the Natural History Museum with HEAS speaker Andrew Kandel

13.11.2023
 

Talk by Dr. Andrew Kandel as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

11.10.2023
 

New publication by PalArchGroup member Dr. Marjolein D. Bosch on the site Kanyimangin, West Turkana, Kenya

10.10.2023
 

Samuel Kasemann, MA student, is currently analysing lithic artefacts from Grub-Kranawetberg I, Austria, stored in the Natural History Museum Vienna

09.10.2023
 

Talk by Dr. Clement Zanolli as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

05.10.2023
 

We are busy with post-excavation work on this summers excavation materials.

01.10.2023
 

Timothy Canessa started his doctoral studies today! - Welcome to the PalArch Group!

14.08.2023
 

Guided tour and excavation for daycare kids from Vienna

31.07.2023
 

Today we started our 2023 excavation season at Grub-Kranawetberg II

26.07.2023
 

Today we transported all our fieldwork equipment from Vienna to Stillfried.

25.07.2023
 

Renovation in excavation house - our lab has now two rooms :-)

18.07.2023
 

PalArch Group member Marjolein D. Bosch presented a poster at the XXI INQUA congress in Rome, Italy, on our biomarker analysis at...

12.06.2023
 

Talk by Dr. Alice Leplongeon as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

12.06.2023
 

On 12 June before the HEAS seminar we had the chance to introduce speaker Alice Leplongeon to the Venus of Willendorf.

12.06.2023
 

Anna Wagner defended her MA dissertation in Evolutionary Anthropology!

Congratulations to Anna Wagner who defended today her MA dissertation in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna.

02.06.2023
 

BA student Anna Wagner is currently analysing faunal remains from Grub-Kranawetberg I as part of her BA dissertation.

23.05.2023
 

Philip R. Nigst visited the Institut of Archaeology in Iasi to discuss research and fieldwork at Mitoc-Malu Galben.

19.05.2023
 

New publication of Philip R. Nigst and colleagues in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology on the results of the new excavations at Korolevo II in...

27.04.2023
 

Invited Lecture by Philip R. Nigst on Modern Human Behaviour and the Archaeological Record of Central and Eastern Europe

18.04.2023
 

Talk by Dr. Stefano Benazzi as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

 

 

13.04.2023
 

Philip R. Nigst attended the Hugo Obermaier Meeting 2023 in Aarhus, Denmark, and presented on the research project on Grub-Kranawetberg.

04.04.2023
 

In this paper we develop and apply a minimally-invasive aDNA sampling method for an assemblage of 42 prehistoric hunting weapons and tools from...

23.03.2023
 

MA student Samuel Kasemann is currently studying lithic artefacts from our recent fieldwork at Grub-Kranawetberg I, Austria.

22.03.2023
 

Analysis of shell ornaments of Grub-Kranawetberg I and II in progress

20.03.2023
 

Talk by Dr. María Martinón-Torres as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

16.03.2023
 

New publication by PalArchGroup member Dr. Marjolein D. Bosch on perforations in Columbellidae shells

09.03.2023
 

Talk by Philip R. Nigst on Variability in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Europe

02.03.2023
 

Faunal analysis of Grub-Kranawetberg I by Dr. Marjolein Bosch is in progress

13.02.2023
 

Talk by Dr. Patrick Roberts as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

27.01.2023
 

Our project on Grub-Kranawetberg funded by the Land Niederösterreich has been extended to the end of 2023

16.01.2023
 

Talk by Enza Spinapolice as as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

13.01.2023
 

Talk by Dr. Laura Buck as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

12.12.2022
 

Talk by Dr. Viola C. Schmid as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

10.10.2022
 

Talk by Dr. Benjamin Vernot as part of HEAS Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic talk series

04.09.2022
 

End of fieldwork season at Grub-Kranawetberg II, Austria

27.08.2022
 

End of fieldwork at Ollersdorf-Heidenberg

End of fieldwork at Ollersdorf-Heidenberg

26.08.2022
 

Visit by Vitaly Usik (Kyiv and Brno) and Roman Garba (Prague)

20.08.2022
 

Day of the Open Excavation for Kids from Vienna

28.07.2022
 

Today we started excavating at Grub-Kranawetberg II.

27.07.2022
 

Start of our fieldwork season at Ollersdorf-Heidenberg

25.07.2022
 

Start of our fieldwork season at Grub-Kranawetberg II, Austria

04.05.2022
 

New special issue out!

Special Issue co-edited by P. R. Nigst published in PaleoAnthropology - fully open-access

04.05.2022
 

New Publication in PaleoAnthropology - fully open-access

30.09.2021
 

End of fieldwork at Grub-Kranawetberg

15.09.2021
 

End of survey and start of excavation at Grub-Kranawetberg.