Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
The Department of Evolutionary Anthropology is part of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna.
Welcome to the website of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology. Here you can find details about the different research projects and workgroups at the department, as well as the people behind the science. You can also find a brief overview for studying Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna, with links to the respective curricula. Finally you can find information on how to contact us, our address and location as well as any recent developments.
Research
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Research Topics
Our workgroups cover topics in the field of human evolution from functional morphology, microarchaeology, paleogenomics, paleoproteomics, bioinformatics, isotopes, and radiocarbon dating to evolutionary demography, human life history, history of pathogenes, bioarchaeology, human behavioural biology, animal domestication, and human ecology.
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Facilities
We house various facilities like a 3D Surface Scanner, Paleoenvironmental Genomics (PaGe) lab, Geo/DNA Microarchaeology lab, the Vienna micro CT Lab, a Mass Spectrometer and a Radiocarbon Dating lab.
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HEAS
Human Evolution & Archaeological Sciences research network
Research Network funded through the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and supported by the Natural History Museum, Vienna.