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How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Tomorrow evening we will have the pleasure of welcoming Kristen Pearson from Harvard University for her lecture "Excavating the Kiiz Ui: A Case Study in Archaeological Thinking and Ethnographic Practice".

📍From 6-8 PM in room 0.2051 (Holzlaube)
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November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Welcome to Dr. Karolina Hruby who's joining the institute through the ERC Marie Curie program. Dr. Hruby's work is part of the StoneCau project "Decoding economy of the Leylatepe communities in the Chalcolithic Caucasus through functional analyses of ground stone tools".
Photo credit: K. Stępnik
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
We are overjoyed to announce that Prof. Henny Piezonka will be speaking the Harvard University 2025-26 Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series. Find out more here: iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file....
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yesterday, Prof. Henny Piezonka and Akan Onggar, General Director of the A. Kh. Margulan Archaeological Institute in Almaty, Kazakhstan signed a Memorandum of Understanding, allowing us to work closely together in the coming years on Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape archaeology in Kazakhstan.
July 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Today at 6 we have the pleasure of welcoming Gianpiero Di Maida for a guest lecture on European Paleolithic Art.
Join us in person or online to find out more about research perspectives & future objectives for prehistoric art
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July 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin figures prominently in a new poster exhibition that will be launched today: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...
Conn cting Worlds: röffnung d r Post r-Ausst llung zu Forschung n d r G schichts- und Kulturwiss nschaft n d r Fr i n Univ rsität am 30.6.*
Ausstellung noch bis zum 30. September in der Holzlaube der Freien Universität zu sehen
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June 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM