Our last lecture before the Christmas break is coming up, with Dr. Mark Iserlis joining us to provide insights on the Leylatepe Phenomenon, exploring the social dynamics of Late Chalcolithic communities in the Southern Caucasus.

📍Join us at 6PM in room 0.2051 or online here ➡ bit.ly/4rxF5W2

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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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

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....

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.

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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