NEW The discussion on #decolonisation is now mainstream, but it is the product of decades of social movements. The latest #AntiquityDebate explores the real, structural changes needed to begin building a decolonial #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @yannisham.bsky.social

📆This is a reminder of the extended deadline for submissions to our special issue, 'Tool or Pitfall' (see details in the post below):

TONIGHT! Discovery Programme's Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered by Prof Joanna Brück: "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain" Join us on Zoom at 7.30pm. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo... @nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4abcijL

Next step, Shabana Mahmood pledges to make sure asylum seekers can only sit at the back of the bus. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

📰 >11,000-year-old statues from Şanlıurfa Province, Türkiye hint at death rituals and symbolic expression within #Neolithic communities in southwest Asia 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

8000 years ago in the remote, boreal landscape of the Siberian taiga, hunter-gatherers built the earliest fortified sites. The development of territoriality and social conflict was not necessarily tied to agriculture. 🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology 📷 N. Golovanov

At this time, people in the region were transitioning from mobile hunter-gatherers to sedentary pastoralists. Desert kites, used to funnel animals whilst hunting, were modified into enclosures, revealing early experiments in animal domestication. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Whenever you think these days that the #TasTepeler sites have already turned everything we thought we knew about the early SE Anatolian #Neolithic upside down after so many years of digging at Göbekli Tepe, they come up with something even crazier ...

Heute in der Universitätsbeilage des Tagesspiegel ein Interview zur neuen internationalen Kooperation des Instituts für Prähistorische Archäologie am Göbekli Tepe: www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...

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. bit.ly/3Xgcnez

So very excited to announce our new project - From Reuse to Resource - joint with the Freie Universitaet Berlin, funded by DFG-AHRC. Starting early 2026, we're going to be analyzing the wastescapes of Neolithic settlements to rethink ontologies of rubbish nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/11/25/u...

Oha, womöglich werden einfache Erklärungen komplexen Situationen gar nicht gerecht - und wir führen die ganze Zeit Scheindebatten? 😲🙄 www.deutschlandatlas.bund.de/DE/Home/home...

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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.

📢EAZ Special Issue: "Tool or pitfall? Obsolete narratives in prehistoric archaeology – questioning, unlearning, rethinking" – CfP EAZ invites submissions for the special issue edited by S. Schaefer-Di Maida, V. Arponen, G. Di Maida. Deadline: 15.10.2025. #CfP #EAZ www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...

ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship

LEIZA Publications – our new book series! Discover cutting-edge #archaeology: monographs, edited volumes & conference proceedings – #openaccess on Propylaeum. Bridging archaeology with other disciplines to better understand human behavior & social systems across time and space. 👉 bit.ly/46HeeyC

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 Join here ➡️http://bit.ly/40ADuCY #prehistory #PrehistoricArt #paleolithic

Exciting new finds from China provide a rare glimpse into the plant-based technology of ancient humans!

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...