Defining the ‘generalist specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens the case study of mountains | 19/10/2021 | Dr. Brian A. Stewart, Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, USA |
Mid Pleisotcene record in Europe and the seasonality challenge | 26/10/2021 | Rob Hosfield, University of Reading, UK |
Human adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum in the Iberian Peninsula | 02/11/2021 | 4. João Cascalheira, ICArEHB - Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal |
An early and prolonged anthropocene in northern Malawi | 09/11/2021 | Jessica C. Thompson, University of Yale |
Coping with arid environments: an Iberian paleoecological perspective | 16/11/2021 | Hugo Blain, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Socia, Tarragona, Spain |
Lake Van (SE Anatolia) and Dead Sea (SE Levant) – Long continental lacustrine records as palaeoecological and palaeoclimate archives in the Near East | 23/11/2021 | Thomas Litt, University of Bonn, Germany |
Climate Change and Human Responses during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Southern Caucasus | 30/11/2021 | Alexander Brittingham, The Hebrew University |
Arrival of Pleistocene human groups to the Maghreb: lakes, rivers and savannahs? or adaptation to extreme environments? | 07/12/2021 | María Gema Chacón Navarro, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Socia, Tarragona, Spain |
The forest behind the stone. Exploring the relationship between Humans, stones and plants in Prehistoric Southeast Asia | 14/12/2021 | Hermine Xhauflair, Institut Mila i Fontanals, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain |
Living the high life? Prehistoric occupation of high-altitude environments in Ethiopia | 21/12/2021 | Ralf Vogelsang, Univeristy of Koln |
Landscape evolution as a tool for detecting Palaeolithic sites – an example from the Negev desert, Israel | 28/12/2021 | Yoav Avni, Geological survey of Israel |
Meeting for registered students only | 04/01/2022 | |
Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution | 11/01/2022 | Martin Trauth (University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany) |
The forest behind the stone. Exploring the relationship between Humans, stones and plants in Prehistoric Southeast Asia | 08/03/2022 | Xhauflair, H (Institut Mila i Fontanals, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain) |
Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers in the foothills of Mt. Elbrus after the end of the Last Glacial Maximum | 15/03/2022 | Doronicheva E.V, (Laboratory of Prehistory, St.-Petersburg.) |
Glacial cycles and Neanderthal adaptations in Central Europe. | 22/03/2022 | Picin, A. (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Germany) |
Studying resilience in Northern Europe at the end of the Pleistocene | 29/03/2022 | Grimm, S. (Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie, Schleswig, Germany) |
How to survive in an extreme environment: a manual from Pleistocene Mongolia | 05/04/2022 | Khatsenovich, A. (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk) |
Evidence for human occupation of Southeast Arabia during the supposedly hyper-arid MIS 6 (c. 190-130 ka) | 12/04/2022 | Bretke, K. (Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany) |
Of mammoths, climate and theoretical debates: revisiting Mid and Late Upper Palaeolithic European Russia | 26/04/2022 | Reynolds, N, (Université de Bordeaux) |
Two extreme environments in the evolution of Homo sapiens: caves and the mind. | 10/05/2022 | Pettite, P, (Department of Archaeology Durham University) |
Sedimentary archives of late quaternary hydroclimate in the Levant- Revisiting the framework of the Paleolithic | 17/05/2022 | Yoav BenDor (The Geological survey of Israel) |
Middle Stone Age human occupation of the grasslands in the central interior of South Africa | 24/05/2022 | Toffolo, M (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Spain) |
TBD | 31/05/2022 | |
A view from above, human occupation of the highlands during the Acheulean. A diachronic perspective of the Melka Kunture complex (Ethiopia). | 07/06/2022 | Sánchez-Dehesa, S (University of Tel Aviv) |
Student meeting | 14/06/2022 | |