Prehistoric Archaeology Seminar

2nd semester ,

Coordinator:

Erella Hovers

Location:

Zoom

The advanced seminar of the department of prehistoric archaeology will take place weekly on Tuesday, 16:30 Israel time.

Talks will be given in English

List of lectures:

Toward a contextual understanding of modern human origins: A view from the Ethiopian MSA record	16/03/2021	Dr. Yonatan Sahle, Dept. of Anthropology, Cape Town University, South Africa
No Talk	23/03/2021
Hunter gatherers mobility and intra-site use of space: An ethnoarchaeological view	06/04/2021	Dr. David Friesem, The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History,
No Talk	13/04/2021
Pathways to plant domestication in Southwest Asia: new insights into an old problem	20/04/2021	Dr. Ceren Kabukcu, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool
What’s new at the Orce Oldowan sites (Andalusia, Spain)? State-of-the-art after four years of interdisciplinary excavations and research.	27/04/2021	Dr. Debora Barsky, IPHES, Spain
Constraining the likely technological niches of late Middle Pleistocene hominins with Homo naledi as case study	04/05/2021	Prof. Gerrit L Dussledorp, • Leiden University, the Netherlands & Palaeo-research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Estimating population densities of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers using the Cologne Protocol – demographic dynamics in Europe (40 and 14 ka) as a case study	11/05/2021	Dr. Andreas Maeir, University of Cologne, Germany
Jewels from the Sea: the use of shells for adornment during the PPNB of the Mediterranean zone of the Southern Levant	18/05/2021	Ms. Heeli Schechter, The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lithic miniaturization in early Homo sapiens populations of coastal East Africa and the islands of Wallacea’	25/05/2021	Dr. Ceri Shipton
Burning down the house? New perspectives on cultural taxonomies in the Palaeolithic of Europe and beyond	01/06/2021	Dr. Felix Riede, Aarhaus University, Denmark
TBD	08/06/2021	Dr. Philip Nigst, Dept. of prehistoric and historical archaeology, University of Vienna
Student talks	15/06/2021
Student talks	22/06/2021
Student talks	29/06/2021