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Henny Piezonka
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Archaeology / Ethnoarchaeology / Hunting / Fishing / Herding / Taiga / Steppe / FU Berlin
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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...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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
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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
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📢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...
July 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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
July 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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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
July 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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even beyond The Implications, this is a really neat methodology that should be applicable across disciplines and I'd be super interested in the results of a parallel study of Soc Sci publications
The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF
Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary
Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.
scim.ag
July 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Exciting new finds from China provide a rare glimpse into the plant-based technology of ancient humans!
New discoveries from the Pleistocene-age Gantangqing site in southwestern China reveal a diverse collection of wooden tools dated from ~361,000 to 250,000 years ago, marking the earliest known evidence of complex wooden tool technology in East Asia.

Learn more in Science: scim.ag/4krE5y3
July 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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
www.fu-berlin.de
June 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM