"How do social networks evolve over huge time-scales? How did geography constrain or enhance the development of past social networks? These are fundamental questions in both the study of the human past and network research, yet our ability to answer them is severely hampered by the limited development of spatiotemporal network methods. PastNet is an […]
7th INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE PeCla 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th PeClA 2018 International Postgraduate Conference (Perspectives on Classical Archaeology) will be held at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Thursday and Friday, 06th – 07th December 2018 PeClA 2018 is a two‐day conference in Classical Archaeology and Classics aimed at postgraduate / doctoral […]
"The 7th PeClA 2018 International Postgraduate Conference (Perspectives on Classical Archaeology) will be held at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Thursday and Friday, December 6-7th, 2018 PeClA 2018 is a two‐day conference in Classical Archaeology and Classics aimed at postgraduate / doctoral students traditionally offering a space for presenting research results, discussion, and an exchange […]
It is now almost 20 years since the discovery here in Portugal, in December 1998, of the Lapedo child skeleton (LV1). This finding was extremely important for human phylogeny history and triggered a series of debates in the scientific community. In fact, some of the features of the skeleton suggested that the LV1 fossil resulted from interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern human populations. An international team with several […]
"The study of the bioarchaeological remains (humans, animals and plants) from ancient Egypt, within the archaeological context in which they were found provides profound insights into diverse topics, such as religion, cultural practices, the health and nutrition of ancient populations (both human and animal), animal husbandry, diet, agricultural practices, economy, the natural environment, and ancient […]
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Social space and natural environment amplify the concept of landscape resulting from transformation processes of human-environmental interaction patterns within the history of humankind. Different layers of human activities are visible in societal fingerprints on the natural and cultural environment. Investigating these reciprocal dynamics includes conditions of different environmental, demographic, economic, social, and ideological settings in […]
"Writing systems are not just abstract systems to be deciphered and analysed but an important part of culture, integrated into a multiplicity of other facets of human life, practice and material culture. The study of writing systems is not just a question of epigraphy, palaeography or linguistics but a matter of cultural history. Yet this […]
"The Society for Late Antiquity is pleased to announce the 13th biennial meeting of Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. Specialists in art and archaeology, literature and philology, history and religious studies, working on topics from the 3rd to the 8th century CE, are invited to […]
"12th International Workshop of the Association for Written Language and Literacy Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Tuesday, March 26 – Thursday, March 28, 2019 First call for papers The Association of Written Language and Literacy’s twelfth gathering (AWLL12), organized in conjunction with the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, will focus on the wealth […]
