News and Colloquia

All news concerning the Center "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" are announced on this site in chronological order. This includes the bi-weekly colloquia, additional invited talks, published articles related to the center, and all the information on the yearly symposia.

18.06.2023

New paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science by our former fellow Dr. Hannes Rathmann and colleagues

Estimating inter-individual Mahalanobis distances from mixed incomplete high-dimensional data:…

15.06.2023

Learning the Language of the Past: Historical Linguistics, Machine Learning and the detection of loanword adaption and lexical semantic change

Colloquium by Dr. Christin Beck und Dr. Marisa Köllner

03.06.2023

Article in AP News about newly discovered stone tools

Excavation led by Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati discovers new stone tools from the Lower Paleolithic…

01.06.2023

Milky ways in the Sahara

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Amina Mettouchi

04.05.2023

Plant use in ancient Sahul: evidence from linguistics

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Nick Evans

27.04.2023

The paleoecology of Laetoli and its implications for early hominin speciation and extinction

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Terry Harrison

20.04.2023

Toward the isotopic ecology of the Altai Neanderthals

Colloquium by Dr. Maciej T. Krajcarz

13.04.2023

Control of Bullies and the Hominin Cooperation Expansion

Colloquium by Dr. Ronald Planer