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.

02.02.2023

Long-Term History, Interaction, and Change: The role of language dispersals and exchange networks at the Amazon estuary (AD 0 – 1650).

Colloquium by Bruno de Souza Barreto

02.02.2023

Article in Brazilian newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo" about research on language complexity.

Article by former long-term fellow Dr. Christian Bentz and colleagues.

13.01.2023

Geoarchaeology of Chagyrskaya Cave--the easternmost Neanderthal site.

Colloquium by Dr. Maciej Krajcarz

13.12.2022

DFG Center PI Katerina Harvati as guest of the week at the newspaper Schwäbisches Tagblatt

Prof. Katerina Harvati was recently interviewed by the newspaper Schwäbisches Tagblatt as guest of…

01.12.2022

New paper in the upcoming 50th anniversary celebratory issue of the Journal of Human Evolution

We are happy to announce that, as part of the upcoming celebratory issue of the Journal of Human…

01.12.2022

Dating hominid sites: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Colloquium by Rainer Grün

24.11.2022

Pleistocene small vertebrates studies in Western Balkan Peninsula (SE Europe): Methodological state of the art, paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, and future perspectives

Colloquium by Dr. Mihailo Jovanovic

02.11.2022

New insights into the daily lives of early industrial women workers

What hand skeletons tell about working in the 19th century: Re-searchers from the University of…