A true honor discussing the #Fumane lithic assemblages with Prof. François Bon and many other colleagues from Ferrara, Liège, Pisa, and Toulouse at the #Aurignacian Roundtable in Ferrara. @umr5608traces.bsky.social @traceolab.bsky.social @gennaijacopo.bsky.social
PreIStoriA
@preistoria.bsky.social
Official account of the Prehistory research group of the University of Pisa. The group displays a variety of expertises from the Palaeolithic to the Metal Ages focussing mostly on the Mediterranean and neighbouring areas https://shorturl.at/pMuZv
awrana2026.cfs.unipi.it/registration/ AWRANA #congress in Pisa 2026 opened registration and abstract submission. Don't miss the #EarlyBird deadline on 15/08/202! #archaeology #usewear🏺
Registration – AWRANA2026: Breaking Patterns in Archaeology
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Are you a fresh #PhD? Would you like to seek new avenues of #research? UNIPI offers a tutorage scheme for applying to MSCA #European postdoctoral programme. PreIStoriA is always open for project seeking an Host Institution, contact @nxcco.bsky.social or Elisabetta Starnini. More at shorturl.at/F5E3s
Open Call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Proposals – UNIPI offers support for grant preparation – Studi di Preistoria a Pisa
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#Parlanodinoi l'intervista a @nxcco.bsky.social sulle ricerche in Oman! New interview in 🇮🇹 about the research of @nxcco.bsky.social in Oman discovering the Neolithic at higher altitude shorturl.at/RsIX4 🏺
Scoperto un accampamento della fine del Neolitico tra le montagne dell'Al-Hajar in Oman
Il ritrovamento è avvenuto grazie agli scavi dell'Università di Pisa ad Hayy Al-Sarh
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Look out! Call for Papers opening #soon! #archaeology #usewear #conference #meeting 🏺
The Call for Papers for the next AWRANA Conference on Wear and Residues Analysis will be open soon. AWRANA26 will take place at Pisa @preistoria.bsky.social between the 9th and 12th of April 2026.
New research #article on the Meso-Neolithic Transition in N #Italy finds no major differences in activities carried on site throughout the period #FindsFriday🏺 shorturl.at/LmKyn
PreIStoriA partecipa a una nuova ricerca sul Riparo Gaban – Studi di Preistoria a Pisa
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On Monday we launched the first PaleolITica meeting, to foster exchange between young researchers in Italian #Palaeolithic lithic technology. It was very productive, thank you to all the participants! shorturl.at/6J9ba @boneslab.bsky.social #archaeology #FlintFriday #FindsFriday🏺
New excavation campaign at Hayy Al-Sarh has begun (Rustaq, Sultanate of Oman)... stay tuned for more @preistoria.bsky.social
#Meet PreIStoriA! Salvatore Vitale is an Associate Professor of Aegean Studies specialising in the Final Neolithic to Early Iron Age. He investigates Minoan and Mycenaean landscape, material culture, and identity formation. He collaborates on projects throughout continental and insular Greece 🏺
#Meet PreIStoriA! Niccolò Mazzucco is Associate Professor of Prehistory. Specialises in the foraging-agriculture transition in the Mediterranean and Near East (Holocene), using paleo-economic, technological, and use-wear approaches. Leads Mesolithic and Neolithic excavations in Europe and Oman. 🏺
New book #review by @gennaijacopo.bsky.social preistoria.cfs.unipi.it/en/2024/12/1... #archaeology #Palaeolithic #Neanderthal @barpublishing.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Book review “G. Marciani – Flexibility of the Levallois Concept in the Italian Late Middle Palaeolithic” on Lithic Technology – Prehistoric Studies at Pisa
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#MeetPreIStoriA, Elisabetta Starnini is an Associate Professor of Prehistory. She focuses on archaeometric approaches to material culture, working in Italy, Central Europe, the Balkans, and Aegean. Her research spans the Neolithic to the Palaeolithic. She leads the CHRONOS project on obsidian routes
Hi everyone! As kickstarter of my account I share with you these beautiful #3D models of refittings I found within the Pontecosi UP site assemblage, which I am re-analysing. #FossilFriday #lithics #Palaeolithic courtesy of Emanuele Taccola - LADIRE