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Publications

UISPP publishes the periodical UISPP Journal and proceedings from its various congresses.

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Find out more about UISPP Congresses - gatherings of experts within the fields of pre- and proto-history.

Recent news

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METALAGES 2024 Call for Papers

The METALAGES 2024 colloquium will take place on 23rd October in Florence (Italy). The call for papers is now open and will close on 28th June 2024.

World Congress 2023 session

At the XX World Congress of the UISPP, our commission session was titled ‘Continuity, Variations, and Replacement? Lithic Techno-Functional Traditions and Population Movements during the Final Palaeolithic in Northern Eurasia’. It was held on Tuesday, September 5th, and in total, seven contributions were presented.

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HOME Commission meeting

Discussion has focused on the following topics: a) report from 2022 UISPP Executive Committee, b) report on the last meeting of the HOME commission in Innsbruck, c) Organisation of a session at Timisoara UISPP International Conference 2023, d) Organisation of the election of the new President; e) Inclusion of three new members: Wieke de Neef (Nehterlands), Francesco Rubat Borel (Italy), Kurt Rademaker (USA).

UISPP, founded in Bern on 28 May 1931, brings together all disciplines that contribute to the study of Prehistory and Protohistory including Archaeology, Anthropology, Palaeontology, Geology, Zoology, Botany, Environmental Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, History, Genetics, Mathematics and others.

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