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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).

Annual Commission Meeting

We convened at Warsaw University (28th-30th September) for a workshop on the “Final Palaeolithic of Northern Eurasia: Recent Discoveries and New Concepts.” The event featured 16 presentations that sparked lively discussions and allowed for a collective examination of materials from various Late Palaeolithic sites in Poland.

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Flint knapping in Europe

The year 2022 was dedicated to the important work of editing the synthesis book on flint knapping in Europe Reference : Bostyn F, Lech J., Saville A., Werra D. (eds) 2023 (sous presse) – Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe, Archaeopress. The book is now fully edited and proofread and comprises 501 pages. The index is currently being finalised. The book is scheduled for release in June 2023.

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UISPP book chapter

As a result of participating in the project “Prehistoric and protohistoric societies facing climate change” a paper has been published in the first volume arising from this project: Sobkowiak-Tabaka I. 2022. Living on the edge, or how resilient people settled the North. In: Djindjan F. (ed), Les sociétés humaines face aux changements climatiques, vol. 1, Oxford: Archeopress, 297-319.

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Meknes congress

In September 2021, we organised a half-day session during the Meknès UISPP congress entitled “New methods for exploring flint mines – From producers to consumers, from Prehistory to History” organisators: F. Bostyn, M. Brandl and F. Giligny. Due to the sanitary conditions the session was held in visioconference but has brought together 35 persons.