Henny Piezonka

A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair

NEW The discussion on #decolonisation is now mainstream, but it is the product of decades of social movements.

The latest #AntiquityDebate explores the real, structural changes needed to begin building a decolonial #archaeology 🏺

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📆This is a reminder of the extended deadline for submissions to our special issue, 'Tool or Pitfall' (see details in the post below):

Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025 The Discovery Programme's annual Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered this year by Prof Joanna Brück of University College Dublin

TONIGHT! Discovery Programme's Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered by Prof Joanna Brück: "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain"

Join us on Zoom at 7.30pm. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

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An illustration showing an aerial view of Vráble, showing three neighborhoods. Walled off: The fortified neighborhood was surrounded by a deep, V-shaped ditch 1 kilometer long, reinforced by an earthen wall and another ditch. While digging trenches to understand the fortifications, researchers found headless bodies buried near one entrance. Ditch burials: Nearly 100 people were placed in the ditch near the wall's southernmost opening or gate, in a layer of bodies extending more than 45 meters along the ditch. The densest concentration of bodies was closest to the gate.

Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4abcijL

UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service

Next step, Shabana Mahmood pledges to make sure asylum seekers can only sit at the back of the bus.

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Discovery of ancient statues rewrites prehistoric human history Experts say the find sheds light on death rituals in the Neolithic age

📰 >11,000-year-old statues from Şanlıurfa Province, Türkiye hint at death rituals and symbolic expression within #Neolithic communities in southwest Asia

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @the-independent.com

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Aerial photograph of the Amnya river and promontory, on which the oldest promontory fort in the world was discovered.

8000 years ago in the remote, boreal landscape of the Siberian taiga, hunter-gatherers built the earliest fortified sites. The development of territoriality and social conflict was not necessarily tied to agriculture.

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Mass-hunting in South-west Asia at the dawn of sedentism: new evidence from Şanlıurfa, south-east Türkiye Collation of satellite imagery and new fieldwork in Şanlıurfa (south-east Türkiye) has revealed large numbers of stone-walled desert kites, some of which may date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (c. 9500–7000 BC). The authors briefly explore the potential role of these structures in the processes of early sedentism and monumentality.

At this time, people in the region were transitioning from mobile hunter-gatherers to sedentary pastoralists. Desert kites, used to funnel animals whilst hunting, were modified into enclosures, revealing early experiments in animal domestication.

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Whenever you think these days that the #TasTepeler sites have already turned everything we thought we knew about the early SE Anatolian #Neolithic upside down after so many years of digging at Göbekli Tepe, they come up with something even crazier ...

Wie ein Puzzle zur Menschheitsgeschichte Mit Henny Piezonka und Tanja Schreiber erforschen zwei Prähistorikerinnen der Freien Universität Berlin an der UNESCO-Welterbestätte Göbekli Tepe Spuren der Menschheitsentwicklung / Artikel in der Tag...

Heute in der Universitätsbeilage des Tagesspiegel ein Interview zur neuen internationalen Kooperation des Instituts für Prähistorische Archäologie am Göbekli Tepe: www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...

How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this.
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Ancient rubbish shows how early farmers learned to live with waste A new archaeological project aims to shed light on how Neolithic rubbish could help understand how Europe’s first farmers adapted to a more settled way of life.

Can't wait to start on this exciting endeavour with Penny, Bruno and the international team! Here is also the English press release: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/ancient-rubbish-early-farmers/

Uralter Müll zeigt, wie Steinzeitbauern erstmals lernten, mit Abfall zu leben

So very excited to announce our new project - From Reuse to Resource - joint with the Freie Universitaet Berlin, funded by DFG-AHRC. Starting early 2026, we're going to be analyzing the wastescapes of Neolithic settlements to rethink ontologies of rubbish nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/11/25/u...

Vier Deutschlandkarten zeigen: Anteil ausländischer Bevölkerung (mehrheitlich im Südosten, wenig im Osten), Straftaten (viel in Ost und West wenig im Südosten), verfügbares Einkommen viel im Südosten und Mittelwesten sowie Norden, wenig im Osten) und Arbeitslosenquote (wenig im Südosten und Nord-Nordwesten, viel im Osten). Regionen sind farblich nach Klassen abgestuft, Legenden unten.

Oha, womöglich werden einfache Erklärungen komplexen Situationen gar nicht gerecht - und wir führen die ganze Zeit Scheindebatten? 😲🙄

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PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
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We are overjoyed to announce that Prof. Henny Piezonka will be speaking the Harvard University 2025-26 Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series. Find out more here: iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file....

Yesterday, Prof. Henny Piezonka and Akan Onggar, General Director of the A. Kh. Margulan Archaeological Institute in Almaty, Kazakhstan signed a Memorandum of Understanding, allowing us to work closely together in the coming years on Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape archaeology in Kazakhstan.

📢EAZ Special Issue: "Tool or pitfall? Obsolete narratives in prehistoric archaeology – questioning, unlearning, rethinking" – CfP
EAZ invites submissions for the special issue edited by S. Schaefer-Di Maida, V. Arponen, G. Di Maida.
Deadline: 15.10.2025.
#CfP #EAZ
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ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship

LEIZA Publications – our new book series!
Discover cutting-edge #archaeology: monographs, edited volumes & conference proceedings – #openaccess on Propylaeum. Bridging archaeology with other disciplines to better understand human behavior & social systems across time and space.

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Today at 6 we have the pleasure of welcoming Gianpiero Di Maida for a guest lecture on European Paleolithic Art.
Join us in person or online to find out more about research perspectives & future objectives for prehistoric art
Join here ➡️http://bit.ly/40ADuCY
#prehistory #PrehistoricArt #paleolithic

Exciting new finds from China provide a rare glimpse into the plant-based technology of ancient humans!

Conn cting Worlds: röffnung d r Post r-Ausst llung zu Forschung n d r G schichts- und Kulturwiss nschaft n d r Fr i n Univ rsität am 30.6.* Ausstellung noch bis zum 30. September in der Holzlaube der Freien Universität zu sehen

The Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin figures prominently in a new poster exhibition that will be launched today: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...