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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

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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

25.06.2025 17:55 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Registration – AWRANA2026: Breaking Patterns in Archaeology

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🏺

29.04.2025 12:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Open Call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Proposals – UNIPI offers support for grant preparation – Studi di Preistoria a Pisa

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

02.04.2025 13:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

#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 🏺

28.03.2025 12:44 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Today at 15:15, at 7th #ScapeCon in Paris, Yulia Agafonova from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will presente "The language of stone: lithics and the first human occupations of #Lemnos (North-East Aegean, #Greece)" results of a collaborative #project with us and Venice 🏺

28.03.2025 12:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Look out! Call for Papers opening #soon! #archaeology #usewear #conference #meeting 🏺

25.03.2025 07:32 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
PreIStoriA partecipa a una nuova ricerca sul Riparo Gaban – Studi di Preistoria a Pisa

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

28.02.2025 19:20 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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🏺

28.02.2025 18:41 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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New excavation campaign at Hayy Al-Sarh has begun (Rustaq, Sultanate of Oman)... stay tuned for more @preistoria.bsky.social

11.01.2025 18:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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PreIStoriA is wishing you'all Happy #Holidays! 🏺

24.12.2024 16:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#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
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21.12.2024 14:55 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#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. 🏺

13.12.2024 10:58 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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It's a gorgeous day here in Pisa! #Bluesky

11.12.2024 07:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Book review “G. Marciani – Flexibility of the Levallois Concept in the Italian Late Middle Palaeolithic” on Lithic Technology – Prehistoric Studies at Pisa

New book #review by @gennaijacopo.bsky.social preistoria.cfs.unipi.it/en/2024/12/1... #archaeology #Palaeolithic #Neanderthal @barpublishing.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

10.12.2024 15:15 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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

09.12.2024 18:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

06.12.2024 20:22 — 👍 37    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

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