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Call for Applicants: Quaternary and Prehistory International Master (IMQP) for AY 2024-2025

July 4, 2024

The Università degli Studi di Ferrara now accepts applications to enroll in the “Quaternary and Prehistory” International Master (IMQP) for the academic year 2024/25.

This masters program is a partnership between Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (France), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarrragona (Spain), Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (Portugal). and University of the Philippines Diliman (Philippines).

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New Publication: 'Evolving landscape and cultural change during the Middle Palaeolithic in Southeast Zagros (Iran): Insights from a micromammal assemblage' by Juan Rofes et al

May 6, 2024
New paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews.
 
Micromammals can be useful palaeoecological indicators and that is the case of the remains...
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New Publication: 'Luzon predators: Clues from a fossil with bite marks' by Meyrick U. Tablizo et al

March 5, 2024
New paper published in Annales de Paléontologie. The ancient predatory guild of Luzon (Philippines) remains obscure. A fragmentary deer tibia with bite marks from a Pleistocene paleochannel deposit in La Union Province opens the possibility of a Crocodile or another yet unknown predator as responsible agent.

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Revised curricula of MA/MS in Archaeology programs

February 2, 2024

The updated curricula added six (6) units to the existing programs with the inclusion of Archaeo 220 (Philippine Preshistoric Archaeology, 3 units) and Archaeo 260 (Archaeological Resource Management, 3 units) to the core courses. Aside from changing the program requirements, the curricular update also includes the institution of a new course and revision of existing courses.

A major course revision is the splitting of Archaeo 242 Archaeobiological Remains, which covers both botanical and faunal materials, into two: a renamed Archaeo 242, Archaeozoological Remains and a newly-...

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New Publication: 'Ardales & Palomas. Prehistoric Caves in Spain' edited by José Ramos Muñoz and Gerd-Christian Weniger

December 27, 2023

New book!

This work addresses the stratigraphic sequence of two prehistoric cavities with occupations from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, important for the understanding of human occupations from the Pleistocene and Holocene at the southern Iberian Peninsula. It is an interdisciplinary contribution with geological, stratigraphic studies, soil micromorphology, pollen, anthracology, terrestrial macrofauna and microfauna, marine fauna, archaeometry of lithic tools, analysis of lithic technology, ceramic studies, as well as prehistoric art. It is completed with numerous...

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