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The Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Berlin Freie Universität

14/07/2026

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of welcoming a group of high-school students from the Robert-Havemann-Gymnasium .official in Berlin.
Accompanied by students from our Masters program Archaeology of the Ancient World, our visitors headed to our Field & Finds Lab where they learned about archaeological documentation, digital tools in archaeology and got to work on real artefacts from our teaching collection.
Read more: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/aktuelles/schule-trifft-universitaet.html

08/07/2026

The Roman Equids project has started! This DFG-funded project will address the management, supply and mobility of horses and other equids in the northwestern Roman provinces, using a range of state-of-the-art methods.
One of the first things to do was to present the project to other Roman zooarchaeologists, so last week, PI Maaike Groot and Post-doc Fabienne Pigière attended the 5th Meeting of the Roman Period Working Group of the International Council for ArchaeoZoology in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by the wonderful .
Maaike presented the project outline, while Fabienne presented on one of her previous projects. The meeting included an excursion to the Roman Villa Cardílio and the recently renovated archaeological museum in Torres Novas.

01/07/2026

ReNEW project meeting in Serbia: The ReNEW team conducted its first group meeting of the project at Leskovac in Serbia, bringing together the UK and German partners with their international collaborators. The programme also included an amazing guided tour of the Early Neolithic Sviniaricka Cuka site by our cooperation partner, the wonderful Barbara Horejs of the and her team.

22/06/2026

The semester has flown by, and it’s already time for the last lecture in our Prehistoric Colloquium series. Join us on Wednesday from 6-8 pm for Dr. Björn Reichhardt‘s (HU Berlin) lecture entitled:
„Fermenting the Past, Feeding the Future? Pastoral Milk Fermentation in Rural Mongolia?“

📍 Room 0.2052, Holzlaube, FU Berlin
⏰ 24/06/26 at from 18h-20h
💻 https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=me2ce01c9ce4cc0604d7c0fd8c5178180

16/06/2026

Tomorrow evening, we are excited to have our very own Prof. Michael Meyer present the Max-Ebert-Vorlesung at FU Berlin. The topic for this lecture (in German only) will be Mobility and Migration in the Iron Age, "Menschen in Bewegung. Mobilität und Migration in der jüngeren vorrömischen Eisenzeit zwischen Ostsee und Schwarzem Meer". Exceptionally, this lecture will not be available online since some of the research has not yet been published.

📍Holzlaube (FU Berlin), room -1.2009
⏰18h-20h
See you there!

09/06/2026

Tomorrow evening at 6pm, Prof. Henny Piezonka will be at HU Berlin for their 2026 summer term Histories and Cultures of Central Asia (HCCA) lecture series, discussing the topic "Learning from the Experts: Ethnoarchaeological insights among North and Inner Asian hunter-reindeer herders".

Attendance is online here ➡ https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/69355717971?pwd=w53VEITviKtZJ9WB1G7MqPWj7QVlVp.1
And in person here ➡ HU Berlin, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Room 507, Invalidenstr. 118, 10115 Berlin

See you there!

07/06/2026

Next Wednesday's lecture will be presented by Alexander Veling, who's looking into what burial practices as a whole, rather than individual burials, can tell us about their societal function in the Late Roman period in the Rhein and Danube areas.

📍 Room 0.2052, Holzlaube, FU Campus Dahlem
⏰ 10/06/26, 18h-20h
💻 Join the lecture online: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=me2ce01c9ce4cc0604d7c0fd8c517818

27/05/2026

Want to find out more about our RENEW research project ? Then join us tomorrow evening for Prof. Henny Piezonka and Prof. Penny Bickle's lecture on "ReNEW - From Reuse to Resource: Ceramic and bone wastescapes in the early Neolithic of Europe" where they will be presenting the project and research goals.

The lecture will be held in the Seminar Center of the Freie Universität Berlin, and online attendance is unfortunately not possible this time. Registration is recommended.
📍 Room L 115, Seminar Center, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26, FU Campus
⏰ 18:00 - 20:00
💻 Registration link: https://bit.ly/4dyTuMH

See you there!

19/05/2026

Join us tomorrow evening for the next instalment of our lecture series, with Prof. Joni Apakidze on the topic "Siedlungen und Hortfunde der Kolchis-Kultur in West- und Zentralkaukasien in der Bronze- und frühen Eisenzeit".

Please note that this lecture is in German only!
⏰Tuesday, 20 May, from 18h-20h
📍Room 0.2052, Holzlaube FU Berlin
💻https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=me2ce01c9ce4cc0604d7c0fd8c5178180

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14195

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