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We cordially invite you to the first meeting of the Warsaw Aegean Seminar in 2026. We are pleased to host Dr Filip Franković (Heidelberg University), who will present a lecture entitled “To Die Between Two Worlds: Some Perspectives on 2nd Millennium BCE Burial Practices in the East Aegean–West Anatolian Region”.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 22nd, at 11:30 AM CET. The seminar will be held in a hybrid format: in person at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Al. Solidarności 105, room 202) and online via the MS Teams platform (please contact us at egea@uw.edu.pl to obtain the link to the event).

Dr Katarzyna Żebrowska and Dr Piotr Zeman

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the session “Prehistoric Textile Tool Kits: From the Baltic to the Mediterranean”, organized within the 7th Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, “Przeszłość ma przyszłość!/The Past Has a Future!”, which will take place in Warsaw between 13 and 17 April 2026.

We warmly invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute oral presentations, together with the required information (see the attached Call for Papers for details). Please send submissions to egea@uw.edu.pl by 15 February 2026.

The session will be held in a hybrid format, with both in-person and online participation.

Call for Papers: Prehistoric Textile Tool Kits

Due to the speaker’s illness, the lecture by Annelou van Gijn (Leiden University), titled “Studying object biographies, telling stories of the past. Case studies from the Dutch Mesolithic and Neolithic”, as well as the use-wear workshops scheduled for 24–25 November 2025, have been cancelled.

We invite you to a lecture by prof. Annelou van Gijn (Leiden University)  “Studying object biographies, telling stories of the past. Case studies from the Dutch Mesolithic and Neolithic”

Microwear analysis allows us to uncover some of the hidden stories about the past. Often, it is the only way to reveal (albeit indirectly) the significance of organic materials in ancient technological systems. Objects made of hide or plants, for example, rarely survive, but flint tools with traces of these activities do. Analysis of objects from funerary contexts or specific deposits reveals some of the ritual activities performed in the past that would otherwise remain invisible. This seminar will present several ‘hidden stories’ from the late Mesolithic period in the Netherlands. It will also present the preliminary results of an ongoing project aimed at investigating everyday life in the Neolithic period in the Rhine and Meuse delta through experiments and detailed material analyses.

We cordially invite all doctoral students of the Doctoral School of Humanities and students of other degrees interested in the topic to a meeting with Prof. Annelou van Gijn, a recognised international authority in the field of traseological research. The meeting will be held as part of the doctoral seminars conducted at the SDNH entitled Boundless. The limits of cognition in archaeology.

The meeting will take place on Monday, 24 November 2025, 3:00 PM, in room 211 of the Faculty of Archaeology (Main Building).

And the next day…
Use-wear analysis workshops led by Annelou van Gijn
25 November 2025 (Tuesday), 3:00 PM and 4:45 PM
Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, room 0.30
Registration for the workshops is required and can be made through Studenckie Koło Naukowe Archeologii Pradziejowej UW, Studenckie Koło Naukowe Archeologii Eksperymentalnej UW , or by contacting Katarzyna Pyżewicz: k.pyzewicz@uw.edu.pl.