Deadline moved to March 20th! Go submit your pyroarchaeology abstract and join us in Poznań to talk fire! #pyroarchaeology #UISPP2026

Call for papers!
#UISPP2026 in Poznan
Thematic Session S-12C: Approaches to Early & Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes
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Call is open for a scientific session:
LOST IN TRANSLATION, within #UISPP2026 Poznań. Join us to discuss how Middle Palaeolithic terminology is used and understood in different regions of the world.
Registration is open here: uispp2026.syskonf.pl

Join our session: "Palaeolithic adaptations to Asian Mountain environments"
during #UISPP2026 Poznań.
All research perspectives and approaches are welcome
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XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences

Join us in Poznań for the XXI #UISPP2026 congress: Session S -1F: Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in #pyroarchaeology organized by @segovandevelde.bsky.social Chris Miller and myself. Abstract submission deadline Feb 28th! uispp2026.syskonf.pl

The Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age represent key phases in human prehistory, marked by technological innovations, evolving subsistence strategies, and changing spatial dynamics across diverse ecological settings. Advancing our understanding of how prehistoric groups organized their territories requires examining different site types—caves, rockshelters, and open-air sites—each preserving distinct dimensions of past human behavior. While caves and rockshelters often provide long-term or recurrent occupations with rich faunal records, open-air contexts frequently offer higher-resolution spatial patterning and insights into short-term or task-specific activities. This session explores how technological practices, subsistence behaviors, mobility strategies, and environmental conditions intersected to shape spatial and settlement dynamics during the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. By integrating evidence of site function, occupation duration, landscape use, and resource exploitation, we aim to refine and update interpretations of how prehistoric groups structured their activities and adapted to shifting ecological and climatic contexts. We particularly welcome multidisciplinary studies that combine technological, geoarchaeological, paleoenvironmental, zooarchaeological, spatial, or chronometric data to reconstruct territorial organization and mobility. However, discipline-specific research is also encouraged when it contributes meaningful insights into Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age settlement systems. Comparative regional analyses, high-resolution site studies, and integrative models of technological or economic change are especially relevant.

#UISPP2026 Call for papers!

Join us for the MP and MSA Commission thematic session: "Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories"

Deadline: 28 February!

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Call for Session - UISPP 2026 - Poznan (Poland)

Deadline extented until November 30!

Please consider submit something in the scope of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age Commision 🌟

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