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AIPP Symposium
Talk at AIPP Symposium
May 5th 2025

Ewa Dutkiewicz gave a talk about "Evolutionary Semiotics: From Marking Bones to Writing" at the Symposium of the International Academy of Prehistory and Protohistory (AIPP), Museum Island Berlin, Bode Museum.

Carla
New PhD student
April 2025

Our new PhD student, Carla Olabe-Rodríguez, started in April. Her research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP), psycholinguistics, and language evolution. She holds an MA in English & American Studies from FSU Jena (2022–2024), with a focus on cognitive linguistics. Within the EVINE project she investigates statistical properties of speech in comparison to written language.

Planet Africa
Reel about African signs from Cave Art to Writing
April 2025

Reel by Ewa Dutkiewicz about signs from African cave art to modern day writing, related to the exhibition Planet Africa, eine archäologische Zeitreise at the James-Simon-Galerie (06.12.24 - 27.04.25).

NHMW
Visiting Museums in Vienna and Mistelbach
February 17-27, 2025

Ewa Dutkiewicz and Christian Bentz visit the Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut (ÖAI) and the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), as well as the Mamuz Museum in Mistelbach for primary data acquisition in the context of SignBase. Many thanks to Marc Händel (ÖAI), Caroline Posch (NHMW), and Barbara Schuller (Mamuz Museum) for hosting us!

HEAS
Talk at the University of Vienna
February 19, 2025

Ewa Dutkiewicz and Christian Bentz were invited to the talk series of the Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS) group at the University of Vienna. Thanks to Mareike Stahlschmidt and Maeve Nic Samhradáin for hosting us.

World Neolithic Congress
Workshop on Icons in Transition
November 2024

Christian Bentz and Ewa Dutkiewicz gave a talk about "Information Encoding in the Paleolithic" at the Workshop on "Icons in Transition", organized by Marion Benz, Barbara Helwing, and Ewa Dutkiewicz as part of the World Neolithic Congress, Harran University, in Şanlıurfa, Turkey.

CELIA Interest Group
Talk at Freie Uni Berlin
May 23-24 2024

Ewa Dutkiewicz and Christian Bentz gave a joined talk at the Workshop for "The Co-Evolution of Language, Interaction and Architecture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", hosted by the CELIA Interest Group, Freie Universität Berlin. Thanks to Antje Wilton and Kenan Hochuli for hosting us!

Prähistorisches Kolloquium
Prähistorisches Kolloquium
May 2024

Ewa Dutkiewicz was invited to give a talk about "Die Zeichen des Paläolithikums – Verzierungen, Kalender oder Schrift?" at the Colloquium for Prehistory, University of Cologne.

SIGTYP
Talk at SIGTYP
March 22 2024

Christian Bentz was invited to give a keynote at the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP SIGTYP, hosted at EACL 2024.

LesEyzies
Visit at Les Eyzies
March 2023

In preparation for the EVINE project, we visited the National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France. Thanks to the curator Catherine Cretin for hosting us!

CLDF Workshop
CLDF Workshop
December 2023

Chrisitan Bentz gave a talk at the Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (CLDF), MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.