EVINE | ERC Starting Grant

Archäologische Staatssammlung

Visit at Archäologische Staatssammlung München

May 14-20 2025

Ewa Dutkiewicz, Marieluise Hahn, and Christian Bentz visited the Archäologische Staatssammlung München for digitization of mobile artefacts. Thanks to the team of the museum, and in particular Heiner Schwarzberg for hosting us!

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

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

December 2023

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

News

Talk at Institute for Empirical Language Sciences

Visit at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg