About Human OriginsFrom 22 to 25 May the Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) will host the international symposium of the Commission XXXII 'The Final Palaeolithic of the Great European Plain' of the Union Internationale des Sciences Pré- et Protohistoriques (UISPP). Location: Cultural Heritage Agency, Amersfoort.
The Australian Research Council funded a truly ‘global archaeology’ project comparing the archaeologies of southwest Tasmania and southwest France during the last Ice Age. The project is directed by Richard Cosgrove and Colin Smith from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Wil Roebroeks and Alexander Verpoorte from the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University are involved in the analysis of the lithic technology.
The inaugural meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE) will take place on the 23rd and 24th of September 2011 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.