ICArEHB

16/10/2026

📬 Never miss an ICArEHB event!

Seminars, lectures, open days and community activities — online and in person. Join our mailing list and choose which events you’d like to hear about.

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15/10/2026

Why did prehistoric humans make art? 🎨 Watch the full conversation with Carmen Martín Ramos on our YouTube channel!

13/10/2026

🤖 Can help clarify stratigraphic terminology in archaeology? ICArEHB researchers Jovan Galfi and João Cascalheira explore this in a new open access study in Advances in Archaeological Practice, with data available in an open repository.

🔗https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2026.10181

13/10/2026

🔔 Don’t forget: today at 14:00 (UTC+1)! Dr Paloma de la Peña joins the seminar to share some thoughts on bipolar knapping and experimentation.
🌍 Online via | Free, registration essential
🔗 icarehb.com/lexa

🪨 Explore bipolar knapping with Dr Paloma de la Peña
Ever wondered what experiments can tell us about bipolar knapping, one of the oldest ways of working stone? Join us for the next session in the seminar series!

📅 Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026
🕑 Time: 14:00 (UTC+1, Lisbon time)
📍 Location: Online via Zoom
🧑‍🔬 Speaker: Dr Paloma de la Peña (University of Granada)
🪨 Talk Title: Some thoughts about bipolar knapping and experimentation
🔗 More info & registration: https://www.icarehb.com/lexa/

08/10/2026

🪨 Explore bipolar knapping with Dr Paloma de la Peña
Ever wondered what experiments can tell us about bipolar knapping, one of the oldest ways of working stone? Join us for the next session in the seminar series!

📅 Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026
🕑 Time: 14:00 (UTC+1, Lisbon time)
📍 Location: Online via Zoom
🧑‍🔬 Speaker: Dr Paloma de la Peña (University of Granada)
🪨 Talk Title: Some thoughts about bipolar knapping and experimentation
🔗 More info & registration: https://www.icarehb.com/lexa/

06/10/2026

🦴 How long were Neanderthal sites occupied? A new open access study offers a statistical approach to answering that question using faunal evidence. ICArEHB researcher Valentina Lubrano, with V. Spagnolo, A. Rufà, R. Blasco, F. Rivals & J. Rosell, publish in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-026-09829-6

29/09/2026

What makes a disaster? 🌍

Here's a sneak peek into an insightful conversation from our upcoming ICArEHB Dialogues: Human Resilience and Disasters.

Two archaeologists and a geologist sit down to explore how the archaeological and geological records reveal the disasters of the past, and how people lived through them. Buried in sediments, landscapes and traces of past communities are lessons about vulnerability, adaptation and recovery.

These lessons matter today. Understanding how past societies faced catastrophe can help us better prepare for the events still to come. The full conversation is coming soon. Stay tuned!

Featuring:
🔹 Felix Riede, Aarhus University
🔹 Pedro Costa, Universidade de Coimbra
🔹 Alvise Barbieri, ICArEHB

29/09/2026

🎙️ researcher João Cascalheira took the stage at in Faro for a conversation on how is transforming the way we study the past.

Innovation, , and the digital tools reshaping our understanding of human history — thank you to everyone who joined us!

25/09/2026

Geometric Morphometrics in Archaeology

📍 ICArEHB, Faro | 🗓️ 2–4 November 2026 | Free | 25 places | In person only

Three hands-on days on processing and analysing morphological and artefact data: landmarks and semilandmarks, Procrustes superimposition, multivariate statistics, and deformation grids. Practical work with skeletal material and lithic artefacts, using R, EVAN Toolbox and other tools.

Taught by Markus Bastir (MNCN-CSIC, Madrid), Paul O'Higgins (Hull York Medical School / University of York, Rohlf Medal 2013) and Cornel M. Pop (developer of Lithics3D)

Open to archaeologists and bioarchaeologists at all career stages.
⏳ Applications close 21 October 2026.
🔗 Sign up at www.icarehb.com/icarhub/tifa/geom-morph

24/09/2026

⏰ Don't forget! This Saturday, 26 September, researcher João Cascalheira takes the stage at in Faro for a conversation on how is transforming the way we study the past.

🕖 19h00 | FNAC Faro | Free entry

Innovation, , and the digital tools reshaping our understanding of human history — see you there! 🏛️🤖

🤖🔍 AI and Archaeology: New Tools for Understanding the Past
IA e Arqueologia: Novas Ferramentas para Conhecer o Passado

On 26 September, researcher João Cascalheira takes the stage at in Faro to explore how is transforming the way we study the past — a conversation about innovation, , and the digital tools reshaping our understanding of human history. 🌍

No dia 26 de setembro, o investigador do João Cascalheira sobe ao palco da em Faro para explorar como a está a transformar a forma como estudamos o passado — uma conversa sobre inovação, e as ferramentas digitais que estão a mudar o modo como conhecemos a história da humanidade. 🌍

📍 FNAC Faro · 🗓 26 September / 26 setembro · 19h00
🎟 Free entry / Entrada livre