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UHO2019

Unravelling Human Origins 2019

York, United Kingdom
15 - 16 February 2019
The conference ended on 16 February 2019

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline
17th December 2018

About UHO2019

'Unravelling Human Origins' is part of a series of student-run conferences that began in Southampton in 2010. The aim of this multidisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of new and innovative advances in Palaeolithic and human evolution research.

Topics

Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary psychology, Human evolution, Prehistory, Palaeolithic archaeology, Comparative anatomy, Human origins

Call for Papers

Unravelling Human Origins is a multidisciplinary, student-run conference aimed at discussing new advances in human evolution research.

We invite submissions on the following themes (though welcome any topics related to human origins or the Palaeolithic):

  • Origins of art, symbolism and cognitive evolution

  • Demography, life history and social evolution

  • Anatomy, energetics and morphology

  • Technology and innovation

  • Diet, mobility and subsistence

  • Diversity in the Palaeolithic (e.g. age and gender, cognitive and psychological diversity, (dis)ability, inclusivity within human origins research)

  • Novel methodological and theoretical approaches (e.g. experimental archaeology, analogy, bioarchaeological approaches)

Abstracts are welcome for:

  1. Oral presentations (15 minutes followed by Q&A slot)

  2. Posters

Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged, with best poster and presentation awards available.

Please submit abstracts via the online form available at https://bit.ly/UHOabstract.

The deadline for submission is Monday 17th December.

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