What made us ‘hunter-gatherers of words’?

Tue 10 Nov · IAS Common Ground, Room G11 · WC1E

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Back to All Events What made us ‘hunter-gatherers of words’? 10 Nov 2026, 10:30 – 18:00 IAS Common Ground, Room G11 Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL Bloomsbury Campus Gower Street London WC1E 6BT United Kingdom Join us online: ZOOM ID 937 8875 4619 passcode Wawilak What made us ‘hunter-gatherers of words’? This one-day interdisciplinary workshop brings together researchers from archaeology, anthropology, cognitive and language sciences, neuroscience and evolutionary biology to explore the origins of human language and the social and cultural conditions that made it possible.

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