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The EXPLO article ‘Absolute dating of the European Neolithic using the 5259 BC rapid 14C excursion’ was included in the Nature Index Research Leaders 2025 analysis

EU Delegation to Albania Reports on EXPLO Discoveries at Lin

EXPLO Project Findings at Dunavec Published in Antiquity

Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research Abroad (SLSA) Supports Underwater Excavations in Lin, Albania in 2025

Underwater Excavation at Lin 3 continues in 2025

2025 Excavation at Lin 3 successfully started

27.02.2025
Garrod Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, UK: Prof. Hafner presents EXPLO results

07.01.2025
EXPLO – Final Meeting

09.10.2024
Prof. Albert Hafner Speaks at the Symposium Honoring Swiss Researcher Eugène Pittard (1867–1926) in Tirana, Albania

08.10.2024
Prof. Albert Hafner Presents at the National Academy of Sciences in Tirana, Albania

07.10.2024
Prof. Albert Hafner Speaks at the Symposium “Prehistoric Movements and Transhumant Pastoralism” at the Albanological Institute in Pristina and Meets the Mayor of Pristina, Kosovo

22.08.2024
Cosmic Ray Calendar – Archaeology Magazine

26.07.2024
President of the Academy of Sciences Visits Excavation at Lin 3 (Lake Ohrid, Albania)

19.07.2024
Swiss Ambassador Visits Excavation at Lin 3 (Lake Ohrid, Albania)

19.07.2024
BAUER breathing air compressor back in action in Lin 3

01.07.2024
Leica TS07 Total Station Supporting Precise Documentation at Lin 3

22.06.2024
Continuation of Excavations at the Neolithic Lakeshore Settlement of Lin 3 (Lake Ohrid, Albania), 2024

12.06.2024
Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research Abroad (SLSA) supports EXPLO excavations in 2024 in Albania

11.03.2024
Lecture of Prof. Kostas Kotsakis, British School at Athens: A solar flare in 5259 BCE solves the Dispilio riddle

5th Shanghai Archaeology Forum, December 15th to 18th 2023: Research Award for Albert Hafner

24.11.2023
Invited talk at the Diachronic Museum of Larissa

31.08.2023
29th EAA Annual Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 30 August – 2 September 2023

05.08.2023
Wetland and Underwater Archaeological Excavations at Lin (Lake Ohrid, Albania), 2023

19.04.2023
Dispilio Team – Internal Workshop

27.07.2023
Dispilio team visits the archaeological site at Lin, Lake Ohrid, Albania

30.07.2023
Swiss Television SRF reports the discovery of an 8000-year-old submerged settlement in Albania

18.07.2023
Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania on Facebook about Swiss-Albanian excavations in Lin, Albania.

17.07.2023
Swiss Ambassador Ruth Huber visits the archaeological excavations at Lin, Lake Ohrid, Albania

05.07.2022
Prehistoric lakeshore settlements in South-East Europe: archaeological, palaeoecological and bioarchaeological investigations within the EXPLO project. Mid-term Conference

14.09.2022
Update on cores from Lin 3, Albania

04.08.2022
Wetland excavations at Lin (Lake Ohrid, Albania)

19.05.2022
Speleothem sampling campaign 2022, North-eastern Peloponnese

01.06.2022
Underwater archaeological investigations at Struga, Vrbnik (Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia)

18.07.2021
News from the EXPLO Oxford archaeobotany team

11.07.2021
Dive safety training during Lin 3 expedition

06.07.2021
Underwater investigations at Lin 3 (Lake Ohrid, Albania)

01.01.2021
Workshop: Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe (Bern, 29/04–01/05 2021)

06.12.2020
Coring campaign at Lin, Albania

30.10.2020
Coring campaign 2020 at Limni Volvi, Greece

12.06.2020
Recently started: 3 PhD theses at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Bern

09.06.2020
Coordinate systems of Albania and North Macedonia. Concepts for underwater measurements

22.04.2020
Air compressor by air-compact GmbH High Pressure Solutions

12.02.2020
3D-capture of underwater pile fields: a new workflow

01.10.2019
Modern pollen—vegetation—plant diversity relationships in northern Greece

31.10.2019
Excavation and dendrochronology at Dispilio, Northern Greece, 2019

12.10.2019
Initial archaeobotanical fieldwork season at Ploča (Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia)

16.08.2019
EXPLO at Lake Ohrid: first mission accomplished