About us
Key facts
Center for the Human Past is one of the Centres of Excellence funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Our collaborating partners are the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Digital Archaeology (SWEDIGARCH).
2024
the year that the Center for the Human Past was established
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main participants: Uppsala & Stockholm universities
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departments involved from the beginning
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scientific disciplines linked
Our organisation
The distributed structure requires effective communication, coordination and shared responsibility between its five departments from two universities: Department of Archeology and Ancient History (AAH-UU), Human Evolution Program (HEP-UU), and the Linguistics Departments (LING-UU and LING-SU).
The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) is the collaboration partner and an administrator of our joint Human Past Fellowship Program.
Our vision
- Bridge the efforts of archaeology, genetics & linguistics towards unraveling the complexities of human population history, movement, mixing, culture and subsistence of the peoples of the world in the last 10,000 years.
Our goals
- educate a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars so they can
- understand the data, models and analytical techniques of the other disciplines
- make use of large databases of all three disciplines
- address novel research questions prompted by the immersion into the other disciplines
- foster short- and long term collaborations
Scientific Steering Group (SSG)
Mattias Jakobsson
Principal Investigator
Human Evolution, Genetics, UU
Carina Schlebusch
Principal Investigator
Human Evolution, Genetics, UU
Karl-Johan Lindholm
Principal Investigator
Archaeology and Ancient History, UU
Jenny
Larsson
Principal Investigator
Linguistics, Baltic languages, SU
Harald Hammarström
Principal Investigator
Linguistics and Philology, UU
Scientific Advisory Group (SAG)
CHP Office
Marzena ‘Mika’ Norling
Project Coordinator
SCAS – Human Past Fellows
Yoko Yamazaki
Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25, SCAS.
Researcher, Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University
Axel Palmér
Human Past Junior Fellow 2024-25, SCAS.
Guest Researcher, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Mehmet Somel
Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25, SCAS.
Professor of Biology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
CHP Postdoctoral Researchers
Mattias Sjölander
Postdoc, 2024-26, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University
Our funding organizations
