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Mattias Jakobsson receives an award from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala
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Read more →: Mattias Jakobsson receives an award from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of UppsalaThe 2026 prize for an interdisciplinary achievement of outstanding quality is awarded to Mattias Jakobsson for his distinguished research into human origins and prehistory. By linking Stone Age genomic data with archaeology and linguistics, Jakobsson has shown that there were different populations that engaged in farming, and hunting and gathering. Read more about the Royal…
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Gut microbes that trace ancient human journeys
Read more →: Gut microbes that trace ancient human journeysThe newest piece in Nature’s News & Views, co-authored by our PI, Carina Schlebusch and Maja Vukovikj from Human Evolution Program at Uppsala University discusses the study by Carter et al. exploring what our gut microbiomes can tell us about human population history. Humans have never travelled alone. When our ancestors spread out of Africa…
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The unknown origins of humans on Swedish radio
Read more →: The unknown origins of humans on Swedish radioMattias Jakobsson was featured on Swedish Radio’s morning program (Förmiddag i P1) today, 29 Sept 2026. His conversation with Nicke Nordmark, the program leader, is available at: https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/manniskans-okanda-ursprung (in Swedish). They talked about Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans and their coexistence; the unknown DNA in our genes; and the possibility that humans as we know…
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Meet Jaison Jeevan Sequeira, our current Human Past SCAS Junior Fellow
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Read more →: Meet Jaison Jeevan Sequeira, our current Human Past SCAS Junior FellowWe are pleased to welcome Jaison Jeevan Sequeira, Guest Lecturer & Researcher, Department of Applied Zoology, Mangalore University, as our new fellow. Jaison is a population geneticist interested in the demographic history of South Asia. His doctoral thesis focused on the ancestral history and genomic diversity of linguistic populations along the southwest coast of India.…
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Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain
Read more →: Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern BritainA new paper, co-authored by Nikola Vuković, Carolina Bernhardsson and Mattias Jakobsson, from the Human Evolution Program at Uppsala University, in close collaboration with British archaeologists, has recently been published in Scientific Reports:Vuković, N., Bernhardsson, C., Edlund, H., Delbarre, G., Smith, M., Darvill, T., … & Jakobsson, M. (2026). Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments…
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Matte Sjölander’s STSM Experience in Utrecht 2026
Read more →: Matte Sjölander’s STSM Experience in Utrecht 2026In June 2026, Mattias Sjölander visited Utrecht University to host a brainstorming session on integrating subfossil insect and pollen data in future analyses. The visit, a so-called Short-Term Scientific Mission within Open Palaeoecological Data (PalaeOpen), was funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). During my ongoing postdoctoral project at the Center for the Human…