The interdisciplinary platform to unravel mysteries of human past
The Center for the Human Past seeks to bridge the three disciplines Archaeology, Genetics and Linguistics that investigate the same history of the same world populations in the last 10,000 years.
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Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in Nature
Read more →: Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in NatureMattias Jakobsson and Carina Schlebusch are two co-authors of the study on ancient South Africans that was just published. Abstract Homo sapiens evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago in Africa, […]
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CHP offers Certificates of Attendance to PhD students
Read more →: CHP offers Certificates of Attendance to PhD studentsThe VR Centre of Excellence, Center for the Human Past (CHP), organises various types of seminars on topics related to overlapping areas in palaeogenetics, archaeology, and historical linguistics, as well […]
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New vacancies at CHP
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Read more →: New vacancies at CHPWe are seeking not one, but three, new postdoctoral researchers to join our interdisciplinary team and dive deeper into the mysteries of the last 10,000 years of human history. Place […]
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Newly funded RJ program: Unexplored Linguistic Phenomena: Mapping and Documenting the Frontiers of Human Language Ability
Read more →: Newly funded RJ program: Unexplored Linguistic Phenomena: Mapping and Documenting the Frontiers of Human Language AbilityOne of the Center’s PIs, Harald Hammarström, starts a new project, funded by Riksbankensjubileumsfond. For the next 6 years, the team will dive headlong into the peripheries of human linguistic […]
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