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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Did Proto-Germanic originate in Sweden?
Read more →: Did Proto-Germanic originate in Sweden?Jenny Larsson, one of the Center for the Human Past’s leaders, was approached to comment on the two recent Nature publications* by McColl and others (2026). The co-authors suggest that genetic analyses paint a new picture of how languages spread. According to them, the language arrived during a cultural shift that brought new burial customs…
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New VR grants for Mattias Jakobsson and Carina Schlebusch
Read more →: New VR grants for Mattias Jakobsson and Carina SchlebuschSearching for sapiens-specific evolution Mattias Jakobsson receives new funding from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR) to “develop a statistical, machine-learning–based framework that jointly analyses genomes from archaic humans, ancient southern Africans, and present-day populations.” In the next four years, the project expects to identify genomic regions and biological pathways that evolved rapidly during the…
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RJ funds a new program, “From Milk to Mead – Indo-European Food Culture in Prehistory”, co-led by Jenny Larsson
Read more →: RJ funds a new program, “From Milk to Mead – Indo-European Food Culture in Prehistory”, co-led by Jenny LarssonRiksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) is an independent foundation that supports research in the humanities and social sciences essential to understanding and addressing society’s current challenges, both nationally and globally. Through its funding, the foundation aims to promote basic research of the highest scientific quality. It also responds to the need for long-term, stable research funding. This…
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Complex maternal genetic landscape in the Koṅkaṇī population of India
Read more →: Complex maternal genetic landscape in the Koṅkaṇī population of IndiaSequeira, J. J., Kumar, L., van Driem, G., Thangaraj, K., & Mustak, M. S. (2026). Complex maternal genetic landscape in the Koṅkaṇī population of India. Heredity, 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-026-00896-9 A new genetic study sheds light on the maternal ancestry and historical demographic dynamics of the Konkani population along the southwest coast of India. The research…
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