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