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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, Sept 4th, 2024: The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa, speaker Carina Schlebusch

Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 21:136 von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, Sweden

Canoe floating in the Loange River near the port of Kabombo  (photo by Peter Coutros, Ghent University) Synopsis The Bantu expansion, a defining event of Holocene Africa, profoundly transformed the continent’s linguistic, cultural, and biological landscape. This talk integrates genomic data with evidence from other disciplines to explore the migration of Bantu-speaking peoples, which began […]

Mini-Seminar by CHP: Archaeolinguistic perspectives on the Proto-Indo-Iranian homeland

Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden

(by invitation only, if you’d like to attend please email your request to Mika at chp-coordinator@uu.se) Speaker: Axel Palmér, Human Past Fellow (CHP & SCAS) Title: Archaeolinguistic perspectives on the Proto-Indo-Iranian homeland Abstract The Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European has been hypothesized to originate in the Ural region and to be correlated with the Sintashta culture (2100–1800 […]