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SUMMARY:Talks of the Past Open Seminar:  Hunter-gatherer ancestry in Zambian BaTwa populations – Genetics\, archaeology and discussion of results with study participants
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nSub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African descent\, whose ancestors\, in many cases\, replaced\, displaced\, or assimilated local hunter-gatherer groups. \nIn eastern Zambia\, there is evidence of Bantu-speaking agriculturalists from circa 2000 years ago. Little is known about the genetic affinities of the hunter-gatherers who inhabited the area before that. \nGwenna Breton will present a study focusing on two isolated communities in Zambia\, known as BaTwa and possible descendants of recent hunter-gatherers. By analysing modern DNA from these populations\, the researchers have identified a hunter-gatherer-like genetic ancestry in the BaTwa. They propose a model of the BaTwa population history and discuss how it compares with the archaeological evidence. \nThe results were discussed with the study participants prior to publication\, and Gwenna will present some aspects of the presentation trip. \nA Zambian village (photo: Gwenna Breton)\n \nInvited seminar speaker: Gwenna Breton\, a geneticist and bioinformatician at the University of Gothenburg.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/top20260909-gwenna-breton/
LOCATION:Blåsenhus\, seminar room 13:027 (ground floor)\, von Kraemers allé 1\, Uppsala\, 752 36\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminars,Talks of the Past
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SUMMARY:Mini-Seminar: Plant gatherers\, plant managers or agriculturalists? Investigating people-plant relationships in early prehistory.
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nWhat plant foods did hunter-gatherers in N-W Europe eat? Was the way hunter-gatherers and farmers used and interacted with plants fundamentally different? How did prehistoric farmers grow their crops? \nThe scale and nature of human-plant interactions and plant subsistence strategies in early prehistory have been rigorously debated. Although past understandings of prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies have tended to underestimate the role of plant foods\, recent research in Scotland and Southern Norway has revealed the importance of plant gathering within broader Mesolithic hunter-gatherer strategies. \nLikewise\, there is now considerable archaeobotanical evidence that both cereal cultivation and wild plant gathering were key strategies for the first farmers. The nature of the cultivation methods used is less well understood\, but recent evidence suggests that a range of approaches was adopted\, highlighting the adaptability of early farmers to varied conditions. At the same time\, wild resources were important for early farmers in this area\, with evidence that this gathering and processing was\, on occasion\, both systematic and intensive. A key question is whether the systematic gathering was a practice akin to wild plant management\, as extensively documented in diverse hunter-gatherer societies worldwide. \nThis presentation will examine these issues\, using archaeobotanical case studies from Scotland and Southern Norway\, together with wider evidence from stable isotope studies and experimental research. \n \nRosemary Rhiannon Bishop is an archaeobotanist and environmental archaeologist at the University of Stavanger\, Norway. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Scotland\, North-West Europe and the North Atlantic islands. I am particularly interested in hunter-gatherer plant use\, the changing nature of people-plant interactions during the transition from hunter-gathering to agriculture\, and changing agricultural practices in relation to climate\, environmental and social change.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/mini-seminar-plant-gatherers-plant-managers-or-agriculturalists-investigating-people-plant-relationships-in-early-prehistory/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Mini-Seminars,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Cultural Creolization in Ostrobothnia\, Finland: An Interdisciplinary View on Burials\, Exchange\, and Social Identity\, speaker Anna Wessman
DESCRIPTION:The seminar was canceled due to unexpected events out of anyone’s control.\nWe apologize for inconvenience. \nAbstract\nThis talk explores a remarkable Iron Age burial from Pukkila in western Finland\, dating to around AD 700\, where a cremated individual was laid to rest in a boat alongside weapons\, ritual objects\, and artefacts from across Scandinavia\, eastern Europe\, and the north. Rather than fitting neatly into a single cultural or ethnic category\, the burial reflects a world shaped by long-distance trade\, mobility\, and cultural change. \nUsing the concept of cultural creolization\, the talk shows how identities\, beliefs\, and ritual practices emerged through the blending of different traditions. The Pukkila burial challenges simple labels such as “Scandinavian”\, “Finn\,” or “Sámi\,” and instead reveals how power\, religion\, gender\, and cultural belonging were actively negotiated in the Baltic Sea region.\nMore broadly\, the talk demonstrates how creolization offers a useful way to bring archaeology\, linguistics\, and religious studies together when interpreting the past. \n  \n  \nAnna Wessman is a professor of archaeology at Bergen University\, Norway. Her research focuses on the Late Iron Age in Scandinavia\, Finland and the Baltic countries\, Burial Archaeology and death rituals\, Avocational Metal-detecting\, Citizen Science\, Ethnographic methods\, Community Archaeology\, Museum Studies\, Digital Humanities\, and Archaeological databases. \nPhoto: Outi Pyhäranta/HS
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/talks-of-the-past-20260204-anna-wessman/
LOCATION:Blåsenhus\, seminar room 13:027 (ground floor)\, von Kraemers allé 1\, Uppsala\, 752 36\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminars,Talks of the Past
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