Journal Club discussion
Article: “The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans”
Center for the Human Past
9 events found.
Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 5th Mar, 2025: Prehistoric plant DNA and the agricultural history of the Canary Islands, speaker Jenny Hagenblad
Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)Abstract The intimate relationship between humans and crop plants means that traces of human cultural practices become embedded in the crop genome. Aspects of past cultures not documented in written […]
Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 2nd Apr 2025: Uralic spread, Seima-Turbino and flower pots, speaker Outi Vesakoski
Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)Abstract The seminal paper by Grünthal et al. (2022) advances a new scenario of Proto-Uralic disintegration and spread. They suggest a rapid spread of Uralic languages through Common Uralic, a […]
Biomolecular Humanities Practical Workshop & JC Discussion
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenThe workshop, led by Jerome de Groot, Ester Oras, Jess Thompson, Christopher Vardy, and Matthew Williams, follows up on the discussions from last year. This interactive workshop will begin to […]
Human Past Journal Club
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenCesar A. Fortes-Lima, Mame Y. Diallo, Václav Janoušek, Viktor Černý, Carina M. Schlebusch. (2025). Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel, The American Journal of Human […]
Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 7th May, 2025: Discussing mobility and cultural change in the context of Aegean Neolithization, speaker Mehmet Somel
Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)Abstract Mehmet Somel will present some recent results on the first steps of the Neolithic expansion westward, “out-of-Anatolia”. For this study, his group generated 30 new paleogenomes from six settlements […]
SCAS SEMINAR – Genetic Insights into Social Organisation of Neolithic Societies in Anatolia: Kinship and Gender Roles, speaker Mehmet Somel
Thunberg Hall, SCAS Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala, SwedenMehmet Somel is a professor of biology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25. The abstract will follow.
Mini-Seminar: Graves & Grammar. Interdisciplinary approaches to changes in material culture, burial practice and language in Upper Dalarna 500-750 CE, with Joakim Wehlin and Yair Sapir
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenSpeakers: Yair Sapir, PhD of Scandinavian Languages, Senior Lecturer of Swedish, Kristianstad University Joakim Wehlin, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Archaeology, Uppsala University Summary Recent archaeological studies demonstrate changes in the material […]
Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 4th June 2025: speaker Tanya Uldin
Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)Title and abstract TBD Tanya Uldin Tanya Uldin – an associate professor at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Tanya is a biological anthropologist with 20+ years of experience, trained […]