Human Past Journal Club
Discussion paper: Antonosyan, M., Maurer, G., Mkrtchyan, S., Boxleitner, K., Saribekyan, M., Hovhannisyan, A., … Amano, N., … & Yepiskoposyan, L. (2025). A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its […]
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Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Talking about food in prehistory: Linguistic evidence for dietary practices in Indo-European, speaker Julia Sturm
Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)Abstract What did prehistoric peoples eat? This question can be approached through various scholarly disciplines, including historical linguistics. More specifically, historical linguistics methodologies are tools for addressing the question of […]
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Human Past Interdisciplinary Retreat
Sigtunastiftelsen Hotell & Conference Sigtuna, SwedenThe main goal of the retreat is to strengthen collaboration between different disciplines and to learn about each other’s research through presentations and discussions. We hope this retreat will lay […]
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Canceled Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Cultural Creolization in Ostrobothnia, Finland: An Interdisciplinary View on Burials, Exchange, and Social Identity, speaker Anna Wessman
Blåsenhus, seminar room 12:010 (ground floor) von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, SwedenThe seminar was canceled due to unexpected events out of anyone’s control. We apologize for inconvenience. Abstract This talk explores a remarkable Iron Age burial from Pukkila in western Finland, […]
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SCAS seminar with David Goldstein – A New Approach to the Diversification of Ancient Greek
Thunberg Hall, Linneanum Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala, SwedenABSTRACT The diversification of the ancient Greek dialects has long posed a major challenge for Greek linguistics. Core questions—how the dialects are related, when they diverged, and how they were […]
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Human Past Journal Club
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenDiscussion paper: Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H. et al. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature 646, 384–393 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6 Abstract The second half of […]
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Mini-Seminar: Using the dog to date Torricelli languages with linguistic paleontology, with Erik Elgh
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenAbstract The earliest archaeological dog remains in Melanesia found to date are from Babase Island, New Ireland, and are associated with the Early Lapita layers on the site, thus dating […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Genetic relatedness in Stone Age Scandinavia, speaker Helena Malmström
Blåsenhus, seminar room 12:010 (ground floor) von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, SwedenAbstract Did genetic relatedness matter in Scandinavian Stone Age societies? And if so, how? The increase in the number of individuals with available ancient DNA data, coupled with new tools […]
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Mini-Seminar: Models, data, and their limits: What can we know about the deep history of language families? with Philipp Rönchen
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenAbstract Computational methods are increasingly used to reconstruct the deep history of language families, yet different models often produce strikingly different answers. This reflects a general challenge in the historical […]
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Higher Seminar in Baltic Studies, Stockholm University, with Anthony Jakob
Zoom , SwedenThe Higher Seminar in Baltic Languages with Signe Rirdance (SU) and Anthony Jakob (SCAS). The seminar is split into two sessions (with a coffee break in between): 14:00-15:30 – Signe […]
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Human Past Journal Club
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenDiscussion paper: Yakov Pichkar and Nicole Creanza (2026). The Evolution of Language. Editor(s): Jason B. Wolf, Claudia Augusta De Moraes Russo, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (Second Edition), Academic Press, Pages […]
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Talks of the Past open seminar with David Goldstein, Human Past SCAS Senior Fellow (Title—TBA)
Blåsenhus, seminar room 12:010 (ground floor) von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, SwedenAbstract – TBA David Goldstein received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His research lies at the intersection of language evolution, classical philology, linguistic theory, and computational […]