Abstract Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have transformed our understanding of prehistoric subsistence strategies, yet their implications for broader questions of mobility, environment and language dispersal remain insufficiently integrated. This […]
Abstract This lecture examines the westward migration of Yamnaya populations from the Pontic-Caspian steppes into southeastern Europe around 3100–3000 BCE, reaching as far as the Tisza region in present-day Hungary. […]
Abstract One major problem for dating the origin and dispersal of language phyla, or indeed their individual branches, is that they do not diversify at a standard rate. Once the […]
This mini-seminar aims to stimulate discussion on methods that bridge the interests of population geneticists and archaeologists. The seminar host: Francesco Giannelli Invited guest researcher: Marco Gargano (a postdoctoral fellow […]
Invited seminar speaker: Kristian Kristiansen Kristian Kristiansen – an interdisciplinary researcher, professor of archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, and an affiliate professor at Globe Institute, […]
Abstract Over the last few decades, increasing numbers of researchers who study the past have noticed their research being appropriated by bad-faith far-right actors. Selective archaeological motifs and data/interpretations from […]
Abstract Sub-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. In eastern Zambia, there […]
Abstract What 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? […]
Abstract This 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 […]
Abstract A distinctive crude clay bowl is today taken as an important marker of the so-called “Uruk” cultural phenomenon which spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey in the Late […]
Abstract It has been observed many times that linguistic diversity is unevenly distributed over the globe. This is true for language diversity (e.g. Derungs et al. 2018; Hua et al. […]
This international, interdisciplinary symposium celebrates Uppsala University’s 550th anniversary. Studying human prehistory defies traditional disciplinary settings and demands close collaboration of experts from different fields. Understanding the human past requires integrating archaeological evidence, […]