Center for the Human Past

December 2025
December 3 @ 15:15 – 16:30

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 […]
December 10

Human Past Interdisciplinary Retreat

Sigtunastiftelsen Hotell & Conference Sigtuna, Sweden

The 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 […]
January 2026
January 21, 2026 @ 15:15 – 16:30

Human Past Journal Club

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

Discussion 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 […]