Center for the Human Past

February 2026
Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Cultural Creolization in Ostrobothnia, Finland: An Interdisciplinary View on Burials, Exchange, and Social Identity, speaker Anna Wessman

February 4 @ 15:15 – 16:30

Blåsenhus, seminar room 12:010 (ground floor) von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, Sweden

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 […]
Human Past Journal Club

February 11 @ 15:15 – 16:30

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

Discussion 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 […]
March 2026
Human Past Journal Club

March 11 @ 15:15 – 16:30

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 […]