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SUMMARY:Human Past Journal Club
DESCRIPTION:Discussion paper:\nYakov 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 409-420\, ISBN 9780443157516\,\nhttps://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15750-9.00030-6 \nAbstract\nThe evolution of modern humans has led to the proliferation of traits that are learned from other individuals\, instead of being inherited through genetics. The transmission of ideas and behaviors is facilitated by a uniquely human trait: language\, structured communication systems consisting of words and grammar. The neural and anatomical changes that allow for language have a basis in genetics\, but the specific features of language are transmitted through social learning between individuals. The words and the grammatical structures of languages can evolve over time\, both through change within a population and through contact between populations. In concert with the study of human genetics\, the study of language features and their evolution deepens our understanding of human demographic history and the nature of interactions between groups of people. \nModerator: Carina Schlebusch
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/human-past-journal-club-3/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Journal Club
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SUMMARY:Talks of the Past open seminar: From Phonology to Phylogeny: Inferring Language Trees from Cognate Word Forms
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nLinguistic phylogenies are commonly inferred from abstract cognate classifications that encode relationships among lexemes. Although widespread\, this practice has well-recognised limitations: it discards phylogenetic signal contained in segmental word forms\, restricts the range of evolutionary questions that can be addressed\, and treats cognacy judgments\, which are hypotheses in their own right\, as observed data. \nDavid Goldstein introduces a comparative framework that addresses these limitations by modelling the evolution of cognate word forms directly. The approach adapts the TKF91 model of molecular evolution\, originally developed to account for insertion and deletion processes in DNA sequences\, to linguistic data. By operating on segmental strings rather than abstract character codings\, the framework enables phylogenetic inference from observable word forms and supports quantitative investigation of sound change. \n \nDavid Goldstein\, current Human Past SCAS Senior Fellow\, received his PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley. His research lies at the intersection of language evolution\, classical philology\, linguistic theory\, and computational modelling. He specialises in the structure and historical development of Indo-European languages\, with particular focus on Greek and Latin.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/topseminar-david-goldstein20260415/
LOCATION:Blåsenhus\, seminar room 12:010 (ground floor)\, von Kraemers allé 1\, Uppsala\, 752 36\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminars,Talks of the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260422T151500
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SUMMARY:Human Past Journal Club
DESCRIPTION:Paper to discuss: \nColleter\, R.\, Jaouen\, K.\, Garcia\, D.\, & Richards\, M.P. (2026). Dietary inequality marker reveals 10\,000 years of gender and cultural disparity in Europe\, PNAS Nexus\, vol. 5 (4)\, pgag033\, https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/4/pgag033/8586686 \nDiscussion moderators: Mattias Sjölander & Daniel Brown\, CHP postdoctoral researchers \nAbstract\n\nDiet is a key to evaluating social and health inequalities over time\, as it reflects disparities in access to resources often linked to socioeconomic and gender factors. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes\, while semi-quantitative\, typically limit intersite comparisons\, as the results are tied to local baseline isotope values. \nIn this study\, we overcome this limitation by applying the interdecile ratio—a metric from economics—to isotope data from 12\,281 individuals across 393 European sites over millennia. Our isotope-based dietary inequality index reveals the nonlinear evolution of dietary disparities over time and across different geographical areas. \nSex-based disparities are evident throughout all time periods. Male individuals are consistently overrepresented in the upper deciles\, indicating greater access to animal proteins\, while females dominate the lower deciles\, reflecting more restricted access. Neolithic societies exhibit homogeneous diets at the population level\, but animal protein consumption tends to differ between men and women. \nAs expected\, Bronze Age carbon interdecile indexes mark increasing dietary inequality\, likely linked to agricultural advances and social hierarchies. Dietary disparities peak during Antiquity\, although the gap between the sexes narrows slightly. This diachronic analysis highlights the complex interactions between diet\, social structures\, and gender and provides a robust framework for comparative studies of health inequalities in archaeology.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/human-past-journal-club-7/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Journal Club
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SUMMARY:SCAS Seminar: Echoes of Preliterate Voices on the Shores of the Baltic Sea\, with Anthony Jakob
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nWhen people think of their ancestry\, they are often just as concerned with the origins of their linguistic and cultural identity as they are with their genetic history. And while modern advances in ancient DNA have dramatically improved our understanding of prehistoric population movements\, genes do not themselves carry language. The fields of population genomics\, archaeology\, and historical linguistics\, while capable of informing one another\, study qualitatively different aspects of human history\, which only partially overlap. In this way\, linguistics offers a unique perspective in the study of our past. \nMost languages ever spoken by humans have been lost to history. Prior to the relatively recent migration events that brought the Uralic and Indo-European language families to the Baltic region\, the area may have been rich in an unwritten linguistic diversity\, a diversity that was dissipated as communities shifted away from their native tongues. In my talk\, I argue that we can infer traces of these lost languages on the basis of the words for local fauna\, flora\, and topographical phenomena used today that appear to be borrowed\, but whose source cannot be identified. \nZoom Webinar: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/65802739142 \nAnthony Jakob is a historical linguist specialising in the Indo-European and Uralic languages and is currently a Human Past SCAS Junior Fellow.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/scas-seminar-substrate-words-and-language-shift-with-anthony-jakob/
LOCATION:Thunberg Hall\, Linneanum\, Thunbergsvägen 2\, Uppsala\, 752 36\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260429T151500
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SUMMARY:Mini-Seminar: Biomolecular perspectives on Corded Ware subsistence: integrating isotopic\, proteomic and lipid evidence in the context of steppe-derived economies\, with Łukasz Pospieszny
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nRecent 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 presentation explores dietary practices among Corded Ware populations through a combination of stable isotope analysis\, palaeoproteomics and organic residue analysis of ceramics. \nStable isotope data provide a direct reconstruction of the human diet\, revealing a consistent reliance on animal-derived resources\, but also allow for indirect insights into the ecological context of livestock management. These patterns are further contextualised through lipid residue analysis\, which enables the identification of processed foodstuffs and the relative contribution of major dietary categories\, including ruminant and non-ruminant animal products. In parallel\, proteomic analysis of dental calculus provides species-specific evidence of animal exploitation\, directly linking human consumers to particular domesticated taxa. \nBy integrating these complementary lines of evidence\, the study reconstructs a nuanced picture of subsistence strategies that extends beyond simple distinctions between farming and pastoralism. The results are discussed in relation to emerging genetic and archaeological models of steppe populations\, particularly those associated with the Yamnaya horizon and their role in the spread of Indo-European languages. In this context\, biomolecular evidence for diet\, especially the exploitation of secondary animal products such as milk\, offers important insights into the economic foundations that may have facilitated large-scale mobility and demographic expansion. \nThe presentation highlights the potential of biomolecular approaches to bridge scales of analysis\, from individual dietary behaviour to macro-regional processes\, and to contribute to ongoing debates concerning the relationship between subsistence\, mobility and cultural transmission in prehistoric Eurasia. \n  \n \nŁukasz Pospieszny is an archaeologist at the University of Gdańsk and an Honorary Research Associate\, University of Bristol
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/mini-seminar-corded-ware-dietary-practices-with-lukasz-pospieszny/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Mini-Seminars,Seminars
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