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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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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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