Center for the Human Past


Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar: Oct 2nd, 2024: Toward Professional Ethics of Ancestral Human Remains Research: from Tissue to Biomolecules, speaker Rita Peyroteo Stjerna

Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 21:136 von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, Sweden

Original photograph by T. Ketola, 2004. Used with permission. Synopsis Ancient human remains are highly prized research subjects because of the wealth of information they can provide about past lives, which otherwise would be difficult to uncover. In recent years, the astonishing development of biomolecular techniques such as residue and stable isotope analyses, proteomics, and […]

Mini-Seminar by CHP: Blinded by the light – Bifacial points and human mobility in Västerbotten, Sweden

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

(by invitation only, if you’d like to attend please email your request to Mika at chp-coordinator@uu.se) Speaker: Mattias Sjölander, CHP postdoctoral researcher Towards the end of the Neolithic period significant cultural change seems to occur among the hunter-gatherer communities of northern Fennoscandia. In Sweden the hunter-gatherer communities seemingly abandon a long tradition of a more […]