Our Human Past Fellow Axel Palmér will deliver a talk on his current research project at one of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) seminars. Welcome!
Abstract The intimate relationship between humans and crop plants means that traces of human cultural practices become embedded in the crop genome. Aspects of past cultures not documented in written records can consequently be studied with genetic analyses of archaeological crop remains. Such analyses, however, come with their own particular set of challenges, not the […]
Outi Vesakoski is an associate professor of Finnish, Finno-Ugric, and Scandinavian languages at the University of Turku, Finland. She is also a vice-director of the Human Diversity Consortium. Areas of expertise BEDLAN, Evolutionary ecology, Environmental (cultural) adaptations, Language evolution, Cultural evolution, Genetic evolution, Human past studies, Human diversity Finnish dialects, Lauri Kettunen, Uralic language speaker area, UraLex – Uralic basic vocabulary, UraTyp – Uralic typological […]
