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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, Sept 4th, 2024: The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa, speaker Carina Schlebusch

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

Canoe floating in the Loange River near the port of Kabombo  (photo by Peter Coutros, Ghent University) Synopsis The Bantu expansion, a defining event of Holocene Africa, profoundly transformed the continent’s linguistic, cultural, and biological landscape. This talk integrates genomic data with evidence from other disciplines to explore the migration of Bantu-speaking peoples, which began […]

Mini-Seminar by CHP: Archaeolinguistic perspectives on the Proto-Indo-Iranian homeland

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: Axel Palmér, Human Past Fellow (CHP & SCAS) Title: Archaeolinguistic perspectives on the Proto-Indo-Iranian homeland Abstract The Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European has been hypothesized to originate in the Ural region and to be correlated with the Sintashta culture (2100–1800 […]

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 […]

Article Discussion: Steppe Ancestry in Western Eurasia and the Spread of the Germanic Languages

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

The second author of the article, Guus Kroonen, is our next invited speaker at the Talks of the Past seminar on 6th November. Abstract Germanic-speaking populations historically form an integral component of the North and Northwest European cultural configuration. According to linguistic consensus, the common ancestor of the Germanic languages, which include German, English, Frisian, […]