Center for the Human Past


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 […]

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, […]