SCAS

Name: SCAS seminar with David Goldstein – A New Approach to the Diversification of Ancient Greek
Start: 2026-02-10T10:15:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-10T12:00:00+01:00
Location: Thunberg Hall, Linneanum

February 2025
Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 5th Feb, 2025: 6000 years of ancient foodways in NE Baltics: biomolecular methods and social implications, speaker Ester Oras

February 5, 2025 @ 15:15 – 16:30

Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)

Abstract Biomolecular archaeology has taken a leading role in ancient dietary reconstructions. The molecular- and isotopic-level information gained from ancient skeletal remains and pottery can reveal a more cohesive but also nuanced picture of past foodways, thanks to its higher-resolution analytical capacities in terms of both obtained information and context-specific interpretations. This talk will exemplify […]
May 2025
Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 7th May, 2025: Discussing mobility and cultural change in the context of Aegean Neolithization, speaker Mehmet Somel

May 7, 2025 @ 15:15 – 16:30

Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)

Abstract Mehmet Somel will present some recent results on the first steps of the Neolithic expansion westward, “out-of-Anatolia”. For this study, his group generated 30 new paleogenomes from six settlements in West and Central Anatolia dating to c.10,000-8,000 years ago. The researchers further compiled a digitalized material culture dataset comprising 58 cultural elements, from architecture […]
SCAS SEMINAR – Genetic Insights into Social Organisation of Neolithic Societies in Anatolia: Kinship and Gender Roles, speaker Mehmet Somel

May 20, 2025 @ 10:15 – 12:00

Thunberg Hall, Linneanum Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala, Sweden

Mehmet Somel is a professor of biology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25. The abstract will follow.
February 2026
SCAS seminar with David Goldstein – A New Approach to the Diversification of Ancient Greek

February 10 @ 10:15 – 12:00

Thunberg Hall, Linneanum Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala, Sweden

ABSTRACT The diversification of the ancient Greek dialects has long posed a major challenge for Greek linguistics. Core questions—how the dialects are related, when they diverged, and how they were distributed in the second millennium BCE—remain the subject of sustained debate, in part because of the limits of traditional methods of historical inference. Over the […]

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