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Name: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 5th Mar, 2025: Prehistoric plant DNA and the agricultural history of the Canary Islands, speaker Jenny Hagenblad
Start: 2025-03-05T15:15:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-05T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)

September 2024
September 4, 2024 @ 14:15 – 15:30

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 […]
November 2024
November 6, 2024 @ 14:15 – 15:30

Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, Nov 6th, 2024: New linguistic and archaeogenomic perspectives on the origin and spread of the Germanic languages, speaker Guus Kroonen

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

Synopsis The Germanic languages, including English, German and the Nordic languages, are widely assumed to have dispersed from Southern Scandinavia after the Pre-Roman Iron Age. However, the demographic processes behind their diversification are not yet fully understood. In addition, it is currently not known when and from where the Germanic language group arrived in Scandinavia. […]
March 2025
March 5 @ 15:15 – 16:30

Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 5th Mar, 2025: Prehistoric plant DNA and the agricultural history of the Canary Islands, speaker Jenny Hagenblad

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

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 […]