Inauguration of the Center for the Human Past


A new interdisciplinary center of excellence will be inaugurated at Uppsala University at the end of April. The central theme of the Center for the Human Past (CHP) is to connect the efforts of archaeology, genetics and linguistics to unravel the complexities of human population history, movement, mixing, culture and subsistence of the world’s peoples during the last 10,000 years.

26 April 2024 10:00-13:00

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  • Stories of horses, people & Indo-European language

    Stories of horses, people & Indo-European language

    In summer, Jenny Larsson and Axel Palmér talked with Karin Bojs about the intertwined history of people and horses. The conversations contributed to the recorded podcast series, “Shortcuts with Karin […]

  • Axel Palmér joins the Center in a new role

    Axel Palmér joins the Center in a new role

    The post of Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, has been awarded to our Human Past Fellow, Axel Palmér. […]

  • He traces the genetic history of modern humans

    He traces the genetic history of modern humans

    The Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation has just published an update on the research by Mattias Jakobsson, one of the KAW scholars. Mattias Jakobsson’s focus in his new Wallenberg Scholar […]