“We can now use advanced computational tools to understand human prehistory, which seems to be far more complex than previously believed.”


As our inauguration day approaches, you can find out a little more about the Center for the Human Past in the news item on the Uppsala University website. It gives a reader a nice overview of what’s important to us, how it is possible and why the Center’s scientists do what they do.

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The Scientific Steering Group (SSG) of the Center for the Human Past (photograph: Marzena Norling).

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