Center for the Human Past
Podcast
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Ideas that change the world.
Read more →: Ideas that change the world.Human Evolution was the focus of the latest episode (Season 6, Ep. 112) in the Nobel Prize Museum’s podcast series, Ideas that change the world, with Mattias Jakobsson. We all carry the entire history of humanity in our genes. When researchers examine the DNA of people living today and compare it with the genetic material…
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Stories of horses, people & Indo-European language
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Read more →: Stories of horses, people & Indo-European languageIn 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 Bojs”, available on Swedish Radio (in Swedish). Hästar och indoeuropeiska språk har parallell historia (4/8) Från Vedaskrifter till Staffan Stalledräng (5/8)
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A new SCAS podcast with Axel Palmér. Historical Linguistics: A Window into the Human Past
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Read more →: A new SCAS podcast with Axel Palmér. Historical Linguistics: A Window into the Human PastIn the new SCAS podcast episode (episode 65), Axel Palmér, a historical linguist specialising in Indo-European languages, discusses his research on agricultural vocabulary in the Rigveda. Axel examines whether the people who composed the Rigveda were pastoralists or agriculturalists by analysing the text’s descriptions of agriculture and comparing them to those found in other Indo-European…
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UppTalk podcast with Mattias Jakobsson
Read more →: UppTalk podcast with Mattias JakobssonIn June, Mattias Jakobsson was a guest on the podcast series UppTalk, run by the Science and Technology Domain at Uppsala University. The podcast episode, under a title: Vad kan forntida DNA avslöja om människans evolution? (What can ancient DNA reveal about human evolution?) is one of many recorded UppTalks available on the Uppsala University…
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Unpacking complexities of ancient human migrations and genetic variations in HEAS Podcast series, episode 6
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Read more →: Unpacking complexities of ancient human migrations and genetic variations in HEAS Podcast series, episode 6Earlier this year, Mattias Jakobsson appeared in the HAES podcast “Vikings, Genetics and Discoveries through Destruction”. The podcast series is produced by the Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences research network at the University of Vienna, and it reaches 1,31K subscribers on YouTube. Mattias dove headlong in explaining the complex patterns of human migration in prehistoric…
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How genetics, linguistics and archaeology together can fill the gaps in our current knowledge about humans.
Read more →: How genetics, linguistics and archaeology together can fill the gaps in our current knowledge about humans.Sequencing genes from people who lived long ago and those living today has become an important piece of the puzzle in understanding early human history and how the world was populated. Through DNA analyses, we know today that modern humans had children with Neanderthals. And also with the enigmatic Denisovans who we basically only know…