Center for the Human Past
Talks of the Past
Seminars open to academins, studens and researchers interested in interdisciplinary research in fields of palaeogenetics, archaeology and archaeolinguistics.
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar with Kristian Kristiansen
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar with Kristian KristiansenTitle & abstract- TBA Kristian Kristiansen – an interdisciplinary researcher, professor of archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, and an affiliate professor at Globe Institute, […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar with Gwenna Breton
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar with Gwenna BretonTitle & Abstract TBA Gwenna Breton is a geneticist and bioinformatician at the University of Gothenburg.
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Talks of the Past open seminar: From Phonology to Phylogeny: Inferring Language Trees from Cognate Word Forms
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Read more →: Talks of the Past open seminar: From Phonology to Phylogeny: Inferring Language Trees from Cognate Word FormsAbstract Linguistic phylogenies are commonly inferred from abstract cognate classifications that encode relationships among lexemes. Although widespread, this practice has well-recognised limitations: it discards phylogenetic signal contained in segmental word […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Understanding Yamnaya, in Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, speaker Volker Heyd
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Understanding Yamnaya, in Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, speaker Volker HeydAbstract – TBA Seminar speaker: Volker Heyd, Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki; Volker Heyd’s publications on Google Scholar
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Cultural Creolization in Ostrobothnia, Finland: An Interdisciplinary View on Burials, Exchange, and Social Identity, speaker Anna Wessman
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Cultural Creolization in Ostrobothnia, Finland: An Interdisciplinary View on Burials, Exchange, and Social Identity, speaker Anna WessmanThe seminar was canceled due to unexpected events out of anyone’s control. We apologize for inconvenience. Abstract This talk explores a remarkable Iron Age burial from Pukkila in western Finland, […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Talking about food in prehistory: Linguistic evidence for dietary practices in Indo-European, speaker Julia Sturm
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Talking about food in prehistory: Linguistic evidence for dietary practices in Indo-European, speaker Julia SturmAbstract What did prehistoric peoples eat? This question can be approached through various scholarly disciplines, including historical linguistics. More specifically, historical linguistics methodologies are tools for addressing the question of […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Transdisciplinary approaches toward resolving the Austronesian problem, speaker Hugo Reyes Centeno
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Transdisciplinary approaches toward resolving the Austronesian problem, speaker Hugo Reyes CentenoAbstract Despite consensus on the movement of peoples from mainland Asia to Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific over the past five thousand years, the mode of dispersal and biocultural […]
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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar: Human skeletal remains of Ilin Island, Mindoro Occidental, Philippines, speaker Tanya Uldin
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Read more →: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar: Human skeletal remains of Ilin Island, Mindoro Occidental, Philippines, speaker Tanya UldinAbstract Ilin Island, located off the southern coast of Mindoro, possesses favourable geological features, such as numerous caves and rock shelters, that enhance the preservation of archaeological materials. Recent surveys […]
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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 7th May, 2025: Discussing mobility and cultural change in the context of Aegean Neolithization, speaker Mehmet Somel
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Read more →: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 7th May, 2025: Discussing mobility and cultural change in the context of Aegean Neolithization, speaker Mehmet SomelAbstract 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 […]