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“We can now use advanced computational tools to understand human prehistory, which seems to be far more complex than previously believed.”
Read more →: “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. Read more
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Mattias Jakobsson – a Wallenberg Scholar 2024
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Read more →: Mattias Jakobsson – a Wallenberg Scholar 2024The prestigious Wallenberg Scholar grant is awarded to leading senior researchers in Sweden every five years. It can be freely used for research with no restrictions. The Wallenberg Foundation awarded 118 scientists, from 13 Swedish Universities in 2024. Mattias Jakobsson, one of the Center for the Human Past’s Principal Investigators, is one of the twenty awardees…
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Inauguration of the Center for the Human Past
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Read more →: Inauguration of the Center for the Human PastA 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…