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Hugo Reyes Centeno and Anthony Jakob are the current Human Past SCAS Fellows
Read more →: Hugo Reyes Centeno and Anthony Jakob are the current Human Past SCAS FellowsWe are pleased to welcome Hugo Reyes Centeno, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, USA and Anthony Jakob, a historical linguist with a PhD from Leiden University as our new fellows. During the fellowship, Hugo will work on the project Genomic and archaeological approaches toward resolving the Austronesian problem, while Anthony…
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Book alert! Indo-European ecologies: Cattle and milk—snakes and water.
Read more →: Book alert! Indo-European ecologies: Cattle and milk—snakes and water.This is the second volume in the series Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture (open access). Jenny Larsson, professor in Baltic languages, with a primary interest in the history of languages, is one of the co-editors. This volume brings together scholars from different fields, exploring how early Indo-European communities understood and mythologised their natural and social…
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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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In 1 minute – Center for the Human Past
Read more →: In 1 minute – Center for the Human PastHere’s a gist of what the Center for the Human Past is and what we do. In one minute (and 22 seconds). The video was made for the Swedish Research Council (VR). It was recorded at the Uppsala University Blåsenhus recording studio (13 May 2025). Behind the scenes…
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Axel Palmér joins the Center in a new role
Read more →: Axel Palmér joins the Center in a new roleThe 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. Axel’s enthusiasm, curiosity, and quest for learning, combined with his desire to teach, make him the ideal colleague to work with. Congratulations, Axel! More about…
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He traces the genetic history of modern humans
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Read more →: He traces the genetic history of modern humansThe 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 project is to track the development that occurred between 300,000 and 600,000 years ago, following the genetic line that leads to modern humans. The material…