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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 4th June 2025: speaker Tanya Uldin
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Read more →: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 4th June 2025: speaker Tanya UldinTitle and abstract TBD Tanya Uldin – an associate professor at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Tanya is a biological anthropologist with 20+ years of experience, trained in archaeology […]
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Call for the Human Past Fellowships 2026-27 is open
Read more →: Call for the Human Past Fellowships 2026-27 is openThe fellowship aims to attract researchers interested in the human past, combining methods and materials from different disciplines. The primary focus is on research work relating to three major migration […]
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New read alert: Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel
Read more →: New read alert: Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the SahelThe new paper by Fortes-Lima, Diallo, Janoušek, Černý, and Schlebusch (2025) was published last week in The American Journal of Human Genetics. Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa’s […]
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Mini-Seminar (by invitation) on Elfdalian with Joakim Wahlin (archaeology) and Yair Sapir (linguistics)
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SCAS SEMINAR – Genetic Insights into Social Organisation of Neolithic Societies in Anatolia: Kinship and Gender Roles, speaker Mehmet Somel
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Read more →: SCAS SEMINAR – Genetic Insights into Social Organisation of Neolithic Societies in Anatolia: Kinship and Gender Roles, speaker Mehmet SomelMehmet Somel is a professor of biology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25. The abstract will follow.
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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 7th May, 2025 – speaker Mehmet Somel
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Read more →: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 7th May, 2025 – speaker Mehmet SomelMehmet Somel is a professor of biology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25. He will deliver the ToP seminar on his […]
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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 2nd Apr 2025: Uralic spread, Seima-Turbino and flower pots, speaker Outi Vesakoski
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Read more →: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 2nd Apr 2025: Uralic spread, Seima-Turbino and flower pots, speaker Outi VesakoskiAbstract The seminal paper by Grünthal et al. (2022) advances a new scenario of Proto-Uralic disintegration and spread. They suggest a rapid spread of Uralic languages through Common Uralic, a […]
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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 5th Mar, 2025: Prehistoric plant DNA and the agricultural history of the Canary Islands, speaker Jenny Hagenblad
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Read more →: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 5th Mar, 2025: Prehistoric plant DNA and the agricultural history of the Canary Islands, speaker Jenny HagenbladAbstract The intimate relationship between humans and crop plants means that traces of human cultural practices become embedded in the crop genome. Aspects of past cultures not documented in written […]
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SCAS SEMINAR – Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in the Rigveda and Beyond, speaker: Axel Palmér
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Read more →: SCAS SEMINAR – Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in the Rigveda and Beyond, speaker: Axel PalmérOur Human Past Fellow Axel Palmér will deliver a talk on his current research project at one of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) seminars. Welcome!
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Vacancy: Postdoctoral position in interdisciplinary research with a focus on population genetics at the Center for the Human Past
Read more →: Vacancy: Postdoctoral position in interdisciplinary research with a focus on population genetics at the Center for the Human PastWe are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in population genetics who will contribute to the center’s overarching goal to illuminate and understand various aspects of human development over the past 10,000 […]