Center for the Human Past
interdisciplinary research
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Human Past Interdisciplinary Retreat
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Read more →: Human Past Interdisciplinary RetreatThe main goal of the retreat is to strengthen collaboration between different disciplines and to learn about each other’s research through presentations and discussions. We hope this retreat will lay a solid foundation for future joint interdisciplinary projects and scientific publications. The day plan includes short(-ish) talks, primarily by junior researchers and PhD students, as…
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New ENLIGHT Incubator Grant for the Center!
Read more →: New ENLIGHT Incubator Grant for the Center!The collaborative project Genetics, Linguistics and Archaeology in the Digital Age is one of 23 applications that will receive funding from ENLIGHT. ENLIGHT stands for European university Network to promote equitable quality of Life, sustaInability and Global engagement through Higher education Transformation. It is a network of ten European universities that supports academics and students in creating innovative teaching and learning…
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Human Past Journal Club
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Read more →: Human Past Journal ClubDiscussion paper: Yakov Pichkar and Nicole Creanza (2026). The Evolution of Language. Editor(s): Jason B. Wolf, Claudia Augusta De Moraes Russo, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (Second Edition), Academic Press, Pages 409-420, ISBN 9780443157516, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15750-9.00030-6 Abstract The evolution of modern humans has led to the proliferation of traits that are learned from other individuals, instead of…
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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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The Center starts own YouTube channel
Read more →: The Center starts own YouTube channelIn our quest to disseminate knowledge and educate about interdisciplinary research on human prehistory, we add selected recorded seminars (Talks of the Past open seminars in particular) and other related and relevant videos on YouTube.
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The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset is now published
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Read more →: The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset is now publishedAbstract The Indo-European Cognate Relationships (IE-CoR) dataset is an open-access relational dataset showing how related, inherited words (‘cognates’) pattern across 160 languages of the Indo-European family. IE-CoR is intended as a benchmark dataset for computational research into the evolution of the Indo-European languages. It is structured around 170 reference meanings in core lexicon, and contains…
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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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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…