Center for the Human Past
interdisciplinary research
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A new open seminar series, Talks of the Past (ToP Seminars) by CHP
Read more →: A new open seminar series, Talks of the Past (ToP Seminars) by CHPThe Center for the Human Past (CHP) starts a seminar series, Talks of the Past (ToP Seminars), in September 2024. The seminars (app. 45 min) will take place on the first Wednesday of each month and will be followed by a discussion and a “fika” (coffee break). The event is open to students and academics…
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Reading tips by CHP
Read more →: Reading tips by CHPErik Elgh & Harald Hammarström. 2024. The dialect chain tree. A perennial conflict in historical linguistics centers around the theoretical and practical virtues of tree-like divergence and wave-like diffusion. The Dialect Chain Tree is an extension of the tree model that incorporates both tree-like descent and disintegration of dialect chains in a systematic fashion. As…
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Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, Sept 4th, 2024: The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa, speaker Carina Schlebusch
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Read more →: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, Sept 4th, 2024: The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa, speaker Carina SchlebuschCanoe floating in the Loange River near the port of Kabombo (photo by Peter Coutros, Ghent University) Synopsis The Bantu expansion, a defining event of Holocene Africa, profoundly transformed the continent’s linguistic, cultural, and biological landscape. This talk integrates genomic data with evidence from other disciplines to explore the migration of Bantu-speaking peoples, which began…