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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: Discussing mobility and cultural change in the context of Aegean Neolithization, speaker Mehmet Somel
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Read more →: Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 7th May, 2025: Discussing mobility and cultural change in the context of Aegean Neolithization, speaker Mehmet SomelAbstract Mehmet Somel will present some recent results on the first steps of the Neolithic expansion westward, “out-of-Anatolia”. For this study, his group generated 30 new paleogenomes from six settlements in West and Central Anatolia dating to c.10,000-8,000 years ago. The researchers further compiled a digitalized material culture dataset comprising 58 cultural elements, from architecture…
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Ad hoc mini-seminars by CHP
Read more →: Ad hoc mini-seminars by CHPWe have started ad hoc mini-seminars in our new headquarters,Villa Lugnet.The mini-seminars are by invitation only to enable in-depth discussions and exchange of knowledge across the relevant research areas. The first mini-seminar took place 25th Sept.Speaker: Axel Palmér, Junior Fellow, Human Past Fellowship Program (SCAS & CHP fellowships 2024-25)Title: “Archaeolinguistic perspectives on the Proto-Indo-Iranian homeland”
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The first awardees of the Human Past Fellowship
Read more →: The first awardees of the Human Past FellowshipWe’re excited to announce that the first residential fellows for academic year 2024-25 have been selected! The fellowship is an initiative by the Center for the Human Past administered by the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS). It is designed to foster a collaborative environment where early-stage and established scholars can converge across a range…