Advanced Fellowships 2024-25<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-Yoko-Yamazaki-web-e1716819022150.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nYoko Yamazaki<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(autumn term)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researcher, Department for Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German
Stockholm University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yoko Yamazaki is a researcher at the Baltic section, Stockholm university, currently leading a project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Traveling Voices \u2014 The diachronic development of the voice system in Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic branches from a migrational perspective<\/em>.
She is a historical linguist with special interests in the Baltic languages and Indo-European comparative linguistics. After completing a PhD program at SU, she was awarded an International Postdoc grant from Vetenskapsr\u00e5det. With this grant, she stayed at the Department for Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich.
In recent years, her interests are growing towards the multidisciplinary approaches, combining historical linguistics, archaeology and genetic analysis of ancient DNA. Linguistic and cultural contacts between Indo-European and West Uralic speakers in Northern Europe and Fennoscandia in the Early Bronze Age are particularly fascinating. At SCAS, she will investigate some aspects of the life of these peoples in contacts \u2013 working and eating aspects of theirs, based on the Baltic loanwords in West Uralic and archaeological \/ archaeogenetic insights gained from the Seima-Turbino trans-cultural complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHer major publications include:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n\n- \u201cDiathetic problem of the Baltic \u0101<\/em>-preterits to the simple thematic presents<\/a>\u201d in Historische Sprachforschung<\/em> 134 (1), 2021, 290-311;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cBalto-Slavic accentology, schools\u201d In: Rene Genis and Marc L. Greenberg (eds.) Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics<\/em>, Leiden: Brill, First published online<\/a>: 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A co-edited book: Sommer, Florian, Karin St\u00fcber, Paul Widmer, and Yoko Yamazaki (eds.) Indogermanische Morphologie in erweiterter Sicht.<\/em> Innsbruck: Institut f\u00fcr Sprachwissenschaft der Universit\u00e4t 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mehmet Somel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(spring term)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor of Biology
Middle East Technical University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mehmet Somel worked at the MPI Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig for his Ph.D. (2004-2008) and as a postdoctoral fellow at PICB Shanghai and at UC Berkeley (2008-2013), studying human brain evolution and ageing using transcriptome data. Since 2013 he is faculty member at Middle East Technical University (METU) Biological Sciences in Ankara, Turkey, and works as part of the CompEvo group and the METU\/Hacettepe Ancient DNA Team. The group has been producing and analysing ancient genomes from humans, sheep, wild asses, and other species, mainly from SW Asia. A central motivation has been uncovering the cultural practices of past societies in the region using genetic data, such as biological versus social kin ties among co-buried individuals in Neolithic villages (Yaka et al. 2021, Current Biology) or sex-biased mobility (Koptekin et al. 2023, Current Biology), and how such patterns changed over time. For instance, the group\u2019s findings have suggested that gender-related dynamics in Neolithic Anatolia may have differed from those in later-coming Neolithic Europe, with strong patrilocality observed in Europe but not in Anatolia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At SCAS, he will work on the transformation of Anatolia in the 2nd millennium CE, when the peninsula underwent major cultural shifts along with the admixture between incoming nomadic Turkic tribes and the mainly Greek- and Armenian-speaking local populations. He will be co-analysing archaeogenomic data and the historical literature in an attempt to better understand the pull and push factors behind the massive religious and linguistic conversion of Anatolia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Links:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/compevo.bio.metu.edu.tr<\/a> (research group)
https:\/\/neogene.metu.edu.tr\/<\/a> (ERC funded research project on the Neolithic)
https:\/\/neomatrix.metu.edu.tr\/<\/a> (H2020 funded research network)<\/p>\n<\/div>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/202412-Mehmet-Somel-web-1.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nYoung Scholar Fellowship 2024-25<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-Axel-Palmer-web.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nAxel Palm\u00e9r<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(full academic year)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guest Researcher, Centre for Linguistics
Leiden University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Axel Palm\u00e9r is a historical linguist specialized in Indo-European languages. After undergraduate studies in indology and linguistics at Uppsala University, he continued his studies at Leiden University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2024 with a dissertation titled Indo-Slavic lexical isoglosses and the prehistoric dispersal of Indo-Iranian<\/em>.
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<\/figure>Yoko Yamazaki<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(autumn term)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researcher, Department for Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German
Stockholm University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yoko Yamazaki is a researcher at the Baltic section, Stockholm university, currently leading a project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Traveling Voices \u2014 The diachronic development of the voice system in Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic branches from a migrational perspective<\/em>. (spring term)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor of Biology Mehmet Somel worked at the MPI Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig for his Ph.D. (2004-2008) and as a postdoctoral fellow at PICB Shanghai and at UC Berkeley (2008-2013), studying human brain evolution and ageing using transcriptome data. Since 2013 he is faculty member at Middle East Technical University (METU) Biological Sciences in Ankara, Turkey, and works as part of the CompEvo group and the METU\/Hacettepe Ancient DNA Team. The group has been producing and analysing ancient genomes from humans, sheep, wild asses, and other species, mainly from SW Asia. 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She is a historical linguist with special interests in the Baltic languages and Indo-European comparative linguistics. After completing a PhD program at SU, she was awarded an International Postdoc grant from Vetenskapsr\u00e5det. With this grant, she stayed at the Department for Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich.
In recent years, her interests are growing towards the multidisciplinary approaches, combining historical linguistics, archaeology and genetic analysis of ancient DNA. Linguistic and cultural contacts between Indo-European and West Uralic speakers in Northern Europe and Fennoscandia in the Early Bronze Age are particularly fascinating. At SCAS, she will investigate some aspects of the life of these peoples in contacts \u2013 working and eating aspects of theirs, based on the Baltic loanwords in West Uralic and archaeological \/ archaeogenetic insights gained from the Seima-Turbino trans-cultural complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHer major publications include:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
\n
Mehmet Somel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Middle East Technical University<\/p>\n\n\n\nLinks:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/neogene.metu.edu.tr\/<\/a> (ERC funded research project on the Neolithic)
https:\/\/neomatrix.metu.edu.tr\/<\/a> (H2020 funded research network)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nYoung Scholar Fellowship 2024-25<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>Axel Palm\u00e9r<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Leiden University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Palm\u00e9r\u2019s research seeks to understand the diachronic development of the Indo-European languages, particularly the Indo-Iranian branch and its relationship to its European relatives. Beyond the development of the languages themselves, however, he focuses on reconstructing the prehistoric movements and interactions of the speakers of Indo-European languages by connecting linguistic evidence to real-world contexts with the help of archaeology and population genomics. His Ph.D. dissertation traces the dispersal of the Indo-Iranian branch from Eastern Europe to Asia starting from the disintegration of the Indo-European protolanguage ca. 3000 BCE. His papers have appeared in international journals such as Indogermanische Forschungen<\/em>, Indo-European linguistics<\/em>, and PLoS ONE<\/em>. His co-authored paper Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the Core Indo-European languages<\/em> (Kroonen et al., 2022) presents a new scenario of the early Indo-European dispersal, which has since received support by genetic studies. As a fellow of the Human Past Fellowship Programme at SCAS, Palm\u00e9r will investigate the relationship between pastoralist and agriculturalist subsistance strategies in early Indo-Iranian societies.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nCongratulations and welcome to the Center for the Human Past!<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"