Center for the Human Past - CHP

02/09/2026

The reunited and ready for the autumn semester! We also welcome our new Human Past SCAS Fellow, Jaison Jeevar Sequeira!

27/08/2026

We are back in business. For starters, we've moved around the furniture in the meeting room to make better use of the available space. You'll know it works (hopefully) when you join us for the next on Wed, 16 Sep. We will have a pleasure of welcoming Rosemary Rhiannon Bishop, an and archaeologist, University of Stavanger then.
Next week, however we will host Gwenna Breton, geneticist and bioinformatician at Gothenburg University, for the first seminar. More info to come but if you're curious check the on our website. Link in the first comment.

26/08/2026

The first meeting after summer vacation was all about . Axel Palmér and the postdocs have started planning the international within .

08/07/2026

Ancient pathogen DNA from animals elucidates the origin and evolution of infectious diseases.

Learn more in a new Science Perspective: https://scim.ag/44qts8U

22/06/2026

Reading tips

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 17 June 2026

18/06/2026

We're wrapping up our activities before the Swedish traditional midsummer celebrations with a where Daniel Brown led discussion on the subject of: Politicised Prehistories: How Can Counter the Far-Right of . And we ended with pizza & beer in the garden. Thanks to all of you who attended our seminars, Journal Club and other activities. We hope to see you again in September.

03/06/2026

European warriors of the Bronze Age might have been fearsome—but they were no match for milk.

Read more on : https://scim.ag/4lbg2nV

03/06/2026

Thank you all for joining us today! This is also the goodbye to our Human Past , David and Anthony. Anthony took the opportunity to report back from the and to lead a discussion on the topics presented there.
Thanks for your presence and stimulating discussions and all the best in the future!

03/06/2026

We invite all interested to the last open which starts in a couple of hours at . Our guest speaker, professor, Kristian Kristiansen has already joined us for a meeting and a discussion at our HQ.

28/05/2026

Thank you, Vetenskapsrådet for your visit yesterday, for the interest in our Center for the Human Past - CHP and all the questions! We hope you enjoyed the meeting and that the presentations by Mattias Jakobsson, Carina Schlebusch (past overview), Harald Hammarström ( languages) and Max Larena ( of people and in ) made you intrigued and eager to know more. We certainly enjoyed the time spent with you!

Uppsala University Kalle Lindholm Jenny Larsson Axel Palmér