Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past

Joanna Story (University of Leicester), Manuscripts and Molecules: A New Project to Analyze the Parchments of the Earliest English and Irish Books, ca. 600–900 C.E, with comments by Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University) and Christina Warriner (Harvard...

Zuzana Hofmanová and Joscha Gretzinger (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Ancient DNA Illuminates the Origins and Early Migrations of the Slavs. Comments by Serhii Plokhi (Harvard University) and Jakub Kabala (Davidson College)...

Joscha Gretzinger (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), African Connections with Anglo-Saxon England? New Light from Ancient DNA. Comments by John Hines (Cardiff University), Emmanuel Akyempong (Harvard University), and Orlando Patterson...

Megan Michel (Harvard University), Breakthrough: Ancient DNA Illuminates Malaria's Impact across Human History. Response by Dyann F. Wirth (Harvard School of Public Health), with comments by Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma), Edward T. Ryan (Harvard...

Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München), Life and Death in Late Antique Gaul: Aligning Ancient Bodies with Inscriptions in the Burials at St. Maximin, Trier, with response by Christina Warinner (Harvard University). Co-sponsored with...

Mapping Past Societies (MAPS) replaces and expands the acclaimed Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DARMC), which attracted more than a million visits a year. MAPS is a free and public tool that enables users to peer into the human past...

A roundtable discussion on an ongoing pioneering international investigation of anomalous burials in early medieval Gaul, and the evidence they provide about the so-called "Justinianic Plague". Featuring presentations by Philippe Blanchard (INRAP)...

Solenn Troadec (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past), The Archaeology of Death: Burial Places, Graves, and Bodies. Note that this talk is a hybrid event; to attend virtually, please contact workshop organizers Sama...

Post-Pandemic Update: What has the Science of the Human Past Discovered Lately? Introduced by Michael McCormick, with presentations by Christina Warriner, Jason Ur, Michael Isakov, Daniel Lord Smail, Gabriel Pizzorno, Solenn Troadec, Alexander More, David...

Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena), Death by Contact: Ancient Pathogen Genomes from Epidemics in Early Mexico. Sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient...