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2022 May 12

Post-Pandemic Update: What has the Science of the Human Past discovered lately?

3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (Lower Level), Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Lightning Talks from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, followed by public reception until 5:30 or 6:00 pm. Please attend in person if you are in the area! If not, please...
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2019 Nov 01

From Homer to History with the MHAAM: Recent Results from Bronze Age Investigations

1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

MHAAM German and U.S. team members will present some of our most remarkable discoveries from archaeoscience and ancient...
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2019 Oct 15

Marriage, Mobility, & Households in Bronze Age Germany: Integrating Ancient DNA, Isotopes & Archaeology

5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location:
CGIS South: S020 Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Dr. Alissa Mittnik,
Department of Genetics, Reich Lab,
Harvard Medical School

Public Reception to Follow.

Dr. Mittnik will speak on her remarkable research showing the power of traditional archaeological and newer...
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2018 Nov 15

The Lead Summit at Harvard: Revolutionary Discoveries in Lead Pollution and Health Impacts

5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, 1350 Massachusetts Ave. (Harvard Yard), Cambridge, MA
Amidst the news of continuing lead pollution crises, foremost researchers in this field will present new, groundbreaking and alarming data on the effects of long-term lead pollution, renewing the call to eliminate lead from our cities, homes and the environment. This event is open to the public and the media.

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2018 Nov 14

Climate, Pollution and Economic Growth in Human History: New results from the Historical Ice Core Project

5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Stunning recent results from our collaboration with the Climate Change Institute of the University of Maine, reveal new evidence about our human past sealed within the Colle Gnifetti ice core. A groundbreaking new, open-access article in Antiquity, sheds new light on the foundations of the European economy and the devastating volcanic eruption of 536AD.

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2018 Nov 02

Young Investigator Symposium

9:00am to 2:00pm
Location:
Barker Center for the Humanities, Thompson Room

The Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), a collaboration between The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany (MPISHH) announces an opportunity for recent and graduating seniors and Master’s students to participate in a Symposium scheduled at Harvard University on Friday, November 2^nd, 2018. ... Read more about Young Investigator Symposium
2018 Sep 18

International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA) highlights the work of SoHP and the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM)

Tue - Fri, Sep 18 to Sep 21, 9:00am - 10:00pm
Location:
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
The growing prominence of the work of Harvard’s Initiative for the Science of the Human Past (SoHP) and the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) was hard to miss at the eighth biennial world gathering of biomolecular archaeologists in Jena, Germany, September 18-21, 2018. The International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA) was hosted by Johannes Krause and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPISHH), SoHP’s collaborative partner in the creation of MHAAM....
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2018 Apr 11

Death by Contact: Ancient Pathogen Genomes from Epidemics in Early Mexico

5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Johannes Krause (Director, Department of Archaeogenetics, MPISSH Jena, Univ. Tübingen),

With comments by Edward T. Ryan, Director of Global Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, and Principal Investigator, Harvard collaboration with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Noreen Tuross, Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

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2018 Feb 15

The Archaeology of Poverty: How poor were Roman peasants? Did they get poorer?

5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Kimberly D. Bowes, Assoc. Professor of Classical Studies,
University of Pennsylvania

With comment by

Leslie Dossey (Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago)
Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.

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2017 Nov 16

SoHP Lecture: Gideon Avni on "'An Early Islamic Agricultural Revolution?' New Light on the Transformation of Agricultural and Irrigation Technologies in the late Roman and Islamic Near East"

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
HUCE Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street (4th Floor), Cambridge, MA
As part of the SoHP "What's New in the Fall of the Roman Empire" Lecture Series, Dr. Gideon Avni, Head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, will speak at Harvard University on "'An Early Islamic Agricultural Revolution?' New Light on the Transformation of Agricultural and Irrigation Technologies in the late Roman and Islamic Near East." Included will be a discussion on projects of OSL dating fields, the early Islamic agricultural estates, the mechanism of introduction and diffusion of qanats in the Near East and beyond (north Africa, Iran and the east), in relation to the main issues raised by Andrew Watson’s pioneering research.