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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 12, 2022** 

 03:00PM - 04:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (Lower Level), Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

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 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 [register ahead for webinar link](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__4rKX7uTSmu1rQUZ81VXXw).

 Sponsored by the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP), *with the support of the Goelet-Berkowitz Fund to Support the Science of the Human Past.*

 *Introduction:*

 **Michael McCormick**, *Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University; Chair, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP); Director at Harvard, Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM).*

 *Speakers:*

 **“Reviving ancient brews: genetically reconstructing Tibetan beers and Roman wines”**

 **Christina Warinner**, *Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor, Radcliffe Institute; Group Leader, Dept. of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany.*

 **“The Second Generation of Declassified Intelligence Satellites and Landscape Archaeology”**

 **Jason Ur**, *Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.*

 **“When did the Celts come to Britain? Ancient DNA answers”**

 **Michael Isakov**, *A.B. Mathematics, Harvard College, A.M. Statistics, Harvard University (exp. ’22)***.**

 **“What is Documentary Archaeology? Creating big data from medieval Europe’s material culture”**

 **Daniel Lord Smail**, *Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Harvard University,* and **Gabriel Pizzorno**, *Preceptor on Digital History, Harvard University.*

 **“Anomalous Burials: The archaeology of death in early medieval France”**

 **Solenn Troadec**, *Postdoctoral Fellow, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, Harvard University:*

 **“1000 years ago: climate change and globalization?”**

 **Alexander More**, *Associate Professor of Public Health, LIU Brooklyn; Research Associate, SoHP, Harvard University.*

 **“South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region”**

 **David Reich**, *Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.*

 *With comments by:* **Margaret Andrews**, *Assistant Professor of Classics, Harvard University.*

 Q&A to follow, and public reception!



 

 



 

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