SoHP Event

Hear what the Science of the Human Past team have been up to in this exciting round of lightning talks! Reception to follow. Can't join us in person? Click here to register for the webinar.

Milk is both ancient and enigmatic. First transformed into dairy products over 9,000 years ago in the Near East, its production required the domestication of not only animals, but also microorganisms. Dairy technologies spread across Europe, Africa, and...

Dr. Megan Michel Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University RESPONDENT Dyann F. Wirth Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health COMMENTS Kyle Harper G.T. and...

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...

Come learn how the humanities are using biomolecules, archaeology and history to discover a dramatic new vision of the Roman Empire and its enduring impact. Stunning new ancient DNA evidence from the SoHP/MHAAM research team reveals the Roman Empire’s...

Mapping Past Societies (MAPS): Data Science meets the Human Past Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA Harvard University Public reception to follow at Adams House, Oaktel Room 217 (at the...

The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard invites you to a discussion about recent work in U.S. History from Prof. David Reich’s lab that deploys ancient DNA and Big Data to discover new genomic insights into the life stories of 27...

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 Evolutionary Anthropology in...

How was life in the Mycenaean World? Whom did they marry, what did they eat and what did they suffer from? For a long time, these questions were almost impossible to answer. Now, archaeoscience has revolutionized our understanding about the past –...