SoHP Event

This is a hybrid In-Person and Remote Event! To register in advance for a Zoom webinar link: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dJ-IPc0ZTUq79hSHElP3vA ________________________________________________________ Our world has changed. The Covid-19...

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. Sponsored by the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at...

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 archaeoscientific methods to illuminate...

MHAAM German and U.S. team members will present some of our most remarkable discoveries from archaeoscience and ancient genetics. This program will provide new insights into the ancient world and the origins of classical civilization. Supported by INSTAP...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. Prof...

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...