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On the following day, Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, opened the first MHAAM Harvard Town Hall Meeting by highlighting the objectives of the new center and the methodological affinities between Harvard and the Max Planck Institute in their broad support of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry. Historian and great friend of Harvard Malcolm Wiener gave a welcome address to the ca. 100 attendees in the Thompson Room, Barker Center. Lord Colin Renfrew, Disney Professor of Archaeology emeritus at Cambridge, followed with remarks on themes in Mediterranean archaeology. Philipp Stockhammer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and MPISHH) then highlighted some case studies in human migration from the Bronze Age Mediterranean. Krause’s second lecture focused on human migration, comparing an unprecedented amount of highly resolved data derived from sequenced human genomes, obtained from remains from multiple burial sites throughout Eurasia. David Reich, Dr. Iosif Lazaridis and Ms. Eadaoin Harney (HMS, SoHP) then provided an overview of the progress of the Reich lab’s research in human genomes and patterns of mobility and relatedness in the ancient Mediterranean.
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