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Knowledge of the human past has entered a revolutionary age of discovery as specialists from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and humanities use new evidence and new techniques to transform our understanding of human history. 

Dramatic initiatives synthesizing archaeology and paleoanthropology, cognitive sciences, computer science, digital humanities, environmental and climate studies, genetics, Geographic Information Systems, linguistics, and ancient molecules are remaking our...

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Dr. Johan Åhlfeldt

Research Engineer
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
University of Gothenburg, DE

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Knowledge of the human past has entered a revolutionary age of discovery as the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities use new evidence and new techniques to transform our understanding of history. Dramatic initiatives synthesizing archaeology and palaeoanthropology, cognitive sciences, computer science, digital humanities, environmental and climate studies, genetics, GIS, linguistics, and ancient molecules are remaking our understanding of the human past. Numerous Harvard...

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Welcome to the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past

Knowledge of the human past has entered a revolutionary age of discovery as the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities use new evidence and new techniques to transform our understanding of history. Dramatic initiatives synthesizing archaeology and palaeoanthropology, cognitive sciences, computer science, digital humanities, environmental and climate studies, genetics, GIS, linguistics, and ancient molecules are remaking our understanding of the...

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Funding Opportunities

New Undergraduate Funding Opportunity: BLISS Fellowship

Deadline: February 27

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2011 Dec 01

Lecture: "Medical Research on Ancient Mummies: Impact and Pitfalls"

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge.

This lecture is co-sponsored by SHP, the Semitic Museum and the Standing Committee on Archaeology.

BLISS Fellowships for 2012

Behavioral Laboratory in the Social Sciences: Geospatial Analysis of Roman and Medieval civilization

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2013 May 08
Preserving and Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls: Multi-Spectral Imaging one of Humanity’s Greatest Treasures
5:30pm
Presenters:
Pnina Shor, Head and Curator, Dead Sea Scrolls Projects, Israel Antiquities Authority and  Gregory Bearman, PhD,...
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PRESS RELEASE: New Ice Core Drilled in Swiss Alps

A new ice core was drilled ~73 m to bedrock at the Colle Gnifetti (CG) glacier saddle of the Monte Rosa Massif (4450 m.a.s.l.) on the Swiss-Italian border led by researchers from the Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Heidelberg (Germany) and the Physics Institute, University of Bern (Switzerland). Evaluation of this unique archive will also involve researchers from the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, Harvard University and the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine (USA), Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven (Germany) and the Department of Geosciences,...

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