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SoHP Lecture: Gideon Avni on "'An Early Islamic Agricultural Revolution?' New Light on the Transformation of Agricultural and Irrigation Technologies in the late Roman and Islamic Near East"

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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...

Digital Science on SoHP at Google SciFoo 2018, and the charged effects of climate events, mass migrations, pandemics, and political decisions

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2,000 Years of European Climate: First Results from the SoHP Historical Ice Core Project

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In 2013 a joint venture of the University of Maine and Harvard University retrieved a 73-meter (240ft) ice core from Colle Gnifetti in the Swiss Alps. Chemical analysis of the ice core, at the Climate Change Institute, is producing invaluable new data...

The 2023 Global Young Investigator Symposium

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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...

Current Research Lightning Talks

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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.

Mapping Past Societies: Data Science Meets the Human Past

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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...

Ancient DNA & U.S. History: The Genetic Legacy of African Americans from Catoctin Furnace

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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...

Worst Years in History

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If your research involves identifying extreme events in history, and how they affected (and will affect again) society, then you're bound to find some fairly terrifying stuff. Years when the sky was obscured by ash from volcanic eruptions, years when...

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

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

Climate, Pollution and Economic Growth in Human History: New results from the Historical Ice Core Project

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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...

Approches (bio)archéologiques: la maladie et la mort dans la France du haut Moyen Âge / (Bio)archaeological approaches to disease and death in early medieval France

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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...

Undergraduates and the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard: First Hoopes Prize!

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The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past is delighted to announce that Matthew Luongo (Harvard College Dunster House ’17) has been awarded a Hoopes Prize for his thesis: "Comparison and Calibration of Climate Proxy Data in Medieval Europe.” The...