Yadi Wen, Hiroaki Yagi, Jiyoung Park, Yifan Wang, Youngbae Ji

Preceeded by a l;ecture by Professor Xinwei Li

Harvard Archaeology Seminar Series

Cameron Petrie University of Cambridge

The populations of South Asia's Indus Civilisation lived across an extensive area characterised by diverse and variable environments. Over a century of archaeological research has seen the excavation of major centres such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, which are located on extensive alluvial plains, and the investigation of other settlements of various sizes in a range of different environmental contexts. There have been numerous surveys of Indus Civilisation...

A James Loeb Lecture by Florian Knauss Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek, Munich

Tom Gilbert University of Copenhagen 

A talk hosted by the OEB Seminar Series: Reception to follow talk 

Human populations have been shaped by past catastrophes, some of which may have left long-lasting signatures in our genomes. Although numerous tools have been developed that enable such signatures to be developed using genomic datasets generated from contemporary materials, an alternative approach that is becoming increasingly feasible is to harness the power of population palaeogenomics - i.e. sequencing of ‘...