Author: Marzena Norling
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Equal in death: Ancient genomic analysis of children’s early Christian burials
Sexing the skeletal remains of young individuals is crucial yet notoriously difficult in archaeology. Children, who cannot be reliably sexed morphologically, are often excluded from gender-related research, limiting our understanding of past childhood. This issue is compounded in contexts lacking grave goods, such as early Christian burials. We conducted genomic screening of 142 individuals from…
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Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland
Several researchers from the Human Evolution Program and the Jakobsson Lab co-authored a new publication on the Neolithic. Two archaeological cultural complexes; the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC) and the Pitted ware culture (PWC), coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ~3300 and 2800 calBCE. The ancestry of the FBC farmers and PWC marine foragers…
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We’re saying goodbye to Luciana
After 11 years in various roles at Uppsala University and the Human Evolution Program, Luciana Simões starts a new chapter in her professional career. The VR-funded international postdoc grant allows her to run her own research project with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez at Trinity College Dublin and the Natural History Museum in Stockholm. We certainly hope she’ll…
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What’s on at ICP2026 this week
For many at the Jakobsson Lab (if not all), the summer starts with the International Paleogenomics Conference in Stockholm, 23-26 June. On Tuesday, Mattias delivered a keynote on The unique genomics of ancient southern Africans. In the afternoon, Nik gave a talk on Local hunter-gatherer legacies in Neolithic Iberian genomes (4300-1700 yrs BCE). We are…
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Tan Xujie’s research training completed
Tan’s research training, supervised by Per Sjödin, has come to an end prior to the start of studies towards a Master’s degree. Tan presented the results of his work on “Differences in Mutation Spectrum Across Human Populations”, focusing on mutation drivers and methods, at last week’s group meeting. Thanks for your contribution to the team…
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Mariam receives funds to work on the Zdansky collection
Mariam is a successful awardee of a Uppsala University R Sernanders stipendiestiftelse scholarship (https://uaf.se/en/find-scholarships/our-foundations/r-sernanders-stipendiestiftelse/). The goal to directly advance the Foundation’s objectives in Quaternary geology and the history of fauna will be achieved by utilising soil genetics to analyse the sedimentary matrix of the Zdansky collection. Congratulations, Mariam!