Our research focuses on the Greek and Roman cultures of the Mediterranean region. The discipline is unique, in both a Swedish and an international context, with its special interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary focus.
The laboratory is unique in Scandinavia due to its wide focus, including biological, chemical, physical and geological methods applied to archaeological records from any chronological period or geographical region.
Osteoarchaeology is one of the special profile disciplines at the department, where basic and more specialized research is conducted. New areas of research include paleopathology in animals and palaeohistopathology.
Numismatics is the science of coins and other means of payments etc. The aim of the institute is to set the coins into a wider context - economically, politically, administratively and socially.
The overall objective of the centre is to bring researchers from different disciplines, such as biology, archaeology and geology, together into a state-of-the-art research environment dedicated to ancient DNA analyses.
We conduct interdisciplinary research on causal relationships that shape and change human culture in a longer and a shorter term, with theoretical, mathematical and empirical approaches from a variety of disciplines.
The project aims to develop a strong collaborative network on environmental issues between the three faculties which make up the Human Sciences Area at Stockholm University: Humanities, Law and Social Sciences.
A new study based on 297 ancient Scandinavian genomes analysed together with the genomic data of 16,638 present day Scandinavians resolve the complex relations between geography, ancestry, and gene flow in Scandinavia – encompassing the Roman Age, the Viking Age and later periods. A surprising increase of variation during the Viking period indicates that gene flow into Scandinavia was especially intense during this period.
On Monday December 12, one of the foremost egyptologists Dr. Hawass, will come to Sweden to give an open lecture in the Aula Magna at Stockholm University.