Research within classical archaeology and ancient history, archaeology, numismatics, laboratory archaeology, osteoarchaeology, paleogenetics and evolutionary cultural research.
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.
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.
New insights into combat platforms of warships and a unique weapon chest from the Late Middle Ages. These are some new results from studies of the Danish flagship Gribshunden/Griffin, which sank in the Blekinge archipelago in 1495.
Bacterial poisoning via food and water – but also via contact such as kisses – caused a lot of suffering during the Stone Age. Diseases that today can be treated with antibiotics were then fatal, a new study shows.