Welcome to The Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies!
The department offers education and research in unique environments at several different laboratories and excavation-courses. The department is one of the leading research areas at Stockholm University.
The Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies was created through a merger in 2005 of, the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History.
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.
Archeologists from Stockholm University have participated in a new study on DNA from 13 individuals at the Stone age site Çayönü in south-eastern Turkey.
