Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Transdisciplinary approaches toward resolving the Austronesian problem.
- Date
- 5 November 2025, 15:15–16:30
- Location
- Blåsenhus, Blåsenhus, seminar room 13:028
- Type
- Lecture, Seminar
- Lecturer
- Hugo Reyes Centeno
- Web page
- https://centerforthehumanpast.se/
- Organiser
- Center for the Human Past (CHP)
- Contact person
- Marzena Norling
- Phone
- 0184715512
Talks of the Past (ToP) seminars are open to anyone interested in interdisciplinary research in the fields of palaeogenetics, archaeology, and linguistics. It is a series of seminars that take place on the first Wednesday of each month and are followed by a discussion and a “fika” (coffee break). The seminars are delivered in English.
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This talk will introduce current debates on the Austronesian problem, critically synthesising models developed from linguistic, archaeological, and genetic lines of evidence. In addition, it will draw on original fieldwork harnessing archaeological data collected from the Philippines to draw attention to the uneven sampling problem still affecting transdisciplinary studies of the human past in Southeast Asia and Oceania.