Uppsala, Sweden

The Department of Archaeology, Ancient History and Conservation houses different research projects in the areas of Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Global Archaeology and Egyptology. It also houses an international master programme in Global Environmental History. The department houses several research projects related to IHOPE’s objectives. In particular the IHOPE affiliated Domesticated Landscapes of the Peloponnese (DoLP) and Contesting Marginality (Boreal forests of Northern Sweden). The department has a very strong competence in African Archaeology and housed the IHOPE project Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) and supports the IHOPE project Diversity, Sustainability, and Transformation South-Central Mozambique 

Uppsala also house The Swedish Biodiversity Centre, CBM, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). CBM is a center for research and communication on conservation, restoration and sustainable use of biodiversity as a crucial issue for society. CBM conducts and coordinates policy-relevant research on the complex interactions between biodiversity and social development, and contributes to society’s capacity to manage these interactions in a sustainable way. Together, the two centres collaborate on the theme Biocultural Heritage.

Special competences include: Biocultural Heritage; Integrated Landscape Analyses; Digital Humanities

Regional special competence: Southern and Eastern Africa, Central and northern Scandinavia, Greece, Italy, Assyria, Oceania

Theme responsibilities: Biocultural Heritage

Contact: anneli.ekblom@arkeologi.uu.se