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Biomolecular Humanities through the Lens of Archaeology

Publié le 27 janvier 2026 – Mis à jour le 27 janvier 2026

Recent years have evidenced a rapid development of various biomolecular methods, which are directly influencing the advancement of archaeological research. However, archaeology is not alone here, and there has been a vast expansion of biomolecular methodologies into different fields of humanities. In the first half of this talk I will introduce the concept of biomolecular humanities as an emerging new transdisciplinary field rewriting our scientific epistemology and praxis for the years to come. Thereafter I will use different archaeological case studies from the Baltic Sea region that combine biomolecular methodologies and humanities thinking to highlight the merits and complexities of such a combined research agenda.

Conférence par Ester Oras, Professor of Archaeochemistry at the Institutes of Chemistry, and History and Archaeology, at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and the Pro Futura Scientia fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.
Conférence organisée par l'Institut des Hautes Etudes de Belgique et le CReA-Patrimoine
Date(s)
Le 17 mars 2026
Lieu(x)

ULB - Campus du Solbosch, local UC3-230