Ester Oras and Jenny Larsson Co-Lead New RJ Programme on Indo-European Food Culture
In its recent round of grants, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) awarded an RJ Programme grant totalling approx. SEK 40,000 000 to the research project Från mjölk till mjöd – indoeuropeisk matkultur i förhistorien (From Milk to Mead – Indo-European Food Culture in Prehistory*). Together with Principal Investigator Anders Kaliff (Uppsala University) and Thomas Olander (University of Copenhagen), current SCAS Pro Futura Scientia Fellow Ester Oras and former Fellow Jenny Larsson are co-leading the project.
The project is one of three large projects that have been granted funding as an RJ Programme. This funding form supports larger research groups with long-term initiatives lasting six to eight years.
Ester Oras is a SCAS Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, and Professor of Archaeochemistry at the University of Tartu. She was in residence at SCAS in the academic year 2023-24.
Jenny Larsson External link, opens in new window. is Professor of Baltic Languages at Stockholm University. She was a Fellow in residence at SCAS in the autumn of 2018.
(*Indo-European Foodways – Reconstructing Prehistoric Food Practices from Words, Things, and Molecules)