Yoko Yamazaki (Incoming Fellow 2024-25)

Researcher, Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University

In recent years, Yoko Yamazaki’s interests have grown towards multidisciplinary approaches, combining
historical linguistics, archaeology and genetic analysis of ancient DNA. Linguistic and cultural contacts
between Indo-European and West Uralic speakers in Northern Europe and Fennoscandia in the Early
Bronze Age are particularly fascinating. As a Human Past Fellow at SCAS, she will investigate some
aspects of the life of these peoples in contact – working and eating aspects of theirs, based on the Baltic
loanwords in West Uralic and archaeological / archaeogenetic insights gained from the Seima-Turbino
trans-cultural complex.