Peter Jordan is Professor of Archaeology at Lund University and a Principal Investigator in the FORAGER Project. He leads Workpackage 5 on Cultural Evolution and coordinates the project’s overall publication strategy. His wider research interests include the archaeology, anthropology and ethnoarchaeology of northern foraging societies, especially in Siberia, the North Pacific, and Circumpolar Regions. He’s particularly interested in understanding the organization of forager technologies and landscapes, including how intersections between ecology, innovation, social learning and demography generate patterns of cultural diversity and long-term transformation. He also serves as Research Leader for the ‘Surviving the Apocalypse Project’, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025-2029), which investigates how ancient foragers in Japan coped with major environmental shocks and catastrophes, including the massive Kikai-Akahoya volcanic eruption, which devasted East Asia 7,300 years ago. Prior to starting at Lund University in 2021, he led the interdisciplinary Arctic Centre at the University of Groningen from 2013 to 2021, having held various academic positions in the UK. He has also completed various Research Fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Oslo in 2008-9, and at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto in 2010 and 2011. He is currently affiliated as international faculty with the Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (GSI) at Hokkaido University in Japan. 

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