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Peter Jordan

Peter Jordan

Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2837-3920

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Peter Jordan joined Lund University in 2021 as the new Professor of Archaeology. He is a Principal Investigator on the new ERC Synergy Project ‘FORAGER’ and serves as Research Leader of ‘Surviving the Apocalypse’, a five-year project funded by the Swedish Research Council, which is hosted by CALDERA, the Nordic-Japan Programme in Palaeo Disaster Studies. His overarching research interests focus on long-term perspectives on technological innovation, cultural diversity and social-ecological resilience, which he explores with perspectives derived from Culture Evolutionary Studies and the Environmental Humanities. He has a long-running academic affiliation with the Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (GSI) at Hokkaido University where he held a JSPS Invitational Research Fellowship to investigate long-term social-ecological interactions across ancient Northeast Asia (2019-2020). He previously served as Director of the interdisciplinary Arctic Centre at the University of Groningen (2013-21) and has also held various academic positions in the UK, plus Research Fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Oslo (2008-9) and at RIHN in Kyoto (2010,2011). In 2024 his research team were awarded the 2024 Ben Cullen Prize from Antiquity Journal for ‘outstanding’ contributions to World Archaeology. He is currently completing a new archaeological synthesis of ancient Northeast Asia for Cambridge University Press (World Archaeology Series).  

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Humanities and the Arts
  • Natural Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger
  2. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  3. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  4. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  5. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  6. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  7. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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