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• Danish Professor Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Arts

  [10 May 2013] Sten Ebbesen, Professor of the Aristotelian Tradition at the University of Copenhagen, has been appointed Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Arts. Ebbesen¿s persistent efforts to strengthen the University of Gothenburg¿s research within Classical Languages and History of Philosophy date back to the mid-1990s.

• New Excavations Indicate Use of Fertilisers 5,000 Years Ago

  [16 Apr 2013] Researchers from the University of Gothenburg have spent many years studying the remains of a Stone Age community in Karleby outside the town of Falköping, Sweden. The researchers have for example tried to identify parts of the inhabitants¿ diet. Right now they are looking for evidence that fertilisers were used already during the Scandinavian Stone Age, and the results of their first analyses may be exactly what they are looking for.

• Endangered African language explored

  [21 Mar 2013] Children growing up in the Rufiji region along the coast of Tanzania are learning Swahili as their first language. Consequently, their parents are expected to be the last generation to be fluent in the minority language Ndengeleko. A new doctoral thesis in African languages from the University of Gothenburg is the first, and maybe last, attempt ever to explore Ndengeleko grammatically.

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