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Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE) is a Centre of Excellence (CoE) located at University of Bergen

SapienCE was established in 2017 by the Research Council of Norway in collaboration with the University of Bergen. Other collaborators include University of the Witwatersrand, Uni Research and Royal Holloway. SapienCE is part of the Research Council of Norway's Centres of Excellence (CoE) scheme. The scheme organizes the activities of Norway’s foremost scientific circles in centres to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and long-term basic funding. The official opening of SapienCE was held in the centre's newly renovated offices at Sydnesplassen 12/13 on Monday October 30. SapienCE aims to consolidate UiB and Norway's position as a world leader in early human origins research. The centre will provide outstanding training and research oppotunities for researchers, PhDs and Post Docs to work with world leaders in this field.

30/10/2026

A day-long SapienCE workshop 'Shaping Tools-Shaping Minds' organized by our ECRs off to a great start!

21/10/2026

Congratulations to our Dr Zahra Haghighi and her SapienCE and non-SapienCE coauthors on the new publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B' titled 'Palaeoproteomic investigation of archaeological sediments associated with ochre use in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa'.
A new story about this article and the research behind it is also available on SapienCE's web page here:

Traces of eland proteins have been detected from a 60,000-year-old ochre surface in South Africa. The discovery opens a new window into the lives of our ancestors through evidence long hidden in the archaeological record.

19/10/2026

Thanks to SapienCE postdocs Marzena Cendrowska and Antoine Muller for their awesome talks as part of the AHKR - Institutt for arkeologi, historie, kultur- og religionsvitskap, UiB Humans and Materiality research group lecture series!🫶👏👏

19/10/2026

SapienCE yesterday participated in the Archaeology Day organized by the Universitetsmuseet i Bergen! We had the great pleasure to join our colleagues from other sections of the University and engage visitors in hands-on practices related to our research in South Africa. Many thanks to postdocs Marzena Cendrowska, Antoine Muller, and Maciej Ehlert for taking part and to everyone who visited our station for a great turnout!

09/10/2026

The South African Ambassador to Norway, H.E. Ms Delores Kotze, warmly welcomes the news of Judge Pillay’s being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and extends her heartfelt congratulations. As a South African, this is a particularly proud moment. It is wonderful to see her lifetime of work defending the rights of others receive this recognition.

Judge Pillay grew up in Durban under apartheid and became a lawyer at a time when the law denied her and millions of other South Africans equal rights. She defended people persecuted under that system and later helped build a South Africa founded on equality before the law. She carried that commitment into international courtrooms and the United Nations, speaking up for victims of the gravest crimes, even when it was uncomfortable to do so.

What I admire most is her consistency. Whether in Durban, Arusha or Geneva, her commitment to justice has remained firm. Her life’s work reminds us that lasting peace depends on justice. That lesson carries particular weight for South Africans, given our own history, and I welcome the Nobel Committee’s recognition of her contribution.

As South Africa’s Ambassador to Norway, I find this moment especially meaningful. I look forward to celebrating her achievement here in Oslo and hope to welcome her to Norway in December.

Department of International Relations and Cooperation, SA

02/10/2026

Another SapienCE annual SAC meeting successfully completed today at Solstrand! Big thanks to all the SapienCE scientists for their presentations and even more for the excellent work they've been doing over the past several years. Special thanks to our Scientific Advisory Committee members for their feedback and company!

30/09/2026

Awesome first day of the SapienCE 2026 SAC meeting at Solstrand! 😎

30/09/2026

Representing SapienCE at this important event taking place at the University of Cambridge on October 10 is our senior researcher Dr Larissa Mendoza Straffon!

22/09/2026

Heartfelt congratulations to Beth Velliky, until recently a postdoc, on her newly awarded Norges forskningsråd FRIPRO grant for her 'Tracking Rock Art and Ochre Environments' (TRACES) project. It could not have gone to a more deserving researcher. We are very proud of her achievement and look forward to following her work! 🫡👏👏👏

23 banebrytende forskningsprosjekter får nå millionstøtte fra Forskningsrådet. Blant spørsmålene det skal forskes på er om bedre leseferdigheter kan styrke prestasjonene i matte, hvordan kunstig intelligens arver fordommene våre og hvorfor noen tar større sjanser enn andre i aksjemarkedet.

10/09/2026

Congratulations to the lead author Dr Ellie Pryor and her SapienCE and non-SapienCE co-authors on an exciting new paper in Quaternary Science Reviews, which is a great example of cross-collaboration between climate data, climate modelling and archaeology.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126004117

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Sydnesplassen 12
Bergen
5007

Telefon

+4755580000

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http://www.uib.no/en/sapience

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