Recent years have evidenced a rapid development of various biomolecular methods, which are directly
influencing the advancement of archaeological research. However, archaeology is not alone here, and
there has been a vast expansion of biomolecular methodologies into different fields of humanities. In
the first half of this talk I will introduce the concept of biomolecular humanities as an emerging new
transdisciplinary field rewriting our scientific epistemology and praxis for the years to come. Thereafter I
will use different archaeological case studies from the Baltic Sea region that combine biomolecular
methodologies and humanities thinking to highlight the merits and complexities of such a combined
research agenda.