Claudio Cavazzuti joins the Momentum Mobility Research Group
In October 2019, Claudio Cavazzuti, physical anthropologist at the Italian Ministry of Culture, will participate in the work of the Momentum Mobility Research Group of the Research Centre fo...
Read moreInternational conference on prehistoric metalwork in Vienna
A conference titled Bronze Age Metallurgy, production – consumption – exchange and 20th Anniversary Archaeometallurgical Laboratory VIAS, University Vienna the OREA Institute of the Austrian...
Read moreSpring International Conferences: the latest results of the Lendület Mobility Research Group were presented in Kiel and Albuquerque
This spring, we were able to present our research team not only in Europe, but also in the United States of America in New Mexico. The international conference titled “Socio-Environmental Dy...
Read moreOrganic artefacts: lost or not? – Treasures of the Bronze Age cemetery of Nagycenk 3.
In our previous posts, we presented remarkable artefacts from the Nagycenk cemetery, dating between 2100 and 1750 BC. However, objects made of organic material, e.g. wood, bast fibre or text...
Read moreMΩMOΣ XI. – Conference of Prehistoric Researchers: Environment and people
The 11th MΩMOΣ – Prehistoric Researchers Conference focusing on the relationship between people and their environment was held in Budapest, between 10th and 12th April 2017, organized by the...
Read moreNondestructive metal analysis carried out in cooperation with the Lendület Mobility Research Group is among the success stories of the 60-year-old Budapest Research Reactor
For 60 years now, the Budapest Research Reactor has been operating at the Csillebérc Campus, working with “tamed neutrons” in various important research fields. These include the...
Read moreOur film ‘Bronze Age Mysteries’ was shown at the 20th International Archaeology Film Festival in Belgrade
‘Bronze Age Mysteries’, a short documentary about the work of our research group, shot in 2017 and first broadcasted on channel M5 in 2018, was a great success at the 20th Intern...
Read moreInnovation in Bronze Age archeology – without the past, there is no future 2.
In our series of articles on the renewal of archaeological research, further technologies are worth mentioning that we also use in multidisciplinary research. In addition to traditional aeri...
Read moreInnovation in Bronze Age archeology – without the past, there is no future 1.
Without the past, there is no future, and the richer is the past, the more you can cling to the future. Mihály Babits The present archaeological research, thus the work of the &...
Read moreMobility in Bronze Age Hungary – video presentation in English
Among other lectures presented at the international conference on 13-14th December 2018, Vienna, the recorded presentation of our research group is finally available at the YouTube...
Read moreThe three-year report of the ‘Momentum’ Mobility Research Group receives an excellent rating
According to a letter from the Department of Grant Management of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, dated December 20, 2018, the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences deci...
Read moreWhat can the study of genes, isotopes and artefacts tell us about the movements of European Bronze Age people?
Held between 13-14 December 2018, an international conference in Vienna titled Genes, isotopes and artefacts – How should we interpret the movements of people throughout Bronze Age Europe? a...
Read moreReport on the conference ‘Archeology, history and ethnography of precious and non-ferrous metals in the Carpathian Basin. Methodological, archeometrical and social-historical approaches’
On 14th and 15th of November 2018 our research team participated in a conference at the Hungarian National Museum, organized by the Working Comitte for Industrial Archaeology and Archaeomet...
Read moreConference in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Erzsébet Patek and in honour of the 60th Anniversary of the HAS RCH Institute of Archaeology
Members of the HAS RCH Institute of Archaeology and the Momentum Mobility Research Group kindly invite all interested parties to attend the conference in commemoration of the 100th annivers...
Read moreBack to Bronze Age craftsmanship: international meeting of potters and archaeologists – a short report on the first stage of the CRAFTER project
At the end of October 2018 nearly 30 experts – potters and archaeologists – met in the city of Mula (Murcia, Spain) just to study Europe’s Bronze Age pottery-making techni...
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