Archive: 2019

Not only bones and objects, but human stories

An interview at mta.hu with Viktória Kiss (Hungarian):  https://mta.hu/tudomany_hirei/nem-pusztan-csontokat-es-targyakat-hanem-emberi-torteneteket-latunk-110153

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Prehistoric Communities along the Danube – international conference at Osijek

At the end of November (28-29th) we attended an international conference titled Prehistoric Communities along the Danube at Osijek, organized by the Zagreb Institute of Archeology and the Ar...

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Neighbourliness – Early Bronze Age conference in Slovakia

This is the 26th time that the “Early Bronze Age in Central Europe” conference has been held from October 21 to 24, 2019. This time the event was organized by the University of B...

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Following the path of metalworkers – lectures at the Polish Academy of Sciences Wrocław Branch, Institute of Archeology

Invited by Bogusław Gediga, professor emeritus of the Polish Academy of Sciences Wrocław Branch, we had the opportunity to travel to Wroclaw between 7-9th October 2019, to give a lecture on ...

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Public revival of Bronze Age craftsmanship

The international exhibition titled „CRAFTER – Crafting Europe in the Bronze Age and Today” is now open in the café of the Déri Museum in Debrecen. The project, funded by the Creative Europe...

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Burial customs and funerary rites – Treasures of the Bronze Age cemetery of Nagycenk 4.

In our previous post, we attempted to reconstruct wooden remains, e.g. the use of a bronze axe from an elite burial (grave 55) discovered in the cemetery of Nagycenk-Lapos-rét, used between ...

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„CRAFTER – Crafting Europe in the Bronze Age and Today” – exhibition opening in Debrecen

CRAFTER arrived at the final stage of the project. Visitors are cordially invited to the opening ceremony of the exhibition „CRAFTER – Crafting Europe in the Bronze Age and Today” that takes...

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Back to Bronze Age craftsmanship: another stage of the CRAFTER project

CRAFTER (Crafting Europe in the Bronze Age and Today) project was launched a year ago, in July 2018, implemented in the framework of the European Year of the Cultural Heritage 2018 ...

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Archaeometallurgy in Europe 2019 conference in Miskolc

From the 19th to the 21st June, 2019 Hungary hosted an international conference repeated every four years, titled Archaeometallurgy in Europe. The meeting which is one of the most prestigiou...

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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...

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International 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...

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Spring 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...

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Organic 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...

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MΩMOΣ 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...

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Nondestructive 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...

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Our 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...

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Innovation 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...

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Innovation 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 &...

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Mobility 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...

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