Archive: 2020

Studies of Bronze Age amber finds in Polish–Hungarian cooperation

Recently, our research group has won the Eternal Oak tender of the Wacław Felczak Foundation‘s , which supports Polish-Hungarian scientific cooperation. Through this grant, we have the...

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Bronze Age embodied 2.2. A high-status child from the Rába region

Small bronze daggers, usually equipped with wooden handles, are common in the burials of Early and Middle Bronze Age high-status men buried with golden hair rings. Based on this fact, these ...

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Ages and Abilities – The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond

For all those who have been interested in our recent post on Bronze Age children, we would like to draw attention to the volume entitled Ages and Abilities, published in the past weeks. This...

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Bronze Age embodied 2.1. Children in the Bronze Age

In our previous posts we presented the tale of a high status man. Now, before we get to the next individual story, the life and death of a Bronze Age child, it is worth to review what we kno...

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Faces from the Bronze Age – the first Bronze Age facial reconstruction from Hungary in the new volume of Határtalan Régészet Journal

One of the modern trends in prehistoric archeology is the complex bioarcheological study of human remains excavated from graves, which is carried out within the framework of several domestic...

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Presentations by our research group on Bronze Age archeology at the virtual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists

Conferences of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) have been organized year after year in major European cities for the past 25 years. A meeting to be held in Budapest has long ...

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Bronze Age Embodied 1.2. How can we imagine the chief from Balatonakali?

As it turned out from our previous post, the chiefly burial at Balatonakali was not discovered by an archaeologist. In this way no drawing or photograph was made of the exact location of the...

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Our research group in InfoRádio’s program entitled Szigma

Radio listeners can get to know the latest research results and discoveries in Hungary and the world first-hand, with the help of researchers and experts, through the Szigma scientific educa...

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The Momentum Mobility Research Group has completed its five-year research period with excellent qualifications

The work and final report of the Momentum Mobility Research Group, which has been operating at the Institute of Archeology of the Research Centre for the Humanities since July 2015, was rate...

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Bringing Down the Iron Curtain. New book about the Paradigmatic Change in Research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe

A volume collecting the lectures presented at the Bringing Down the Iron Curtain. Paradigmatic Change in Research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe? session of the European As...

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Bronze Age embodied 1.1. The chief from Balatonakali

“Artefact of the Month” or short news about a beautiful and interesting object is often featured on the websites of many museums. The work of our research group, however, focuses...

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Bronze Age embodied: new series of our research group

Momentum Mobility Research Group focuses directly on Bronze Age people. Like other teams of the Research Centre for the Humanities, granted by the Momentum Programme of the Hungarian Academy...

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Archaeological excursions along the Arany Stream – Treasures of the Bronze Age cemetery of Nagycenk 5.

Cemeteries similar to the one at Nagycenk (described in our previous posts), are known in relatively large numbers from Austria, Western Hungary and Slovakia. Together, more than 1500 graves...

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Our performance in year 4 was considered successful

In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Lendület (“Momentum”) Programme and the continuous and consistent application of the principles of excellence, the annual r...

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