Artisans and archaeologists meet in Spain to bring back prehistoric pottery – The first stage of the CRAFTER project
In the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, artisans and archaeologists meet in the Spanish city of Mula to think up new cultural products inspired on prehistoric ceramic vessels. On Oc...
Read more“Mixtura Texturalis II. – People and textiles in the Carpathian Basin” – Conference Invitation
On 30-31st October 2018, the Momentum Mobility Research Group (HAS RCH Institute of Archeology) and the Momentum Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group (HAS RCSS Institute of His...
Read moreArchaeological conferences in September – at home and abroad
Members of Momentum Mobility research group were participants of three conferences in this September. The 24th Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists was held betwe...
Read moreA research visit in Mannheim: the status and new possibilities of studies on Bronze Age metal supplies with NKFIH ERC MOBIL grant
ERC MOBIL 127768 grant of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund supported Viktória Kiss, leader of the Momentum Mobility Research Group, to spend three months in Germa...
Read moreTraces of social stratification: the treasures of the Bronze Age cemetery at Nagycenk 2.
In our previous article on the findings of the cemetery at Nagycenk, we have mentioned that burials can testify several phenomena. Among many other things, they can reflect the identity of t...
Read moreGolden jewels and bronze weapons beneath the railway: the treasures of the Bronze Age cemetery at Nagycenk 1.
When traveling to Sopron by train, no one would think that at Nagycenk, a 4,000-year-old cemetery was recently excavated beneath the present railway track. With the leadership of János Gömör...
Read moreCRAFTER: Europe funds Bronze Age Potters
Reviving Europe’s Bronze Age and traditional pottery-making in a new cooperation project A cooperation project led by the Friends Association of the Archaeological Site of La Bastida (ASBA...
Read more“Mixtura Texturalis – People and textiles in the Carpathian Basin II.” – Call for Papers
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCE Application Deadline: August 30, 2018 Our research group and the Momentum Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group (HAS RCSS Institute o...
Read moreNew results in the analysis of the settlement structure of the Bronze Age tell at Füzesabony
The first excavations of the Bronze Age tell in Füzesabony began nearly 90 years ago. The leader of the excavations, Ferenc Tompa was digging in short periods between 1931 and 1937. During ...
Read moreLectures on the Bronze Age of Western and Eastern Hungary in Sopron and Miskolc
On June 8, the members of our Research Group are presenting lectures in two different cities. In Sopron, at the event of the Soproni Tudós Ismeretterjesztő Társulat, titled Story-tellin...
Read moreNew opportunities for cooperation with NKFIH ERC MOBIL
Viktória Kiss, head of our research team, has successfully submitted an ERC MOBIL application to the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (abbreviated as NKFIH in Hun...
Read moreInternational workshop in Mannheim presenting the first Hungarian tin isotope data
The workshop titled ’Bronze Age Tin’ was the closing event of an ERC Advanced Grant Project, which explored the origins of raw material resources and the trade of tin throughout the Eurasia...
Read moreInternational workshop on Bronze Age textile production in Gothenburg
Our research team was invited to participate in the workshop organized by the Bronze Age wool economy: production, trade, environment, husbandry and society (THESP) project at Gothenbur...
Read moreEvidences of Bronze Age Mobility 3. – New results from studies of Bell Beaker population genomics published in Nature
In the largest study of ancient DNA ever conducted, an international team of scientists has revealed the complex story behind one of the oldest mysteries concerning the Bell Beaker period. T...
Read moreEvidences of Bronze Age Mobility 2. – The Amesbury Archer and the question of the Bell Beaker migration
In the second part of our series we sum up the recent archaeogenetic results of the European Neolithic Period and Bronze Age, as well as stable isotope studies of the famous Bell Beaker warr...
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