Second ERC HistoGenes plenary meeting in Vienna
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Between September 23-25th, the ERC HistoGenes group held its second plenary meeting in Vienna. During the three-day meeting, project participants presented and discussed the results of the first research year and identified the future key research directions and strategy. Our institute was represented by Anna Szécsényi-Nagy and Balázs Mende at the event. From the spring of 2020 until September 2021, the ERC team of the Institute of Archeogaenomics collected nearly 3,000 Migraton Period human DNA samples together with the staff of the Institute of Archeological Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University and prepared them for complete genomic analysis in our institute's ancient DNA laboratory. In addition to the Hungarian samples, our deputy director Balázs Mende visited with our archaeologists (István Koncz, Levente Samu) and anthropologist (Olga Spekker) fellows collaborating institutes in Serbia, Slovenia and Slovakia in order to collect 4-9th century human DNA samples for the project.
For further events of the project visit the HistoGenes webpage: https://www.histogenes.org/
Evaluation of the findings from the archeological excavation in the Royal Crypt at the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany begins
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An archaeological excavation was carried out in the Royal Crypt at Tihany Abbey in 2021 spring led by the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH). The aim of the wall research and archaeological excavation was to determine the age of the graves as accurately as possible, to review previous observations on the reconstructions and alterations, and to identify new observations and discoveries. The excavation was completed at the end of June and the evaluation and processing of the findings has started. Experts will restore the findings, compile documentation and, if necessary, carry out further archival and museum research to be able to tell as much as possible about the past thousand years of the undercroft's history. ELKH provided the funding for the multidisciplinary project.
For the whole article please go to the elkh.org
Prehistoric mass grave from the coast of Lake Balaton
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Our aim is to introduce selected projects from our laboratory to the general public before publication, thus providing insight into the daily struggles and details of our work. In this small review we announce the archaeogenetic results of one of the most exciting findings of the excavations at the M7 roadworks concerning a mass grave and other associated burials at Balatonkeresztúr site.
Early medieval genetic data from Ural region evaluated in the light of archaeological evidence of ancient Hungarians. Study in Nature Scientific Reports.
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The first results of our ancient DNA project aimed to investigate the population history of early Hungarians with the analysis of maternal and paternal lines were published in the journal Scientific Reports of the Nature publishing group within the framework of Hungarian-Russian scientific cooperation.
