An article by director Anna Szécsényi-Nagy was published in the spring issue of the Hungarian Archeology, in which the Institute of Archeogenomics and its current research are presented.
Who were the Avars? Less known than Attila’s Huns, they were their more successful successors, who ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. We know that they came from Central Asia in the sixth century CE, but ancient authors and modern historians debated their provenance. Had their core group arrived from Western Eurasia, or were they descendants of the Mongolia-based empire of the Rouran, known as formidable enemies of China?
Recently, the genomes of nearly 800 prehistoric human individuals have been successfully analyzed as part of a large-scale archaeogenetic program carried out in an extensive European and American collaboration. The results of the research were published in Nature on the 22nd December 2021.
Six members of RCH IAG participated at the Hungarian Molecular Life Science Conference 2021 between 05-07 November 2021 in Eger where the projects of the Institute of Archeogenomics were presented to representatives of the life sciences.
Through the lectures of Dániel Gerber and Bea Szeifert and the posters of Noémi Borbély and Erzsébet Fóthi, researchers and students were able to gain insights into the prehistoric, early medieval and present-day population genetic researchers carried out in our Institute.
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