Relatives by Bone: Revolutionising knowledge of the early Middle Ages through DNA analysis of burial sites

Monday 14 October 2024 at 17:00

Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Brno, Čechyňská 19, lecture hall, 3rd floor.

Lecture by Zuzana Hofmanová (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Masaryk University).

The lecture is part of the conference of the international project "Histogenes. Integrating Genetic, Archaeological & Historical Perspectives on Eastern Central Europe (ERC -2019-SyG 856453), which aims to conduct genetic analysis of more than 6,000 individuals mainly from Central and Eastern Europe from the period 400 to 900 AD. l. The data collected are being evaluated by scientists from archaeology, history, genetics, anthropology, palaeopathology and other related disciplines.