Research

The project is a team effort, being fully inter/cross-disciplinary from its inception, also reflecting the position of modern prehistoric archaeology as an intermediary discipline between humanities and sciences, incorporating methods, techniques and results from bio, geo and environmental sciences.

Besides the core funeral archaeology, material culture studies, and landscape approaches, our bio-sciences are covering genetics/ancient DNA, bio-anthropology and isotope biogeochemistry analyses. Geo- and environmental sciences are contributing with palaeoclimatology, climate change research, soil formation processes and environmental chemistry.

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No).

Highlighted articles and chapters

• (2021) . V. Heyd, G. Kulcsár & B. Preda-Bălănică (eds.). The Yamnaya Impact of Prehistoric Europe 2 (Budapest: Archaeolingua) [550 p.].

- therein: V. Heyd, , pp. 383-414 & Interaction Epilogue by K. Kristiansen & V. Heyd, pp. 543-548.

• (2020) K.-G. Sjögren, I. Olalde, S. Carver, M.E. Allentoft, T. Knowles, G. Kroonen, A. W.G. Pike, P. Schröter, K.A. Brown, K. Robson-Brown, R.J. Harrison, F. Bertemes, D. Reich, K. Kristiansen & V. Heyd, PLoS ONE15(11): e0241278.

• (2020) B. Preda-Bǎlǎnicǎ, A. Frînculeasa, V. Heyd, , Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, 117/1, 85-101.

• (2019) V. Heyd, In: Valchev. T. (ed.), Studia in honorem Iliae Iliev. Регионален исторически музей - Ямбол/Yambol. Вести на Ямболския музей /година VI/9 (Yambol), 125-136.

Video based on "First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship" article

In this video, talks about how new research shows that the Indo-European Yamnaya group of Steppe pastoralists were the world’s first horse riders.

The evidence presented is based on the article by Trautmann et al. (2023) ", published in the journal Science Advances.

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