Cluster ROOTSAug 7, 2025
A new study based on extensive data and recent excavations such as the one pictured in Békés-Várdomb (Hungary) uses the example of Southeast Europe to challenge widely held theories about the emergence of social hierarchies in prehistory. It has been published now at #ScienceAdvances:
https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/138-roots-inequality-carpathianbasin
#archaeology #carpathianbasin #inequality #Neolithic #BronzeAge
📷 Paul Duffy
ISOGGJun 25, 2025
“While one set of individuals from a large community cemetery is genetically diverse, another site is more homogenous and closed, with numerous consanguineous relationships and evidence of patrilineality and patrilocality. In this work, we document important differences in kinship systems in contemporaneous Early Copper Age communities using similar material culture and living only about 100 km apart.” #isogg #DNA #AncientDNA #CarpathianBasin #Neolithic #Geneadons https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60368-2
Ancient DNA reveals diverse community organizations in the 5th millennium BCE Carpathian Basin - Nature Communications

A genomic study of 125 individuals from the Carpathian Basin (4800–3900 BCE) reveals different kinship systems in nearby Copper Age communities, and highlights both genetic continuity and contrasting patterns of social organization.

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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Dec 19, 2024

🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin**

_“Our evaluations reveal spatially different histories in Transdanubia even between communities in close geographical proximity, highlighting the importance of dense sampling and analyses. Our findings highlight extensive homogenization and reorganization processes, as well as discontinuities between Hun, Avar, and Hungarian conquest period immigrant groups, alongside the spread and integration of ancestry related to the Hungarian conquerors.”_

Dániel Gerber et al., Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin. Sci. Adv.10, eadq5864(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5864.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeogenomics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Genomes #Science #CarpathianBasin #Hungary #Europe @anthropology @archaeodons