HistoGenes: Integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe of the 1st millennium CE

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

I will present the ERC-sponsored project HistoGenes, an interdisciplinary project that engages archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists, and historians in a fine-grained analysis of more than 6,000 burials in the Carpathian Basin between 400 and 900 CE in order to understand population changes, mobility, social structures, and cultural practices in this complex region. The presentation will consist of two parts: First, I will present the guiding principles and methods that we are employing and developing in the project, which include a comprehensive analysis of carefully selected individual cemeteries rather than representative sampling; inference of close and distant biological relatedness from genetic data obtained from each individual with preserved skeletal remains and analysis of large networks of identity-by-descent connections; incorporation of both archaeological and genetic data in a joint statistical framework; detailed analysis of grave types, grave goods, spatial organization of burials and isotopic signatures, including Sr, N, and O and anthropological and pathogen analysis of select burials. Second, I will illustrate the effectiveness of this method by presenting a case study drawn from the project conducted by the HistoGenes team from ELTE University in Budapest, the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Vienna and Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39980.0