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Our research group’s name is changing

Following the reorganization of the Research Center for the Humanities and the establishment of the ELTE Research Center…

A World in Motion — International Conference on Changes along the Danube in the 2nd Millennium BC

  Between 22 and 24 April 2026, the international conference A World in Motion — Between Tradition and…

New results on the history of horse domestication

New results on the history of horse domestication were published in the current issue of Acta Archaeologica Hungaricae…

The Momentum “BASES” Research Group concluded a productive year

In the second year of the project, between 1 December 2023 and 30 November 2024, data entry work…

Winners of the drawing competition linked to the Child Space 2025 conference at the Institute of Archaeology, ELTE HTK

In our previous post, we reported on the international conference Child Space 2025 — Narratives and New Perspectives…

Child Space 2025 — International Conference in Budapest on the Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Research of Children

From 4 to 6 June 2025, Budapest will host the international conference Child Space 2025 — Narratives and…

Beyond Borders: From Moravia to the Elbe Catchment Area – Part 3

In 2023, the HUN-REN RCH Institute of Archaeology and the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences…

Beyond Borders: Czech Guest Researchers in Hungary – Part 4

In 2023, the Institute of Archaeology ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities and the Institute of Archaeology of…

Interview and Book Review on Műemlékem.hu – Presentation of Viktória Kiss’s New Volume Bronze Age Life Stories from Hungary (3rd–2nd millennia BC)

In the Közkincs-kereső podcast series of Műemlékem.hu, editor Olivér Kovács spoke with Viktória Kiss about her new volume,…

A Turning Point in the Bronze Age: the Diet Was Changed and the Society Was Transformed

Around 1500 BC, radical changes occurred in people’s lives: they ate and lived differently, and the social system…

A Short Film on the Creation of the First Bronze Age Female Facial Reconstruction from Hungary

In 2022, the first Bronze Age female facial reconstruction from Hungary was created on the basis of a…

Report on the MTA–BTK Lendület “Momentum” Bases Research Group’s Public Project-opening Day

The project-opening lecture day of the MTA-BTK Lendület BASES Research Group entitled “Bronze Age socio-economic strategies in the…

Our Research Group Featured in the June Issue of National Geographic

In recent years, readers of the National Geographic Hungary online portal have been able to follow the work…

Winter and Summer at Lake Fertő: Continuing Early and Middle Bronze Age Micro-Regional Research in the Sopron Area

In autumn 2023, the joint research project of the MTA–BTK Lendület ‘Momentum’ Mobility Research Group and the Sopron…

Recent Publications on Bronze Age Metallurgy and Society

During the summer, Gondolat Publishing House released the edited volume Migration of Material and Cultural Goods in the…