The Avars dominated southeastern central Europe for hundreds of years, leaving one of Europe's richest archaeological heritages.

As Magdalena Bunbury (@jcu) + Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone (@MPI_EVA_Leipzig) write, DNA reveals details of their societies. theconversation.com/ancient-nomads…

Vor rund 1500 Jahren pflegten die Awaren im Karpatenbecken besondere Familiensitten: Die Männer standen an der Spitze und schickten ihre Frauen für diplomatische Beziehungen fort. ⬇️ spektrum.de/news/awaren-ge…

Using DNA from hundreds of burials—including entire Avar cemeteries—researchers have filled in some of the gaps in history, using kinship data to reconstruct Avar mating patterns, mobility, and even local politics. scim.ag/6Io

Hundreds of genomes shed light on the marriage habits and social norms of the Avar people of central Europe go.nature.com/44eiQcm

Entschlüsselung frühmittelalterlicher Sozialstrukturen mittels alter #DNA & archäologischer Belege. Neues nature Paper von einem multidisziplinären Team ERC SyG HistoGenes, darunter MPI-EVA Leipzig Forschende Guido Gnecchi Ruscone, Johannes Krause & Zuzana Hofmanova. mpg.de/21857501/0422-…

📢 Mo, April 22, 6 p.m. CET, #GrowingUpinAcademia  feat. Corina Logan, Senior Researcher at the MPI-EVA Leipzig
Sign up for this online talk to learn about her personal journey as a researcher: ae.mpg.de/growingup
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If you are interested in facial growth and evolution in apes 🐒🦍🦧 and what makes humans special, check out our new paper in Proceedings B doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…
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Congrats to Pia Lehmann MPI-EVA Leipzig for winning the 2nd prize & audience award 🏆😊 for her bachelor thesis 'Developing a web application for doctors to help diagnose rare diseases by retrieving information from open medical databases'. DMEA - Connecting Digital Health #DMEA24 dmea.de/en/newcomers/n…

📢 HAAM-summer school (from 17-19/6/2024) is now open for registration!
Find more information here: haam-community.github.io/news/2024/04/0…
OR scan the QR code to directly register! 💻🕴️

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We are looking forward to welcoming #MatthiasMeyer to Vienna next week as part of the #HEASSeminar series in #AncientGenomics . Registration for online and in-person participation is on our website 👇🔗 Pinhasi Lab

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With the world turning away from diversity we need public anthropology more than ever. I’ve decided to do my bit to share what we know about cultures of reproduction & why they matter for evolution. PEOPLE LIKE US coming in 2027 🙏🏻 Will Francis Picador Books Andrea Henry

Summer School 'Bridging #Archaeogenetics & Medieval Studies: Using #aDNA as a source for migration, demographics, kinship & pathology' from 23-27 September BBAW in Berlin & MPI-EVA Leipzig (on 25 September). 🥼🧪🧬 Register by 30 April! More: tinyurl.com/mvu5dkfw

We'r bringing back the ✨BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP WORKSHOP✨!!!

Join us in Aug MPI-EVA Leipzig to learn about cutting-edge tech innovations like eye-tracking & motion-tracking to study human & animal minds.

More info and app here: eva.mpg.de/comparative-cu…

🚨The SPAAM Community is happy to announce that it will offer its third (virtual) summer school course sponsored by the Werner Siemens-Stiftung
INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT METAGENOMICS
⏰ 5th - 9th Aug 2024
💀Applications are now open until May 31st 2024
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DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means. The short answer: Usually not as much as you might think. Read more in this The Conversation piece by Shai Carmi & Harald Ringbauer. theconversation.com/dna-says-youre…

Carol Ward Mizzou Integrative Anatomy #Lucy50 #SpeakerSpotlight ⚡️on Speaker, Tracy Kivell, Tracy Kivell MPI-EVA Leipzig:

Bio: carta.anthropogeny.org/users/tracy-ki…
Details: tinyurl.com/2024Lucy50
Livestream (Sat., April 6, 2024): tinyurl.com/2024Lucy50-Liv…
#Lucy50 #FossilFriday UCSD-CARTA

Animals can live alongside humans if they are risk-analysis experts. This is according to a new study in eLife - the journal by Alexis Breen MPI-EVA Leipzig & Dominik Deffner Max Planck Institute for Human Development. More: tinyurl.com/yc857kjj & elifesciences.org/articles/89315

Den Lebensraum mit Menschen teilen. Tiere können im menschlichen Umfeld leben, wenn sie Risiken gut einschätzen können. Neue Studie in eLife - the journal von Alexis Breen MPI-EVA Leipzig & Dominik Deffner Max Planck Institute for Human Development. mpg.de/21754795/0327-…

Sharing the results of 15 years of archaeological fieldwork & ancient #DNA research in the Upper Mustang region of #Nepal with local audiences. 😊 This research was led by MPI-EVA Leipzig group leader Christina Warinner & her team Warinner Group. 🥼🧬🧪 eva.mpg.de/press/news/art…