București: Conferință susținută de Prof. Volker Heyd la Institutul de Arheologie „Vasile Pârvan”

The Yamnaya girl from Bojt (Hungary) in the context of the Yamnaya Impact on prehistoric Europe

The ‘Bojt’ burial was excavated in 2014 in the course of large-scale rescue excavations in the Hajdu-Bihar county of Hungary. Immediately afterwards we started a scientific program to get as much information as possible out of this burial, who soon turned out to be a young woman aged 19-22. We therefore conducted multiple stable isotope analyses, to test for her mobility and diet, and ancient DNA screening to grasp her ancestry, appearance, and biological properties, to which bio-anthropology also contributed with significant information. An archaeological assessment including radiocarbon dating of herself and of features around her, provides for the local and regional background in reconstructing her life and death. In a second part, we then want to put her in the context of other Yamnaya and Katacombnaya burials in southeast and east-central Europe, and thus highlight her importance for our understanding of the Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe as a whole.