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IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 302: New Research about Women and Their Kin in the Early Medieval Steppe: Genetic, Archaeological, and Historical Results

Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:HistoGenes: ERC Synergy Grant Project No 856453
Organiser:Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 302-aIntroduction: Histogenes
(Language: English)
Walter Pohl, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Science
Paper 302-bWhat Genetics Can Tell Us about Women and Their Kin
(Language: English)
Zuzana Hofmanová, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig
Index terms: Gender Studies, Science, Women's Studies
Paper 302-cHow do Biological Kin Groups Relate to the Burial Evidence
(Language: English)
Bendeguz Tobias, Institut für Archäologien Universität Innsbruck
Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Gender Studies, Science
Paper 302-dWomen of the Eurasian Steppe and Their Kin in Latin, Greek, and Chinese Written Sources
(Language: English)
Sandra Wabnitz, Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien
Index terms: Gender Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Women's Studies
Abstract

The HistoGenes project about the population history of Eastern central Europe from c. 400 to 900 started in May 2020 and will run until 2026. We will analyze 6000 burials using the most advanced genomic, archaeological, historical, and anthropological methodologies. After bio-informatic modelling of the data, we will integrate the results into a new historical narrative. In this year's sessions, first results of the project will be presented. First, project leader Walter Pohl is going to give a short introduction to HistoGenes. Then Zuzana Hofmanová will speak about the female relations in the genetic evidence, showing how the analysis of the samples works. Bendeguz Tobias will then demonstrate, how these scientifically found kin groups relate to the archaeological evidence found in graves. As final paper, Sandra Wabnitz will show how women and their kin are portrayed in medieval Latin, Greek and Chinese sources, rounding off this interdisciplinary session.