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IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 127: Genetic Histories in Times of Crisis, I: New Insights into Migration-Period Eastern Central Europe

Monday 1 July 2024, 11:15-12:45

Sponsor:HistoGenes: ERC Synergy Grant Project No 856453
Organiser:Clemens Gantner, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien
Moderator/Chair:Walter Pohl, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 127-aFrom Periphery to Center: The Other Side of the Middle Danube in Late Antiquity
(Language: English)
Salvatore Liccardo, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien
Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval and Mentalities
Paper 127-bTransformation of the East Austrian Region in the 5th and 6th Centuries: The Archaeological Perspective
(Language: English)
Bendeguz Tobias, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites and Social History
Paper 127-cCommunities and Society in 5th- and 6th-Century Pannonia in the Light of Recent Palaeogenomic and Archaeological Results
(Language: English)
István Koncz, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Science and Social History
Abstract

This is the first of three sessions presenting results and ongoing research from the ERC Synergy grant project HistoGenes. Between the third and the sixth century, the Middle Danube region went through radical transformations, which are reflected in the written and material evidence. The geographical position of the region made it suitable as a base for military campaigns directed to both the Eastern and Western Roman Empire. Arguably, no other region of the Roman Empire experienced so many migrations and changes of dominion. These shifts manifest themselves in changes of settlement, of burial customs and in transformations of material culture, which raises questions about how people lived through this succession of crises, and to what extent populations changed. The papers in this session reflect on the state of the art in the concerned disciplines, and address the question how archaeogenetic analyses and their interdisciplinary interpretation can take us beyond current knowledge.