3,500-Year-Old Teeth Identify Turning Point in Bronze Age History of Central Europe

3,500-Year-Old Teeth Identify Turning Point in Bronze Age History of Central Europe

Learn about a new study that uses cemetery remains to reveal a surprising shift in the eating and migratory habits of early Central Europeans.

Archaeologists Identify Major Period of Bronze Age Transformation in Central Europe - Archaeology Magazine

Skeletal remains uncovered at the Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom cemetery, Hungary TISZAFÜRED-MAJOROSHALOM, HUNGARY—According to an announcement released by Hungary’s Eötvös Loránd University, new research in the Carpathian Basin has pinpointed a major transformational period in the history of Central Europe. The study focused on eastern Hungary's Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom cemetery, which was used by two different cultures during two different time perio…

When it all changed in Bronze Age Europe

Around 1500 BCE, radical changes occurred in people’s lives: they ate and lived differently, and the social system was also reorganized. A bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom, Hungary, has shed new light on an important period in Central European history. It involved an international research team – led by Tamás Hajdu, […]