New research by my colleagues Nina Marchi, Laurent Excoffier, Joachim Burger, Daniel Wegmann and many others now available on BioRxiv. While the Neolithic expansion in Europe is well described archaeologically, the genetic origins of European first farmers and their affinities with local hunter-gatherers (HGs) remain unclear. To ... The mixed genet

Revisiting the interpretation of Lepenski Vir as a Mesolithic village in light of the latest aDNA evidence for the arrival of Aegean first farmers. Now published in Journal of World Prehistory: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-022-09169-9? Was the Fishing Village of Lepenski Vir Built by Europe’s First Farmers? It is now widely ac

Anglo-Turkish Society / RAI / SOAS / BIAA joint Symposium: 'Archaeology in Anatolia' with the opening address given by Professor Ian Hodder - flyer - poster - programme: 1- What was the title of ... 1- What was the title of your phd and did your higher education in British Universities open new doors for you? My PhD, which I defended in 2014 at the

New research published in European Journal of Archaeology highlights the precarious situation of early career researchers in archaeology: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-archaeology/article/precarious-future-reflections-from-a-survey-of-early-career-researchers-in-archaeology/A5B9F773F53F3A97766591E1E5DDD5FA#article A Pr

Demogenomic modelling using ancient genomes by Nina Marchi, Laura Winkelbach, Ilektra Schulz, Maxime Brami et al. now published in Cell: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742200455X My role in the project was to develop testable archaeological models, provide contexts for the samples and participate in the writing of the arti

Dr Maxime Brami presentation - Early farming expansion beyond the Anatolian plateau on the occasion of the Anglo-Turkish Society / RAI / SOAS / BIAA joint Sy...

- Helsinki 160120_compressed.pdf Organised by the Faculty of Arts, Archaeology, FIBULA and ERC Project YMPACT, Helsinki – Ex Oriente Lux. Early agricultural expansions beyond the Near East

Brami M.N. (2019), ‘Anatolia. From the origins of agriculture… to the spread of Neolithic economies’. In: M. Brami and B. Horejs (eds), The Central/Western Anatolian Farming Frontier. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 17-44. The spread of farming in Europe is usually thought of as a straightforward case of diffusion from a centre, o

Science in Archaeology Seminar Series, Kickoff Workshop 'Prehistoric Mobility', Hosted by the Palaeogenetics Group, AG Burger Organized with Aldo Malagó and Antoine Muller **Cancelled until further notice due to the Covid-19 outbreak, stay tuned for update**

The transformation of societies from mobile hunter-gatherers into farming communities living in permanent villages represents one of the most essential revolutions in Proceedings of the Neolithic Workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016 The adoption of agriculture and settled village life is one of the most important transitions in prehis