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Food Production Was Brought to the Nile Valley by New Populations. Czech Scientists Help Unravel Migration Events Dating back Eight Thousand Years

Transition from hunting-gathering to food-production represented a global turning point in human history. New results from archaeological and anthropological research in the Middle Nile Valley show that this innovation was brought to the area by new human groups that arrived in the 6th and 5th millennia BC.

The Prestigious Journal of Archaeological Science Published an Article on the Research of Long Neolithic Mounds in the Vicinity of Říp Mountain

The co-authors of the article “Neolithic long barrows were built on the margins of settlement zones as revealed by elemental soil analysis at four sites in the Czech Republic” are Dr Martin Janovský and Dr Laszlo Ferenczi from the Department of Archaeology at CU FA.

Institute of Classical Archaeology at CU FA Uncovered Graves in Uzbekistan

A year ago, the Czech-Uzbek expedition discovered 60 graves from the 3rd–2nd century BC on the outskirts of the Iskandar Tepa settlement in Uzbekistan. Now, the archaeologists opened six of them to acquire data about the population that lived there. Some of the graves have provided extremely valuable data, artifacts, skeletal remains, and samples for further analysis.