“Marriage, mobility and households in Bronze Age Germany: integrating ancient DNA, isotopes and archaeology”

Date: 

Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge 02138

On Tuesday, October 15th, Dr. Alissa Mittnik, Department of Genetics (Reich Lab) at Harvard Medical School, will speak on her remarkable research: “Marriage, mobility and households in Bronze Age Germany: integrating ancient DNA, isotopes and archaeology. ” Showing the power of traditional archaeological and newer archaeoscientific methods to illuminate life in Bronze Age Germany, the talk takes place at 5:30 pm at CGIS South: S020 Belfer Case Study Room (1730 Cambridge Street, poster attached). Professor Matthew Liebmann (Archaeology/Anthropology) will comment; a public reception will follow. The event is co-sponsored by the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP), the Standing Committee on Archaeology at Harvard (SCA), and the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM).

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