Ready for the Future: Understanding the Long-Term Resilience of Human Culture
(RES-HUM)

The project is focused on clarifying the basic principles of resilience of human society in a historical perspective using long time series, and on the transfer of acquired knowledge into social practice.

This goal will be achieved by supporting excellent research and developing cooperation between the humanities and natural sciences, such as archaeology, art history, anthropology, genetics, geology, climatology, botany, geophysics and nuclear physics.

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30 Jan

Archaeologists estimate that military conflict may have been caused the demise of the densely populated settlement on Table Hill

Archaeologists from Brno are continuing their research at the Pálava locality on Tabulová Hill. This densely populated area, which flourished around 1000 BC, gradually faced decline and subsequent extinction. According to researchers, this could be related to military conflict.

19 Jan

Neuron Award 2025

Research WP2 leader Zuzana Hofmanová was awarded the prestigious Neuron 2025 Prize, which is awarded by the Neuron Foundation to support science.

5 Jan

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