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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18 Oct

The first ISAB meeting of the RES-HUM project took place

On 18 October 2024, the 1st meeting of the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB), an independent advisory body on the strategy and evaluation of the project team, took place.

9 Sep

The first double issue of the re:vision magazine for the general public was published

At the beginning of September 2024, the first double issue of a new and, at least in the Czech environment, unique magazine for the general public called re:vision.

10 Jul

Signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the RES-HUM project and the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt am Main

The subject of the Memorandum will be, among other things, cooperation between the two scientific teams on research activities, mutual mobility of the two institutions, etc.

28 Mar

Archaeologists presented their research plans for the Ready for the Future project

The team led by Professor Jiří Macháček will focus on explaining the basic principles of resilience of Czech society in a historical perspective using long time series and on transferring the acquired knowledge into practice.

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16 Jul

Brno archaeologists found a prehistoric child's grave in the Znojmo region

The site was uncovered by students from the Institute of Archaeology and Museology of the Faculty of Arts MU during summer school research in the locality of Těšetice-Kyjovice.

7 May

Unexpected reproductive behaviour in Avar society: new revelations thanks to a unique DNA study

An international team of geneticists, archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, led by Zuzana Hofmanová from the Institute of Archaeology and Museology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, has managed to reconstruct the deepest genetically documented family tree ever. The study revealed, among other things, that Avar communities strictly adhered to the patrilineal system and that women played a key role in the social cohesion of society.

18 Jan

Archaeologists from Masaryk University discovered a bronze belt fitting referring to an unknown pagan cult

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