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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4 Nov 2025

New study offers detailed insight into the development of the Soutok landscape

Analysis of a meander of the Dyje River that disappeared two thousand years ago has provided scientists with unique data on the development of the river landscape and human settlement in the area known as Soutok in southern Moravia.

9 Oct 2025

Slavic and Germanic populations differed in their diets in the Middle Ages. Slavs loved millet porridge

The first Slavs in Central Europe consumed mostly milk, millet and honey. This distinguished them from the Germans, who instead favoured pork. This is the conclusion of international research led by Jiří Macháček

29 Sep 2025

Invitation to the workshop 6-7 October 2025

We are pleased to invite you to workshop Beyond Digital Humanities: Revolution, Revisionism or Political Agenda?, to be held on October 6–7, 2025.

3 Sep 2025

Nové analýzy DNA z kostí odhalují, jak slovanská migrace proměnila střední a východní Evropu

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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.

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

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