Humanities - History/Archeology
Researchers in Vienna have obtained the world's first gene sequences of the human roundworm from the Bronze Age, as well as the first gene sequences from prehistoric parasites in Austria. The analysis was conducted on human faeces from prehistoric miners in Hallstatt. The findings were published by a team from the Medical University Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the Natural History Museum Vienna in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.
In the cluster of excellence Eurasian Transformations, led by Claudia Rapp (expert on Byzantine studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna), an international team of 31 academics investigate the cultural heritage and the historical processes of transformation in the region of "Eurasia".
