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Migrating Huns and modified heads: Eigenshape analysis comparing intentionally modified crania from Hungary and Georgia in the Migration Period of Europe. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
An intentionally modified head is a visually distinctive sign of group identity. In the Migration Period of Europe (4th- 7th century AD) the practice of intentional cranial modification was common among several nomadic groups, but was strongly associated
Peter Mayall, Varsha Pilbrow, Liana Bitadze   +2 more
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A new thermography using inelastic scattering analysis of wavelength-resolved neutron transmission imaging [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
Thermography using energy-dependent neutron transmission imaging can non-invasively and non-destructively visualize a real-space distribution of interior temperatures of a material in a container.
Hirotaka Sato, Mana Miyoshi, Ranggi Sahmura Ramadhan, Winfried Kockelmann, Takashi Kamiyama   +4 more
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Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Significance Given their historical impact, the question of the origins of the European Huns, who they were and where they came from, has gone beyond scholarly interest and has permeated into cultural consciousness.
Gnecchi-Ruscone GA, Rácz Z, Liccardo S, Lee J, Huang Y, Traverso L, Radzevičiūtė R, Hajnal Z, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Gyuris B, Mateovics-László O, Bernert Z, Szeniczey T, Hajdu T, Mészáros B, Bálint M, Mende BG, Miller B, Samashev Z, Childebayeva A, Djansugurova L, Geary P, Ringbauer H, Vida T, Jeong C, Pohl W, Krause J, Hofmanová Z.   +27 more
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Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West [PDF]

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020
The origin of the Xiongnu and the Rourans, the nomadic groups that dominated the eastern Eurasian steppe in the late first millennium BC/early first millennium AD, is one of the most controversial topics in the early history of Inner Asia.
Alexander Savelyev, Choongwon Jeong
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Influences from the Huns on Scandinavian Sacrificial Customs during 300-500 AD

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1993
Votive offerings may be our main source of knowledge concerning the religion of the Iron Age before the Vikings. An important question is the connection between two kinds of sacrificial finds, i.e. horse sacrifices and burial offerings.
Marianne Görman
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Himatiichnus mangano igen. et isp. nov., a scalidophoran trace fossil from the late Ediacaran of Namibia [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Himatiichnus mangano igen. et isp. nov., a new trace fossil from the late Ediacaran Huns Member of the Urusis Formation, southern Namibia, comprises intertwining tubes exhibiting dual lineation patterns and reminiscent of both modern and early Cambrian ...
Katherine A. Turk, Mikaela A. Pulsipher, Helke Mocke, Marc Laflamme, Simon A. F. Darroch   +4 more
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Y-chromosome haplogroups from Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian period nomadic people of the Carpathian Basin. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2019
Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian nomadic groups arrived to the Carpathian Basin from the Eurasian Steppes and significantly influenced its political and ethnical landscape, however their origin remains largely unknown.
Neparáczki E, Maróti Z, Kalmár T, Maár K, Nagy I, Latinovics D, Kustár Á, Pálfi G, Molnár E, Marcsik A, Balogh C, Lőrinczy G, Gál SS, Tomka P, Kovacsóczy B, Kovács L, Raskó I, Török T.   +17 more
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Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Central-Inner Asian and Srubnaya origin in the conquering Hungarians. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
It has been widely accepted that the Finno-Ugric Hungarian language, originated from proto Uralic people, was brought into the Carpathian Basin by the conquering Hungarians.
Endre Neparáczki, Zoltán Maróti, Tibor Kalmár, Klaudia Kocsy, Kitti Maár, Péter Bihari, István Nagy, Erzsébet Fóthi, Ildikó Pap, Ágnes Kustár, György Pálfi, István Raskó, Albert Zink, Tibor Török   +13 more
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Die Hunnen kommen! Zur Deutung den Brandschuttschichten und Zerstörungshorizonten innerhalb der spätkaiserzeitlichen Fundstellen der Sântana de Mureş-Černjachov-Kultur / The Huns are coming! On the interpretation of layers of fire debris and horizons of destruction within the late Imperial period sites of the Sântana de Mureş-Černjachov Culture [PDF]

Plural: History, Culture, Society, 2023
In the collective memory of many European people, the Huns are perceived as one of the most violent gentes west of the Dniester, which might have committed many atrocities, acts of vandalism, and destructions in the territories they crossed. The image of
Alexandru Popa
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Manuscript Variation in “Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks Konungs” [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2022
The main aim of the article is to refute the view that “The Lay of Hervör” (“Hervararkviða”) represents a late interpolation in the text of “The Saga of Hervör and King Heidrek the Wise” and to give arguments against the hypothesis that the female ...
Inna G. Matyushina
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