ProjectPROTOPEST – Infectious disease outbreaks as contributors to socio-cultural transformations in the 2nd millennium…
Basic data
Acronym:
PROTOPEST
Title:
Infectious disease outbreaks as contributors to socio-cultural transformations in the 2nd millennium BCE
Duration:
01/01/2024 to 31/12/2028
Abstract / short description:
In recent years, rapid developments in the field of ancient metagenomics, enabled through advances in genomic sequencing and ancient
DNA retrieval, have provided temporal transects of microbial diversity and have paved the way for studying human-pathogen interactions,
on the biological and cultural dimensions, far earlier than the written historical record. With these tools at hand, PROTOPEST will
utilise a timely opportunity for investigating the impact of infectious disease epidemics on prehistoric human societies. The project
will be centred on the 2nd millennium BCE, a period of large-scale socio-cultural transformations witnessed differentially across the
archaeological records of Europe, Near East and Asia.
DNA retrieval, have provided temporal transects of microbial diversity and have paved the way for studying human-pathogen interactions,
on the biological and cultural dimensions, far earlier than the written historical record. With these tools at hand, PROTOPEST will
utilise a timely opportunity for investigating the impact of infectious disease epidemics on prehistoric human societies. The project
will be centred on the 2nd millennium BCE, a period of large-scale socio-cultural transformations witnessed differentially across the
archaeological records of Europe, Near East and Asia.
Involved staff
Managers
Institute of Archaeological Sciences Research Areas (UFG)
Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science
Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science
Local organizational units
Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA)
Interfaculty Institutes
University of Tübingen
University of Tübingen
Funders
Brüssel, Belgium