YMPACT: The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe

Organization profile

The Yamnaya Impact project is an international and interdisciplinary effort to understand the massive changes taking place in Europe some 5000 years ago, with its reverberations still visible today when it comes to genetic ancestry, social organisation, and European languages. The project first and foremost deals with the Yamnaya and here the western end of its huge distribution area in the steppe landscapes of current-day countries of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary.

The main research objectives address issues such as the funerary archaeology of the Yamnaya kurgans and their material culture; exchange and interaction pattern; physical appearance and population dynamics; mobility, diet, occupation and lifestyle; interplay with the environment; as well as the nature of the wider Yamnaya Impact. Here particularly the transmission of ideas, innovations, customs and genes to regions further to the west and northwest, and thus also the emergence and expansion of the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker complexes, lies in our focus.

Fields of Science

  • 615 History and Archaeology

International and National Collaboration

Publications and projects within past five years.
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  • First Bio-Anthropological Evidence for Yamnaya Horsemanship.

    Trautmann, M., Frinculeasa, A., Preda-Balanica, B., Petruneac, M., Focşaneanu, M., Alexandrov, S., Atanassova, N., Włodarczak, P., Podsiadło, M., Dani, J., Bereczki, Z., Hajdu, T., Băjenaru, R., Ioniţă, A., Măgureanu, A., Măgureanu, D., Popescu, A-D., Sârbu, D., Vasile, G., Anthony, D., & 1 othersHeyd, V., 3 Mar 2023, In: Science Advances. 9, 9, 13 p., eade2451 .

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  • Ancestry and identity in the Balkans and the Carpathian basin between the 5th and 3rd millennia cal BC

    Preda-Balanica, B. E. & Diekmann, Y., 2022, Ancient DNA and the European Neolithic: Relations and Descent. Whittle, A., Pollard, J. & Greaney, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 107-122 16 p. (Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers; no. 19).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific

  • Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia

    Lazaridis, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Acar, A., Acikkol, A., Agelarakis, A., Aghikyan, L., Akyuz, U., Andreeva, D., Andrijasevic, G., Antonovic, D., Armit, I., Atmaca, A., Avetisyan, P., Aytek, A. I., Bacvarov, K., Badalyan, R., Bakardzhiev, S., Balen, J., Bejko, L., Bernardos, R., & 182 othersBertsatos, A., Biber, H., Bilir, A., Bodruzic, M., Bonogofsky, M., Bonsall, C., Boric, D., Borovinic, N., Morante, G. B., Buttinger, K., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Caric, M., Cheronet, O., Chohadzhiev, S., Chovalopoulou, M-E., Chryssoulaki, S., Ciobanu, I., Condic, N., Constantinescu, M., Cristiani, E., Culleton, B. J., Curtis, E., Davis, J., Demcenco, T., Dergachev, V., Derin, Z., Deskaj, S., Devejyan, S., Djordjevic, V., Carlson, K. S. D., Eccles, L. R., Elenski, N., Engin, A., Erdogan, N., Erir-Pazarci, S., Fernandes, D. M., Ferry, M., Freilich, S., Frinculeasa, A., Galaty, M. L., Gamarra, B., Gasparyan, B., Gaydarska, B., Genc, E., Gultekin, T., Gunduz, S., Hajdu, T., Heyd, V., Hobosyan, S., Hovhannisyan, N., Iliev, I., Iliev, L., Iliev, S., Ivgin, I., Jankovic, I., Jovanova, L., Karkanas, P., Kaya, E. H., Keating, D., Kennett, D. J., Kesici, S. D., Khudaverdyan, A., Kiss, K., Klostermann, P., Valdes, S. K. B. N., Kovacevic, S., Krenz-Niedbala, M., Skrivanko, M. K., Kurti, R., Kuzman, P., Lawson, A. M., Lazar, C., Leshtakov, K., Levy, T. E., Liritzis, I., Lorentz, K. O., Lukasik, S., Mah, M., Mallick, S., Mandl, K., Martirosyan-Olshansky, K., Matthews, R., Matthews, W., McSweeney, K., Melikyan, V., Micco, A., Michel, M., Milasinovic, L., Mittnik, A., Monge, J. M., Nekhrizov, G., Nicholls, R., Nikitin, A. G., Nikolov, V., Novak, M., Olalde, I., Oppenheimer, J., Osterholtz, A., Ozdemir, C., Ozdogan, K. T., Ozturk, N., Papadimitriou, N., Papakonstantinou, N., Papathanasiou, A., Paraman, L., Paskary, E. G., Patterson, N., Petrakiev, I., Petrosyan, L., Petrova, V., Philippa-Touchais, A., Piliposyan, A., Kuzman, N. P., Potrebica, H., Preda-Balanica, B., Premuzic, Z., Price, T. D., Qiu, L., Radovic, S., Aziz, K. R., Sikanjic, P. R., Raheem, K. R., Razumov, S., Richardson, A., Roodenberg, J., Ruka, R., Russeva, V., Sahin, M., Sarbak, A., SavaS, E., Schattke, C., Schepartz, L., Selcuk, T., Sevim-Erol, A., Shamoon-Pour, M., Shephard, H. M., Sideris, A., Simalcsik, A., Simonyan, H., Sinika, V., Sirak, K., Sirbu, G., Slaus, M., Soficaru, A., Sogut, B., Soltysiak, A., Stathi, M., Steskal, M., Stewardson, K., Stocker, S., Suata-Alpaslan, F., Suvorov, A., Szecsenyi-Nagy, A., Szeniczey, T., Telnov, N., Temov, S., Todorova, N., Tota, U., Touchais, G., Triantaphyllou, S., Turker, A., Ugarkovic, M., Valchev, T., Veljanovska, F., Videvski, Z., Virag, C., Wagner, A., Walsh, S., Wlodarczak, P., Workman, J. N., Yardumian, A., Yarovoy, E., Yavuz, A. Y., Zalzala, F., Zettl, A., Zhang, Z., CavuSoglu, R., Rohland, N., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D. & Davtyan, R., 26 Aug 2022, In: Science. 377, 6609, p. 982-987 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

  • A Precarious Future: Reflections from a Survey of Early Career Researchers in Archaeology

    Brami, M., Emra, S., Muller, A., Preda-Balanica, B. E., Irvine, B., Milic, B., Malagó, A., Meheux, K. & Fernández-Götz, M., 3 Nov 2022, In: European Journal of Archaeology. 26, 2, p. 226-250 25 p.

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  • Join the Mentoring Program of the Early Career Archaeologists Community!

    Preda-Balanica, B. E., 1 Aug 2022, In: The European Archaeologist. 73, p. 50-54 5 p.

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