Introduction of the Lecture 

From 6000 to 5500 BC, Southeast and Central Europe functioned as the liminal zone for hunting-gathering and early farmers, emerging as the birthplace and core area of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture, a pivotal area for early Neolithic transition in Central Europe. Through the excavation of multiple archaeological sites, collecting data and using new advanced technologies, this lecture offers a thorough synthesis of the latest research findings in this region. It provides a detailed overview of the diverse characteristics associated with the transition to the Neolithic period in Southeast and Central Europe.

Title: The Neolithic Transition between South East and Central Europe: New Results, Changes in Interpretation 

Invited Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Eszter Bánffy 

President of the European Association of Archeologists

Institute of Archeology, Research Center for the Humanities, Hungarian Research Network

Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute

Time: 

15:00-17:30, Beijing Time (GMT+8), 26th March 2025 (Wed.)

8:00-10:30 Budapest Time (GMT+1), 26th March 2025 (Wed.)

Zoom ID: 834 7315 2304 (Password: 865285) 

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Biography of the Speaker:

Eszter Bánffy graduated from prehistoric and medieval archaeology, as well as Indology and comparative Indoeuropean linguistics at the Eotvos Lorand (ELTE) University, Budapest. She has been doing research in the prehistory of Central and South East Europe and became involved also in theoretic issues and matters of heritage protection. As a professor of prehistoric archaeology and of geoarchaeology, she has been conducting several projects within Hungary. She is in charge of a work team while the programs are extended with several international projects.  She has given lectures and courses in universities of Europe and in America, including the Harvard, where she spent a semester as visiting scholar in 2008. She served on the Board of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) as an executive board member and as secretary (2005-2011), in 2020 she was elected EAA President. Besides working in the Institute of Archaeology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, she is a professor supervising PhD students at two universities: ELTE Budapest and SZTE Szeged. In 2017 she was elected in the British Academy. Between 2013 and 2023 she worked as the director of the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, in Frankfurt.