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SUMMARY:Huns and Romans: relationships between pastoral and agricultural p
 opulations on the late Roman frontier  - Susanne Hakenbeck (University of 
 Cambridge)
DTSTART:20171018T153000Z
DTEND:20171018T163000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Van Baelen
DESCRIPTION:Late Roman authors created a dichotomy between the settled Rom
 an population and the nomadic lifestyle of Huns and other barbarians and t
 hey described the relationships between these populations as adversarial a
 nd destructive for the late Roman population. I conducted a multi-isotope 
 study of five fifth-century AD cemeteries in modern-day Hungary to determi
 ne relationships between nomadic-pastoralist incomers – the historically
  documented Huns and other nomadic groups – and the sedentary agricultur
 al population of the late Roman province of Pannonia. Rather than being ch
 aracterised only by violence\, the influx of nomadic populations appears t
 o have led to widespread changes in subsistence strategies of populations 
 in the Carpathian basin. Nomadic-pastoralist groups may have switched to s
 maller herds and more farming\, and\, conversely\, local populations may h
 ave integrated with a new economic system based on animal herding. Quite p
 ossibly lifeways and subsistence practices were more important than ethnic
  distinctions in providing a sense of identity.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Henry Wellcome Building\, Division of Biological A
 nthropology\, Fitzwilliam Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 3QG
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