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Eszter Melis

Eszter Melis is a prehistoric archaeologist and research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities (Budapest). She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 2008 in history, followed by a degree in archaeology in 2009. From 2007, she worked on large-scale excavations, first at the Field Service for Cultural Heritage and later at the Hungarian National Museum National Heritage Protection Centre. In 2015 she joined the Topographic Department of the Forster National Heritage Protection and Asset Management Centre in Budapest, where she conducted field surveys and prepared preliminary archaeological documentation. She continued this archaeological heritage management work at various successor institutions until 2021.


In 2015, she also obtained a part-time research assistant position at the Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities (MTA BTK), as part of the Momentum Mobility Project (2015–2023, PI: Viktória Kiss). This opportunity enabled her to participate in both national and international conferences and publish several studies, focusing primarily on the social and bioarchaeological analysis of burials. She defended her PhD dissertation, "Northwestern Transdanubia from the End of the Early Bronze Age to the Koszider Period," at the Doctoral School of History at ELTE in 2023. 


Her research focuses on the comprehensive analysis of Early and Middle Bronze Age burials and settlements in Western Hungary, with particular emphasis on the application of biosocial and identity archaeology methods in cemetery analysis. She has published two studies on the children in Early and Middle Bronze Age Transdanubia (see here and here). As part of the team Child Space conference, she is primarily in charge of editing the website and she is going to present in a co-authored presentation the latest results of the investigation about children in Western Hungary between 2200 and 1600 BC, including isotopic analysis.






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