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Viktória Kiss

Updated: Mar 23

Viktória Kiss is a prehistoric archaeologist with a research focus on the European Bronze Age. She is also interested in Bronze Age metallurgy, depositional and burial practices, and questions of settlement structure, social archaeology and political economy She defended her PhD theses at the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) in 2003, after this she became a research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her monograph ‘Middle Bronze Age Encrusted Pottery in Western Hungary’ was published in 2012. Between 2014 and 2018 she lead an NRDI research project entitled ‘Changing populations or changing identities in the Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin’. In 2015 she started to build the new ‘Momentum Mobility’ research group, granted by the Momentum Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Centre for Energy Research and the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This multidisciplinary research group (https://mobilitas.ri.btk.mta.hu/?lang=en) investigates human remains from Bronze Age burials dated between 2500 and 1500 BC in modern-day Hungary by complex bioarchaeological and biosocial analyses to study the living conditions (nutrition, mobility, diseases) and social status of individuals and the society. Currently she is a senior research fellow of the Institute of Archaeology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, and the PI of the MTA–BTK Lendület “Momentum” Bases research group (2023–2028).



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