Missing Pieces of Our Prehistory

20:15

May 21 2025

Discussion

Open and free

Museum of Engineering and Technology in Krakow

Św. Wawrzyńca 15, 31-060 Kraków

In the discussion following the lecture, we will talk with Prof. Hofmanova and archaeologist Prof. Margaret Kot about the biggest unknowns of our prehistory – and how new methods of genetics and archaeology are helping us better understand who our ancestors were and what happened to them.

Margaret Kot

Archaeologist specializing in the Paleolithic, human evolution and prehistoric stone technologies. She is interested in how the ways of making tools changed and what role caves played in the l…

Zuzana Hofmanová

Archaeogeneticist. Leader of the Genetic History Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She studies DNA fragments of fossilized bones, tracing gene flows between desc…

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