Kinship, sex and biological relatedness. The contribution of archaeogenetics to the understanding of social and biological relations. Edited by Harald Meller, Johannes Krause, Wolfgang Haak and Roberto Risch By Eszter BanffyKinship, sex and biological relatedness. The contribution of archaeogenetics to the understanding of social and biological relations. Edited by Harald Meller, Johannes Krause, Wolfgang Haak and Roberto Risch By Eszter Banffy

https://www.academia.edu/130233014/Kinship_sex_and_biological_relatedness_The_contribution_of_archaeogenetics_to_the_understanding_of_social_and_biological_relations_Edited_by_Harald_Meller_Johannes_Krause_Wolfgang_Haak_and_Roberto_Risch?email_work_card=title 2025, Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae The current volume, the 23rd in the row, focuses on the core questions of the “third science revolution”:1 the molecular biological traces of human descent and their impact on archaeology and cultural anthropology. It is interesting to see how the precisely posed questions seem to obey the “revolutionary” Zeitgeist in research: the problems and answers featured in the book are only a few months old, and they already belong to the axiomatic theses, object to numerous further discussions, workshops, conferences, followed by matching publications in due course. The 15th Archaeology Day of Central Germany conference was dedicated to crossroads of archaeology, cultural anthropology and hard scientific methods, with an apparent twofold aim: one about the sensational new possibilities but at the same time, the limits of biological kinship interpretations, and the other seeking ways of joint interpretations. The key question is whether and how the newly gained factual knowledge of biological lineages can be juxtaposed and compared to long-lasting theses of cultural anthropology. The new data on the presence or, even more, the absence of biological kinship confused thanatoarchaeologists who believed that multiple burials were accurate reflections of nuclear family members, biologically kin people. Alarming results in its positive sense, a kind of unsettled time in research that will undoubtedly bring the dispute to higher levels of understanding.