Julia Giblin, an assistant professor of anthropology at Quinnipiac University, has won a $358,558 grant from the National Science Foundation to perform an archaeological dig in Hungary.
The three-year grant will permit Giblin to bring up to 30 students to the dig at a cemetery and ancient settlement called Bekes in southeastern Hungary that could be more than 3,500 years old.
The region is of interest because it did not experience social stratification like its neighbors, despite advances in agriculture, population and trade at the time.
Giblin’s students will use the dig to study the rise of social inequality in European pre-history, QU said.
They will work on the project with a local field school run by the Bronze Age Körös Off-Tell Archaeology (BAKOTA) Project.
