We are happy to announce that our alumna, Kyra Lyublyanovics, earned Honorable Mention in the award handed out by the András Kubinyi Foundation for Medieval Studies, a prestigious award within the Hungarian academic community. She defended the awarded dissertation, 'The Socio-Economic Integrations of Cumans in Medieval Hungary - An Archaeozoological Approach' at our department in 2015. The work deals with animal bone remains recovered from archaeological sites from the Cuman habitation area, in the 13th-16th centuries. With interdisciplinary methods, using written sources and archaeological remains alike, the dissertation reconstructs the animal husbandry practices, animal-related beliefs, the everyday methods of meat processing, possible veterinary treatments as well as the Cumans' role in the late medieval animal trade.
This year the main award of the Kubinyi Foundation was given to István Botár, an archaeologist of the Szekler Museum of Ciuc for his study on the settlement history of the Ciuc Basin.