The Netherlands Institute for the Near East

News from NIT: publication uses Barcın Höyük genomes to study Neolithic kinship traditions

An international team of geneticists, anthropologists and archaeologists have used ancient genomes to study people whose burials are associated with some of the earliest houses in history, some 10,000-8,000 years ago in Anatolia. The data includes genomes from Barcın Höyük, a site excavated by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey, and three other Neolithic sites.

General Update: NINO library re-opens with restrictions on 13 April

Starting from Tuesday 13 April 2021, limited access to the NINO library will be possible again – with restrictions and for specific visitors.

General NINO-nieuwsbrief maart 2021

Nieuws van het NINO-onderzoekscentrum en van de NINO-bibliotheek