Presentation at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Athens, Greece, September 26–29, 2026

 

From September 26th to 29th, 2026, the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) was held at the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. PhD student Ivana Keršić delivered an oral presentation titled “Inheritance of coat color in Balkan cattle: contributions of modern and aDNA” within the session ‘Bringing together zooarchaeology, archaeogenomics and morphometry: shaping the future of interpretation’. She presented the results of analysis on polymorphisms in coat-color genes in modern Croatian cattle and ancient cattle from the Balkan region, with a particular focus on findings derived from the analysis of sequences from Croatian aurochs from Istria, which the research group had recently published.