 Good afternoon. Estimed guests, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to extend a cordial welcome to you at the opening ceremony of the 28th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists organized by the Ottwisch-Lohrand University in collaboration with the Hungarian National Museum and the Bar Kapitain Schagnon Profizierte. Please let me introduce myself. My name is Bence Szosz. I am curator and archaeologist of the Hungarian National Museum and the doctoral candidate of the Ottwisch-Lohrand University. And this afternoon, it is my honor and pleasure to be the moderator of this opening ceremony. I am privileged to greet at the ceremony Mr. Janos Csák, Minister of Culture and Innovation, Dr. László Borhi, rector of the Ottwisch-Lohrand University, Mr. László Elshimon, general director of the Hungarian National Museum, Dr. Gábor Virágos, deputy director of general of archaeology of the Hungarian National Museum, and Dr. Esther Banffi, president of the European Association of Archaeologists. I would also like to extend warm welcome to the organizers of the conference, to all of our guests who accepted our invitation to all members and to the representatives of the press. If you take a glance just behind me, you can see the pro-music mix score of the Institute of Arts Communication and music of the Ottwisch-Lohrand University. The mix score was established in 1984. In recent decades, the core received acclaim both on Hungarian as well as on international stages at several festivals and contests. The performance will set this opening ceremony into a frame, so to speak. In the following minutes, they are performing two pieces. First, the so-called Noysombat Anthem, the Anthem of the Ottwisch-Lohrand University. The piece originated in the times when the university moved from Noysombat to the Strönöva in Slovakia to Buda. The conductor is associate professor Akos Ertus. Next, they are performing Bela Bartók's Romanian folk dances, except from Bela Bartók's Romanian folk dances. Bartók composed this piece for the piano in 1915. Due to its popularity, there are several versions of this piece. According to Jörg Króz, a companion to Bartók, only those who had the chance to enjoy the Romanian folk dances of Transylvanian villages in their native setting can truly understand how Bartók's adaptation in the concert hall captures the wholeness and richness of traditional life. The performance of the core is accompanied by Jofia Szymon on the trumpet and Jofia Chassny on the piano. Both of them are former students of the Institute of Arts Communication and Music, and the conductor is once again, Akos Ertus. Ladies and gentlemen, Jofia Szymon and Jofia Chassny and the Pro Musica Mixed Core. After this wonderful performance, I would like to give the floor to Alexandra Anders, chair of the local organizing committee, and ask her to give her opening speech. Yonopot Givenok, si astok. Good afternoon, welcome. It's my sincere, heartfelt pleasure to welcome you in Budapest for the opening ceremony of the 28th annual meeting. I'm also immensely honored to be the first to welcome you all on behalf of the local organizing committee, together with my fellow organizers, David Bartók from the University and Sylvia Fabian and Esther Kreiter from the Hungarian National Museum, to the two host institutions of the annual meeting. We hope to give all members of EAA a taste of the best Hungarian hospitality, offering the very best of ourselves to our guests and to friends both old and new in our community. We feel responsible for your well-being as long as you stay under our roof, and we hope to provide a venue for the reintegration of our networks, connections, and shared knowledge in order to prepare and be ready for new challenges, now and in the future. I believe I'm not the only one to have awaited and longed for this moment for so long. Am I? We are now living in a constantly shifting, strange new world, replete with new challenges. And it seems to me that this non-normality will remain the norm for some time to come. We are currently going through an extremely difficult period full of challenges and changes, and both our personal lives and professional activities are increasingly affected by countless circumstances. Political changes, pandemics, wars, climate change, to name but a few. Yet, even this cloud has its silver lining. It was the COVID pandemic that provided the exceptional opportunity to again host the AM in Budapest after the 2020 online meeting. During these difficult times, it's particularly comforting to draw more strengths and inspiration from the experiences of past societies as uncovered by archaeology. From the traditions of our centuries or the institutions and from the power represented by the EAA community spanning borders and generations. It's our hope that the EAA 2022 Budapest will be an intellectually rewarding experience for all participants arriving from some 60 countries and will provide fresh inspiration for your work alongside offering novel cultural flavors and being an unforgettable meeting. Both for those present here with us and for those participating online. We would again take the opportunity to express our very special thanks to the EAA office in Prague. Organizing an AM would have been impossible without their professionalism and active support. Similarly, we are most grateful to Alta Grapecio and its staff for the organization of the EAA 2022 Budapest AM and for making our dream come true. We are genuinely pleased to see you all in Budapest. The city famed across land and sea, Teramari Urbam Notham, as phrased by the 17th century students of our university in the song you have just heard. And we hope you will enjoy yourselves and retain pleasant memories of your stay. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Anders. Now I would like to respectfully request Mr. Riano Czak, Minister of Culture and Innovation to give his speech. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It's really a great privilege to be here, distinguished guests. Born welcome to all of you who are not living here in Budapest, in our nation's capital, a city of rich past, vibrant presence, present and hopefully bright future. We, Hungarians, we live here in the Carpathian Basin for more than 1,100 years. We all know that nations and peoples are born, they rise, decline, or even disappear. Historians and archeologists know that several factors influence the chances of survival, such as climate, geography, demography and so on. I think the most important factor is culture. Obviously what can I say as a Minister of Culture and Innovation? But seriously, culture is in my book, is a way of life, a way of thinking, it's a mindset. Culture is as much material as intellectual and spiritual. Long-lasting social entities have the ability to comprehend the world and the human condition in it and their own life in it. But understanding is just not enough. Successful social entities are able to organize their life world. Even more constituted social entities have a comprehensive religious, political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific reflection of the world and their position in it. This is where I see the greatest added value of archeologists and historians. Because you provide the tangible evidence on how people lived, how they emerge, how they develop, but also how they fall and disappear. And if we are clever enough here and now in the 21st century, we can learn many lessons on how to avoid mistakes and how to live a good life in a unity of order. Actually, this is what we try to do. We Hungarians here in the Carpathian Basin for more than 1100 years now. We love our freedom and liberties. We have to be very rational when weighing dangers and chances of history. And hence, this is how we became survivors. Survivors in the midst of the thunderstorms of history. And as I mentioned, this place is just on the crossroads of peoples and nations. And this is why I warmly welcome you and I'm really happy to have you here because we are happy to share our heritage. And I really hope that besides the conference, you will be able to walk around and taste the Hungarian way of thinking, the Hungarian way of life on the streets of Budapest or even in the countryside. So to finally, on behalf of the Hungarian government, I wish you a really fruitful conference, discussions, and also a pleasant stay here in our beloved capital. Thank you very much. Thank you, Minister Csak. And now please join me in welcoming the director of the Otverschlorand University, Professor Laszlo Borje. Dear Mr. Minister, Vice State Secretary, Madam President of EAA, Mr. Director General and Deputy Director General of the Hungarian National Museum, dear colleagues, dear participants. As the director of Otverschlorand University, I feel honored to welcome you on the occasion that following many years of preparation, the annual General Assembly of the European Association of Archaeologists can finally begin its work in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, which even has been postponed for several years due to the recent pandemic. Welcome to our university. And right now, at the beginning of my speech, I would like to most sincerely wish you just to spend the next few days in a useful and meaningful way from both scientific and cultural aspect as our guests. This event, to hosted by Otverschlorand University, since its foundation in 1635, that is for nearly four centuries and being for a long time the one and only university in Hungary, our institution has been in seasonally and steadfastly at the service of science, education, culture, as well as innovation, lately by being a founding member of the European Institute of Innovation and Technologies, Culture and Creativity Innovation Community. Our similarly long established partner institution, the Hungarian National Museum, founded in 1802, 220 years ago, as well as the Castle Headquarters Non-profit LTD, an organization responsible for cultural heritage protection in Hungary, our co-organizers of the scientific session, the annual General Assembly of the European Association of Archaeologists starting today. This is a special event for Hungarian archaeology. Since authors, there were major conferences attracting a large international community to our country in the past decades, such as the 11th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in 1976, the 8th International Congress of Ancient Wall Painting, also hosted by Iowa University in 2001. This is the first time in nearly 150 years that the European Archaeology Association of Archaeologists, the significance of which goes even beyond the borders of Europe, is visiting our country again to have its scientific meeting here in Budapest. It was almost on the same day on 4th September, 1876, 146 years ago that Agoston Trefort, Minister of Religion and Education opens the Wikiem Conquer International of Anthropologie Archaeologie Préostérique, co-organized by two prestigious scientific institutions, the Royal Hungarian University of Budapest and the Hungarian National Museum. The way the Sunday paper called Wacharnopi Uysag, Sunday News in English, reported Andy Congress on 8th October, 1876 is still relevant today, I quote it. Our domestic archaeology saw good days last September. Hundreds of experts from all over the civilized world gathered to attend the International Congress of Préhistoric Archaeology in Budapest. They were not even deterred by the war raging across our builders, nor could the hostile press of our neighbors discourage them from coming to our country mocked as barbaric. We did not welcome our guests with pomp and splendor. We were content to present the Préhistoric monuments of our country to them and let them judge the value of our work themselves. Beyond that, due to the Congress, Hungary is no longer an unknown land to archaeologists of Préhistory. The thought is aware that we have also been working diligently in the field of the discipline and that Hungarian archaeologists also contribute considerably to advancing this profession. All this was thanks to Floris Romer, head professor of the University's Department of Numismatics and Archaeology between 1877 and creator of antiquities at the Hungary National Museum from 1869. Our department of archaeology also has a history stretching far back into the past as it was founded 245 years ago by Istvan Schönwisner and had such distinguished professor as Romer Floris rise before Andreas Alfordi and Andreas Mochi. Our current event is of similar importance to the one held in 1876. Being not only rector of the Otwoszland University but also a professor of Roman Provincial Archaeology and the supervisor of the excavations conducted in Roman Brigadio, I'm also proud to be involved in an event together with my colleagues, which mobilized the 15,000 EAA members from over 60 countries and motivated 1,700 registered participants to attend in person or online and learn about the archaeology, history and culture of Hungary. Today, not only leading at prominent representatives of European and international archaeology are present but also younger researcher, career entrance and university students who are the promise of the future. I'm inducted to Philippe Criado Boado and this is Esther Banffi, former and actual EAA presidents as Mrs. Elgibet Jerem for supporting Hungary's application for organizing this conference as well as to the leaders and staff members of the Otwoszland University, especially Alexandra Anders, David Bartusch and Emilia Ricker. The Hungarian National Museum, especially its former and actual general directors, Benedek Wargo and Laszlo Schimann present here and the Castel Headquarters non-profit LTD for the organization. Finally, I would like to thank Janusz Czak, Minister of Culture and Innovation for accepting our invitation and just like his great processor, Agoston Trefort, Minister of Culture and Religion 146 years ago, he has not only enhanced the profile of the event with his personal presence and speech, but also demonstrated that the research and respect of the past is an important issue for the Hungarian government. I hope you will hear an intriguing lectures, have many fruitful discussions, get to know each other, Budapest and Hungary and take us in your hearts. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you, Professor Borthi. Now I would like to give the floor to Gabor Viragos, Deputy Director General of Archaeology of the Hungarian National Museum. This way of moving. So, dear Mr. Minister, dear Mr. Rector, Madam President, Director General, Vice-State Secretary, dear colleagues, dear friends, now I only have a short speech. First of all, greeting you on behalf of the museum instead of the Director General is not an unpolite-ness. As head of the National Institute of Archaeology of the museum, covering all the archeological duties, I have the honor to represent the institution and be your host during this archeological conference. I also warmly welcome you here in Budapest on behalf of both co-organizing partners of the university, the Hungarian National Museum and the War Kapitansak ZRD. The actual situation is that the former archeological and the scientific directorate of the War Kapitansak had been integrated into the National Museum in January 2022, so this year. So beyond the previous organizations, we only have to say thank you to the War Kapitansak for this venue site, this War Bazaar, for which we are very, very grateful. As most data and other relevant issues regarding the conference and its organization have been told before, let me call your attention only to one specific issue. The logo of the conference has been compiled from a decoration element of a jug of the sausage or treasure. The original item, you can see in the museum, along with the other 13 big-size silver vessels made in the fourth century. So come and see. And the Hungarian National Museum is, of course, also honored to host the 28th annual meeting of the EAA together with the Treslora University to reintegrate the archeologists and heritage experts of Europe and out of Europe. So in the name of all my colleagues, I would like to take the opportunity to express a very, very special thank to everybody who took part in organizing this conference. It was really a huge workload. I also express our gratitude to all of you who arrived at Budapest as traveling is really an issue nowadays. And of course also to those ones who will follow the conference with the help of the internet. The museum will be your place for most highlight events and is open for you to visit its exhibitions. So please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need any help in anything. Okay, but most importantly, I hope it's not inside, but most importantly, the National Museum will host all the keynote speeches except for Dr. Bohi's speech coming right after here and the official reception of the conference this evening. So hope to see you all soon in the Museum Garden, but I will greet you again, but in more detail. Thank you very much. Thank you, Dr. Viragos. Now please welcome the president of the European Association of Archaeologists, Dr. Esther Banffi. Ishtenhozer benetek et Budapest, then. Distinguished guests, colleagues, dear colleagues, welcome everyone to our 28th EAA annual meeting in Budapest. This day is a festive one in several ways. First, we celebrate our first onsite meeting since 2019. A joyful occasion to catch up in person with all the things that are important to us. Second, this is the first fully hybrid meeting in EAA's history, and we intend to continue like this in the future. Our goal is to invite everyone to continue to meet face to face, especially after such a long time of separation and isolation, but also to expand the invitation to those who, for whatever reason, cannot travel. The fact that the overwhelming majority of attendees opted to be present in Budapest, clearly evidence is the shared desire to come together, listen to each other's new ideas and shared results, research results, as well as renew networking, professional and social. But today, we are also celebrating two further things and both have been already hinted upon. These are connected to our venue in Hungary. First, it needs to be borne in mind that the EAA staff and the scientific committee have carried out the huge task of organizing a meeting for us for the second time within two years. It was a real surprise to me when our local partners who ran the 2020 so-called online or virtual annual meeting declared themselves ready to take on the gigantic workload of organizing yet another annual meeting in 2022. An unprecedented challenge, of course, but there might be an important reason behind their brave decision, which is my second point. This has also been mentioned shortly before a few minutes ago, but this is the fact that Hungarian archaeology has not witnessed substantial international meetings for 146 years since 1876, when then organized by the first Hungarian archaeologist, Floris Romer. The next planned large conference, the Third Congress Internationale de Ciaz-Priestolike Protroistrik, was swept away by World War II and the next attempt by the Stalinist circumstances with hermetically closed borders and the iron curtain. In 1955, after Stalin's death, even the presence of Via Gordon Trident Wilhelm Unverzagt did not prove sufficiently persuasive to satisfy the international interest with a large conference. And as the last week of this bat fate, it happened that in the first year of the COVID pandemic in 2020 Budapest, the EAM had to be turned to an online meeting. Hungarian archaeologists felt unanimously that this series of unfortunate circumstances simply had to be broken. Hence the commitment to make a real and large Budapest meeting and I'm happy to say that this meeting has already begun. As you might have noticed, our current conference logo, reintegration symbolizes all the aspects of recovery from the pandemic and of overcoming isolation, but also speaks to Hungary's archaeological misfortunes, the overcoming of these misfortunes over the last 150 years. About the other content of the logo, we have just heard from Gabor Viragos that is also a very important symbolic content. It has been a busy year with a new code and principles, a huge workload for a task force, a theme that also shaped the EIA statement for this year. We started to implement our strategic plan from last year. Importantly, this involves the establishment of advisory committees that help expand the knowledge and experience of the board, which will appreciate the support drawn from a wider membership. The work of these committees will start in September and we also enhance the cooperation with our communities which, to our great pleasure, play an increasingly active role in EIA's professional life. Our annual meeting with nearly 200 sessions, keynote lectures and almost 1,700 speakers with more than 2,000 contributions carries the promise of an exciting and extremely busy three days ahead, a strong signal of our membership to become integrated indeed. And Budapest, as a city, can offer you, along with natural beauty, an extremely positive archaeological experience as the Danube cuts Budapest into a hilly, panoramic, Roman area and a flat steppe part, certainly only regarded by the Roman Empire as barbaricum. Both geographically and culturally, the Danube played a dividing role over millennia of prehistory. The flat all food belonged to Southeast Europe while Transnubian in the West was part of the Central European social and cultural processes. The turbulent centuries before and after the Hungarian tribes arrived in the Carpathian basin, followed wars, conflicts, uprising, freedom fights and oppressions that filled the second millenium AD. Some overarching themes of this year resonate with the Carpathian basin as a zone for mobility and transit for millennia. Beyond thanking our staff, the scientific committee and all Hungarian colleagues, I'd like to highlight yet another group without whom our annual meeting could not be successful. Our young volunteers. These students are engaged with logistics, help us orientate ourselves during the events. They are present in each session and round table ready to intervene and support us when necessary. We are grateful to them for all this. However, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that these young people will become part of the EAA membership. They are our upcoming colleagues, perhaps leaders of the next generation. When gratefully accepting their help these days, we should see EAA's future in them. As archaeologists, we are well aware that we cannot move to the future without acknowledging the past. At this time, I propose a moment of silence in acknowledgement of the EAA members we have lost in this last year, among them Caroline Wickham Jones and Deborah Nichols. Newton is credited with Seijeg. If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. If we are to see further, it is because we build further upon the research, academic rigor, and spirit of inquiry of those who have gone before. As we move onward in time, how we should relate to our shared human past as well as our past as a discipline has changed. Our TEA, the European Archaeologist, the EAA's newsletter, is currently sponsoring a photojournalism contest for the newly instituted covers on this very theme. What is the spirit of archaeology in 2023? For full rules, please see the EAA webpage before the final due date on the lines of September. In continuation of such new directions for the EAA, I'm also happy to announce that EAA is officially beginning with its book award program. This book award program is a brand new thing and you will know more about this during the conference. Details will be announced about it and are already to be reached in the web and it will be also circulated by emails to members. However, let's now see how are the recipients of the existing EAA prizes and awards. So I am looking for the awards, the prizes and let us hear who is first to announce them. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. As mentioned, it is now time to acknowledge some of the remarkable achievements of our fellow archaeologists. First, the presentation of the European Archaeological Heritage Prize. And to do that, the honours, I would like to invite Mary-Louise Stixerens and Chair of the EAA Heritage Prize Committee to join me on the stage. I think this is as near as I would ever be to a feeling of participating in the Oscars. It may be as near as the rest of you will be as well. It's an important event. And I'm very honoured on behalf of the committee to announce first the award in the individual category. So the EAA Committee for the European Archaeological Heritage Prize being given in the individual category to Sophia La Barthée. And the justification for the prize, let me read. Beyond its cultural value, heritage has the potential to address many of the challenges that society faces. Sophia La Barthée has made this potential a reality of her work, both at an academic and a practical level. Scholarly, her publications are some of the essential readings in the field of heritage. In particular, her work has analysed the working of UNESCO conventions about heritage and the role of museums and heritage sites in daily life. But even more importantly, together with her work in the field, her contribution has played a role in shaping policy and practice aimed at a more inclusive and fair environment. Addressing the role of women in heritage, for example, and the impact of good heritage practice for social justice. Her latest work focuses on the contribution of heritage to the sustainable development goals. Confronting the margin of role that heritage usually has, she used her decade of work on shaping policy for the management of cultural heritage from an inclusive and in sustainable perspective that strengthens the role of local communities and benefit marginalised ones. All this was done while educating a new generation of professionals that bring these values to the core of their practice. For a commitment to improving practices in heritage management, for her valuable contribution to the field and the impact of her work for inclusive and committed practices. Sophia Lobartis awarded the 2022 Individual Achaeological Heritage Prize of the European Association of Archaeology. Congratulations. I'm very honoured to receive this prize today. I would like to thank Professor Ellen Swift from the University of Kent who have nominated me and, of course, the jury for having selected the nomination. This prize is very important for me as I represent diverse types of diversity, including being from an Algerian background, so being African, and also coming from a very disadvantaged background. Yet I'm very aware that all fields, the field of heritage and archaeology, is still very much excluding in terms of race, gender, class. And I very much hope that this prize that I got today will convince you all that diversity is a strength, and I look forward to hearing from you about the Great Future Initiative on diversifying the field of heritage and archaeology. Diversity is a strength, I think. Thank you very much for awarding me this prize. And we have one more. We also, as you hopefully all remember, have a prize in the institutional category. And this year, it goes to Avasa Imas, Engaging Youngsters in Cultural Heritage, OKIS 1-on-1 Program. And I'm not sure if they're representative. Good. I will read the justification. So, Avasas Imas, Engaging Youngsters in Cultural Heritage, OKIS 1-on-1 Program. Archaeological heritage seem to be inherently valuable and positive. However, communities react to it in very different ways and also depending on the type and location of sites, types and location of sites. The mediating roles of professional is essential and the potential of archaeological sites to address important issues in contemporary society is crucial. The Avas Association for Furthering Value, Archaeology and Ancient History has implemented the OKIS 1-on-1 Education Program to engage youngsters 12 to 16 years old from Italy, Greece and Syria with the archaeological heritage in their vicinity. Besides the direct impact on learning and unexpected support of archaeological heritage protection, this program strengthened other important values and skills that helped to build a more inclusive and a creative society. For its work in shaping better global citizens through archaeological heritage, bridging the gap between regions and providing the potential of good education program to engage with social challenges, the Avas Amas is awarded the 2022 Institute of Archaeology, Institute's Archaeological Heritage Prize of the European Association of Archaeology. Good evening, Pudda Vishn. I am delighted to be here and accept this prize in the name of Federico Puccellati, the director of the Mozan Orchish Archaeological Project, who has been prevented, unfortunately, to come in person because of a personal emergency in the family. And in the name of all the people who give life and meaning to the project, in particular, Heba Qassar, the director of the school program, Yasmin Mahmood, who manages the project from Damascus, and Amer Ahmad, our archaeologist who keeps everything going at the site. I am Arwa Kharroubi, and I'm also part of this unique project that has opened a bright ray of light in the darkness of the current Syrian situation and has become a beacon of how a remote archaeological past can become integrated and become to be felt as living heritage by all the communities that live around the site. It is a pride, we too, the many archaeologists active in this project deeply share. It gives us reason for a new sense of community to what we are doing as coolers to see how profoundly relevant the traces of life once lived and still live today, and for the young ones as they gain a sense of who they are, not only as individuals, but as members of a community that thieves on shared memory. The recognition your prize gives us also goes to the funding agencies that have made it possible for us to carry on the project, of which we wish to remember in particular the Kaplan Fund, the Balzen Foundation, the Kariblo Foundation, and the Italian Foreign Ministry, they too share deeply in our pride. Thank you very much, everyone. Congratulations to the Everdees. We will proceed with the Oscar Montelius Foundation Early Career Achievement Prize. I would like to ask Elinda Lenn, President of the Oscar Montelius Foundation, to present the award. Dear all, on behalf of the Oscar Montelius Foundation, I am honoured to award this year's Early Career Achievement Prize. Before doing so, I would like to say that the idea of this prize is to encourage and value the work done by young archaeologists. Where do you work in academia and museum? In heritage management or contract archaeology? We urge you to keep up the important work you do and please applications for next years to come are very welcome. Oscar Montelius Foundation trustees highly appreciate all the applications received for the Early Career Achievement Prize in 2022. Many of the applications are of high quality, where especially three were standing out. And in the end, we managed to make a decision. The Oscar Montelius Foundation trustees award this year's prize to the PhD student, Constanze Schatke. And I will now read the justification for the prize. Constanze Schatke is awarded the Early Career Achievement Prize 2022 on the grounds of the social innovation interdisciplinarity and international impact of her early career work. Constanze Schatke is a young researcher working on osteological collections in museums. In her newly started PhD research, she is going to combine bioarchaeology with provenance to investigate violence in the acquisition context of human remains at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Especially during the period 1857 to 1935, the time span represents a period when many collections of looted human remains from indigenous and other groups were assembled by museums of Europe. The human remains were collected and study informed scientific traditions that are considered inappropriate in recent times. Ms. Schatke's master of science research involved in depth provenance research on collections of human remains drawn from indigenous people from South America. The study of human remains can reveal important insights into the past and can provide previously unrevealed information even about each individual studied. As part of her work, Ms. Schatke has participated in the planning of the repatriation of human remains to Hawaii in 2022, together with an associate ceremony. Regarding indigenous Maori and Moriori, human remains from New Zealand in which she has recommended the repatriation of a collection of more than 50 remains from people to their New Zealand community representatives. She is currently involved in preparation of associate repatriation ceremonies. Her work reveals a person who is inquisitive and fearless, as well as particularly sensitive. This is seen in the manner in which she has imparted knowledge gained from her research on specific groups to the descendants of those populations and their communities of origin. She has demonstrated that she processes the insightful and ethically appropriate approach needed in the pursuit of her work and in her communication with the descendant communities of the collection she is working with. Social impact. Ms. Schatke has established contact with descendant community organizations, such as the Koipasion Selkem Chili and Fundación Haccaia. She specifically learned and improved her Spanish in order to communicate directly with the indigenous descendants of the human bone collection she has studied. The Selknam are currently in the process of gaining recognition as indigenous people from the Chilean state. The knowledge of the descendants and the international community about the bones of the Selknam in Vienna gives them back a part of their cultural identity and empowers them in the fight against extinction. Initive impact. Ms. Schatke was the first person from the Natural History Museum to proactively search for and see contact with communities of descendants whose bones are curated in one of the biggest collection of human remains in Europe. Interdisciplinary impact. Ms. Schatke's research is generally characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. She combines bioarcheological and forensic methods with research results from archival and historical sources within the Vienna Natural History Museum and in other institutions and libraries in Vienna and abroad. In doing so, she reconstructs a detailed provenance history and creates an individual ostabior biography or personal details for each individual. Some results of her master thesis are prepared for publication and are currently under peer review. Two different papers written in collaboration with representatives from the indigenous Chilean groups will shed light on different perspectives of colonialism. The significance of human remains in indigenous people re-individualization and appropriate management of sensitive collection of human remains. International impact. Provenance research and the scientific history of anthropological collections is a field in need for intensified cross-cultural collaboration. Ms. Schatke's work contributes to the decolonization of archaeology and museum collections by exploring the extent to which colonial and racist stereotypes were reproduced through the acquisition, exhibition and anthropological analysis of the collection's concerns. The article on this issue will be part of an anthology on colonial collections of Museum of Austria to be published in 2023. In view of the above, Constanze Schatke can be considered an outstanding early career archaeologist fulfilling all selection criteria and she is awarded the 2022 Early Career Achievement Prize of Oscar Montelius Foundation. Constanze Schatke, please come to the floor. Well, good afternoon. Thank you very much, Ellen. It's been a pleasure so far for me to be here in Budapest. I'm a first year PhD student at the Natural History Museum, Vienna. What doesn't just make me a scientist early into her career, but also a member of how me and my peers call ourselves the so-called pandemic generation of young scientists. We are used to online conferences, talks and sessions, so it's really nice to see what all the fuss about in-person conferences is like. Let me just say that I'm intrigued with everything that I've experienced so far, which is, of course, a totally unbiased opinion that I would have also had had. I would have not received this amazing Early Career Achievement Prize today. Regarding this prize, I would like to thank my PhD supervisor, Sabina Eggers, as well as Margaret Berner from the Museum, the staff at the Department of Anthropology for creating this welcoming environment where I've been able to conduct my research since the first day I stepped foot into the building, especially also to our head, Dr. Karen Wiltske-Schrotter. But I would also like to thank to outstanding and exceptional women, namely Fernanda Olivares Molina and Emani Molina Vargas, without whom I would probably also not be standing here today either. Fernanda and Emani belong to the mentioned Seligman people who live in Kera de Fuego in Chile. In my master thesis, I was able to work with them on researching the origins of these indigenous human remains of people from their tribe. This has sustainably impacted my interest as a research interest as a bioarchaeologist and anthropologist in the direction of how to deal with these sensible osteological collections. Indigenous heritage in general and ethics regarding the handling and storing of human remains. And I'm honored and pleased that this kind of work is being acknowledged this evening by the EAA. Reconstructing the past, one of the main tasks of archeology and anthropology can only be successful if we bring all stakeholders to the table, researchers, descendants, indigenous people, even in uncomfortable contexts that I experienced but that I researched. So thank you very much again and I can't wait for the conference to start. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair and congratulations to the winner. Now it is time to present the EAA Student Award. I would like to give the floor to Kate Freeman, editor of the European Journal of Archeology. Presenting the Student Award is a very exciting thing for me because the last two years this has been online and the time zones have not let me participate in person. This is my first time doing it and the Student Award judging process is probably my favorite part of the year. There's nothing more exciting than reading the research of the rising generation of archeologists. The European Association of Archeologists instituted the EAA Student Award in 2002. The prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented by a student or archeologist working on a dissertation at the EAA annual meeting where students are evaluated for their academic merit and innovative ideas by the Student Award Committee. Before I announce the award winner I want to acknowledge and warmly congratulate two honorable mentions and these were in fact two of the earliest career archeologists earliest in their studies archeologists who submitted papers this year. So honorable mentions and warm congratulations to Guillermo Pulido for his paper The Distribution of Greek Pottery Middle Valley of Guadiana River in the wake of the last archeological research and also to Mikofai Dobeck for Button and Inconspicuous Indicator of Industrialization. Congratulations to the two of them. And the European Association of Archeologists very pleased to award the 2022 Student Award to Paloma Cuello del Pozo for her paper Who, Why and When Peopling of the Canary Islands and the Challenges of Archeometry and to read the La Datio for it Archeology is uniquely interdisciplinary spanning the arts and sciences in equal measure. Scientific analysis plays an important role in our research but the results of Archaeometric studies can only be understood within the complex framework of human society historical process and tephonomy. In her paper Who, Why and When Peopling of the Canary Islands and the Challenges of Archeometry Cuello del Pozo examines the affordances of various Archeometric datasets to elucidate the initial occupation of the Canary Islands. Cuello del Pozo presents a critical review of the research both historical and scientific regarding the initial migration of people into the Canaries. She grounds this research in Nisology, the study of islands on their own terms and uses interpretative tools drawn from socio-biogyography to frame her re-evaluation of proposed settlement models and the variety of new scientific data from DNA to dates brought to bear on them. She explores how these different data have been applied to argue variably for a Mediterranean or an African origin for the Archipelago's original inhabitants and highlights where different types of analysis tell the same story of migration or contradict each other. Her critique makes clear that simply adding more data and more scientific approaches will not suffice to answer questions about complex human behaviors, such as migration and early island colonization. Cuello del Pozo concludes with a reflection on the proposed third science revolution which has been much debated in archaeology in recent years. While she enthusiastically embraces Archaeometric analysis, she reminds us that our scientific data are only as valid as the methods used to collect and record analyzed samples and the humanist models that allow us to interpret them in the light of complicated past worlds. We congratulate Cuello del Pozo and look forward to the publication of her paper. Please come up. Good evening everybody. This is super exciting. As a last year PhD student and really just is a really vibrant moment. All the words I have is just thank you. Thank you to the committee, the European Association of Archaeologists, committee that found my paper worthy of this award. I also want to thank especially Dr. Helen Dawson probably without her guidance. I wouldn't be here today in this conference. In addition, I want to give special thanks to my supporters, to the foundations and the organizations that support my research. It's a very exciting moment as a Canary Islander studying out in the United States. It's a really really amazing opportunity for me to be studying the people where I come from with the help of international agencies. In addition, I want to thank my department, Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University and my university at Texas A&M because they go above and beyond for their students and they certainly have helped for me to be here today and most specially I want to dedicate this prize to my advisor my PhD advisor Dr. Lori Wright, professor in Anthropology at Texas A&M University because she is an amazing human being and she has helped me not only become she's helping me become a good scholar but also a good human being so just thank you. Congratulations to the winner. Finally, I would like to ask the president of the European Association of Archeologists Esther Banffi to once again join me on the stage and present the honorary membership of the European Association of Archeologists. EAA has a handful of honorary members and even less female honorary members. It is thus our great pleasure today we shall launch a longstanding colleague of us who happens to be a lady Ergibet Jerem born in Budapest in 1942 spent almost all her career in the archaeological institute of the then Hungarian sciences and meanwhile she has been founding member and managing director of the Archeolingva Foundation for more than 30 years a publishing house that produced and produces a large number of excellent volumes on European archaeology. She has been a committed member of EAA since the beginnings. In 1996 she became vice president but she also served outside of the executive board in various positions like the nomination committee or the EGA editorial board membership. In 2014 she was awarded the EAA European Archaeological Heritage Prize. Archeolingva has been sponsoring the student award since this foundation. Beyond this longstanding service Ergibet has always been keen to use her immensely broad international network to develop iron age or heritage themes teaching, helping and supporting many colleagues of the young or now not so very young anymore generation. She turned 80 this year and it is our great delight to award her the EAA honorary membership. We would have pleased to invite her to the stage to receive her diploma unfortunately Ergibet cannot be with us today as she was tested positive Covid positive. She is however following according to my greatest hopes following the opening ceremony online so please give a big applause to her. Congratulations Ergibet and we wish you a quick recovery and here I promise you and I promise all that we shall catch up with this. Thank you Madam President and we wish a quick recovery for the EAA. And this concludes the presentation of awards. Now it is time for the keynote lecture of this opening ceremony. It is my pleasure to give the floor to Dr. Plaslo Borhi, rector of the Otverschlorand University and I would like to ask him to give his lecture. Dear Madam President and dear participants Dear colleagues this paper is based on my book published in 2015 in Germany in Darmstadt later in Hungary and also in French language but not in English. Pannonia covered the territory of several present-day states. Its southern part belongs to today's Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. A narrow strip in the west and in the north, south of Pozson, Bratislava, a small section forms part of present-day Slovakia. However, the core area of the former province of Pannonia belongs to today's western Hungary and covers the entire territory of Transdanubia significant section of which is bordered by the river Danube in a length of 420 kilometers as border Limas or Rippa of the Roman Empire. In this central area so important historical events took place over the 500 years of Roman rule which entitle us to discuss Hungary's Roman history and its own. As early as the age of the Roman Republic the works of Greek and Latin authors tell about a group of people of Illyrian origin collectively called them Pannonioi in Greek language who lived between and beyond the rivers and Sava Savus in the south of Pannonia. Also some stereotypes such as the image of Pannonians living scattered in the mountains namely the Alps survived to the 8th century AD. Additionally other topoi that also provides to be her rather long-lived emerged as well Pliny the Elder for example referred to the modern bearing Pannonia in the Glendifera the Pannonia that is a land covered with oak forests which became a general idea persisting until late antiquity. Fairly accurate description of the region is known from the time of the Flavians second half of the 1st century AD which reflects surprisingly profound knowledge of the geography, hydrography and ethnic compositions of the area. Pliny the Elder mentions two provinces in Illyricum and he continues to use this name for the region in a purely geographic sense rather than administrative one. These provinces are Dalmatia and the south of Pannonia on the north adjacent to Noricum including the gentle foot heels of the Alps it's a quotation from the Dalmatian and the first site the history of the conquest of Pannonia seems completely clear and unproblematic because we have an account of this event by no less a personage than Emperor Augustus himself in his race guest the Augusti which recalls the deeds of the divine Augustus as a ruler the emperor describes the conquest of Pannonia or rather the peoples of Pannonia as follows I quoted. The Pannonian peoples whom the army of the Roman people have never approached before I was a leading citizen who were conquered through the agency of Tiberius Nero who was then my stepson and legate I brought them into the empire of the Roman people and extended the frontier of Illyricum to the banks of the Danube the translation is from Brandt and Moore 1969. This would imply that the Romans conquered the areas between the Drava and the Danube however there is no evidence of this at all. Between the reigns of Emperor Augustus and Claudius we hardly or only sporadically have information about finds that would suggest permanent Roman presence along the future frontier formed by the Danube or even in the interior of the later province of Pannonia. The frontier was extended to the Danube at the same time when the two other major rivers in Pannonia, Alibis and the Rhine Reynus became the borders of the Roman Empire. With these measures Rome meant to secure the newly conquered provinces north of the Alps by making the Rhine and the Danube the two largest rivers in Europe not only parts of the frontier but also waterways to be used as means for travel and transport. However to be able to access these rivers located at a great distance from Italy Rome needed to take accession of the water courses leading to them as well as the surrounding areas. In the case of Pannonia this policy can be interpreted in a way that the term the banks of the Danube refers exclusively to the section of the Danube stretching between the confluences of the Danube and its tributaries the Drava and Savva in the east. Also the name Ilyricum continued to be used for the entire region in the Gervar Ficredon and the administrative sense of the world. There is evidence that the territory was officially divided into two parts. The southern part of the province which lay closer to Rome and was therefore the upper area being viewed from where they started to be called Ilyricum superuse that is upper Ilyricum as is evidenced by an epigraphic source. The lower part of the province lying further away from Rome that is the northern area must have been called Ilyricum inferius. Sometime later these two regions received their own official old new names. From that time on the southern area was called Dalmatia also evidenced by early geography literature while the northern area was named Pannonia. It was relatively late perhaps sometime during the reign of Emperor Nero between 5468 AD that the official name Pannonia emerged for the first time. In any case based on our current knowledge the first governor of the province known by the names was Lucius Tampius Flavianus who was mentioned in an Italian inscription during the reign of Emperor Vespasianus. Shortly and this is a military diploma from the age of Vespasianus mentioning the province Pannonia. Shortly after Rome conquered the new territory the process of the administrative organization would start which meant the establishment of Civitatis, Roman administrative units, Gentis supplement units based on her family and Centuria. The territory of Pannonia subjected to military control this statement equally applies to the immediate surroundings of the military forts and the settlement areas of the tribes. Also Pannonia was still considered a province conquered by arms whose inhabitants didn't have Roman civil rights. They were free people of the province and as such full citizens of their own communities. The new administrative units were free in the Gentis population of the province Civitatis Paraglini which we see in the picture came under military control. The respective ethnic groups were subjected to the authority of the commanders of military units stationed caused that to them, namely the high ranking officials Prefecti of the infantry units cohortis or cavalry units ally. When giving the position and name of these military commanders their military rank was always indicated. So it is known that there were predominantly Roman knights in the rank of Prefectus cohortis or Prefectus ally but occasionally there were also centurions among them. Furthermore the military units for instance the cohortis Prima Noriko mentioned here commanded by them was also mentioned together with the name of the tribes of Paraglinius whose supervision was entrusted to them. For instance Prefectus of both Civitatis or that of the Boi and that of the Azali mentioned in this inscription. The headquarters of the military commanders was in the fort of the respective unit in this case in Arrabona, Györ. The establishment of Roman towns was an important step in the infrastructure development of a province and one hand we should mention the towns Colonia founded through the settlement of military veterans with Roman citizenship which should be distinguished from the municipia created from the former Civitas centers by granting them urban status and mainly inhabitant by the indigenous population who mainly had Paraglinius status. In the same way we must keep in mind certain chronological stages of the process of urban development since the towns founded during the reign of various emperors affected different parts of Panonia. During the Eulian-Claudian dynasty only Colonia were founded which were located in western Panonia along the Ember road running north south. Under the flaming emperors municipalization primaries affected southern Panonia namely the Drava-Sava Danube where both Colonia were founded and settlements were raised to the rank of municipia. It was during the reign of Trajan then in Panonia and at the same time in the emperon Romanum itself the last Colonia were established with the deduccio settlement of veterans which again only affected the era of southern Panonia. Also Colonia were still established in Panonia later these were no longer towns founded by the settlement of veterans but by granting certain municipia the title of Colonia which was a higher rank in greater prestige. It was during the reign of Emperor Hadrian that the first settlements along the Danubian frontier were given the rank of municipium and as a result the process of urban development in the border region also commenced. It is noticeable that all the towns of Hadrian era were founded near the force of legion stationed along the Danubian frontier. In the Severan era we only have information about the elevation of former municipia to the rank of Colonia. This period also marks the completion of the municipalization process. In this context it should be mentioned that the province of Panonia also consisted of two parts. Sometimes between 103 and 107 still during the reign of Trajan, upper Panonia, superior with established in the west and lower Panonia, Panonia inferior in the east. In the former province three regions were stationed in Vindobona, Vienna, Carnuntum, Petronell, Baddeutsch-Altenburg and Brigitio Comarum-Sön and the governor Legatus Augusti Legionis who also had the office of legendary commander had his seat in Carnuntum. The center of lower Panonia was established in Aquincum, Budapest where a legion was already stationed around that time and its commander also became a governor with the rank of Praetor, Legatus Augusti Praetore. Consequently the former civilian settlements of Aquincum and Carnuntum were the two provincial seats and legionary forts were established, became towns that gain the rank of municipium. The Flavian era represents a significant period concerning the fortification of the Danubean frontier Ripa or Limes as it will be referred to here and after. At that time a chain of multiple fortresses were constructed along the Danube. Some of them were newly created military fortifications the earliest building phase of which goes back to the reign of the Flavian dynasty. As we can see the initial line of defense established earlier in the southern part of the province gradually moved northwards from the time of Claudius apart from some fortresses located along the northern section of the Danubian border which already existed in the east's earlier files. It can be said that the dense interconnected chain of military fortifications including legionary fortresses and auxiliary castella was established as late as the Flavian era between 69 and 96. It was under the emperors of the Flavian dynasty that as we have seen above both the municipalization of the province and its military occupation made great progress not to mention the fact that the organization of the province was also completed during that time. By the end of the AD 1st century the linear defense of Pannonia was completed. In the middle of the 2nd century many military forts were reconstructed in stone. The auxiliary forts were surrounded with stone walls which is why they even survived the turbulent period of the Marcomannic wars. Around AD 200 further stone buildings were erected but there is still evidence of the existence of timber built barracks. The two legionary fortresses Brigatio and above mentioned Aquincum located in the area of present day Hungary were built in stone in the early 2nd century. The difference between them is that Brigatio the stone fortress was newly built with no previous timber and earth construction whereas in Aquincum an already existing timber and earth fortress was replaced with a stone one. Additionally the importance of Pannonia with its 30 military forts including four legionary fortresses and a huge military contingent stationed on its territory for the safety of Italy and Rome was revealed not only during the wars started against the Marcomanni and Quadi under the reign of next Emperor Marcus Aurelius 161-180 but also in the entire crisis period of the 3rd century AD. The wars were continued and successfully concluded by Commodus the son and successor of Marcus Aurelius. After this crisis the entire defense system of Pannonia was reorganized. The fortifications of the military forts were rebuilt. The horses were shaped corner traverse slightly projecting from the plane of the fort was imaged probably as early as the reign of Commodus. The fortifications that still had a timber and earth structure were rebuilt in stone. There is also evidence that for tactical reasons Oriental units were stationed in the Pannonia forts of Intercisa, Ussisiakastra and Atflexum. At the same time a type of fort previously unknown in this region appeared in Pannonia namely the watchtower Burgos in Latin language. According to the testimony of 16 building inscriptions, one of them under picture, some of which survived intact. These watchtowers Burgi and smaller fortlets, Presidia, were all newly established as solo extrugta in Latin and suitable places per hloka opportuna of Aquincum in the territory of Pannonia inferior between 183 and 185 during the reign of Commodus. The key position in term of geo and military politics and power that Pannonia had in the vicinity of Italy and Rome became commonplace in the Roman literature of the third century. Similar to the literature of the Roman Republic preceding the Roman conquest this region was called again Illiricum. However in this period this term generally indicated the Danubian provinces that belonged to a large Illurian custom district called the Publicum Portorium Illurici. The third century political history of Pannonia can be reconstructed as follows. In Sirmium the town located in south Pannonia at the node of major communication routes by the Danube that became an imperial seat a new in the third century. Some members of the senatorial political group got repeatedly engaged in the power politics of the Roman Empire of the Roman Empire and could rise as high as the empire had thrown. Likewise the military generals of nightly rank who led victorious campaigns against the Goths near the Lower Danube and often came from Illiricum and were in fact many times born in Sirmium itself would also become emperors. Although some rulers like Probus started reforms there was only one of the 24 emperors over this half a century who did not die violent death. His successor Cesar Galerius who was co-emperor to the Occlation had a large channel Fossa the so called Shio channel dug the contact connect Lake Balaton and the river Danube. During the first Tetrahi Panonia superior and Panonia inferior were not simply renamed Panonia prima and Panonia seconda but were split into further parts of provinces in several stages. In the southern part of former Panonia superior in the area south of the Drava was the province of Savia the north of this was the province renamed Panonia prima. In the north that is in the area of former Panonia inferior between the Danube and Lake Balaton the province of Valeria was established while south of this there was Panonia seconda. In the fourth century a three-fold defense system was established in Panonia and the adjacent territories. The first line in the east was represented by the system of ramparts and ditches in Sarmatia in the Barbaricum. It lay outside the territory of the Imperium remanum and was also defended by Roman outposts built in the Barbaricum. The second line was along the Danubian frontier which was defended from the reigns of Diocletian and Constantin the Great and as far as the section along the Danube pant north of Aquincum is concerned particularly Valentin the first on warts with new and rebuilt military establishments. The third line of defense ran inside the province. It was the so called chain of inner fortresses. Without exception these fortresses were located in the hinterland of the frontier at the nodes of major routes as supply bases which were meant to provide the necessities for the military units stationed along the limous. These four forts were fundamentally similar but sometimes differed considerably from each other in the detail of floor plan size and defences, the side corner and gate towers projecting from the wall. They were established in the late Roman period the fourth century. The section of the Danubian frontier north of Aquincum between Estergum and Santendra was the most fortified part of the entire Roman empire in the late antiquity. This border section was defended by densely aligned forts, fortlets and watchtowers. In the fourth century AD mainly during the reigns of Valentinian the first his brother Valens and his son Gratian the limous of Inmens military importance was strengthened with seven major forts that were watching towers. Fortifications were also constructed at smaller or larger distances from each other in the area of the Barbaricum and the left bank of the Danub. In this regard we must mention the bridge heads and fortified posts. Now we are coming to some monuments, some remains of Roman art in Panonia. The presence of high quality works of Panonia towns and centers such as Savaria and Acwingum is not particularly surprising. Nevertheless due to finds that came to light in the last two or three decades we needed to gradually reassess the quality of works of art produced in minor settlements or villas, estates located in the interior of the province and towns established near military centers and even those discovered in the military forts themselves. In the following the most impressive works of fine arts will be presented which considerably contributed to this change of view and attest the presence of high quality Roman art even in a province located by the northern eastern frontier. According to our current knowledge, Colonia Claudia Savaria, Sombate my native city actually, situated at the so-called Ember Road from Carnuntum to Aquileia It was one of the most prosperous towns in Panonia. This explains why about two dozen mosaic floor fragments have been discovered in this area. The most widely known and also perhaps one of the most important of them is a richly decorated mosaic floor of the late Roman Governors Palace. The murals are the so-called building near the Governors Palace which has been preserved in situ are also of great significance in the wall paintings. The high quality wall paintings of the Iseum were made considerably earlier namely in the Flavian period. One of these depicts a priestess of Isis and the other shows Garland. The building inscription on the facade of the temple together with the decorative reliefs has also become too light. In Savaria, the fragments of the colossal sculptures belonging to the capital Triad should also be mentioned. A similar group of statues is known from the city of Skarbancia, from the Ember Road, where the altars of an Isis temple, some parts of the forum, as well as some statue plinths partly used as the basis of equestrian statues have been discovered as well. Likewise, the walls of the later male fortification of Skarbancia have largely survived. In terms of fine arts, Aquincum has such high standard works that corresponds to its rank and its place among the settlements in Panonia. In Aquincum, both interpublic and private sectors, mosaics and various designs have survived. One of the best known mosaic floors, the central image field of which depicts the scene where the anera is abducted by the Kentauer Nessos, comes from the 3rd century Hercules Villa. The house decorated with both wall paintings and sculptures, which probably stood in the prestigious neighborhood of the Aquincum military town. From the other figure representations decorating the floor, a winged arrows holding a huge bunch of grapes and the tigress also worth mentioning. In the north-eastern part of Aquincum military town in today's Bouver and Foyamware street, the remains of a 3rd century Duvalnik house, Domus, were discovered. The building was decorated with mosaic floors, multi-layered frescoes found in situ in some rooms and stuccoes with plant, marble and architecture motifs. The central tract of the large stone building is represented by an elaborately ornamented wing. The base of the walls having a terrace of fall decorated with puras imitating green and red marble and light background divided into small units by black lines. The walls in room number 20 were decorated with the imitation of marble at the base as well as an animal figure, the famous stork and curtain motif. In connection with the Cannabis mansion should be made of the mosaic decoration of the governor's palace. The considerable portion of the rooms in the currently known part of the palace were decorated with mosaics. These include black and white motifs made of basalt and limestones, pieces laid in a stylized heart-shaped pattern arranged in a square grid as well as an intricate man-der pattern composed of black grains on a yellow background arranged in a diamond shaped grid. The most impressive part of the bath house belonging to the palace is room number 63 decorated with little black and red stones with figure stins and a white background and the mosaic floor of which shows an idyllic scene of the sea. The bath house connected to the eastern side of the extrammula in the Deversorium, near to the southern town walls is a remarkable building. It was excavated in 1994 and under its rubble layer fragments of a contiguous wall painting depicting plants motifs and figure stins were discovered. Finally among the early Christian monuments of Aquincum special mention should be made of three lobbed early Christian chapel, Tzela Trichora and a painted slab covering a burial chamber. High-standard monuments of early Christianity period are nevertheless primarily known from the town of Sopianes in southern Panunia. The burial chambers with the depictions of the Apostles Peter and Paul as well with the scenes of Adam and Eve and liturgical objects such as a jar are the most known renowned ones. The wall paintings discovered in the city of Brigadio and representing previously unthinkably high standards soon gained international fame. Fragments of the first mural with a major contiguous surface which belonged to the so-called painting room of the second century AD were unearthed during a rescue excavation carried out in 1960. The 10 mythological scenes could be reconstructed which were represented in a small square shaped pattern and the side walls. The scenes included for example the judgment of Paris, Eudiceum Parisis or the meeting of Mars Ilya and the sheave wolf with best feeding Romulus and Rimos. In some cases the fragments of painted inscriptions associated with the representations have also remained. Additionally the last three decades also so major discoveries in the civil town of Brigadio. Between 1994 and 1996 partially interconnected fragments of a painting were discovered which could be dated to the first half of the third century. A rooted ceiling of a dining room, a tabloon was decorated with a painted cosmological scene. In the middle a circular composition comprised the pair of fixed stars Andromeda and Pegasus, the horse, various in the four corners of the ceiling, the personifications of the four seasons, the spring spring summer autumn and winter could be seen in the form of female boosts. Another similar impressive wall painting was unearthed in a neighboring house. It shows servants in four fields and animal pelts here lioness depicted alternatively with them. One of the figures wearing military boots and a white long-sleeved tunica, tunica manicata decorated with crimson stripes and interpreted as palmarine soldiers with the greatest likelihood. Holds a silver tray with baby leaks spring onions after Marcialis porus capitatus on it while the other servants has a straight sided bronze vessel in his hand. Finally, we need to mention the exceptionally high quality mosaic from the Palazza villa estate which shows figures since pheasants and doves and other figurative motifs like Canta Rosia. The mosaic floors together with high standard wall paintings decorated the living rooms and dining rooms of the villa. In the peristyle of the villa an idyllic wall painting representing a garden scene with fruit trees and a bee eater was also discovered. I'm coming to the end of the Roman Empire and off my paper. The foreign ethnic groups, the Gentis who settled in the province between 380 and 470 got into close contact with local Romanized population and ancient culture. Accordingly, it can be presumed that the culture and population of the Roman province continued up to the late 5th and early 6th century even if the presence of the Roman administration cannot be evidenced after 455. Thank you for your attention. Thank you, Professor Bordi for the lecture. We are approaching the end of this ceremony. As a closing segment of the event, please join me in listening to Ferenc Farkas' Students for Songs from Patak performed by the Pro-Musical Corps of the Institute of Arts, Communication and Music. The composer, Ferenc Farkas, tended to be inspired by the Hungarian musical tradition and many of his pieces incorporate adaptations of its most beautiful tunes. The following three movement choral music comprises also known as melodiaria, composed in reformed colleges of the king of the Hungary. The first movement is a lyric club song. The second is a cheerful dance in minuet rhythm. The final movement is a vigorous drinking song. The conductor once again is associate professor Ákos Erdős. Please welcome the Pro-Musica mix score. Music Ladies and gentlemen, the Pro-Musica mix score. Thank you for this wonderful presentation. With this, we conclude the opening ceremony of the 28th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. I would like to extend my gratitude to everyone for the attendance and the participation. The evening, however, does not end just yet. I would like to invite you all to the welcome reception in the garden of the Hungarian National Museum. The reception begins at half past seven. Reaching the museum takes only half an hour of walk via the Elizabeth Bridge where you will be presented a marvellous view of Budapest on both banks of the river Danube. On the other hand, you can choose to rent a dare just outside this venue. Both lines take you to the estuary station adjacent to the university and the museum. Have a nice evening, a great stay in Budapest and enjoy the conference.