BrainMap

Mr. George Nuțu

Dr.

Senior Research Fellow 1st degree (Cercetător științific I) - INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA

Researcher | Scientific reviewer

Web of Science ResearcherID: AAQ-2144-2020

Expertise & keywords

Halieutica Scythiae Minoris. Fishing and Fish Industry at the Mouth of the Danube in Roman and Early Byzantine Times Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente - TE-2021
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0544 2022 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://www.findart.page/

Abstract:

The main goal of the project is to demonstrate the extent to which fishing and the fish industry played a role in the regional economic development of Schythia Minor in the Roman and Roman-Byzantine eras. The fish industry refers both to the potential of exploitable biological resources (primarily fish stocks), and to the strategy of capitalizing on this potential (transport, storage, processing of resources and marketing of products obtained).

The project is an inter- and transdisciplinary approach, which connects archeology and ancient history with studies related to economics, and which integrates, at the same time, concepts and methods specific to limnology, archaeozoology, geoarchaeology. The holistic approach, by corroborating, as much as possible, all the sources available at the moment, is a novelty in the context of research on the fisheries in Scythia Minor. Also, the comparison and analogy, at local level, between the local sources and sites and their integration in the context of the Pontic and Mediterranean halieutic circuit represent elements of novelty and originality. The results of this project could represent a starting point for an economic synthesis for the studied area, integrated in the parameters of a new theoretical framework and competitive in the current interdisciplinary debates, and will include the research area on the fishing map of the Roman Empire.

Colonizing the periphery (Moesia Inferior and Scythia Minor - 1st-6th c.AD): a bioarchaeological approach of Romanization Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0852 2017 - 2019

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Project website: https://bioarheoroman.webnode.ro

Abstract:

Our archaeozoological research aims to contribute to the understanding of the development of animal husbandry and animal resources exploitation during Roman time in Moesia Inferior and Scythia Minor. The Roman settlements are characterized by the appearance of very large cattle and sheep-goat (in comparison with the indigenous ones). Our study will combine morphometric and archaeogenetic analysis to understand if this large species resulted from improvement of animal breeding or from the import of animal stock. The project will integrate archaeozoological, palinologic, archaeogenetic, GIS, pedologic and archaeological analyses in order to explore the history of human-animal-landscape interactions in the Roman Period; the data for this period will be placed in a synchronic and also diachronic context; one will be compared with the data for the Iron Age period and for Byzantine period in order to investigate the transition phenomena. The project will highlight the differences between military and civilian milieu, urban and rural settlements, differences on the diversity of the used animal resources and the exploitation strategies in Roman time in comparison with those of Iron Age and Byzantine period. This integrative approach provide a more holistic picture of animal use and changes in the diet during the Roman Empire by highlighting the efficiency, adaptability, and innovation of the Romans in term of animal husbandry and breeding tactics.

Scythia Minor – a peripheric province of the Roman world: between the Roman Empire and the Late Roman Empire Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - RUTE -2014 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2563 2015 - 2017

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA (RO)

Project website: http://scythmin.qulto.eu/

Abstract:

The project aims to address a topic of great sensitivity to the history of the Roman Dobrogea (Scythia province), mainly that of the transition from the Roman Empire to the late Roman Empire, namely the enthronement of Maximinus Thrax's up to the appointment of Anastasius I emperor to Constantinopolis; it is a peripheral province of the Roman world, territory colonized by the Greeks, occupied by the Romans and held by them as part of Moesia Inferior, later as province of Scythia, as part of the empire that establishes, after 330 AD., the weight center in the City of Constantine (Constantinopolis).

We will harness both archaeological findings, historical, epigraphic and numismatic sources, and the bibliography accumulated for the 3th -5th centuries for the whole Empire, its various provinces and the province of Scythia especially in an attempt to restore step by step the history of this province in a turning point in terms of defining identity.

The project involves senior scientists and PhD students, postdocs and students, masters and technicians from several institutions in Romania and abroad. Project results will be used in articles, bibliographic and collective volumes and conferences.

NEW MAPPING TECHNIQUES AND NON-INVASIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN CENTRAL DOBROUDJA(CASE STUDY: CASIMCEA RIVER BASIN) Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA 2013 - call
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-0732 2014 - 2017

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INTERNIO SYSTEMS SRL

Project partners: INTERNIO SYSTEMS SRL (RO); MUZEUL DE ISTORIE NATIONALA SI ARHEOLOGIE (RO); INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA (RO)

Project website: http://archaeomap.internio.net

Abstract:

Since the archaeological heritage is insufficiently evaluated by those responsible for its administration (especially the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) and given that archaeological sites are constantly affected by natural agents (earthquakes, earth flows, floods) and anthropic factors (town development, industrial development, people movement, intensive agriculture, large infrastructure projects) the project aims to find new solutions for identifying, mapping, rescue and enhancing the value of this heritage.

The project will approach an experimental model for mapping archaeological sites in the central Dobroudja, specifically for the drainage area of the Casimcea River Basin (the largest drainage area of Dobroudja, with a surface of 755 sq km). Despite the fact that it is an area favorable for human living from the oldest times, the archaeological potential of this area is lesser studied and valued (and therefore unprotected). The data currently available in The National Archaeological Repertory and The List of Historical Monuments are mostly incomplete, with many cases of inadequacy to current realities.

Implementation will be achieved by combining several non-intrusive techniques of investigation and recording, knowing that they are the main source of archaeological heritage monitoring. For the first time in Romania the landscapes surrounding archaeological sites will be systematically mapped using aerial photography and remote sensing; digital terrain models will be created even in densely wooded landscape, revealing sequences that otherwise could not be identified, remaining ”hidden” or invisible. Field surveys and field-survey analysis conducted according to the concepts "in site" and "off site" will complement the data acquired by remote sensing. In the latter, it will experience aerial investigations with the help of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), with attached data recording instruments.

Starting from the current level of knowledge, the consortium will use its resources and the ones that will be achieved by implementing the project in order to create a methodical mapping of the archaeological sites in the Casimcea River Basin. The project aims to identify existing problems in locating archaeological sites in this area using modern techniques of remote sensing and field research methods, to develop a model of interdisciplinary approach for field identification of archaeological sites, their registration in a database, online presentation via Mapserver and the opportunity to analyse the spatial distribution of ancient habitation units. The scientific community will receive new information about this area and will further develop research projects on particular areas of interest.

Also, a major goal is to establish the protected areas of these sites, in accordance with current legislation on the protection of archaeological heritage. Evaluating the entire archaeological heritage from the area subject to investigation and establishing exact topographic delimitation of the archaeological sites helps the ranking of historical monuments and thus provides a useful tool to the local community in the composition of future urban plans (which may avoid failures in the implementation of sustainable development projects).

By using modern remote sensing techniques and by well-done database building, an experimental model of mapping the archaeological sites is proposed, which could be later developed up to the national level by setting up a real National Mapping Programme for Archaeological Sites.

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