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Sandu-Gabriel Vasile

- INSTITUTUL DE ARHEOLOGIE "VASILE PIRVAN"

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Human and environment co-evolution patterns in the wetland area of Balta Ialomitei Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0982 2011 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a României

Project partners: Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a României (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: http://arheologie-bordusani.org

Abstract:

For a long time the archaeological research in Romania and in other countries of Central Europe remained confined within the limits of studies based strictly on stratigraphy and typology of the various artefacts disconnected from their contexts. Thus, general ideas have been spread about, often misconceptions and the lack or scarcity of complex multidisciplinary studies was significant, especially considering that the conceptual content of the research has not evolved.

In such conditions the project aims, for the first time in Romania, to define the characteristics of the relations between human communities and the natural environment, in the Danube area of “Balta Ialomitei”, on several chronological levels from Neo-eneolithic period, the La Tene epoch and the Middle Ages up to present, through a comprehensive interdisciplinary diagnostic, allowing to highlight the framework of the linked evolution of man and his environment. Therefore, we propose to identify all areas of human activities in the context of landscape elements to be reconstructed in detail performing complex multi proxies analysis and to understand their dynamics in the broader conceptual framework of the social space approach, very little addressed until present by the Romanian archaeological research.

The relevance is the use of innovative concepts and methodologies for archaeological research in Romania associated with complex studies on a specific natural environment.

Re-constructing the identities: facts, places, peoples, animals and objects of the invisible past Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-1015 2011 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMANIEI

Project partners: MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMANIEI (RO)

Affiliation: MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMANIEI (RO)

Project website: http://prehistoric-identities.ro/

Abstract:

The problem of `who we are’ was always central to the interest of the peoples.For archaeologists and historians this problem is often intimately related to questions of `who were the people of the past,our ancestors’ an inquiry which incited their imagination and knowledge of the past 200 years.Various scientific disciplines helped to discover an important part of the past but the degree of documentation is different from one historical period to another.Some of them,as it is the prehistory,are lacking in certain segments of information.In these circumstances,the archaeologists have built an often distorted picture of the prehistory.That is why in this project we propose a interdisciplinary approach for an important segment of prehistory(Eneolithic),in terms of identities.The subject is original and has not been addressed until now in Romania.The project aims to identify some socio-biological aspects of the Eneolithic communities,grouped into five levels of analysis:the identity of place (where they lived),macro-identity of communities (where they lived),the biological identity(who are they),the material dimension of identity-artifacts(what they built,used and produced) and the reflected identity by other elements (what they preferred to collect,eat and use,why and how).Combinatorial analysis of data obtained from these four levels of study will allow us to answer questions about `who are those people’ and to identify the multiple identities of these past human populations

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