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L'auteur présente trois cités des daces sur la vallée de Siret munieh de fortifications en bois et de loess, Poiana-Tecuci, Răcătău et Brad...
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L'auteur présente trois cités des daces sur la vallée de Siret munieh de fortifications en bois et de loess, Poiana-Tecuci, Răcătău et Brad...
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A I'occasion de recherches arheologique sur le territoire de la viile de Moineşti, pres de quartier Lucăceşti, a une altitude de 925 m, dans le point "Cetăţuia" a été découverte un nouvelle habitation géto-dacique avec un enceinte de quel-i ques cents metres carrés d'une forme rectangulaire...
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Based on the archaeological data, the author discusses the possible existence of cult structures in the Late Bronze Age sites from the east of the Carpathians. These structures can be interpreted as having served as location for religious or ritual practices. In the archaeological literature it has been written about the votive role of the ,,ash mounds”, but the known data can not be generalized.
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Review of: Vasile Diaconu, Hăneşti-Botoşani. Mărturii arheologice şi istorice, (Piatra Neamţ, Editura „Constantin Matasă”, 2010, 165 p.)
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I first met Marija Gimbutas in 1967 when I travelled crosstown to UCLA to inquire about doing a PhD there under her supervision. In 1967 I joined the interdepartmental program in Indo-European Studies with a specialisation in European Archaeology. Marija was on sabbatical during my first year at UCLA (so my first instructor in European archaeology was her replacement, Lili Kaelas) but I caught up with her again when I served on her excavation at Obre in Bosnia in the summer of 1968. In the following academic year I attended two of her classes (the European Neolithic and Bronze Age) after which I had a three year sabbatical (US Army) before returning in 1972 to audit her seminar in Neolithic religion. I also recall a graduate seminar under the aegis of the newly founded Institute of Archaeology where I submitted an essay on the History of the Indo-European Problem which Marija forwarded (unknown to me at the time) to the newly founded Journal of Indo-European Studies (Mallory 1973). I went on to serve on her excavation at Akhilleion in Greece in 1973. I completed my PhD with Marija in 1975 by which time I was fairly integrated into her world as she had not only been my PhD supervisor but also my landlady: I and my roommate lived in a small bungalow on her property in Topanga Canyon, paying rent partly in cash and partly in labour. After receiving my PhD I spent one year replacing Marija at UCLA while she was on sabbatical. My last ‘official’ activity with Marija was joining her joint projects with Santo Tiné in southern Italy where I directed the excavations at Lagnano Da Piede, although by the time the excavations had entered their second year I was – and have been ever since – at Queen’s University Belfast. I maintained some correspondence with Marija after that and we met at various conferences such as at Forli, Italy. I visited Marija in 1988 at her house in Topanga when I was on vacation in California with my (then very young) family and the last time we met in person was at an Indo-European conference in Dublin in 1989.
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Laikau didele gyvenimo dovana, kad geroji lemtis 1989 m. spalio pradžioje nuvedė mane į žymios mokslininkės Marijos Gimbutienės namus Topangoje. Pusmetį pabuvusi, grįžau į Lietuvą, o 1991 m. profesorė mane vėl išsikvietė ir nuo tada bendravome beveik iki paskutinių jos gyvenimo dienų.
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Marija Gimbutas (Gimbutienė) is a renowned archaeologist who specialised in European prehistory. This paper explores her life and work, including her personal biography, showing how her upbringing in Lithuania shaped her academic interests and orientations. This paper also reviews her professional achievements and contributions via the lenses of seven aspects of her academic life, namely her time in higher education, her work on Lithuanian folklore and symbolism, her explorations of Old Europe during the Neolithic, her Kurgan Hypothesis and engagement with Baltic studies, her excavations in southeast Europe, her work on the Goddess, and her symbolism work. It also examines academic and popular reactions to her writing and her influence on scholars and public discourse.
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Çatalhöyük East, a Neolithic site in Central Anatolia, has often been referred to as the place of the Mother Goddess. This is because of interpretations made by Mellaart, who discovered and excavated the site in the 1960s, when he discovered its striking symbolism. The female figurines among the finds are the most important reason for this fame. Therefore, various feminist groups have been attracted to this place because they perceived the site as a proof of the existence of a peaceful matriarchal community in the past. All of this is aligned with Gimbutas’ peaceful era theory, which has a Mother Goddess belief. This article will explain how archaeological finds at Çatalhöyük accompanied these theories in the time of Gimbutas and Mellaart and how new studies and new perspectives have altered these assumptions.
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The Indian subcontinent has been one of the regions of the world where the worship of goddesses has been amongst the most longstanding. The seminal work of Marija Gimbutas on the Neolithic and Copper Age settlements of southeastern Europe and particularly her explorations into the feminine forms of the period as possible expressions of Goddess worship have implications for the material culture of the Indian subcontinent in ways that have perhaps not been adequately addressed. Equally, insights into some of the surviving trajectories of rituals and iconographies of goddess worship might serve to throw more light on enigmatic aspects of archaeological finds including from the Neolithic, not just in the context of the subcontinent but elsewhere in antiquity. The paper also sets out to explore the place of the dancing form in ritual particularly with respect to goddess worship, which emerged as a more distinctive feature of Indian antiquity than in many other parts of the world.
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The aim of this article is to assess the value of Marija Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė’s (Gimbutas) 1946 dissertation published in Tübingen (Germany). It is also important to follow how much of an impact this work had on Lithuanian archaeology and what inspiration it may provide for scholars today. This paper concentrates on the parts of the book which deal with burial customs during the Roman Iron Age. Relevant problems of cultural divisions based on burial site types as per Gimbutienė are examined to see how much this classification may be accepted today. The second part of Gimbutienė’s dissertation, which focused on the meaning of burial customs, provides insights that are still important for scholarship today, and reveals the young scholar’s ability to reconstruct an old belief system and to discern the prospects for the further investigation of burial site material.
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In this article, I discuss the manner in which the model proposed by Marija Gimbutas regarding the IndoEuropean migration in Europe was perceived by Romanian specialists. The article is also an extension of my efforts to understand the relations between prehistoric Transylvania and the North-Pontic steppe. Approached from this historiographic perspective, the subject illustrates a situation symptomatic of Romanian archaeology: the lack, with few exceptions, of serious debates on this controversial subject, the frequent repetition of unverified opinions, statements supported by invalid arguments, etc.
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Whilst the analysis of strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of human remains enables mobility patterns and migration events to be identified archaeologically, its potential is dependent on the heterogeneity of the underlying geology in the research area, and the knowledge of 87Sr/86Sr ratio variation in the biologically available strontium. In Lithuanian archaeology, strontium isotope analysis has only been relatively recently undertaken (2019–2020). In this paper we discuss the potential of the method, and its application to materials from the Stone Age burial grounds of Donkalnis and Spiginas located on former islands in the Lake Biržulis region, western Lithuania.
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Filosofai nemėgsta palyginimų su kitais mokslais. Nuo pat pirmosios filosofinės tezės, fiksuotos Talio iš Mileto lūpose VI amžiaus prieš mūsų erą pradžioje, užsidengėme visų mokslų motinos skraiste ir pirmąją poziciją pradėjome užleisti tik po dviejų tūkstantmečių. Tiesa, užleidus pirmąją poziciją, prisireikė rasti santykį su kitais iš po skraistės išlindusiais mokslininkais, kurie staiga išpuiko ir atsisakė metafizinio klausimų sprendimo. Šiek tiek paflirtavę su matematikais, fizikais ar astronomais, filosofai greitai suprato, kad su spekuliatyviu samprotavimo metodu prieš indukciją, o ir dedukciją įvaldžiusius empirikus nepašokinėsi.
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Review of: "Senkapis Vilniuje, Bokšto Gatvėje. XIII–XV A. laidosenos Lietuvoje bruožai",Rytis Jonaitis, Irma Kaplūnaitė. Vilnius: Lietuvos Istorijos Institutas, 2020. 586, [2] P.; IL. ISBN 978-609-8183-84-9
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Cremation as a burial rite has been in use throughout prehistory. The graves as well as their fragmented content are the main informants reflecting the life and death of past communities in specific eras. So far, the studies of cremation graves in the eastern Baltic have mostly focused on reconstructing grave constructions and analysing artefacts. Far less attention has been paid to the skeletal material, especially to their value for reconstructing burial customs. In this paper we aim to outline how a detailed investigation of the skeletal material combined with statistical and spatial analysis can reveal burial customs and specific ritual practices, as well as the social status of the deceased. By applying these combined analyses, we were able to determine that both adults, incl. men and women, as well as children were buried at Viimsi I tarand cemetery in Estonia. Furthermore, we could establish specific burial practices centred around the skulls and different firing treatments of different body parts.
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The figurines presented for the settlement of Trinca-La Şanţ were shaped, according to us, from the paste specific to the painted ceramics and with all their massiveness they were fully fired, probably in the same ovens the ceramic ware was fired. Their small number was added to the few tools and painted ceramic ware discovered down there.
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In this paper, the author presents some informations about a new settlement wich belong to the Middle Bronze Age, Costişa culture. The settlement was discovered in 2008, due to the surface researches. It is located about 3 km south-west of the Târgu Neamţ town, on the Osoi Hill (Neamţ country).
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En été 2009 a été trouvé un pot en céramique brisée contenant des pièces d'argent. Au début de Juin, le découvreur du trésor apporté 293 pièces de poteries au musée. Les 19-21 Août le musée a organisé la gestion des fouilles de sauvetage sur le site de la découverte, où les deux pièces ont été trouvées.
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Review of: Nicolae Ursulescu, Cucuteni. Ecouri în epocă ale monografiei lui Hubert Schmidt, Iaşi, Editura Universităţii „Al.I. Cuza”, 2009, 166 p.
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Review of: The Danube Script in the Light of the Turdaş and Tărtăria Discoveries – Exhibition Catalogue; (Scrierea dunăreană în lumina descoperirilor de la turdaş şi tărtăria – Catalog expoziţional (Ed. Zoia Maxim, Joan Marler, Viorica Crişan), Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 2009, 167 p.+27 ilustraţii.)
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