85th Birth Anniversary of the Romanian archaeologist Eugen
Comşa. International Symposium, Bucharest, 6-12 October 2008
PROGRAM

MONDAY - OCTOBER 6, 2008

ARRIVAL AND ACCOMMODATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS


TUESDAY - OCTOBER 7, 2008

OPENNING SESSION 10.00-11.00

EXHIBITIONS OPENNING 11.00-12.00 - 1.THE SPACE OF A NEOLITHIC DWELLING
(RECONSRUCTION OF A DWELLING DISCOVERED AT RADOVANU BY DR. EUGEN
COMSA)
AND 2.SYHTHESIS OF THE SPIRITUAL SPACE (CERAMIC OBJECTS)

LUNCH 13.00-14.00

AFTERNOON SESSION

15.00-15.20 - CLIVE BONSALL, KATHLEEN MC SWEENEY, ROBERT PAYTON, ADINA
BORONEANT: DEATH ON THE DANUBE: LATE MESOLITHIC BURIALS AT SCHELA
CLADOVEI, ROMANIA

15.20-15.40 - JAK YAKAR: SPIRITUALISM IN NEOLITHIC ANATOLIA

15.40-16.00 - BARBARA VOJTEK: THE BALKAN NEOLITHIC: A STUDY IN SEDENTARY
VILLAGE LIFE

16.30-17.00 - Coffee Break.

17.00-17.30 - MICHEL SEFERIADES - sPONDYLES ROUMAINES SPONDYLES
AMERICAINES

17.43-18.00 - MARCO MERLINI: DID SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE DEVELOP A
RUDIMENTARY SYSTEM OF WRITING
IN NEO-ENEOLITHIC TIMES?


WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 8, 2008

10.00-10.30 - BOOK LAUNCHING

10.30-10.50 - BARBARA VOYTEK - PRESENTATION OF THE VOLUME DEDICATED TO
DR. EUGEN COMSA
10.50-11.10 - DRAGOS GHEORGHIU - BUILT TO BE BURNED.
11.10.11.30 - NICOLAE URSULESCU - PROBLEMES CONCERNANT LE DEBUT DU
NEOLITHIQUE
DE L'ESPACE CARPATIQUE DANS LES TRAVAUX DE EUGEN COMSA
11.30-11.50 - GEORGETA EL SUSI  - UNPUBLISHED DATA ABOUT FAUNA
EXPLOITED BY PRECUCUTENIAN COMMUNITIES
FROM COSTISA (NEAMT COUNTY)

11.50-12.00 - DISCUSSIONS

13.00-14.00 - LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION
15.00-15.30 - MARIA GUROVA: TOWARD THE MEANING OF FLINT GRAVE-GOODS: A
CASE STUDY FROM BULGARIA.
15.30-16.00 - OTIS CRANDELL: REGARDING THE PROCUREMENT OF LITHIC
MATERIALS AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE
AT LIMBA (ALBA COUNTY, ROMANIA). SOURCES OF LOCAL AND IMPORTED
MATERIALS.
16.00-16.30 - DISCUSSIONS

16.30-17.00 - COFFEE BREAK

17.00-17.20 - GEORGETA CARDOS - MODERN RESEARCH OF HUMAN MOLECULAR
PALEOGENETICS (NUCLEAR DNA POLYMORHPISMS)
ON OLD HUMAN POPULATION OF THE BRONZE AND IRON AGES ON THE
TERRITORY OF ROMANIA
17.20-17.40 - RODICA MIHAILESCU - CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE TYPOLOGY
AND SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE sTARCEVO-cRIS STATUETTES ON THE TERRITORY OF ROMANIA
17.40-18.00 - RODICA URSU - CUCUTENI VESTIGES ON THE CALNIC VALLEY.
PRELIMINARIES OF A RESEARCH IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

THURSDAY - OCTOBER 9, 2008

MORNING SESSION

10.00-10.30 - ARKADIUSz MARCINIAK - SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES AND
IDIOSYNCRACIES.
THE NORTH EUROPEAN PLAIN IN THE EARLY NEOLITHIC AND BEYOND.
10.30-11.00 - TANYA DZHAMFEZOVA - NEOLITHIC PINTADERAS FROM BULGARIA.
STUDY QUESTIONS OR QUESTIONS OF STUDY.
11.00-11.30 - DAN BUZEA - THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH CARRIED OUT BY
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF EASTERN CARPATHIANS
REGARDING THE CUCUTENI-ARIUSD-TRIPOLIE CULTURAL COMPLES.
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FROM SOIMENI, PAULENI CIUC-CIOMORTAN,
HARGHITA COUNTY
1.30-12.00 - DISCUSSIONS

13.00-14.00 - LUNCH

VISIT TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF ROMANIA AND TO THE VILLAGE
MUSEUM


FRIDAY - OCTOBER 10, 2008

MORNING SESSION

10.00-11.00 - EXHIBITION OPENING 3. EUGEN COMSA - 63 YEARS OF ACTIVITY
(PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS)
11.00-11.20 - PETRE ROMAN - INTERPRETATIONS ABOUT THE
GUMELNITA-SALCUTA SYNCHRONISM.
11.20-11.40 - EUGENIA ZAHARIA - CUCUTENI B. THE MONTEORU FACIES
11,40-12,00 - GEORGE TROHANI - NEW ACQUISITIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF HISTORY OF ROMANIA

13.00-14.00 - LUNCH

15.00-15.30 - SERGIU HAIMOVICI - THE ARCHAEO-ZOOLOGICAL STUDY OF FAUNA
REMAINS IDENTIFIED
IN THE CUCUTENIAN SETTLEMENT OF DUMESTI - INTRE PARAIE, VASLUI COUNTY.
15.30-16.00 - OLEG LEVITKI, RUXANDRA ALAIBA - LA CERAMIQUE PEINTE DE
L'ETAPE CUCUTENI B,
DECOUVERTE A TRINCA - LA SANT, DEPARTEMENT D'EDINET, REPUBLIQUE DE LA
MOLDAVIE.
16.00-16.30 - GEORGETA MIU, RUXANDRA ALAIBA - AGAIN ABOUT THE BURIALS OF
THE EARLY BRONZE AGE.
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF A BURIAL FROM
BANCA GARA - SAPTE CASE (JUD. VASLUI)

19.00 - CENTRAL HOUSE OF THE ARMY - RESTAURANT - FESTIVE DINNER

SATURDAY - OCTOBER 11, 2008

EXCURSION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FROM RADOVANU

9.00 - DEPARTURE FROM BUCHAREST
10.00 - 10.30 - VISITING OF THE MUSEUM OF THE GUMELNITA CIVILISATION FROM
OLTENITA
10.30-10.50 - ALEXANDRU MORINTZ, SPATIAL ANALYSIS. CASE OF STUDY
(RADOVANU-LA MUSCALU)
10.50-11.10 - GETA MINCIUNA, NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE RADOVANU
REGION
11.10-11.30 - DONE SERBANESCU, ALEXANDRU NALBITORU, LAURENTIU MECU,
NEW REMARKS REGARDING
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FROM RADOVANU-GORGANA I.
11.30-11.50 - CRISTIAN SCHUSTER, THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FROM
RADOVANU-GORGANA I.
11.30 - 12.00 - DEPARTURE FROM OLTENITA TOWARDS RADOVANU
12.30-14.30 - VISIT OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES FROM RADOVANU
14.30-16.30 - OFFICIAL FESTIVITY OF AWARDING THE TITLE OF CITIZEN OF
HONOUR TO EUGEN COMSA BY THE MAYOR OF RADOVANU
AND LUNCH IN RADOVANU
16.30 - DEPARTURE FROM RADOVANU
SHORT STOP AT THE GUMELNITA TELL.
18.00 - ARRIVAL IN BUCHAREST


List of participants

1. Barbara Voytek, Universitatea Berkeley, california, Statele Unite
ale Americii   6+12 octombrie
2.
Clive Bonsall - Universitatea din Edinburg - Marea Britanie
3.
Lolita Nikolova - Universitatea Utah, Institutul de Antropologie
Salt Lake City Utah si Institutul pentru Dezvoltare si Inovatie in Educatie si Stiinta,
Sofia, Bulgaria
4.
Jak Yakar - Universitatea Tel Aviv - Israel
5.
Mihael Budja - Universitatea Ljubliana - Slovenia
6. M
arco Merlini Euroinovanet Roma - Italia, Uniersitatea "Lucian
Blaga" Sibiu, Romania, Institutul de Archeomitologie Sebastopol, Statele Unite ale
Americii
7.
Oleg Levitki - Institutul de Arheologie,Chisinau, Republica Moldova
8.
Oleg Chitic - Institutul de Arheologie,Chisinau, Republica Moldova
9.
Tudor Arnaut - Universitatea de Stat, Chisinau, Republica Moldova
10.
Arek Marciniak - Universitatea Adam Mickievicz . Poznan, Polonia  
11.
Maria Gurova - Institutul  National de Arheologie si Muzeul, Sofia,
Bulgaria
12.
Tanya Dzhamfezova - Institutul  National de Arheologie si Muzeul,
Sofia, Bulgaria
13.
Michel Seferiades - Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Universite de
Rennes 1, France
14.
Ilie Salceanu Satu Mare
15.
Otis Crandell - Catedra de Mineralogie, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai  Cluj
16.
Mihai Gligor - Universitatea "1 Decembrie 1918" Alba Iulia
17.
Gabriel Craciunescu - Muzeul regiunii Portilor de Fier - Drobeta
Turnu Severin
18.
Done Serbanescu - Muzeul Civilizatiei Gumelnita - Oltenita
19.
Zoia Maxim - Muzeul National de Istorie a Transilvaniei -  Cluj-Napoca
20.
Miu Georgeta - Centrul de Cercetari Antropologice - Iasi
21.
Dan Monah - Institutul de Arheologie Iasi
22.
Rodica Mihailescu - Colegiul National "Gheorghe Lazar", Bucuresti
23.
Dragos Gheorghiu - Academia de Arte Frumoase, Bucuresti
24.
Rodica Ursu - Universitatea "Spiru Haret" Bucuresti
25.
Gabriel Craciunescu - Muzeul Regiunii Portilor de Fier, Drobeta
Turnu-Severin
26.
Ion Ghinoiu, Institutul de Etnografie si Folclor "Constantin
Brailoiu", Bucuresti
27.
Eugenia Zaharia - Institutul de Arheologie "Vasile Parvan"
Bucuresti
28.
George Trohani - Muzeul National de Istorie a Romaniei, Bucuresti
29.
Irina Riscutia - Institutul de Genetica si Patologie Umana "Victor
Babes", Bucuresti
30.
Georgeta Cardos - Institutul de Genetica si Patologie Umana "Victor
Babes", Bucuresti
31.
Sergiu Haimovici - Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi
32.
Nicolae Ursulescu - Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iasi
33.
Georgeta Miu - Sectia de Cercetari Antropologice a Academiei Romane
Iasi
34.
Valeriu Cavruc - Muzeul Carpatilor Rasariteni - Sfantu Gheorghe
35.
Dan Buzea - Muzeul Carpatilor Rasariteni, Sfantu Gheorghe
36.
Adela Mates - Muzeul Carpatilor Rasariteni, Sfantu Gheorghe
37.
Petre Roman -  al Institutul de Arheologie "Vasile Parvan",
Bucuresti - Centrul de Tracologie, Bucuresti
38.
Georgeta El Susi - Institutul de Arheologie "Vasile PArvan" -
Centrul de Tracologie, Resita
39.
Ruxandra Alaiba- Institutul de Arheologie "Vasile Parvan" - Centrul
de Tracologie, Iasi
40.
Cristian Schuster - Centrul de Tracologie al Institutului de
Arheologie "Vasile Parvan", Bucurest
41.
Alexandru Morintz - Centrul de Tracologie al Institutului de
Arheologie "Vasile Parvan", Bucuresti
42  
Alexandru Nalbitoru - Universitatea Targoviste
43.
Laurentiu Mecu - Universitatea Targoviste
Maria Comşa, the wife of Eugen Comşa
Extended family of Eugen Comşa
Jak Yakar (Israel)
Lolita Nikolova (USA-Bulgaria)