International Institute of Anthropology

International Institute of Anthropology was founded in 2001 by Lolita Nikolova, PhD
in Salt Lake City. It is a research, educational and social institution, which main field
of interest and activity is the Balkans and especially Bulgaria. We always work in
collaboration with other academic, research and social organizations.

Current projects

Exhibit: Studying Balkan and Northwest Anatolian Prehistory. Marriott Library,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec 18, 2006 - end of January, 2007. 5 Year
Anniversary of the International Institute of Anthropology.

Reports of Prehistoric Research Project

Marija Gimbutas lecture grant for 2007: Professor Jak Yakar (Israel) in Utah and in
California

International Essay-Contest: We need to be in our epoch, if we want to feel
it in our everydayness (170 year anniversary of the Vassil Levski's birth, 18 July
2007) (info in Bulgarian)

World Bulgarian Convention, 17-19 May 2012

Prehistory of Eurasia. Research and Web project

Anthropology of Everydayness. Research and Web project

Genealogical case studies. Research and field-trip projects

Anthropological trips. Individual and in groups

Archaeological field school in Dubene, Karlovo, Bulgaria. 2008

Bulgarians of t he Year in the USA

Can we help?

Bulgarians contribute to the prestige world culture
Promotio: Denitsa Moneva, an artist from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Professor Jak Yakar was in Salt Lake City, Utah,
on March 15 and March 16, 2007. He
delivered a lecture at the University of Utah,
participated in a seminar if Professor Bradley
Parker and on March 16 he was a special guest
of the Bulgarians of Utah and their friends at
Belvedere.

A Montana Folk group (Bulgaria) visited Utah in
March 2007. (journey.bg in Bulgarian)
March 22. A performance in the Salt Lake
Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah (USA).
March 24, Saturday, Helper, Utah

Bulgarians contribute to
the prestige world culture

Albena Denkova and
Maxim Staviski (ice
dancing) - World
champions for 2007 (23
March, Tokyo, Japan)
Congratulations!

Russian Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah, 24 March 2007

Thank you Galina for this wonderful cultural event in Salt Lake City, Utah!

International Institute of Anthropology
(IIA) is an academic, education and social institution
founded in 2001 and directed by Lolita Nikolova, PhD
(Salt Lake City, Utah).
Most of the IIA webpages include original material only.
The students in archaeology and cultural anthropology
can find fundamental and the most actual information
on Prehistory of Eurasia and especially Balkan
Prehistory, cultural anthropology, anthropology of
everydayness, and hot theoretical and social problems of

archaeology and anthropology. Even in cases in which
we refer to other websites, all the information published
by IIA is academically filtered and completely trustful.
For comments, suggestions or broken links please e-mail
to: admin@iianthropology.org

Others about us:
Eastern European Archaeology

Our new favorite external link:
http://nona.net/features/map/placedetail.902800/Karlovo/

Other external links:
University of Utah
National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Sofia,
Bulgaria
Eurochicago.com
Sean Hannaty Show

E-libraries
http://www.questia.com/app/direct/SM.qst

Dictionaries online
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/anthropology.html
http://www.webster-dictionary.net/d.aspx?w=anthropo logy
http://online.lingvosoft.com/main.jsp?do=Lingvosoft.com-
online-form_sample&direction=1&status=translate&lang 1
=23&lang2=bg&source=anthropology

Anthropology of Everydayness

Dinner in the house of Linda Nikolova in Salt
Lake City, Utah (March 25, 2007)

Thanks you Linda for the wonderful night in
your home!

The 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of
Archaeologists - Zadar, Croatia, 18-23.09.2007

The Magic of Wood. An Art
Exhibit in Salt Lake City,
Utah, with the participation
of Denitsa Moneva.

Radiocarbon released online the article of Dr Lolita Nikolova and Dr Jochen Goersdorf NEW RADIOCARBON
DATES FROM THE BALKANS (DUBENE-SAROVKA): APPROACH TO THE EARLY BRONZE ABSOLUTE
CHRONOLOGY IN UPPER THRACE (.pdf file)

Bulgarian Vassil Levski (1837-1873) and the World
Humanism
International Essay-Contest "We need to be in our epoch if we want to feel it in our everydayness". More...

New art show in the Main Street, Salt Lake City
Downtown, Utah. More...

Sessions to be proposed by Lolita Nikolova, Marco Merlini and
Cristian Schuster in Malta - the 14th Annual Meeting of the EAA,
16-21 September 2008

Salt Lake City art exhibit at
127 S Main St. October
2007

Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D.
University of Utah Gene-Targeting
Pioneer,
Wins 2007 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine
Congratulations!

International Essay-Contest Happiness and Truth in
the Women's Everydayness

One year Bulgarian society in Utah (11-4-07)

The King Tutankhamun's face unveiled for the first
time
(from yahoo.com)

Archaeologists as People
at the International Institute
of Anthropology

International Institute of Anthropology

29 S State Street #206,Salt Lake City, Utah 84111,Tel.: (801) 363 3123,e-mail: a dmin @iianthropology.org

Claire Smith, the President of the World
Archaeological Congress - the
Archaeologist of the world (2008) at the
International Institute of Anthropology for
promoted by her topic "Archaeologists as
people"

Nominated Bulgarian
scholars and artists for
Academics and
Correspondence Members
of the Bulgarian Academy
of Science . The
International Institute of
Anthropology supports
Rumen Skorchev

Rumen Skorchev

85th Birth Anniversary of Eugen Comşa
Join the World Archaeological Congress - the fastest growing global organization of
archaeologists and their friends

Thank you Professor Gabriel Cooney for the remarkable organization!

Three Bulgarian women-archaeologists in Dublin, World
Archaeological Congress, Dublin, 29th June - 4th July 2008

The Sixth World
Archaeological Congress,
Dublin, 29th - 4th July
2008 at IAA

Dr Claire Smith is reelected for President of
World Archaeological Congress! Photo-gallery
WAC 6!

For the first time Dr Lolita Nikolova represented in
Dublin the Institute of Innovations in Science and
Education, Sofia, Bulgaria together with the
International Institute of Anthropology and University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Dublin, Ireland, July 2008

When car windows become
butterfly wings. Art show of
works by Tim Little in Salt
Lake Downtown, July 2008

Vassil Levski and Bulgarians
in the world. Poster exhibit in
City LIbrary Karlovo, Bulgaria,
opened on 14th July 2008.

Summer in Salt Lake

Lolita Nikolova,PhD

Diploma-nomination of Dr Lolita Nikolova for the Karlovo prize,
one of the most prestigious in Bulgaria on the eve of the 171st
Birth celebration of Vassil Levski. The winner is the Bulgarian
writer born in Karlovo Nikolaj Stoyanov. Congratulations!

EAA Meeting in Malta 2008