Recent Studies on Past and Present: New Sources, New Methods or a New Public? Conference organized by The Romanian Academy (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest; Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest; Institute for the History of Religions, Bucharest; George Bariţiu Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca; Institute for Archaeology and the History of Art, Cluj-Napoca; Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca; A.D. Xenopol Institute of History, Iaşi; Institute of Archaeology, Iaşi) together with The Austrian Academy of Sciences, Center for Medieval Studies, Institute for Byzantine Studies (Vienna), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Federal Institute for the History and Culture of the Germans in East-Europe (Oldenburg), Deutsche DenkmalAkademie (Görlitz – Frankfurt-am-Main – Romrod), New Europe College (Bucharest), Institute for the Study of the Problems of National Minorities (Cluj-Napoca), Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Institute for Advanced Experimental Interdisciplinary Researches (Cluj-Napoca) Partners Ars Transsilvaniae Society (Cluj-Napoca), Freedom House (Washington-Bucharest), Mihai Eminescu Trust (London-Sighişora), Patrimonium Transsylvanicum Society (Cluj-Napoca), Ars Transsilvaniae (Cluj-Napoca) Scientific Board: Ionel Haiduc (President of the Romanian Academy), Dan Berindei (Honorary President), Nicolae Edroiu (Conference President), Mihai Bărbulescu, Alexander Baumgarten, Ioan Bolovan Ioana Both, Ileana Căzan, Vasile Chirica, Valentina Dediu Sandu, Ebehard Feussner, Christian Gastgeber, Konrad Gündisch, Rudolf Gräf, Radu Harhoiu, István Horváth, Christoph Machat, Eugen Nicolae, Paolo Odorico, Coriolan Opreanu, Anca Oroveanu, Şerban Papacostea, Alexandru Florin Platon, Andrei Pleşu, Ioan Aurel Pop, Octavian Popescu, Marius Porumb, Vasile Puşcaş, Peter Schreiner, Victor Spinei, Gilles Veinstein, Alexandru Vulpe. Organizing Committee: Matei Agachi, Remus Anghel, Ramona Apetroaiei, Mara Arnăuţoiu, Radu Băjenaru, George Bodi, Eugen Ciurtin, Ovidiu Cristea, Dorin C. Domuţa, Oana Draga, Aura Ioniţă, Larisa Ispas, Andrei Kelemen, Gheorghe Lazăr, Andi Mihalache, Dan Mureşan, Andrei Pop, Luisa Preda, Teodora Raţ, Alexandru Simon, Cristian Şipeţean, Mihaela Timuş, Vlad V. Zirra. UNIUNEA GUVERNUL Fondul Social Instrumente OIPOSDRU ACADEMIA EUROPEANĂ ROMÂNIEI European Structurale ROMÂNĂ MINISTERUL POSDRU 2007-2013 2007-2013 MUNCII, FAMILIEI ŞI PROTECŢIEI SOCIALE AMPOSDRU Recent Studies on Past and Present: New Sources, New Methods or a New Public? (Bucharest, 25th-28th of September 2011) Edited by Radu Băjenaru, Ovidiu Cristea, Andi Mihalache and Alexandru Simon Romanian Academy Bucharest 2011 Contents About the Project and the Conference……..……………………………16 A. Conference Program.............................................................................17 General Program…………………………………………………………19 Session Program…………………………………………………………22 Official Opening…….…………………………………………………...22 Section I………………………………………………………………….22 Section II…………………………………………………………………26 Section III………………………………………………………………...29 Section IV………………………………………………………………..33 Closing Session…………………………………………………………36 B. Abstracts………………………………………………………………….37 Invited Lectures......................................................................................39 Alain Tuffreau, La Roumanie au carrefour des premiers peuplements de l'Europe………………………………………………………………..40 Ioan-Aurel Pop, Different Europes: From Rome to Washington……40 Alexander Baumgarten, La particularité de la réception de la philosophie médiévale en milieu roumain…………………………………………….41 Angela Tarantino, Una periferia dimenticata della letteratura: i roman- zi popolari del XVIII sec........................................................................41 Kazimierz Jurczak, Forms of Anti-Modernism in Central Europe: Ro- manian and Polish 19th Century Writers………………………………42 Recent Studies on Past and Present I. Communicating Heritage……………………………………………..43 1. Interdisciplinary Approaches of Cultural Heritage…………….44 Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Structural (SEM/TEM) and Elemental (EDX) Studies as Support for the Restoration of Artifacts………………….…44 Iulia Lupan, Metagenomic Approach for Bacterial Community Charac- terization inhabiting Different Historical Artifacts…………………….….45 Mircea Teodor Chiriac, The Use of Immunomolecular Methods for the Study and the Coservation of Cultural Heritage………………………..46 Beatrix Kelemen, Oana Ponta, Simion Simon, Octavian Popescu, New Scientific Methods in the of Analysis Bone Diagenesis and Charac- terization of Human Remains from Achaeological Context………47 Horia-Leonard Banciu, The Biodegradation of Stone Monuments: The Characterization of the Lithobionta Microbiota…………………..48 Mihai Vasilescu, The Use of RAMAN Spectroscopy for the Study and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage…………………………………48 2. The Human Landscape in Comparative Contexts……………..49 George Bodi, Radu Pârnău, Viorica Vasilache, Nicolae Buzgar, In- terdisciplinary Approach on the Study of Cucuteni Type Pottery: The Case of Hoiseşti – La Pod Settlement………………………………...49 Viorica Vasilache, Dan Aparaschivei, Scientific Investigation of Quo- tidian Artifacts discovered at Ibida……………………………………..50 Roxana Dobrescu, Alain Tuffreau, The Ancient Upper Paleolithic De- posits from La Vii 1 at Ciuperceni (Valley of the Danube):Technical Characteristics of the CR Level………………………………………..51 Codrin Valentin Chirica, Les représentations de cervidés dans l’art mobilier du paléolithique supérieur européen………………………...51 Mădălin Cornel Văleanu, The Evolution of Human Habitat in the Carpa- thian-Dniestr Space during the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic……52 3. Mapping Differences……………………………………………….53 Mircea Anghelinu, Social Inequality in Mesolithic Times: The Schela Cladovei-Lepenski Vir Case……………………………………………53 Mihai Gligor, Usual and Unusual in Funerary Practices of the Tran- sylvanian Neolithic………………………………………………………54 Senica Ţurcanu, Neck Ornaments present on Cucuteni-Tripolie Anthro- pomorphic Statuettes…………………………………………………….54 Vasile Chirica, George Bodi, Thèmes religieux représentés dans la création artistique préhistorique………………………………………..55 6 Recent Studies on Past and Present 4. Artifact, Message and Impact…………………………………….56 Raluca Dumitru Kogălniceanu, On the Identification of Potential Patterns in the Spatial Relationship between the Living and the Dead at the Lower Danube in Prehistory…………………………………….56 Anca Diana Popescu, Crescent-shaped Silver Artifacts from Bulgaria: A Survey of their Function and Chronology…………………………...57 Nona Palincaş, Certifying Ware Origin in Long Distance Trade: The 'Bread-like Idols' from Ostrovu Mare (Iron Gates, Romania)…………...58 Bogdan Petru Niculică, Vasile Budui, The Evaluation and Spatial Dis- tribution of Bronze Deposits in the Bucovina………………………….59 Florin Gogâltan, War and Warriors of the Lower Mureş Valley in the Late Bronze Age Period………………………………………………...60 5. Creating and Preserving Power…………………………………..62 Aurel Vîlcu, Sur la diffusion des monnaies grecques en or dans la zone du Bas Danube aux IVe –IIIe siècles av. J.C…………………………….62 Roxana Gabriela Curcă, Greek and Latin Authors on the Carpathian- Dnistrian Territory: An Anthropology of Perceptions…………………...63 Vitalie Bârcă, Limes and Barbaricum: Nomads of the Steppes at the Danube Frontier of the Roman Empire (1st Century-Beginning of the 2nd Century CE). Historical Outline and Chronological Remarks………….64 Paul Pupeză, The Dacian Fortress in the Orăştie Mountains: Between Functionality and Symbolism…………………………………………..66 Răzvan Mateescu, The Archaeology of Anonymous Gods: The Dacian Temples in the Orăştie Mountains……………………………………..66 6. Real and Imagined Communities………………………………...67 Dan Aparaschivei, Roman and Late Roman Family in the North-East of the Province of Moesia Inferior (Scythia Minor)…………………....67 Florian Matei Popescu, The Veterans in the Roman and Greek Cities of Moesia Inferior…………………………………………………………..68 Irina Adriana Achim, Villes grecques, villes romaines au Bas Danube. Le patrimoine monumental urbain entre les témoignages épigraphiques et archéologie……………………………………………………………69 Cristian Găzdac, Did Charon read his Obol? The Message of Coin Offering in Roman Graves from Pannonia……………………………...70 7. Forms and Means of Communication…………………………...71 Mariana Pîslaru, Provincia Dacia nel messaggio propagandistico im- periale nell`eta` del Principato..................................................................71 Florin Fodorean, Dynamics of a Society: Geography, Space, Infrastruc- ture, Travel and Mobility in Roman Dacia………………………………72 7 Recent Studies on Past and Present Sorin Nemeti, Secundum interpretationem somniorum. Dreams and Ora- cles in Roman Dacia……………………………………………………...74 Carmen Ciongradi, Die römischen Steindenkmäler aus Napoca........74 Laurent Chrzanovski, Artificial Lighting in Late Antiquity at the Border of the Roman Empire……………………………………………………….75 8. The Written and the Unwritten……………………………………76 Adrian Ioniţă, L’horizon des tombes à déposition de chevaux ou de par- ties de chevaux dans la région comprise entre le Bas-Danube, les Car- pates Méridionales et Orientales et le Dniestr (Xe-XIIIe siècles)……..76 Valentin Dumitraşcu, Domestic Animal Management in the Byzan- tine Site Nufăru………………………………………………………….77 Ervin Gall, Centres of Power in the Eastern Part of the Carpathian Ba- sin in Light of 10th Century Necropolises (Transylvanian Basin, Partium, Banat)…………………………………………………………………….77 Daniela Marcu-Istrate, The Evangelical Church from Saschiz (Mureş