International Colloquium: Temples and Cult Places from the Second Iron Age in Europe. Alun, 9-12 May 2019 (Programme)

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2nd International Colloquium “Iron Age Sanctuaries and Cult Places at the Thracians and their Neighbors”

 Temples and Cult Places from the Second Iron Age in Europe

Alun, Hunedoara County (Romania), 9-12 May 2019

Organizers: 

International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) –  Comission: Prehistoric and Protohistoric Mortuary Practices

Study Centre of Dacica Foundation

Organizing Committee:

Prof. Dr. Valeriu Sîrbu, President, 30th Commision UISPP

Dr. Aurora Pețan, Secretary, Study Centre of Dacica Foundation

PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 9 May 2019

10.00-14.00 – Welcome and registration of the participants

14.00 – 15.00  – Lunch

16.00 – Official Opening Ceremony of the 2nd International Colloquium

Speakers: officials, organizers and participants

SESSION: 17.00-19.00. CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Dr. Ion Niculiță

  • Prof. Dr. Diana Gergova (Bulgaria) – History of the investigations and interpretations of the Great Sveshtari tumulus. Sboryanovo National Reserve in NE Bulgaria
  • Dr. Viviana Carbonara, Dr. Davide Delfino (Italy) – The cult of Hercules between 6th and 2nd c. BC in the bronze statuary of the Samnitic Museum of Campobasso (Molise, Italy)
  • Prof. Dr. Cristian Schuster (Romania) – Getic cult places and cult objects in the Lower Arges River Basin
  • Dr. Magdalena Ștefan, Dr. Dan Buzea (Romania) – Some notes about ritual persistence and sacred space reuse. Depositional practices during Late Iron Age in south-eastern Transylvania

Discussions

19.30 – Dinner

FRIDAY, 10 May 2019

SESSION: 9.00-13.30. CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Ana Margarida Arruda

  • Prof. Dr. Marko Dizdar (Croatia) – A Late La Tène Scordiscan Sanctuary from Osijek?
  •  Prof. Dr. Dragi Mitrevski (North Macedonia) – Cult places and activities in pre-Roman times in Northern Macedonia
  • Dr. Alexey Gotsev, Prof. Dr. Vassil Markov (Bulgaria) – Research on Thracian megalithic monuments and sanctuaries in the Western Rhodopes, Rila and Pirin (Southern Bulgaria) 
  • Dr. Milena Tonkova (Bulgarie) – Lieux de culte et sanctuaires en Thrace du Vie-Ier s. av. J.-C. État du recherche

 Discussions

11.15-11.30 –Coffee break

CHAIRPERSON: Prof. Dr. Marko Dizdar

  • Prof. Dr. Ana Margarida Arruda (Portugal) – Oriental sanctuaries in Far West: architectures, rituals and cultual practices in Portugal during the Iron Age
  • Dr. Tomasz Bochnak (Pologne) – Chien de garde, chien guide ? – un état de la recherche sur les vestiges canins dans la culture de Przeworsk en Pologne
  • Prof. Dr.  Valeriu Sîrbu, Dr. Diana Dăvîncă (Romania) – Dog skeletons found in the Geto-Dacian settlements (4th c. BC- 1stc. AD) – ritual/affective inhumations or corpse riddance? ­
  • Prof. Dr. Ion Niculiţă, Dr. Andrei Corobcean (Rep. of Moldova) – Religious places and constructions of the Iron Age in the Prut-Dniester interfluve

Discussions 

13.30-14.30 – Lunch

SESSION: 15.30-20.00. CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Tomasz Bochnak

  • Dr. Horea Pop (Romania) – Măgura Moigradului, Sălaj County, Romania. The Dacian sacred Place after 80 Years from the first excavation
  • Prof. Dr. Valeriu Sîrbu, †Niculae Conovici, Dr. Ioan Cernău (Romania), Sacred area in the Dacian dava from Crăsanii de Jos-Piscul Crăsani (Ialomitza County)
  •  Katarzyna Skowron (Poland) – Ornamented hearths or altars from the Iron Age Poland. Revision
  • Prof. Dr. Valeriu Sîrbu, Dr. Aurora Pețan (Romania) – Who destroyed the Dacian temples? Some considerations about Sarmizegetusa Regia

Discussions

17.30-17.45 – Coffee break

  • Dr.  Sebastian Matei, Despina Măgureanu (Romania) – Ceramic artefacts at the end of their lives. The relation between the modes of disposal and deposition of the ceramic artefacts, and the cult edifices during the 2nd-1st centuries BC at the settlement from Cârlomănești, Buzău County
  • Dr. Aurora Pețan, Prof. Dr. Valeriu Sîrbu (Romania) – Temples and cult artifacts from the Dacian fortress Piatra Roșie
  • Dr. Xeni Arapogianni (Greece) – The Sanctuary of Asklepios at ancient Thouria
  • Dr. Christos N. Kleitsas (Greece) – Iron Age Dodona: Looking up North
  • Aris Tsaravopoulos, Gely Fragou (Greece) – Sanctuary of Poseidon on the maritime route from East to West

Discussions

20.00 – Dinner

SATURDAY, 11 May 2019

9.00-18.00. Documentary trip in the area of the impressive Dacian residential centres in Orăştiei Mountains, including the capital of pre-Roman Dacia – Sarmizegetusa Regia

SUNDAY, 12 May 2017

08.30 – Official closing ceremony of the International Colloquium

09.00 – 12.00 – Documentary trip:  Piatra Roșie – Dacian fortress and cult place

12.00-13.00 – Lunch

Departure of the participants

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