Activities achieved in 2013
1. Research of Museum of Ialomița County’s collections (A.
Bălășescu).
2. Dissemination of results:
2.1. Scientific meetings
Third Arheoinvest Congress, Interdisciplinary Research in
Archeology, University of Iași, 6-8 June 2013, public lectures:
- V. Radu, D. Popovici, C. Cernea, I. Cernău, A. Bălășescu,
Gathering molluscs in the Eneolithic. Case study on an
accumulation of bivalve shells from the Eneolithic site of
Borduşani-Popină (Romania),
http://arheoinvestcongress.uaic.ro/eng/wp-content/uploads/Third-
Arheoinvest-Congress-Programme-and-Abstracts.pdf <6.2.1.a >
- C. Haită, The micromorfology of anthropic sequences
from the Chalcolithic tell Bordușani – Popină,
http://arheoinvestcongress.uaic.ro/eng/wp-content/uploads/Third-
Arheoinvest-Congress-Programme-and-Abstracts.pdf <6.2.1.b>
2.2. Publications
R. Gillis, S. Bréhard, A. Bălăşescu, J. Ughetto-Monfrin, D.
Popovici, J.-D. Vigne, M. Balasse, Sophisticated cattle dairy
husbandry at Borduşani-Popină (Romania, 5th mill BC): the
evidence from complementary analysis of mortality profiles and
stable Isotopes, World Archaeology, Special Issue (Innovation in
isotopes: Current applications of stable isotope chemistry in
bioarchaeology), in press.
M. Ollivier, A. Tresset, C. Hitte, C. Petit, S. Hughes, B. Gillet, M.
Duffraisse, M. Pionnier-Capitan, L. Lagoutte, R.-M. Arbogast, A.
Bălășescu, A. Boroneanț, M. Mashkour, J. D. Vigne, C. Hänni,
Evidence of coat color variation sheds new light on ancient
canids, PlosOne, in press.
S. Bréhard, V. Radu, A. Martin, P. Hanot, D. Popovici, A.
Bălăşescu, Food supply strategies in the Romanian Eneolithic:
sheep/goat husbandry and fishing activities from Hârşova tell and
Borduşani-Popină (5th millennium BC), European Journal of
Archaeology, submitted for publication.
3. Field research in the floodplain zone of Balta Ialomiței
- Verifying archaeological sites, identification of new occupation
areas;
- GPS data, topographic survey, collecting archaeologic inventory,
sedimentologic and radiocarbon sampling;
- Stratigraphic punctual soil coring.