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Ana García-Vázquez

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Web of Science ResearcherID: R-9580-2018

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First North Pontic Steppe Populations in the Balkans. A bioarchaeological outlook of Cernavoda I communities in the Lower Danube Basin (Romania) Call name: P 5.1 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie - Competiția 2023
PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-1899 2025 - 2028

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://unibuc.ro/cercetare/promovarea-rezultatelor-cercetarii/proiecte-de-cercetare/proiecte-cu-finantare-nationala/bioarhsteppe/

Abstract:

In the Bărăgan Plain and Dobrogea regions, the evolution of the Gumelnița civilization was interrupted or at least drastically disrupted at the end of the 5th millennium BC. This period and the first half of the 4th millennium BC is known as one in which rapid climate changes took place (cool and drought) and which, for the SE area of Romania, led to essential challenges related to the resilience or vulnerability of certain societies in these extreme conditions. The first Eastern populations of Indo-European origin are the Cernavoda I, who settled in Dobrogea. They have adopted several elements of material and spiritual civilization from the Eneolithic communities, so archaeological research has captured at least an apparent continuity. The project proposes a complex analysis from a bioarchaeological point of view (animals and plants used for food or other purposes, animal paleoeconomy, anthropic pressure on landscapes, food, health and lifestyle, ritual practices etc.) of the period when the culture Cernavoda I is documented in SE Romania in the first half of the 4th millennium BC, a period known as transitory which marks the end of the Copper Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age. Aspects related to human adaptation strategies to rapid climate changes documented, their management, flexibility or vulnerability of these populations in crisis conditions will be researched for the first time in order to set up the lifestyle patterns of past humans.

Mapping the Prehistoric Waterscape from Southern Romania (7000-3000 cal. BC). Natural water supply and cultural water demand in the past Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie, 2020
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2369 2021 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://unibuc.ro/cercetare/promovarea-rezultatelor-cercetarii/proiecte-de-cercetare/proiecte-cu-finantare-nationala/waterscape/

Abstract:

Investigations of the water in an archaeological context and searches for connections between natural water supply, natural hydrological conditions, and socio-cultural developments of human societies in the past is a real challenge for contemporary research. However, despite the apparent simplicity of water notion when we talk about human civilizations of the past, it had multidimensional connotations, which are transposed into various and differentiated elements of analysis (economic impact, hazards, human resilience, mobility, palaeoecologically niches, etc.). Thus, approaching a topic like the one proposed by the current project is difficult and challenging, involving complex multidisciplinary analyses, at the border of several disciplines (archaeology, geography, biology, etc.).

The project aim is to identify the complex interface between water and the human communities from Southern Romania for a period of 4000 years (7000-3000 BC). It will focus on the natural water availability, carrying capacity of environments, and aspects of variability in the hydrological system in correlation with human settlements location. We will take in consideration the adaptation and management strategies of different past societies, and the resilience or vulnerability of certain societies to hydrological hazards. Moreover, the project will address some side issues as the role of diet based on aquatic resources in life of the humans, and their palaeoeconomical impact in the target time span.

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