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Mrs. Anca Dan

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Researcher - CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS

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Director of research center - UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (Romania)

Professor - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Sciences Lettres (France)

Researcher | Teaching staff | Scientific reviewer

Anca Dan is Professor of Classics at École Normale Supérieure and Assistant Research Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology in the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris). Her primary research interests center on hellenism and the historical geography of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, investigated through the critical confrontation of maps and texts (she edits and comments from manuscripts and inscriptions) and geoarchaeological data (obtained and interpreted by the geophysicists, geomorphologists, geochemists, paleobiologists and archaeologists with whom she collaborates). Her current work concerns the reconstruction of the ancient environments of Ainos (modern Enez, in Turkey’s province of Edirne), the Danube Delta (Romania) and the Taman peninsula (Russia). Dan favors interdisciplinary and international collaboration in projects of 4D modelisation of ancient sites, for a better understanding of the interaction between man and nature

Web of Science ResearcherID: AAI-2169-2019

Curriculum Vitae (09/08/2023)

Expertise & keywords

RECONSTRUCTING THE ANCIENT HARBOUR LOCATIONS AND NAVIGATION ROUTES IN THE DANUBE DELTA SINCE THE ANTIQUITY TO LATE MIDDLE AGE. Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-1750 2018 - 2020

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: https://www.unibuc.ro/cercetare/promovarea-rezultatelor-cercetarii/proiecte-de-cercetare/proiecte-cu-finantare-nationala/te-110-2018/

Abstract:

This is a geoarchaeological project aiming to reconstruct the navigation conditions (harbours locations, waterways) and their changes in time in relation to landscape dynamics, as well as their influence on human settlements from Danube delta since the Antiquity (7th c. BCE) to late Medieval Age (16th c. CE). This is a challenging theme as ancient settlements and their environs have experienced major paleogeographical transformations driven by (i) coastal evolution and delta plain transformations, (ii) local water level changes associated with neotectonics, compaction and eustatism and (iii) human impact on the ecosystems. Nevertheless, the arheological findings and ancient sources served as proxies for different hypotheses referring to ancient harbours locations without any geoarheological validation, yet. At the other hand, the impressive progress recently made in characterizing the geoscientific evidences of ancient harbours settings together with the revival of the scientific studies on Danube delta evolution and the new progress (supported by our team) in the reconstruction of the coastline and delta plain transformations prepared the ground for the current geoarchaeological project which is the first conceived as a systematic study of the navigation conditions in one of a large deltas of the world with specific focus on identifying harbours and tracking navigation routes during different historic periods (i.e. Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Genovese and Ottoman). This issue is multidisciplinary approached, integrating various geoscientific (geomorphological, chronostratigraphic, sedimentological, geochemical, microfaunistic) and archaeological methods in order to address the following main objectives: (i) testing the existing hypotheses and identifying possible locations of ancient harbours; (ii) reconstructing the ancient navigation routes and their changes in time; (iii) assessing the impact of navigation routes and harbours changes on human settlements evolution

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