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Stefan Honcu

- ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Researcher | Scientific reviewer

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‘In the Shadow of Rome’: Roman Finds in the East Carpathian Barbaricum Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0783 2020 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Project website: http://rfcb.romanimports.ro/?noredirect=en_US

Abstract:

In the early 90's at the initiative of the German Archaeological Institute, was launched the project Corpus der römischen Funde im europäischen Barbaricum/CRFB, with the goal of publishing in a series of corpora the Roman finds, stretching from north-western Europe to the Black Sea. The 15 corpora which have appeared to date are essential for becoming acquainted with Roman products from outside the Empire. Our project ‘In the Shadow of Rome’: Roman Finds in the East Carpathian Barbaricum/RFCB is designed to serve as the most complete and accessible work for the Roman items (coins, jewellery, tableware, etc.) for a part of the ancient world which remained so far outside the CRFB program. This project is also supposed to form a stepping stone and encouragement for constructive dialogues between scholars from Romania, Ukraine, and Rep. of Moldova, in order to overcome the fragmentation of research in Europe and contribute to increasing the visibility at an international level of the peripherals and neglected regions of Barbaricum. The research methodology will be strictly adapted to the objectives of the project: elaborate a corpus of Roman imports from the Vaslui county similarly to the CRFB volumes, setting up a database with these categories of products, carrying out archaeometric analyses on glass, metal and ceramics in order to establish the internal composition and origin of the pieces, determining the routes by which Roman products arrived in Barbaricum, and disseminating the results. Our project will apply the interdisciplinary analyses, will meet the latest international standards, and will try to fill a historiographical gap, through the main outcome: a corpus of Roman finds for a peripheral and less studied area of Barbaricum. Through the additional studies, the project members intend to go beyond the traditional catalog, inquiring into the economic and social history of the ‘Barbarians’, in order to understand their necessity for the Roman products.

Beyond the Fringes of Empire. Roman Influence and Power north of the Danube and east of the Rhine Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0669 2017 - 2019

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Project website: http://www.arheo.ro/romaninfluence/

Abstract:

The overall aim of this project is to find out, how Roman rule affected directly (politics, military, stipendia) and indirectly (acculturation, customs, cultural contact) the indigenous nations of central Europe. Main objectives: to identify concrete ways by which the Roman power manifested in Barbaricum; explore the areas of the Roman influence in Barbaricum; to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the ancient archaeological potential in the pilot project implementation areas in order to identify new areas of interest; to stress the importance of the "waves" of Roman imports representing different types of artefacts (pottery, jewellery, coins etc.) in the barbarian territory of the limes vicinity; to focus on the economic and social changes within the barbarian society under the direct influence of their neighbours inside the Empire (the emergence of barbarian workshops that used to copy the Roman artefacts, the development of some barbarian settlements in accordance to a handcraft specialisation etc.). Methodology. The project comprises the present trends of the international research on the area of contact between Orbis Romanus and Barbaricum. By gathering an interdisciplinary team, consisting of ancient historians, archaeologists, epigraphists and numismatists that will cover the main disciplines of “Altertumswissenschaften”, the project will lead to a diversified approach and balanced results. The research will be based on archaeological data from actual and former excavations, as well as on literary, epigraphic and numismatic sources. All these source categories will be separately examined and evaluated, and their results will subsequently be compared. Impact. The project might bring a significant contribution to the recent international debates on the relations between the Roman world and gentes barbares.

Scythia Minor – a peripheric province of the Roman world: between the Roman Empire and the Late Roman Empire Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - RUTE -2014 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2563 2015 - 2017

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA (RO)

Project website: http://scythmin.qulto.eu/

Abstract:

The project aims to address a topic of great sensitivity to the history of the Roman Dobrogea (Scythia province), mainly that of the transition from the Roman Empire to the late Roman Empire, namely the enthronement of Maximinus Thrax's up to the appointment of Anastasius I emperor to Constantinopolis; it is a peripheral province of the Roman world, territory colonized by the Greeks, occupied by the Romans and held by them as part of Moesia Inferior, later as province of Scythia, as part of the empire that establishes, after 330 AD., the weight center in the City of Constantine (Constantinopolis).

We will harness both archaeological findings, historical, epigraphic and numismatic sources, and the bibliography accumulated for the 3th -5th centuries for the whole Empire, its various provinces and the province of Scythia especially in an attempt to restore step by step the history of this province in a turning point in terms of defining identity.

The project involves senior scientists and PhD students, postdocs and students, masters and technicians from several institutions in Romania and abroad. Project results will be used in articles, bibliographic and collective volumes and conferences.

NEW MAPPING TECHNIQUES AND NON-INVASIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN CENTRAL DOBROUDJA(CASE STUDY: CASIMCEA RIVER BASIN) Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA 2013 - call
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-0732 2014 - 2017

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INTERNIO SYSTEMS SRL

Project partners: INTERNIO SYSTEMS SRL (RO); MUZEUL DE ISTORIE NATIONALA SI ARHEOLOGIE (RO); INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI ECO.MUZEALE TULCEA (RO)

Project website: http://archaeomap.internio.net

Abstract:

Since the archaeological heritage is insufficiently evaluated by those responsible for its administration (especially the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) and given that archaeological sites are constantly affected by natural agents (earthquakes, earth flows, floods) and anthropic factors (town development, industrial development, people movement, intensive agriculture, large infrastructure projects) the project aims to find new solutions for identifying, mapping, rescue and enhancing the value of this heritage.

The project will approach an experimental model for mapping archaeological sites in the central Dobroudja, specifically for the drainage area of the Casimcea River Basin (the largest drainage area of Dobroudja, with a surface of 755 sq km). Despite the fact that it is an area favorable for human living from the oldest times, the archaeological potential of this area is lesser studied and valued (and therefore unprotected). The data currently available in The National Archaeological Repertory and The List of Historical Monuments are mostly incomplete, with many cases of inadequacy to current realities.

Implementation will be achieved by combining several non-intrusive techniques of investigation and recording, knowing that they are the main source of archaeological heritage monitoring. For the first time in Romania the landscapes surrounding archaeological sites will be systematically mapped using aerial photography and remote sensing; digital terrain models will be created even in densely wooded landscape, revealing sequences that otherwise could not be identified, remaining ”hidden” or invisible. Field surveys and field-survey analysis conducted according to the concepts "in site" and "off site" will complement the data acquired by remote sensing. In the latter, it will experience aerial investigations with the help of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), with attached data recording instruments.

Starting from the current level of knowledge, the consortium will use its resources and the ones that will be achieved by implementing the project in order to create a methodical mapping of the archaeological sites in the Casimcea River Basin. The project aims to identify existing problems in locating archaeological sites in this area using modern techniques of remote sensing and field research methods, to develop a model of interdisciplinary approach for field identification of archaeological sites, their registration in a database, online presentation via Mapserver and the opportunity to analyse the spatial distribution of ancient habitation units. The scientific community will receive new information about this area and will further develop research projects on particular areas of interest.

Also, a major goal is to establish the protected areas of these sites, in accordance with current legislation on the protection of archaeological heritage. Evaluating the entire archaeological heritage from the area subject to investigation and establishing exact topographic delimitation of the archaeological sites helps the ranking of historical monuments and thus provides a useful tool to the local community in the composition of future urban plans (which may avoid failures in the implementation of sustainable development projects).

By using modern remote sensing techniques and by well-done database building, an experimental model of mapping the archaeological sites is proposed, which could be later developed up to the national level by setting up a real National Mapping Programme for Archaeological Sites.

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