International Symposium The Image of Divinity in the Neolithic and Eneolithic.

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Sibiu, Romania, 26th-28th October 2017

Organizing Committee: President: Professor Sabin Adrian Luca (Lucian Blaga University from Sibiu, Brukenthal National Museum, Romania) Members: Professor Gheorghe Lazarovici (Lucian Blaga University from Sibiu, Romania) Ph.d. Magda Lazarovici (Institute of Archeology, Iași, Romania) Professor Marin Cârciumaru (Valahia University from Târgoviște, Curtea Domnească Târgoviște National Museum Complex, Romania) Professor Nicolae Ursulescu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University from Iași, Romania) Ph.d. Constantin-Emil Ursu (The Bucovina Museum, Romania) Ciprian Anghel Ștefan (ASTRA National Museum Complex, Romania) Ph.d. Anamaria Tudorie (Lucian Blaga University from Sibiu, Romania)

Day 1, the 26th of October 2017 3:30-4:00 p.m. Registration of the participants (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Social Sciences, Victoriei Street, nr. 5-7, Avram Iancu Aula, first floor) 4:00 p.m. Official opening of the international symposium (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Social Sciences, Victoriei Street, nr. 5-7, Avram Iancu Aula, first floor) Opening speeches: Professor Ioan Bondrea (Rector of Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) Mrs. Daniela Cîmpean (President of the Sibiu County Council) Ph.d. Constantin-Emil Ursu (General Director of Bucovina Museum, Suceava) Mr. Ciprian Anghel Ștefan (General Director of ASTRA National Museum Complex) Professor Sabin Adrian Luca (Lucian Blaga University from Sibiu, Brukenthal National Museum – president of the symposium's organizing committee) 4.30 – 6:00 p.m. Documentary film premiere Introduction by Mr. Viorel Costea, director of the film Când pământul vorbește/When the Ground Speaks 7:00 p.m. Cocktail for the participants (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Academic Reunion Centre, Banatului Street nr. 7) Day 2, the 27th of October 2017 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Presentation of papers (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Academic Reunion Centre, Banatului Street nr. 7) Section 1: Sign, symbol, communication; Modeling and communication and Section 2: Sanctuaries and special cultic places. Chairman: Ph.d. Magda Lazarovici; Ph.d. Mykhailo Videiko - Professor Gheorghe Lazarovici (Lucian Blaga University from Sibiu), The Image of Divinity from Paleolithic to Present, as reflected by Rock Art - Ph.d. Elena-Cristina Nițu (Complexul Național Muzeal „Curtea Domnească” Târgoviște, Romania), Professor Marin Cârciumaru (Complexul Național Muzeal „Curtea Domnească” Târgoviște, Romania), Ph.d. Crina Miclăuș (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania), Ph.d. Ovidiu Cîrstina (Complexul Național Muzeal „Curtea Domnească” Târgoviște, Romania), Florin Ionuț Lupu (Complexul Național Muzeal „Curtea Domnească” Târgoviște, Romania), Marian Leu (Complexul Național Muzeal „Curtea Domnească” Târgoviște, Romania), Adrian Nicolae (Complexul Național Muzeal „Curtea Domnească” Târgoviște, Romania), Stelian Grigore (Piatra Neamț Culture House, Romania), The amber from the carpathian area – source of raw material for the art objects production in Prehistory - Acad. Harald Hauptmann (Heidelberg University, Germany), Spaces for communal and ritual activities in Early Neolithic sites of the Near East - Professor John Nandriș (Oxford University, United Kingdom), The Nea Nikomedeia Figurines - Professor Juraj Pavúk (Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia), Ph.d. Aneta Bakamska (History Museum Pernik, Bulgaria), A contribution to the typology and chronology of Neolithic anthropomorphic figurines in the Balkans - Ph.d. Miriam Robbins Dexter (UCLA, U.S.A), Neolithic Female Figures and their Evolution into Groups of Ferocious and Beneficent Historic-Age Fairies and Witches - Ph.d. Victor Sava (Arad Museum Complex, Romania), Anthropomorphic representations in the Neolithic of the Lower Mureş Basin

- Ph.d. Atilla Nándor Hágó (Municipal Museum of Carei, Romania), A unique clay figurine from Carei-Kozard - Professor Pál Raczky (Eötvös Loránd Univerity, Hungary), Ph.d. András Füzesi (Eötvös Loránd Univerity, Hungary), Ph.d. Alexandra Anders (Eötvös Loránd Univerity, Hungary), Domestic and symbolic activities in a tell-like settlement (Öcsöd-Kováshalom in the Tisza-Region) 1:00 – 1:30 p.m Coffee break - Ph.d. Tibor-Tamás Daróczi (Romania), A phenomenology of godhood. Agencies of human skulls and complete animal skeletons during the Neolithic and Copper Age of the Eastern Carpathian Basin - Ph.d. Joan Marler (Institute of Archaeomythology, Sebastopol, U.S.A.), Sacred transmission in context: The distillation and communication of meaning within Neolithic and Eneolithic societies of Old Europe - Professor Iurii Mosenkis (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine), Greek-like inscription from Eneolithic Romania - Professor Sabin Adrian Luca (Lucian Blaga University from Sibiu, Brukenthal National Museum), Ph.d. Anamaria Tudorie (Lucian Blaga University from Sibiu), Data about two buttons and a bead made of Spondylus Gaederopus Linnaeus, 1758. Discoveries from Tărtăria-Gura Luncii, 2014 Campaign - Ph.d. Horia Ciugudean (Muzeul Național al Unirii din Alba Iulia, Romania), Gods and shells: an Eneolithic offering pit in the site of Turdaș-Sites (Hunedoara county) - Ph.d. Dan Lucian Buzea (National Eastern Carpathians Museum, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania), Ph.d. Corneliu Beldiman (University of Piteşti, Faculty of Theology, Letters, History and Arts, Department of History, Romania), Ph.d. Diana-Maria Beldiman (Central High School, Bucharest, Romania), Artefacts, Signs and Symbols in the Aeneolithic of Transylvania: Discoveries from Păuleni-Ciuc Site, Harghita County - Ph.d. Ion Mareș (Bucovina Museum Complex, Romania), Cultic symbols engraved on a copper ring from a hoard from the Trypillia culture, Hmel’nic’k region (Ukraine) - Ph.d. Nataliia Burdo (Institute of Archaeology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Moon Symbols in Graphic Tradition of Tryplia Culture Day 3, the 28th of October 2017 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Presentation of papers (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Academic Reunion Centre, Banatului Street nr. 7) Section 1: Sign, symbol, communication; Modeling and communication and Section 2: Sanctuaries and special cultic places. Chairman: Professor Gheorghe Lazarovici; Joan Marler - Ph.d. Diana-Maria Beldiman (Central High School, Bucharest, Romania), Ph.d. Corneliu Beldiman (University of Piteşti, Faculty of Theology, Letters, History and Arts, Department of History, Romania), Signs and Symbols in the Neolithic and Aeneolithic of Transylvania: the Case of Osseous Raw Material Adornments - Ph.d. Corneliu Beldiman (University of Piteşti, Faculty of Theology, Letters, History and Arts, Department of History, Romania), Professor Sabin Adrian Luca (Lucian Blaga University from Sibiu; Brukenthal National Museum, Romania), Ph.d. Stănică Pandrea (researcher, Romania), Ph.d. Diana-Maria Beldiman (Central High School, Bucharest, Romania), Symbolic Shell Artefacts Discovered Recently Aeneolithic Sites from Romania

- Professor Nicolae Ursulescu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University from Iași, Romania), Valeur symbolique de quelques nombres, attestée aux communautés du complexe culturel Precucuteni – Cucuteni - Ph.d. Mykhailo Videiko (Institute of Archaeology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), System and Status of Public Building in the Settlements of the Prekukuteni-Cucuteni-Tryplia Cultural Complex - Professor Magda Lazarovici (Institute of Archeology, Iași, Romania), Cucuteni pots with human face. Shapes, decoration and meanings - Professor Regina A. Uhl (German Archaeological Institute), Tokens in Cucuteni-Tripolie-contexts – common symbols, religious objects or indicators of administrative systems? - Ph.d. Senica Țurcanu (Moldova Iași Museum Complex, Romania), The Power of Sound. Rattle-type Artifacts in the Cucuteni-Tripolie Universe - Ph.d. Sorin Ignătescu (Ștefan cel Mare University from Suceava, Romania), Hands of the Goddess: gesture in cucutenian anthropomorphic painted representations 1:00 – 1:30 p.m Coffee break - Ph.d. Adela Kovács (Botoșani County Museum, Romania), Anthropomorphous vessels from Ariuşd-Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture and the metamorphosis of feminine body - Ph.d. Aurel Melniciuc (Botoșani County Museum, Romania), The apron on the Cucuteni-Trypolie statuettes- a symbolic approach - Ph.d. Valeska Becker (University of Münser, Germany), reserved title - Ph.d. Iharka Szücs-Csillik (Astronomical Institute of Romanian Academy, Romania), Ph.d. Zoia Maxim (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), „Crown” and „Necklace” constellations – symbol and sign - Professor Adrian Poruciuc (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University from Iași, Romania), Continuity and divergence in representations and terminology of hearths, altars and burnt offerings - Ph.d. Marco Merlini (Institute of Archaeomythology U.S.A.; Association Together for Athos, Italy; EURO INNOVANET, Italy), The Pagan Artemis attending the Virgin Mary Annunciation in a Post-Byzantine Athonite fresco - Ph.d. Florin Mărginean (Arad Museum Complex, Romania), From Pagan Burials to Christian Cemeteries on the Lower Mureș Valley - Ph.d. Adrian Stoia (Indepent researcher, Sibiu, Romania), The iconography of the wayside crucifixes form Mărginimea Sibiului area. Typological Study - Ph.d. Cosmin Ignat (ASTRA National Museum Complex, Romania), Patrons of Saxon Churches from Southern Transylvania - Ph.d. Maria Tămășan (S.C. Altra Studio S.R.L., Arad), Ethno-archeology – Instrument of Musefication of the Archeological Sites in Romania Day 4, the 29th of October 2017 10:00 Visiting of the Brukenthal National Museum (meeting place in the Large Square)