INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN ROMANIA

Описание: Interdisciplinarity seems to be an inseparable part of archaeological research in present-day Romania. However, a glimpse into some

of the representative Romanian publications of the past, especially monographs, reveals the fact that, for a long time, there was confusion in both archaeological theory and practice. More specifically, interdisciplinarity was confounded with multidisciplinarity. For example, if archaeozoological, paleoanthropological and palynological studies were also conducted on the finds from a certain site, the results remained within the boundaries of each field, failing to be integrated into a clear and coherent whole. Interdisciplinarity, in its real sense, is a recent innovation in Romanian archaeology. In addition to this, not much is known about the beginnings of the incorporation of other disciplines into the archaeological practice in this country, about their later evolution or about the institutions and specialists behind them. How and in what cultural and political context did the process of integrating other fields into prehistoric archaeology start in Romania? How did this process evolve before and during the Communist regime, as well as after its collapse in 1989? What was and is its impact on the development of archaeology? This paper aims to trace the history of interdisciplinarity in Romanian prehistoric archaeology and its role in shaping archaeological research from the twentieth century until today.


Author(s): Coltofean, Laura (Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania)