Category Archives: Conference presentations

15/06/2016International Conference, Newsadmin

Conference about glass furnaces in Villa Borg, Saarland

In the Archaeological Park Roman Villa Borg in Saarland (Germany) specialists had been working for years on Roman glass-making experimental archaeology. This process culminated between the 11^th and 12^th of June 2016 in a conference, entitled: “Roman glass furnaces – contexts, finds and reconstructions in synthesis”. Besides many other interesting discussions, some of our team-members also held presentations about their results.

The meeting was intended to gather information about Roman glass furnaces and workshops from many provinces in order to gain new insights into this ancient industry.

01/06/2016National Conference, Newsadmin

Heritage workshop at Brâncovenești

It’s nice and useful to research all these Roman sites, but our sole purpose is not just to jot down some new information, but to integrate them in their cultural landscapes. And this is simply impossible without the proper ideas and actions towards conservation and preservation.

In order to achieve this, a small workshop was organized on the 31^st of May 2016 at the Kemény Castle of Brâncoveneșeti about the possibilities, precedents and actual costs of restoration of medieval castles, mostly of course of the above mentioned one, and what kind of future can they look forward to. The several specialists gathered here also deeply discussed the case of the Roman fort in the vicinity of the castle, what responsibilities and opportunities does this involve for the owners of the castle.

27/04/2016International Conference, Newsadmin

Culture and Nature in Transylvania

Besides being the title of this short article, this was also the name of the interdisciplinary scientific workshop held in Cluj on the 22^nd-23^rd of April, 2016. It was organized by a Romanian-Norwegian project called Culture and Nature in Transylvania: Past and Future – that aims the conservation and revitalisation of cultural and natural heritage in North-Western Romania, mainly in Sălaj County.

So among art historians, geologists, biologists and ecologists, one of our team-members held a presentation about the relationship between the Roman limes and the Szeklers, based on our first-hand experience during field-work in these traditional villages.

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19/04/2016International Conference, Newsadmin

Conference regarding the History of Archaeology in Alba Iulia

Most museums around here (and not only) have a rich history of their collections, usually starting with some zealous antiquarian and/or amateur archaeologist somewhere around the 19^th century. Such was the situation of the National Museum of the Unification in Alba Iulia, where during the Belle Époque Cserni Béla started a meticulous archaeological program to investigate Roman Apulum. On the 100^th anniversary of his death, researchers interested in the history of archaeology organized an international conference entitled “Adalbert Cserni and His Contemporaries. The Pioneers of Archaeology in Alba Iulia and Beyond”.

In between the new session of spring field-surveys, some of our team-members found some time to attend this event held in Alba Iulia from the 14^th of April until the 18^th. The presented subjects included a paper about the collection of Kovács Ferencz (important especially in the case of Călugerni), the different century-old sources for various types of stamped bricks and tiles from Călugerni and the nationalistic and imperialistic influences on the archaeology of the Belle Époque in Transylvania. Around 50 participants from 6 countries (from Great Britain to Russia) made the event truly of value and also highly enjoyable.

01/04/2016International Conference, Newsadmin

Presenting interdisciplinary results on the next level: ESAS 2016

Lately, the XRF and FTIR spectroscopic investigations of iron slag finds from Brâncovenești, Călugăreni and Vătava (mentioned in the previous post) were amended by ICP-OES (inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry) and completed with EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) analysis.

These new results had to be made public, and we found just the right place for this: the European Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry, held in the beautiful town of Eger, Hungary, between the 31^st of March and the 2^nd of April, 2016. The paper was presented in the form of a poster, by one of our team-members.

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The scale of the conference was quite impressive, uniting around 200 of the top researchers of atomic spectrometry from all over the world.

17/03/2016International Conference, Newsadmin

XXI. International Scientific Conference of Young Engineers

Nothing shows better how interdisciplinary this project is than the fact that some of our colleagues together with chemists and other specialists took part in the XXI. International Scientific Conference of Young Engineers, held in Cluj-Napoca, on the 17-18^th of March, 2016.

The presentation’s topic consisted of the archaeometric analysis of iron slags discovered during the recent excavations at Brâncovenești, Călugăreni and Vătava. As part of the archaeometallurgical investigations, the samples were subjected to FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) spectroscopy and surface XRF (X-ray fluorescence) spectroscopic investigations in order to approximate their mineralogical composition (FTIR) and to determine their elemental composition and inhomogeneity (XRF).

03/12/2015National Conference, Newsadmin

The Limes Forum IV national conference

The 4^th edition of the Limes Forum national conference, organised by the Roman Limes Research Centre of the Mureș County Museum (Târgu Mureș) and the National History Museum of Transylvania (Cluj-Napoca) took place between the 4^th and 6^th of December 2015 in Sovata. The event continued the series of annual meetings of specialists in the research of the frontiers of the Roman Empire from Romania, providing a forum for scientific debate and exchange of views and information on the subject at hand. Furthermore, the meeting to facilitated in a considerable manner the collaboration between museums, research institutes and universities for the conception and implementation of the ‘Limes Dacicus’ national research programme. The programme of this edition comprised a conference session and a visit to the Roman archaeological park from Călugăreni.

25/11/2015National Conference, Newsadmin

Conference on History of Târgu Mureș and Mureș County

On the 28th of November a national conference took place in Târgu Mureș on the occassion of the The Day of the Hungarian Science in Transylvania cultural event. This edition of the conference is organized by the Borsos Tamás Association and the Transylvanian Museum Society. Athough the conference was destined mainly to the medieval up to the recent history of the city and county, this event was also an excellent forum for promoting our work concerning the protection of the Roman limes sector from this county. One of our colleagues held a lecture about the eastern limes of the Roman Dacia, focusing principally on the research strategies, questions and solutions related to the limes sector from Mureș County.

21/11/2015International Conference, Newsadmin

Ten years together. Archaeology and Geophysics

Ten years have been passed since a very fruitful and efficient collaboration started between the geophysic specialists of the Institute of Geography and Earth Science at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and archaeologists of our research team. Everything started at another important Roman military site of Dacia, in Porolissum which has been followed by many geophysicial surveys in the eastern Roman limes sector from Mureș County. Many important scientific results, frendship and a very trustful collaboration – so could one sum up this long period together. On this occasion, our geophysisist colleague from the Department of Geophysics and Space Science from the Eötvös Loránd University organised a very interesting and warm conference aimed to commemorate this outstanding collaboration. On the 16th of November 2015 friends and colleagues met in Budapest to discuss the common experience and scientific results of the 10 years. During these disscussions it came out very clear how well does geophysical surveys and non-distructive surveying methods complete and help the archaeological investigation . One of our colleague held also a presentation about these interdisciplinar investigations in the eastern limes of the Roman Dacia, especially in Mureș County.

14/11/2015Conference presentations, International Conference, Newsadmin

Journey to the West in Roman style. The Limes Congress in Ingolstadt 2015

Between the 13^th and 20^th of September 2015, two members of our team joined the 23^rd edition of Limes Congress in Ingolstadt, Germany. The one-week long intensive programme including many presentations and excursions was a great exercise both to our mind and body.

The four days of presentations included sessions related to signalling in the army; industry and commerce; defense strategies; reconstructions; crafts; Roman soldiers and religion, the Danube limes; timber forts; and many other sessions. Due to the huge interest and large audience these presentations were held simultaneously in four different rooms. Live video transmission in other rooms for those who could not manage to fit in the presentation rooms, was also a very useful facility.

During the excursions we visited many of the sites situated along the Raetian limes, like the famous fort and Limes Museum from Ruffenhofen, Eining, Pförring, the celtic oppidum of Manching, Regensburg and many other wonders of the beautiful Bavaria.

Our presentations and poster were dealing with the eatern limes of Roman Dacia that was approached in a multidisciplinary manner. We could present our foreign colleagues our limes part and the results of the recent researches in the domain, promoting in the same time the protection of this heritage.