Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Archaeology

Director: Assistant professor Dr Neculai Bolohan

Research directions:

a. Prehistorical Archaeology – the investigation of prehistoric societies through non-destructive archaeological investigations with equipment purchased by Arheoinvest Platform as well as actual archeological research in prehistoric sites; reference collection of archaeological materials from all prehistoric cultures belonging to the east-Carpathian area;

b. Classical Archaeology – the investigation of archaeological sites from Dacian, Roman and post-Roman epochs; archaeological investigations with non-destructive equipment, purchased by Arheoinvest Platform, as well as classical archaeological researches;

c. Christian Archaeology – investigating Christian complexes from the Romanian territory, by non-destructive archaeological investigations with equipment purchased by Arheoinvest Platform, as well as classical archaeological researches;

d. Social archeology – restoring social structures of prehistoric and protohystoric societies through comparative research of the archaeological complexes identified in the sites;

e. Archaeology funeral – Proto and classic prehistoric society’s burial complex investigation;

f. Computerized Archaeology – IT support for managing and processing archaeological data using specialized softwares;

g. Experimental Archaeology – Archaeological complexes and working techniques reconstruction, in order to understand their functioning in the past;

h. Underwater Archaeology – investigation of the underwater archaeological remains, using the eco-probe, diving and underwater archaeological investigations;

i. Ethnoarcheology – ethnographic researches and the use of results, in order to explain archaeological situations.