CUCUTENI CULTURE
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE

Under the authority of Neamt Museum Complex
Str. Mihai Eminescu, no.10, 5600 Piatra Neamt, ROMANIA
TEL: (004) 033/217496; FAX: (004) 033/233285;
e-mail:[email protected] 

    Founded in 1995, the Cucuteni Culture International Research Centre (CCIRC), was set up in to enhance and focus all efforts towards a thorough knowledge of this culture considered to be an advanced society in European prehistory.
    CCIRC initiates and carries out important research programmes (systematic site research, interdisciplinary research).
    CCIRC develops an exhaustive bibliographical database on the Cucuteni Culture.
    CCIRC organises international scientific meetings.
    CCIRC publishes and exhibits research on the Cucuteni Culture.
    CCIRC facilitates the exchange of specialised information and publications.
    CCIRC facilitates the exchange of expertise among various countries.
    CCIRC stimulates the dissemination of all kinds of information concerning the Cucuteni Culture by mass media.
 

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    CCIRC core of researchers together with Romanian and foreign collaborators carry out their specific activities. A Romanian scientific board (Prof. dr. Attila Laszlo, dr. Victor Sorokin, dr. Dragomir Popovici, dr. Dan Monah, dr. Gheorghe Dumitroaia) coordinates CCIRC together with a consultative board made up of Romanian and foreign specialists, namely: Academician Prof. dr. Mircea Petrescu-Dimbovita, Prof. dr. Silvia Marinescu-Bilcu, Prof. dr. Petre I. Roman, Prof. dr. Iuliu Paul, Prof. dr. Linda Ellis, Prof. dr. Vladimir Kruc, Prof. dr. Rodolfo Striccoli and Prof. dr. Gheorghe Lazarovici.
    CCIRC is affiliated with the International Consultative Commission of Indo-European and Thracian studies in Bucuresti and Mangalia.

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    CCIRC has published the following books:

• CUCUTENI AUJOURD'HUI (ed. Gh. Dumitroaia and D. Monah), Piatra Neamt, 1996, 372p.
• Dan Monah, PLASTICA ANTROPOMORFA A CULTURII CUCUTENI - TRIPOLIE / LA PLASTIQUE ANTHROPOMORPHE DE LA CULTURE CUCUTENI-TRIPOLYE, Piatra Neamt, 1997, 542p.
• Victor Sorokin, CONSIDERATII REFERITOARE LA ASEZARILE FAZEI CUCUTENI A - TRIPOLIE B₁ DIN UCRAINA SI REPUBLICA MOLDOVA / CONSIDERATIONS SUR LES HABITATS CUCUTENI A - TRIPOLYE B₁ DE L'UKRAINE ET DE LA REP. MOLDOVA, in MEMORIA ANTIQUITATIS, XXI, Piatra Neamt, 1997, p.7-85.
• Cornelia Magda Mantu, CULTURA CUCUTENI.EVOLUTIE, CRONOLOGIE, LEGATURI / CUCUTENI CULTURE. EVOLUTION, CHRONOLOGY, CONNECTIONS, Piatra Neamt, 1998, 324p.
• Stefan Cucos, FAZA CUCUTENI B IN ZONA SUBCARPATICA A MOLDOVEI / LA PHASE CUCUTENI B DANS LA ZONE SUBCARPATHIQUE DE LA MOLDAVIE, Piatra Neamt, 1999, 304p.

    Future volume include:

• Gh. Dumitroaia, POST-CUCUTENIAN CULTURE FROM EAST ROMANIA
• THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CUCUTENI CULTURE (A. Laszlo, D. Monah, V. Sorokin, Emil-C. Ursu, O. Cotoi, M. Alexianu, Gh. Dumitroaia)
• Victor Sorokin, CULTURAL ASPECT DRAGUSENI-JURA
• Dragomir N. Popovici, THE SETTLEMENTS OF CUCUTENI A-PERIOD

    H. SCHMIDT, FR. LASZLO, M. MARIN and C. MATASA's works concerning Cucuteni Culture will be reprinted in Restituiri (Restitutio) series.

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    CCIRC has coordinated research on archeological sites from Poduri, Lunca, Dobreni, and collaborates with research on other Eneolitic archeological sites. Moreover, CCIRC conducts archeological surveying in order to discover new Cucuteni sites.

    Specialised exhibitions listed below have been developed by or have been organised in collaboration with CCIRC:
        1.   NEOLITHIC PAINTED CERAMICS FROM PODURI, Cluj - Piatra Neamt, Bucuresti, 1995-1997
        2.   PODURI, DEALUL GHINDARU, AN EXCEPTION ARCAEOLOGICAL SITE, Bacau, 1995
        3.   THE LAST GREAT CHALCOLITHIC CIVILIZATION OF EUROPE, Thessaloniki (Greece), 1997
        4.   ART AND SPIRITUALITY IN CUCUTENI CULTURE, Suceava, 1998.

    CCIRC offers printed materials, specialised information and bibliography.
    Publications unknown in Romania and information held in your custody will be highly appreciated, as our Centre focuses mainly on completing and develloping bibliographical database on the above topics.
    Rare or unknown publications and information, not available in Romania, will be highly appreciated.

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