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CONTENTS

Octavian Cristian Rogozea
Discoveries Attributed to the Early Vinča Phase in Tărtăria “Gura Luncii” (Alba County). The 214 Preventive Archaeological Researches Performed on “Site 10B”

Georgeta El Susi
Animal Bones from the Neolithic (Szakalhat) Levels at Uivar (Timiş County)

Victor Sava, Florin Mărginean, Adrian Ursuţiu
The Eneolithic Cemetery in Pecica “Est” (Arad County)

Tünde Horváth
Budakalasz, ein besonderer Bestattungsplatz der Badener Kultur. Kritische Anmerkungen zum Buch: Maria Bondar – Pal Raczky (Red.): The Copper Age cemetery of Budakalasz

Tobias L. Kienlin, Klára P. Fischl, Liviu Marta
Exploring Divergent Trajectories in Bronze Age Landscapes: Tell Settlement in the Hungarian Borsod Plain and the Romanian Ier Valley

Călin Ghemiș
The Late Bronze Age Gold Ring Discovered in Betfia (Bihor County, Romania)

Liliana Daniela Mateescu-Suciu
Glass Recipients from Sarmizegetusa Regia. Unguentaria and Bottles

Horațiu Cociș
The Rural Landscape of the Frontier of Dacia Porolissensis. A Case Study: the Northern Sector –
territorium Arcoba(da)rense – The Valley of River Someșul Mare

Norbert Kapcsos
Sarmatian graves from Pecica Site 18. Remarks upon the phenomenon of „isolated” graves from the Cris-Tisa-Mures region

Ioan Stanciu
On Early Medieval Roasting Trays and their Presence in the Settlements from the North-Western Part of Romania

Călin Cosma, Adrian Bolog, Ovidiu Oargă
Avar Graves Recently Discovered in Gambaș (Alba County) on the Spot Called “Ogoarele de jos”

Dan Băcueț-Crișan, Gruia Fazecaș, Doru Marta
An Early Medieval Feature Discovered in Oradea – Salca “Ghețărie” (Petrom Gas Station)

Daniela Tănase, Gábor Bertók, Anita Kocsis, Balázs Major
The location of Egres Cistercian monastery – Igriş (Timiș County), in the light of recent geophysical research

Florin Mărginean, Zsolt Csók, Keve László, Victor Sava
Unveiling History. Archaeological Excavations in the Fortress of Ineu (Arad County)

Dorel Micle, Bogdan Alin Craiovan, Andrei Stavilă, Octavian-Cristian Rogozea
The Times before Fischer’s Furniture Store. The Preventive Archaeological Researches in Sfântul Gheorghe Square 2–3, Timișoara (Timiş County)

Andrea Demjén, Florin Gogâltan
The Ciuc-Ghimeș Quarantine (18th–19th Centuries). Archaeological Researches of the Former Customs Point “Cetatea Rakoczy”

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Această carte a câștigat Premiul „Vasile Pârvan“ al Academiei Române în anul 2016

Această contribuție încearcă să refacă o secvență cronologică și culturală importantă pentru Preistoria sud-estului Europei. Perioada târzie a epocii bronzului a generat, în condiții diverse, reconfigurări ale vechilor scenarii. Este unul dintre primele momente istorice care a dus la scindarea Europei. Astfel, centrele de civilizație mai vechi, de la fațada răsăriteană a Mării Mediterane, tind să devină centre de iradiere/difuziune a bunurilor și ideilor culturale. În același timp, are loc un fenomen de diminuare a rolului cultural jucat de unele zone europene, care tind spre un nou statut. Între două concepte, centru și periferie, am încercat să definesc rolul jucat de ceea ce este denumit îndeobște cu termenul de zonă de contact. Mai rămân de stabilit mecanismul și componentele care au ordonat aceste relații. Din nefericire, pentru mulți ani, cercetarea arheologică din România s-a situat la un nivel conceptual și ideologic adeseori impropriu unor dezvoltări sau încheieri multidimensionale. Achizițiile teoretice și metodologice din ultimii ani permit, pe lângă racordarea la curentele arheologice actuale, conceptualizări proprii care, cu siguranță, vor duce la noi posibilități de abordare.

„Roman pottery is an important indicator of provincial economic life at multiple levels. the detailed study of this material culture category provides valuable information regarding the characteristics of the local ceramic industry and the geographic distribution of its products, either regionally or at the scale of whole the Empire, but is equally revelatory for the reconstruction of various aspects regarding the local population's everyday life. their culinary preferences are reflected by their choice of cooking, serving, storing, and transportation vessels, furthermore, the funerary rites can also be differentiated according to the pottery gravegoods, while the patterns of construction activities can be highlighted by the quantity of ceramic building material (CBM) produced and used in various periods.

The ceramic goods were produced in workshops whose integral structures were often only superficially treated within the investigation of certain sites, thus hindering the possibility of elucidating the process and organization of the pottery production of these provincial centres. For this reason the information needed to outline a comprehensible image concerning this important branch of the ancient economy has to be pieced together from fragmentary datasets which once joined together offer an extremely interesting picture.” (Introduction)

The contemporary media narratives play an essential role in providing the audiences with essential cultural symbols, myths and patterns, mostly by reinterpreting/recycling existing cultural typologies, prototypes and archetypes (Kellner 200; Lyden 2003). This growing significance of both media and the process of myth recycling stems from the post-war Western cultural and technological evolution. Thus, due to essential form and content changes in the production, reproduction and distribution of cultural products since the mid-20th century, media have become increasingly dominant, replacing in dimensions and impact the previous influential institutions in shaping the views, values and behaviours of large audiences. As Peter Horsfield (1987) argues, the media represent a new symbolic environment, which, moreover, has an essential educational impact, shaping, as Douglas Kellner (2003) notices, the people’s views and values, providing “the symbols, myths, and resources through which we constitute a common culture and through the appropriation of which we insert ourselves into this culture.” Thus, the culture we are currently living in is a media-controlled and shaped culture and the manners in which it expresses the message are increasingly sophisticated and predominantly visual. As the influential Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall (1999) argue, when discussing visual culture: “The mechanically and electronically reproduced image is the semantic and technical unit of the modern mass media and at the heart of post-war popular culture”, the image and visual message being employed in a plural and increasingly diversified range of forms on the background of the massified communication and commodification of information.
However, despite the diversity of media channels and complex (and also increasingly interactive) platforms, the storytelling patterns and core messages have remained – para-doxically – roughly unchanged. A few major myth patterns represent the core of contemporary media storytelling, whether we speak of fiction (cinema) or reality based media messages (written or visual press), political representations (image campaigns) or advertising. Recycled (and also rebranded and reinterpreted) myths have proved very useful for contemporary commodified media, in selling a large variety of (media) products.
The current issue of Caietele Echinox / Echinox Journal aims to offer the environment for an academic dialogue and debates concerning the mechanisms, impact and effects of the recycling and wide-ranging employment of classical myth patterns in contemporary media. Departing from an initial theoretical segment – Revisiting Myths in the Information Age: Theoretical Approaches – the thematic sections attempted to cover the different areas in which contemporary media mythologies appear and function. Thus, the volume contains a series of theoretical inquiries on the facets taken by myths in contemporary media, as well as on their significations in relation to current challenges. The studies in the second section, Contemporary Media Narratives and Classic Mythologies, discuss a series of reinterpretations in contemporary media or new media of traditional myth patterns such as resurrection and regeneration, motherhood, other articles focusing on the recycling of powerful symbols such as the water or the labyrinth. As the volume aimed to discuss a diverse range of media, the studies focused both on visual aspects (with an emphasis on cinema, but also television or advertising) and on written press. The studies in the section titled Contemporary Written and Visual Media: Myths, Politics and Ideologies brought a more localised perspective, placing a particular emphasis on post-war communist media in Eastern Europe and Romania in particular. In contrast, the sections dedicated to cinema and advertising brought diverse contributions to the topic, from mainstream to more regional aspects of the myth occurrences in contemporary cinematic and advertising discourses. Finally, the texts in the last section, which focused on the “the ethics of the image”, resulted from a series of workshops organised within a project conducted at “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with BA and MA students of the Faculty of Letters.