The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB) is pleased to announce the 26th ArchaeoSciences Seminar.
These seminars are an original initiative of our division that aims to provide a setting for professionals in the Archaeological Sciences field from different parts of the world to share knowledge and transmit meaningful information about the latest issues regarding the current methods and approaches used to study the past. It is also a chance for Romanian students to learn more about the various interdisciplinary aspects of archaeology.
This seminar will take place on 9 November 2022 at noon, and our guest speaker is Professor Enikő Magyari from Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary).
She will give an online presentation entitled “Vegetation, landscape and climate changes in the Carpathian Basin during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic period”.
Professor Enikő Magyari’s leading research focuses on the environmental history of the Carpathian-Balkan Region during the last 30,000 years. Using pollen, plant macrofossil, and multi-proxy paleoecological methods, she studies how rapid climate change events and human impact have shaped the forest and steppe environment and the amplitude of climate change during the last glacial termination and what are the region’s climate change characteristics. She earned her degree in Biology/Ecology at Debrecen University in 1997 and 1998. In 2002, she earned her PhD in Earth Sciences and became a Doctor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2016. She started her academic career as Assistant Lecturer at the University of Debrecen, Department of Mineralogy and Geology, in 2001. She joined the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK), School of Geography, as a Researcher Associate in 2002. She was also a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Durham University (UK), Department of Archaeology & School of Biology between 2004-2006. Upon return to Hungary, she joined the MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Palaeontology as Senior Research Scientist and later as Scientific Advisor in 2007. She started to work at Eötvös Loránd University as Senior Research Scientist in 2017 and became a full professor in 2020. She has been the head of the Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography since 2019 and served as Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs between 2020-2021. She is currently the Secretary General of INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) and president of the Hungarian INQUA Association.
The current presentation reflects the use of the multi-proxy palaeoecological analysis to reconstruct the Neolithic and Chalcolithic climate, landscape, and vegetation, alongside their relationships in the transformation processes documented in the geoarchaeological investigations.
The lecture will take place at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, in the G. Valasan Amphitheater, floor 3 (Nicolae Bălcescu Boulevard, no. 1, Bucharest), 09/11/2022, starting at 12:00 pm.
We look forward to exciting discussions!
ArchaeoScience#RO Team