Tiberiu Sava
Biographic Data
| ID | 207224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiberiu Sava |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiberiu |
| FAMILY NAME | Sava |
| SIGNATURE | SAVA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Horia Hulubei National Institute for R and D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5136-0749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Restitutio Ab Initio
Recovering archaeobotanical remains from archaeological contexts often entails substantial methodological challenges. Flotation and environmental sampling routinely yield charred seeds whose cultural attribution does not necessarily correspond to the stratigraphic position or inferred chronology of the deposits in which they occur. Direct radiocarbon dating frequently exposes marked discrepancies, demonstrating that intrusive seeds may derive fro…
The fortress of the Teutonic Order in South-eastern Europe
Feldioara has long been regarded as the headquarters of the Teutonic Knights during their brief Transylvanian period (1211–1225), but neither history nor archaeology could provide compelling evidence based solely on traditional methods. By radiocarbon dating mortars (sub-micron calcite fraction separation followed by chemical digestion with polyphosphoric acid before AMS target formation), it was finally determined that the earliest defensive con…
Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Changes in the Southern Danube Delta (Black Sea, Romania)
International audience
A new Palaeolithic female figurine from Piatra Neamț, Romania
Vegetation Dynamics and Hydro-Climatic Changes during the Middle Holocene from the Central Himalaya, India
Understanding the spatiotemporal monsoonal variability during the Holocene helps in understanding the rise and fall of many civilizations. In this study, a 2.65 m high palaeo lake sedimentary profile from the Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, Uttarakhand State, India was pollen analysed to reconstruct the variability in the monsoonal precipitation during the Middle Holocene. The study revealed that between ~7522 and 7216 cal yr BP, conifers dominated mixed…
Radiocarbon Dating of Cremated bone samples from the Site of the Hungarian Church at Pauca, Sibiu County
Archaeological research in the site of Pauca - Hungarian Church started in 2010, and between 2012-2023 has uncovered over 116 graves, some being simple cremation graves with a deposit of remains in the urn, others being double graves (with two urns) and one being a mixed double grave (incineration and inhumation). The dating of the five samples from the cemetery would suggest that the beginnings of the Păuca cemetery is contemporary with the late…
Sine Qua Non
Past human population dynamics play a key role in integrated models of understanding socio-ecological change over time. However, little analysis on this issue has been carried out for the prehistoric societies in the Lower Danube and Eastern Balkans area. Here, we use summed probability distributions of radiocarbon dates to investigate potential regional and local variation population dynamics. Our study adopts a formal model-testing approach to …
Geoarchaeological investigations of the river harbours of Noviodunum – The headquarters of the Roman Imperial fleet (Lower Danube, Romania)
Recent archaeological researches in the Vârghiș Gorges karst area (Eastern Carpathians, Romania). A synthesis of the 2014–2020 campaigns
The Vârghiș Gorges karst system (Perșani Mountains, Eastern Carpathians) constituted a point of interest for speleologists, paleontologists and archaeologists since the second half of the 19th century. Their efforts succeeded in highlighting the notable archaeological potential of the area, although the actual research results were not always thoroughly reported. Since 2014, our team reunited specialists from 10 different institutions and various…
From Gravettian to Epigravettian in the Eastern Carpathians
Late-Holocene landscape evolution and human presence in the northern Danube delta (Chilia distributary lobes)
This paper documents the Late-Holocene environmental changes and human presence in the northern Danube delta using a multidisciplinary approach that combines geoscientific data with archaeological findings, historical texts, and maps. It follows the formation and progression of the Chilia distributary and the reconfiguration of socioeconomic activities. Sedimentary facies identified on five new cores by changes in texture properties, magnetic sus…
Turanici la Dunărea Inferioară – complexe cercetate recent în nordul Munteniei / Turanians at the Lower Danube – recently investigated contexts in the northern Wallachia
The aim of this paper is to present a series of discoveries attributed to the Turkic nomadic populations (11th– 12th centuries), resulting from archaeological research conducted in 2018 and 2019 in several burial mounds placed in the localities of Târgșoru Nou and Inotești from Prahova County, as well as Lunca from Buzău county. It includes descriptions of the investigated archaeological features, the results of the anthropological and archaeozoo…
Neolithic to modern period palaeogeographic transformations in southern Danube delta and their impact on human settlements in the Enisala-Babadag region
Radiocarbon Dating and the Protection of Cultural Heritage
The modern antiquities market uses radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating to screen for forged objects. Although this fact shows the potential and power of the method, the circumstances where it is applied can be questionable and call for our attention. Here we present an outline of a call to radiocarbon laboratories for due diligence and best practice approaches to the analysis of antique objects requested by non-research clients
Parures et objets d'art du Gravettien récent de Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Roumanie)
Parures et objets d'art du Gravettien récent de Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Roumanie)
Radiocarbon Dating and the Protection of Cultural Heritage
The modern antiquities market uses radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating to screen for forged objects. Although this fact shows the potential and power of the method, the circumstances where it is applied can be questionable and call for our attention. Here we present an outline of a call to radiocarbon laboratories for due diligence and best practice approaches to the analysis of antique objects requested by non-research clients
Late-Holocene landscape evolution and human presence in the northern Danube delta (Chilia distributary lobes)
This paper documents the Late-Holocene environmental changes and human presence in the northern Danube delta using a multidisciplinary approach that combines geoscientific data with archaeological findings, historical texts, and maps. It follows the formation and progression of the Chilia distributary and the reconfiguration of socioeconomic activities. Sedimentary facies identified on five new cores by changes in texture properties, magnetic sus…
Sine Qua Non
Past human population dynamics play a key role in integrated models of understanding socio-ecological change over time. However, little analysis on this issue has been carried out for the prehistoric societies in the Lower Danube and Eastern Balkans area. Here, we use summed probability distributions of radiocarbon dates to investigate potential regional and local variation population dynamics. Our study adopts a formal model-testing approach to …
Parures et objets d'art du Gravettien récent de Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Roumanie)
Neolithic to modern period palaeogeographic transformations in southern Danube delta and their impact on human settlements in the Enisala-Babadag region
Radiocarbon Dating and the Protection of Cultural Heritage
The modern antiquities market uses radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating to screen for forged objects. Although this fact shows the potential and power of the method, the circumstances where it is applied can be questionable and call for our attention. Here we present an outline of a call to radiocarbon laboratories for due diligence and best practice approaches to the analysis of antique objects requested by non-research clients
Turanici la Dunărea Inferioară – complexe cercetate recent în nordul Munteniei / Turanians at the Lower Danube – recently investigated contexts in the northern Wallachia
The aim of this paper is to present a series of discoveries attributed to the Turkic nomadic populations (11th– 12th centuries), resulting from archaeological research conducted in 2018 and 2019 in several burial mounds placed in the localities of Târgșoru Nou and Inotești from Prahova County, as well as Lunca from Buzău county. It includes descriptions of the investigated archaeological features, the results of the anthropological and archaeozoo…
Recent archaeological researches in the Vârghiș Gorges karst area (Eastern Carpathians, Romania). A synthesis of the 2014–2020 campaigns
The Vârghiș Gorges karst system (Perșani Mountains, Eastern Carpathians) constituted a point of interest for speleologists, paleontologists and archaeologists since the second half of the 19th century. Their efforts succeeded in highlighting the notable archaeological potential of the area, although the actual research results were not always thoroughly reported. Since 2014, our team reunited specialists from 10 different institutions and various…
From Gravettian to Epigravettian in the Eastern Carpathians
Late-Holocene landscape evolution and human presence in the northern Danube delta (Chilia distributary lobes)
This paper documents the Late-Holocene environmental changes and human presence in the northern Danube delta using a multidisciplinary approach that combines geoscientific data with archaeological findings, historical texts, and maps. It follows the formation and progression of the Chilia distributary and the reconfiguration of socioeconomic activities. Sedimentary facies identified on five new cores by changes in texture properties, magnetic sus…
Geoarchaeological investigations of the river harbours of Noviodunum – The headquarters of the Roman Imperial fleet (Lower Danube, Romania)
A new Palaeolithic female figurine from Piatra Neamț, Romania
Vegetation Dynamics and Hydro-Climatic Changes during the Middle Holocene from the Central Himalaya, India
Understanding the spatiotemporal monsoonal variability during the Holocene helps in understanding the rise and fall of many civilizations. In this study, a 2.65 m high palaeo lake sedimentary profile from the Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, Uttarakhand State, India was pollen analysed to reconstruct the variability in the monsoonal precipitation during the Middle Holocene. The study revealed that between ~7522 and 7216 cal yr BP, conifers dominated mixed…
Radiocarbon Dating of Cremated bone samples from the Site of the Hungarian Church at Pauca, Sibiu County
Archaeological research in the site of Pauca - Hungarian Church started in 2010, and between 2012-2023 has uncovered over 116 graves, some being simple cremation graves with a deposit of remains in the urn, others being double graves (with two urns) and one being a mixed double grave (incineration and inhumation). The dating of the five samples from the cemetery would suggest that the beginnings of the Păuca cemetery is contemporary with the late…
Sine Qua Non
Past human population dynamics play a key role in integrated models of understanding socio-ecological change over time. However, little analysis on this issue has been carried out for the prehistoric societies in the Lower Danube and Eastern Balkans area. Here, we use summed probability distributions of radiocarbon dates to investigate potential regional and local variation population dynamics. Our study adopts a formal model-testing approach to …
Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Changes in the Southern Danube Delta (Black Sea, Romania)
International audience
Restitutio Ab Initio
Recovering archaeobotanical remains from archaeological contexts often entails substantial methodological challenges. Flotation and environmental sampling routinely yield charred seeds whose cultural attribution does not necessarily correspond to the stratigraphic position or inferred chronology of the deposits in which they occur. Direct radiocarbon dating frequently exposes marked discrepancies, demonstrating that intrusive seeds may derive fro…
The fortress of the Teutonic Order in South-eastern Europe
Feldioara has long been regarded as the headquarters of the Teutonic Knights during their brief Transylvanian period (1211–1225), but neither history nor archaeology could provide compelling evidence based solely on traditional methods. By radiocarbon dating mortars (sub-micron calcite fraction separation followed by chemical digestion with polyphosphoric acid before AMS target formation), it was finally determined that the earliest defensive con…
Archaeology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geology (7 works) · Marine and environmental studies (6 works) · Holocene (5 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (5 works) · Radiocarbon dating (5 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Chronology (4 works)