Igor Manzura
Biographic Data
| ID | 1270257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Igor Manzura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Igor |
| FAMILY NAME | Manzura |
| SIGNATURE | MANZURA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum of History of Moldova |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2848-4307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the Footsteps of the Wild Hunt
This article examines the ancient origins of the folkloric motif of the Wild Hunt, which was widely disseminated across Europe during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The origin of this tradition and its original meaning are reconstructed through an analysis of its three main components: the figure of the Wild Huntsman, his retinue, and the object of the hunt. It is argued that folkloric versions of this narrative reflect only in a di…
Early Copper Age layer of the Orlovka-Kartal settlement (Izmail District, Odessa County, Ukraine)
Rad razmatra materijal gumelničke kulture dobijen kao rezultat terenskih istraživanja višeslojnog naselja Orlovka-Kartal. Nalazi ove kulture otkriveni su kako na utvrđenom dijelu lokaliteta (Akropoli), tako i na susjednom prostoru označenom kao Suburbij. Kulturni sloj ranog eneolita na području Suburbija gotovo da nije zabilježen, izuzev nekoliko gospodarskih jama. Istovremeno je na prostoru Akropole utvrđen jasno definiran sloj ove kulture, u ko…
The Axe in the Ritual Practice of the Early Eneolithic of Eastern Europe
The article discusses the problem of changes in ritual practice in the steppe zone of Eastern Europe in the 5th millennium BC. One of the reflections of these transformations is flint and stone axes with an arch-shaped butt, which are often found in the ritual sphere in the form of hoards and funerary offerings. In terms of their morphological features, size and thoroughness of workmanship these items correspond to jadeite axes of the Varna type,…
Cemetery of the Cernavodă I culture at Orlovka-Kartal
The article presents materials of the late Eneolithic cemetery related to the Cernavodă I culture. Thecemetery is part of a very extensive archaeological complex with the name Kartal located in the vicinity of thevillage of Orlovka (the Reni district, the Odessa county) on the Lower Danube. About 40 late Eneolithic graveswere uncovered in the cemetery for several years of excavations. The graves are represented by inhumations inoval and rectangul…
The earliest burial complexes of the Kubey cemetery
Novija iskopavanja tumula (kurgana) u zaleđu sjeverozapadne obale Crnog mora rezultirala su konstantnim povećavanjem broja arheoloških lokaliteta sa materijalom kulture Cernavoda I koja, prema lokalnoj hronologiji, pripada kasnom eneolitu. Posebno visoka koncentracija arheoloških nalazišta ovog tipa konstatovana je u zapadnom delu Budžak stepe na jugu Moldavije, naročito u basenima malih stepskih rijeka Jalpug i Kogilnik, kao i na lijevoj obali r…
Passions for Children or an Etude on the Supreme Third
The article considers a few burial sites with numerous chindren’s graves of the Early Eneolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age (the fifth and fourth millennia BC) in the North-West Black Sea region (cemeteries at Giurgiulești, Koshary, Vykhvatintsy and Bursuceni). Analysis of the burial rite and distribution of grave goods allows us to discern some ternary structures which could exemplify certain principles in the organization of prehistori…
Tokens of time
The article presents an attempt to develop the periodization of the Cucuteni-Tripolye culture in terms of cultural anthropology. The scheme is based on common consideration of different manifestations of material culture and related social and historic-cultural phenomena. It is built along three separate but interrelated lines. The first line embraces the most significant material symbols of each phase. The second line exemplifies the nature of s…
Rings of Power or in Search of Early Elites
The article discusses the problem of identification of prehistoric elites on the example of the Usatovo culture. Archaeological evidence allows us to discern in the culture three separate strata or classes which are conditionally designated as the Nobles, the Honoured, and the Commoners. Social elite represented a core within the noble class. It is distinguished by specific attributes which illustrate its attempts to resolve one of the most compl…
Snared by the Funeral Pyre
Blagoje Govedarica, Zepterträger – Herrscher der Steppen. Die frühen Ockergräber des Äneolithikums im karpaten-balkanischen Gebiet und im Steppenraum Südost- und Osteuropas
Article Blagoje Govedarica, Zepterträger – Herrscher der Steppen. Die frühen Ockergräber des Äneolithikums im karpaten-balkanischen Gebiet und im Steppenraum Südost- und Osteuropas was published on April 1, 2008 in the journal Praehistorische Zeitschrift (volume 83, issue 1)
Steps to the Steppe
The occupation of the steppe region north of the Black Sea by farming or herding groups in the fifth and fourth millennia BC has been a controversial question. At the core of the problem is the changing relationship between Cucuteni‐Tripole farming groups in the forest‐steppe zone and their neighbours in the true steppe zone. Three phases of this relationship are discussed, in the Early Copper Age, Late Copper Age and Early Bronze Age (c.5000–300…
Cultural Groups From the Steppes of Eastern Europe in the Eneolithic Period and Early Bronze Age
The later fourth and third millennia bc (= later fifth to earlier third millennium BC Cal) was an important period of change in eastern Europe, which saw the domestication and spread of the horse in the steppe area north of the Black Sea, and complex interactions between these livestock‐raising groups and agricultural populations in south‐east Europe. The correlation of cultural sequences between the Balkans and the Pontic steppes is crucial to a…
Steps to the Steppe
The occupation of the steppe region north of the Black Sea by farming or herding groups in the fifth and fourth millennia BC has been a controversial question. At the core of the problem is the changing relationship between Cucuteni‐Tripole farming groups in the forest‐steppe zone and their neighbours in the true steppe zone. Three phases of this relationship are discussed, in the Early Copper Age, Late Copper Age and Early Bronze Age (c.5000–300…
Cultural Groups From the Steppes of Eastern Europe in the Eneolithic Period and Early Bronze Age
The later fourth and third millennia bc (= later fifth to earlier third millennium BC Cal) was an important period of change in eastern Europe, which saw the domestication and spread of the horse in the steppe area north of the Black Sea, and complex interactions between these livestock‐raising groups and agricultural populations in south‐east Europe. The correlation of cultural sequences between the Balkans and the Pontic steppes is crucial to a…
Steps to the Steppe
The occupation of the steppe region north of the Black Sea by farming or herding groups in the fifth and fourth millennia BC has been a controversial question. At the core of the problem is the changing relationship between Cucuteni‐Tripole farming groups in the forest‐steppe zone and their neighbours in the true steppe zone. Three phases of this relationship are discussed, in the Early Copper Age, Late Copper Age and Early Bronze Age (c.5000–300…
Blagoje Govedarica, Zepterträger – Herrscher der Steppen. Die frühen Ockergräber des Äneolithikums im karpaten-balkanischen Gebiet und im Steppenraum Südost- und Osteuropas
Article Blagoje Govedarica, Zepterträger – Herrscher der Steppen. Die frühen Ockergräber des Äneolithikums im karpaten-balkanischen Gebiet und im Steppenraum Südost- und Osteuropas was published on April 1, 2008 in the journal Praehistorische Zeitschrift (volume 83, issue 1)
Tokens of time
The article presents an attempt to develop the periodization of the Cucuteni-Tripolye culture in terms of cultural anthropology. The scheme is based on common consideration of different manifestations of material culture and related social and historic-cultural phenomena. It is built along three separate but interrelated lines. The first line embraces the most significant material symbols of each phase. The second line exemplifies the nature of s…
Rings of Power or in Search of Early Elites
The article discusses the problem of identification of prehistoric elites on the example of the Usatovo culture. Archaeological evidence allows us to discern in the culture three separate strata or classes which are conditionally designated as the Nobles, the Honoured, and the Commoners. Social elite represented a core within the noble class. It is distinguished by specific attributes which illustrate its attempts to resolve one of the most compl…
Snared by the Funeral Pyre
Cemetery of the Cernavodă I culture at Orlovka-Kartal
The article presents materials of the late Eneolithic cemetery related to the Cernavodă I culture. Thecemetery is part of a very extensive archaeological complex with the name Kartal located in the vicinity of thevillage of Orlovka (the Reni district, the Odessa county) on the Lower Danube. About 40 late Eneolithic graveswere uncovered in the cemetery for several years of excavations. The graves are represented by inhumations inoval and rectangul…
The earliest burial complexes of the Kubey cemetery
Novija iskopavanja tumula (kurgana) u zaleđu sjeverozapadne obale Crnog mora rezultirala su konstantnim povećavanjem broja arheoloških lokaliteta sa materijalom kulture Cernavoda I koja, prema lokalnoj hronologiji, pripada kasnom eneolitu. Posebno visoka koncentracija arheoloških nalazišta ovog tipa konstatovana je u zapadnom delu Budžak stepe na jugu Moldavije, naročito u basenima malih stepskih rijeka Jalpug i Kogilnik, kao i na lijevoj obali r…
Passions for Children or an Etude on the Supreme Third
The article considers a few burial sites with numerous chindren’s graves of the Early Eneolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age (the fifth and fourth millennia BC) in the North-West Black Sea region (cemeteries at Giurgiulești, Koshary, Vykhvatintsy and Bursuceni). Analysis of the burial rite and distribution of grave goods allows us to discern some ternary structures which could exemplify certain principles in the organization of prehistori…
The Axe in the Ritual Practice of the Early Eneolithic of Eastern Europe
The article discusses the problem of changes in ritual practice in the steppe zone of Eastern Europe in the 5th millennium BC. One of the reflections of these transformations is flint and stone axes with an arch-shaped butt, which are often found in the ritual sphere in the form of hoards and funerary offerings. In terms of their morphological features, size and thoroughness of workmanship these items correspond to jadeite axes of the Varna type,…
Early Copper Age layer of the Orlovka-Kartal settlement (Izmail District, Odessa County, Ukraine)
Rad razmatra materijal gumelničke kulture dobijen kao rezultat terenskih istraživanja višeslojnog naselja Orlovka-Kartal. Nalazi ove kulture otkriveni su kako na utvrđenom dijelu lokaliteta (Akropoli), tako i na susjednom prostoru označenom kao Suburbij. Kulturni sloj ranog eneolita na području Suburbija gotovo da nije zabilježen, izuzev nekoliko gospodarskih jama. Istovremeno je na prostoru Akropole utvrđen jasno definiran sloj ove kulture, u ko…
In the Footsteps of the Wild Hunt
This article examines the ancient origins of the folkloric motif of the Wild Hunt, which was widely disseminated across Europe during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The origin of this tradition and its original meaning are reconstructed through an analysis of its three main components: the figure of the Wild Huntsman, his retinue, and the object of the hunt. It is argued that folkloric versions of this narrative reflect only in a di…
Archaeology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Bronze Age (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Chalcolithic (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)