Elena-Cristina Nițu
Biographic Data
| ID | 72306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena-Cristina Nițu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena-Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Nițu |
| SIGNATURE | NIȚU E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A newly-discovered stone pendant from the Upper Palaeolithic of Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Romania) and its wider context
A new Palaeolithic female figurine from Piatra Neamț, Romania
Chronostratigraphy and the Palaeoenvironment of the Bistrița Valley. New Interpretations and a Critical Retrospective Evaluation
Gravettian and Epigravettian personal ornaments in Eastern Carpathians
Paleoliticul superior din estul Carpaților este caracterizat printr-o densitate mare de situri, majoritatea aparținând cronologic Gravetianului sau Epigravetianului. În scopul identificării unor diferențe și/ sau similitudini în manifestarea culturală a comunităților paleolitice din siturile localizate între Carpați și Nistru, studiul nostru se va concentra pe analiza podoabelor din această regiune. Rezultatele indică existența unor perioade în c…
The cultural dynamics of Upper Paleolithic to the East of the Carpathians reflected by the characteristics of the Bistrița Valley settlements (Romania), with special focus on the occupations from Poia…
Elena-Cristina Nițu, Marin Cârciumaru, Nejma Goutas, Ovidiu Cîrstina, Adrian Nicolae, Florin Ionuț Lupu, Marian Leu, The cultural dynamics of Upper Paleolithic to the East of the Carpathians reflected by the characteristics of the Bistrița Valley settlements (Romania), with special focus on the occupations from Poiana Cireșului site, Studies on the Palaeolithic of Western Eurasia, pp. 88-101
Coliboaia is not Chauvet
Wind Instruments in the Mid Upper Palaeolithic of the Eastern Carpathians
Three perforated reindeer phalanxes, hitherto unknown, found in the Brînzeni and Duruitoarea Veche caves in the Republic of Moldova, are discussed in comparison with the perforated reindeer phalanx from Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț in Romania, which has anthropic working marks to be considered a genuine wind instrument in the Late Gravettian. Furthermore, a mammalian diaphysis from the Duruitoarea Veche Cave, unfortunately split in two, with fou…
Personal Ornaments in the Mid Upper Palaeolithic East of the Carpathians
Mid Upper Palaeolithic personal ornaments found in sites located between Carpathians and the Dniester river, more precisely in the settlements of Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț, Mitoc-Malu Galben, the Brînzeni cave, the Duruitoarea Veche cave, Cosăuți, Climăuți II and Molodova V, have been analysed. The ornaments come from occupations falling in between 26-27 ka uncal. BP and 17 ka uncal. BP. The study of ornaments of this homogeneous and restrict…
Technical observations on the first Palaeolithic surface collection from Izvorul Alb (Bicaz, Romania)
Among the many Palaeolithic discoveries in the Bistriţei Valley, an impressive collection of lithic materials (almost 3,000 pieces) have been collected, over the years, from Izvorul Alb-Bicaz (north-eastern Romania). Most of the items come from surface recoveries and at this moment no site has been accurately located. We present an analysis of the first collection of lithic materials found at Izvorul Alb in 1977 and 1978, recovered from two disti…
Redefining the Epigravettian and Epipalaeolithic in the Rock Shelter of Cuina Turcului (the Iron Gates Gorges of the Danube, Romania), with Special Emphasis on Art Objects
The Cuina Turcului rock shelter is located on the Romanian bank of the Iron Gates Gorges of the Danube. Archaeological investigations conducted in the 1960’s revealed, in the lower part of the deposit, the existence of two habitation levels, whose cultural definition has changed several times over the years. Due to lithic material features, hard animal materials, C-14 dates and especially personal ornaments and art object, we consider that the fi…
Parures et objets d'art du Gravettien récent de Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Roumanie)
Amber Deposits in Romania, with Particular Emphasis on Those Located on the Eastern Side of the Carpathians (Bibliographical Considerations and a few Field Investigations)
During the archaeological excavations of 2002, in the Palaeolithic site of Poiana Cireșului (north-eastern Romania) was discovered a fragment of amber in the first Gravettian layer. Recent investigations in this settlement have revealed four archaeological layers : one Epigravettian layer and three Gravettian ones. The first Gravettian layer, which is contemporary with the Last Glacial Maximum, has provided the richest habitation of the site, bei…
Theories and Ideas ahead of their Time
The beginnings of the systematic Paleolithic research in Transylvania were represented by the complex activity of the researcher Márton Roska. This paper is the result of some preliminary observations of Marton Roska’s work on the archeology of the Paleolithic period. In this respect, we analyze several aspects, such as archeological diggings, stratigraphic identifications, observations on the lithic material, so to create an image of the first d…
Some observations on the supposed natural origin of the Divje babe I flute
The perforated bear femur discovered in the Divje babe I cave in Slovenia is probably one of the most debated Mousterian discoveries. Because the disposition of perforations makes it look like a flute, many researchers tried to find explanations as to how these perforations were made and a large number of studies have focused on demonstrating the natural character of perforations. Our paper present the route of this discovery reflected in studies…
Contributions to understanding the Neanderthals symbolism. Examples from the Middle Paleolithic in Romania
Contributions to understanding the Neanderthals symbolism. In order to explain the behavior and cognitive capacity of the Neanderthal man researchers reported, through time, to several discoveries categories, mainly related to the technical evolution in the Mousterian. A distinct category is represented by the discoveries interpreted as proofs of symbolism, from among which the most frequently mentioned, are : ocher, fossils, mineralrocks and the…
Evidence for Symbolic Behavior in the Mousterian
As we know, there is much evidence for the use of ochre by Neandertals. Despite this, the possibility that they tattooed themselves has rarely been discussed. In Cioarei Cave, the discovery of recipients to prepare ochre provides direct material proof of painting, perhaps on the body, by Mousterian communities. This evidence concerns the preparation and use of ochre in a precise manner, consciously and with known meanings. In Cioarei Cave, the pi…
Témoignages symboliques au moustérien
Nous le savons, il existe aujourd'hui nombre de temoignages concernant l'usage de l'ocre. Pourtant, peu d'auteurs ont ose envisager la possibilite de tatouages pour l'homme de Neandertal. Cela signifie que la decouverte dans la grotte Cioarei de recipients pour la preparation de l'ocre represente la preuve materielle directe de la pratique de la peinture corporelle par les communautes mousteriennes. Ils constituent un temoignage sur la preparatio…
New evidence of adhesive as hafting material on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic artefacts from Gura Cheii-Râşnov Cave (Romania)
Nouvelles considérations concernant l’industrie lithique taillée du Néolithique ancien (culture Starčevo-Criş) de l’établissement de Copăcelu-Valea Răii (département de Vâlcea, Roumanie)
New considerations on knapped lithic industry belongind to Early Neolithic (Starcevo-Cris culture) from Copacelu-Valea Raii setting (Vâlcea County, Romania). In this paper, we will present a technological and techno-functional analysis of some knapped lithic industry of the settlement from Copăcelu-Valea Răii (Vâlcea County, Romania), attributed to the Starcevo-Cris (Körös) culture. The goal of our study is to determine the specific features of t…
Quelques considérations techno-typologiques sur un nombre de découvertes paléolithiques isolées des départements de Sibiu et Hunedoara
Some techno-typological considerations on isolated discoveries of Sibiu and Hunedoara County. In this paper, we will present several techno-typological considerations on a number of isolated discoveries attributed to the Paleolithic. Following the observations made, the point Orăştie-Dealul Pemilor may represent an interesting area for new archeological discoveries, and the discovery from Şelimbăr is a proof of the existence of the Middle Paleoli…
Nouvelles considérations sur les découvertes de Ţibrinu (département de Constanţa)
The importance of the discoveries from łibrinu (Constanţa County), given exclusively by the ornamental objects and especially by the pendant with geometrical engravings, the extensive technological considerations formulated subsequently as well as the technical means available to us lately determined us to reconsider the study of the material found in this setting. The chronostratigraphic uncertainty concerning the ornamental objects, and especia…
Outillages lithiques préhistoriques découvertes pendent les recherches en surface de l’année 2008 de Fundăţica, commune de Fundata, département Braşov
The recent field research carried out in order to identify the sources of raw lithic matter used by man during the Paleolithic helped us discover a few Paleolithic items in the village of Fund ica, the commune Fundata, Bra ov County. They could belong to the Upper Paleolithic, a thing we hope to clarify during our next research
Deux nouveaux habitats sur la carte du Paléolithique de Roumanie, découverts en 2008 à Şinca Nouă (département de Brașov)
The recent field research we carried out in order to identify raw lithic matter used by man during the Paleolithic gave us a special surprise by the discovery at inca Nou of the first Paleolithic tools. The items discovered are located mostly in two areas of the commune and belong, from a techno-typological viewpoint, to the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, though we are not able, in our present state of the research, to make more accurate chrono-cu…
Considérations stratigraphiques et géochronologiques concernant le dépôt de la grotte Bordul Mare de Ohaba Ponor (Roumanie) (Regard rétrospectif et conclusions interdisciplinaires)
Les fouilles archéologiques, effectuées tôt et ensuite reprises plusieurs fois plus récemment, ont permis l’accumulation de matériel archéologique important, mais souvent interprété de manière contradictoire, à cause de l’utilisation de systèmes différents de numérotation des couches, ce qui a conduit souvent à bien des confusions. En même temps, les recherches interdisciplinaires importantes effectuées concernant le dépôt de la grotte Bordul Mar…
La grotte Coacăzei (jud. Brașov), entre les anciennes recherches et les fouilles archéologiques de 2008
La position géographique spéciale de la grotte Coacăzei, les études faunistiques multiples, d’un côté, et les données stratigraphiques et la succession culturelle souvent controversées, de l’autre côté, nous ont déterminé de reprendre, en 2008, les recherches dans cette grotte. Par les deux sections ouvertes, nous avons essayé de résoudre une partie de ces aspects. L’étude commence par une synthèse des recherches antérieures, et, dans la deuxième…
New evidence of adhesive as hafting material on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic artefacts from Gura Cheii-Râşnov Cave (Romania)
Parures et objets d'art du Gravettien récent de Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Roumanie)
Personal Ornaments in the Mid Upper Palaeolithic East of the Carpathians
Mid Upper Palaeolithic personal ornaments found in sites located between Carpathians and the Dniester river, more precisely in the settlements of Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț, Mitoc-Malu Galben, the Brînzeni cave, the Duruitoarea Veche cave, Cosăuți, Climăuți II and Molodova V, have been analysed. The ornaments come from occupations falling in between 26-27 ka uncal. BP and 17 ka uncal. BP. The study of ornaments of this homogeneous and restrict…
Wind Instruments in the Mid Upper Palaeolithic of the Eastern Carpathians
Three perforated reindeer phalanxes, hitherto unknown, found in the Brînzeni and Duruitoarea Veche caves in the Republic of Moldova, are discussed in comparison with the perforated reindeer phalanx from Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț in Romania, which has anthropic working marks to be considered a genuine wind instrument in the Late Gravettian. Furthermore, a mammalian diaphysis from the Duruitoarea Veche Cave, unfortunately split in two, with fou…
Les datations C-14 et la succession culturelle du Paléolithique, Épipaléolithique et Mésolithique de la Roumanie
Cârciumaru Marin, Cosac Marian, Niţu Elena-Cristina. Les datations C-14 et la succession culturelle du Paléolithique, Épipaléolithique et Mésolithique de la Roumanie. In: Annales d'Université "Valahia" Târgovişte. Section d'Archéologie et d'Histoire, Tome 6-7, 2004. pp. 7-43
Considérations générales concernant la technique Levallois et ses produits. Principes généraux de réalisation et representations dans le Paléolithique moyen de la Roumanie
The Levallois technique characterizes particularly the Middle Paleolithic and essentially consists in the minute preparation of the core, so that the products achieved by this kind of debitage have a predetermined form. The Levallois debitage was defined in 1961 by F. Bordes, and since then numerous studies have been achieved concerning this kind of debitage. The analysis of the Levallois technique in time has proved its complexity, as well as th…
Outillages lithiques préhistoriques découvertes pendent les recherches en surface de l’année 2008 de Fundăţica, commune de Fundata, département Braşov
The recent field research carried out in order to identify the sources of raw lithic matter used by man during the Paleolithic helped us discover a few Paleolithic items in the village of Fund ica, the commune Fundata, Bra ov County. They could belong to the Upper Paleolithic, a thing we hope to clarify during our next research
Deux nouveaux habitats sur la carte du Paléolithique de Roumanie, découverts en 2008 à Şinca Nouă (département de Brașov)
The recent field research we carried out in order to identify raw lithic matter used by man during the Paleolithic gave us a special surprise by the discovery at inca Nou of the first Paleolithic tools. The items discovered are located mostly in two areas of the commune and belong, from a techno-typological viewpoint, to the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, though we are not able, in our present state of the research, to make more accurate chrono-cu…
Considérations stratigraphiques et géochronologiques concernant le dépôt de la grotte Bordul Mare de Ohaba Ponor (Roumanie) (Regard rétrospectif et conclusions interdisciplinaires)
Les fouilles archéologiques, effectuées tôt et ensuite reprises plusieurs fois plus récemment, ont permis l’accumulation de matériel archéologique important, mais souvent interprété de manière contradictoire, à cause de l’utilisation de systèmes différents de numérotation des couches, ce qui a conduit souvent à bien des confusions. En même temps, les recherches interdisciplinaires importantes effectuées concernant le dépôt de la grotte Bordul Mar…
La grotte Coacăzei (jud. Brașov), entre les anciennes recherches et les fouilles archéologiques de 2008
La position géographique spéciale de la grotte Coacăzei, les études faunistiques multiples, d’un côté, et les données stratigraphiques et la succession culturelle souvent controversées, de l’autre côté, nous ont déterminé de reprendre, en 2008, les recherches dans cette grotte. Par les deux sections ouvertes, nous avons essayé de résoudre une partie de ces aspects. L’étude commence par une synthèse des recherches antérieures, et, dans la deuxième…
Quelques considérations techno-typologiques sur un nombre de découvertes paléolithiques isolées des départements de Sibiu et Hunedoara
Some techno-typological considerations on isolated discoveries of Sibiu and Hunedoara County. In this paper, we will present several techno-typological considerations on a number of isolated discoveries attributed to the Paleolithic. Following the observations made, the point Orăştie-Dealul Pemilor may represent an interesting area for new archeological discoveries, and the discovery from Şelimbăr is a proof of the existence of the Middle Paleoli…
Nouvelles considérations sur les découvertes de Ţibrinu (département de Constanţa)
The importance of the discoveries from łibrinu (Constanţa County), given exclusively by the ornamental objects and especially by the pendant with geometrical engravings, the extensive technological considerations formulated subsequently as well as the technical means available to us lately determined us to reconsider the study of the material found in this setting. The chronostratigraphic uncertainty concerning the ornamental objects, and especia…
Nouvelles considérations concernant l’industrie lithique taillée du Néolithique ancien (culture Starčevo-Criş) de l’établissement de Copăcelu-Valea Răii (département de Vâlcea, Roumanie)
New considerations on knapped lithic industry belongind to Early Neolithic (Starcevo-Cris culture) from Copacelu-Valea Raii setting (Vâlcea County, Romania). In this paper, we will present a technological and techno-functional analysis of some knapped lithic industry of the settlement from Copăcelu-Valea Răii (Vâlcea County, Romania), attributed to the Starcevo-Cris (Körös) culture. The goal of our study is to determine the specific features of t…
New evidence of adhesive as hafting material on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic artefacts from Gura Cheii-Râşnov Cave (Romania)
Evidence for Symbolic Behavior in the Mousterian
As we know, there is much evidence for the use of ochre by Neandertals. Despite this, the possibility that they tattooed themselves has rarely been discussed. In Cioarei Cave, the discovery of recipients to prepare ochre provides direct material proof of painting, perhaps on the body, by Mousterian communities. This evidence concerns the preparation and use of ochre in a precise manner, consciously and with known meanings. In Cioarei Cave, the pi…
Témoignages symboliques au moustérien
Nous le savons, il existe aujourd'hui nombre de temoignages concernant l'usage de l'ocre. Pourtant, peu d'auteurs ont ose envisager la possibilite de tatouages pour l'homme de Neandertal. Cela signifie que la decouverte dans la grotte Cioarei de recipients pour la preparation de l'ocre represente la preuve materielle directe de la pratique de la peinture corporelle par les communautes mousteriennes. Ils constituent un temoignage sur la preparatio…
Some observations on the supposed natural origin of the Divje babe I flute
The perforated bear femur discovered in the Divje babe I cave in Slovenia is probably one of the most debated Mousterian discoveries. Because the disposition of perforations makes it look like a flute, many researchers tried to find explanations as to how these perforations were made and a large number of studies have focused on demonstrating the natural character of perforations. Our paper present the route of this discovery reflected in studies…
Contributions to understanding the Neanderthals symbolism. Examples from the Middle Paleolithic in Romania
Contributions to understanding the Neanderthals symbolism. In order to explain the behavior and cognitive capacity of the Neanderthal man researchers reported, through time, to several discoveries categories, mainly related to the technical evolution in the Mousterian. A distinct category is represented by the discoveries interpreted as proofs of symbolism, from among which the most frequently mentioned, are : ocher, fossils, mineralrocks and the…
Theories and Ideas ahead of their Time
The beginnings of the systematic Paleolithic research in Transylvania were represented by the complex activity of the researcher Márton Roska. This paper is the result of some preliminary observations of Marton Roska’s work on the archeology of the Paleolithic period. In this respect, we analyze several aspects, such as archeological diggings, stratigraphic identifications, observations on the lithic material, so to create an image of the first d…
Amber Deposits in Romania, with Particular Emphasis on Those Located on the Eastern Side of the Carpathians (Bibliographical Considerations and a few Field Investigations)
During the archaeological excavations of 2002, in the Palaeolithic site of Poiana Cireșului (north-eastern Romania) was discovered a fragment of amber in the first Gravettian layer. Recent investigations in this settlement have revealed four archaeological layers : one Epigravettian layer and three Gravettian ones. The first Gravettian layer, which is contemporary with the Last Glacial Maximum, has provided the richest habitation of the site, bei…
Technical observations on the first Palaeolithic surface collection from Izvorul Alb (Bicaz, Romania)
Among the many Palaeolithic discoveries in the Bistriţei Valley, an impressive collection of lithic materials (almost 3,000 pieces) have been collected, over the years, from Izvorul Alb-Bicaz (north-eastern Romania). Most of the items come from surface recoveries and at this moment no site has been accurately located. We present an analysis of the first collection of lithic materials found at Izvorul Alb in 1977 and 1978, recovered from two disti…
Redefining the Epigravettian and Epipalaeolithic in the Rock Shelter of Cuina Turcului (the Iron Gates Gorges of the Danube, Romania), with Special Emphasis on Art Objects
The Cuina Turcului rock shelter is located on the Romanian bank of the Iron Gates Gorges of the Danube. Archaeological investigations conducted in the 1960’s revealed, in the lower part of the deposit, the existence of two habitation levels, whose cultural definition has changed several times over the years. Due to lithic material features, hard animal materials, C-14 dates and especially personal ornaments and art object, we consider that the fi…
Parures et objets d'art du Gravettien récent de Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Roumanie)
Coliboaia is not Chauvet
Wind Instruments in the Mid Upper Palaeolithic of the Eastern Carpathians
Three perforated reindeer phalanxes, hitherto unknown, found in the Brînzeni and Duruitoarea Veche caves in the Republic of Moldova, are discussed in comparison with the perforated reindeer phalanx from Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț in Romania, which has anthropic working marks to be considered a genuine wind instrument in the Late Gravettian. Furthermore, a mammalian diaphysis from the Duruitoarea Veche Cave, unfortunately split in two, with fou…
Personal Ornaments in the Mid Upper Palaeolithic East of the Carpathians
Mid Upper Palaeolithic personal ornaments found in sites located between Carpathians and the Dniester river, more precisely in the settlements of Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț, Mitoc-Malu Galben, the Brînzeni cave, the Duruitoarea Veche cave, Cosăuți, Climăuți II and Molodova V, have been analysed. The ornaments come from occupations falling in between 26-27 ka uncal. BP and 17 ka uncal. BP. The study of ornaments of this homogeneous and restrict…
Gravettian and Epigravettian personal ornaments in Eastern Carpathians
Paleoliticul superior din estul Carpaților este caracterizat printr-o densitate mare de situri, majoritatea aparținând cronologic Gravetianului sau Epigravetianului. În scopul identificării unor diferențe și/ sau similitudini în manifestarea culturală a comunităților paleolitice din siturile localizate între Carpați și Nistru, studiul nostru se va concentra pe analiza podoabelor din această regiune. Rezultatele indică existența unor perioade în c…
The cultural dynamics of Upper Paleolithic to the East of the Carpathians reflected by the characteristics of the Bistrița Valley settlements (Romania), with special focus on the occupations from Poia…
Elena-Cristina Nițu, Marin Cârciumaru, Nejma Goutas, Ovidiu Cîrstina, Adrian Nicolae, Florin Ionuț Lupu, Marian Leu, The cultural dynamics of Upper Paleolithic to the East of the Carpathians reflected by the characteristics of the Bistrița Valley settlements (Romania), with special focus on the occupations from Poiana Cireșului site, Studies on the Palaeolithic of Western Eurasia, pp. 88-101
Chronostratigraphy and the Palaeoenvironment of the Bistrița Valley. New Interpretations and a Critical Retrospective Evaluation
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