Monday, 9 October 2023, at 16.00, Muzeul Național de Istorie a Transilvaniei

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲:
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙨
– 𝙖 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 –

𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲: 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵
𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.

𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗿: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗱𝗿. 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗞𝗔𝗩𝗨𝗥
Univerza Na Primorska
Fakulteta za Humanistične Študije
Oddelek za Arheologijo in Dediščino
Titov trg 5 SI-6000 Koper, Slovenia

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁:
The middle of the 4th century BC was one of the most turbulent epochs in the ancient world. It witnessed the rise of Macedonian political and economic power in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Balkans, the spread of Syracusan imperial ambitions in the central Mediterranean, the decline of Etruscan creativity on the Apennine peninsula and the spread of Celts and their cultural and artistic influences in eastern and south-eastern Europe. It was an entangled world connected by long-distance trade and diplomacy, a world where people and goods followed millennia-old communication routes. Within Eastern Europe, an immense creative potential was unleashed by the Celtic populations. The development of new aesthetics and styles, based on advances in metallurgy, glass production and ceramic technologies, accelerated cultural changes and the formation of new social elites.

Today, the detailed observation of stylistic elements and technological solutions employed in producing art and decorating utilitarian items can enable us to trace the chronologies, intensities and routes of diffusions that spread the innovations. Celtic art, based on the expressionistic deconstructions of organic forms and their recompositions in vegetal flowing patterns, was a direct antipode to the realistic art of Mediterranean civilizations. But still, observing its chronology and distribution, we can conclude a lot about the communication processes of creative centres in the central Carpathian Plain and the secondary cores that elaborated their heritage on the edges of the Eastern Celtic world.
The presentation will focus on the history of this dynamic century, observing the archaeological and artistic heritage of the western fringes of the Carpathian basin.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿:
Boris Kavur is an associate professor of archaeology and art history at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. There, he teaches Paleolithic archaeology, history and theory in archaeology, Prehistoric art, and modern Art history. In the last twenty years, he has led extensive rescue excavations of settlement sites in eastern Slovenia from the Copper, Bronze, and Iron Ages, as well as the Roman period. Besides coordinating several research projects focusing on the Bronze and Iron Age and promoting archaeological heritage, he collaborated on numerous Slovenian and international research projects. He published as author or co-author more than 70 articles, more than 55 shorter professional contributions, three books, eight professional books and exhibition catalogues, co-edited two books, authored and co-authored 20 exhibitions, presented papers on more than 60 conferences, was a visiting researcher and lectured on nine universities. And he is still intrigued by archaeology.