ICUB invites you to the ArchaeoSciences Course 002: Modern Approaches to Prehistoric Sites: Recent Research on the 6th and 5th Millennium BC in Bulgaria

The ArchaeoSciences Platform of the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ASp-ICUB) invites students to take part in “ArchaeoSciences Course 002: Modern Approaches to Prehistoric Sites: Recent Research on the 6th and 5th Millennium BC in Bulgaria”, an English-language guest seminar delivered by Dr Kamen Boyadzhiev.

The course introduces current approaches to the investigation of prehistoric sites in Bulgaria, with particular attention to the 6th and 5th millennium BC and to the integration of survey, excavation, documentation, and post-excavation research.

This teaching activity is hosted through an Erasmus+ teaching mobility and is addressed to BA, MA, and PhD students interested in prehistoric archaeology, field methods, archaeological science, and wider comparative perspectives on Neolithic and Chalcolithic research in Southeast Europe.

In-person activities will take place on Monday, 11 May 2026, and Wednesday, 13 May 2026, between 12:00-14:00, in the ICUB Seminar Room (former Herbarium), Faculty of Biology, Botanical Garden Building, Intrarea Portocalelor No. 3, basement level, Sector 6, Bucharest.

Students wishing to participate are asked to register through the following form.

To ensure direct interaction, close mentoring, and applied practical discussion throughout the programme, the course is open to a maximum of 15 students.

A syllabus of the course is available here.

Further details at the following e-mail addresses: kamenyb@abv.bg, victor-cristian.roth@icub.unibuc.ro, events@icub.unibuc.ro.

Dr. Kamen Boyadzhiev received his BA and MA in Archaeology from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and completed his PhD at the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM-BAS), where he has been affiliated since 2007. Since 2022, he has served as Associate Professor at the Institute.

With 25 years of field experience, his work combines systematic field surveys, rescue archaeology, and long-term research excavations at major prehistoric sites of the 6th and 5th millennium BC, including tell Yunatsite, among others. Since 2022, he has also been director of the excavations at tell Yunatsite.

His research focuses on the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in the Northern Balkans, especially in present-day Bulgaria. His long-standing interests include weapons and warfare in prehistory, the collapse of Chalcolithic cultures in Bulgaria, and, more recently, the metallurgy of gold as well as subsistence and storage strategies in Chalcolithic communities.