Contact: lavinia_grumeza@yahoo.com

Research Interests

• Roman archaeology and the Roman–Barbarian frontier
• Sarmatian archaeology and the Barbaricum
• Migration period and cultural identities
• Funerary archaeology and burial practices
• Roman imports and material culture in Barbaricum
• Cultural interactions and acculturation processes
• Jewellery and personal adornments in antiquity
  

Biography

Lavinia Grumeza is a Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, where she has been active since 2018. She completed her BA and MA studies in Archaeology and Classical History at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca), followed by a PhD in Archaeology at the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia (2013). She also pursued postdoctoral research at the West University of Timișoara (2014–2015). Her research focuses on the Roman and post-Roman periods in the Barbaricum, with particular emphasis on Sarmatian communities, cultural identities, and interactions with the Roman Empire. She is especially interested in funerary practices, material culture, and the circulation of Roman goods beyond the imperial frontiers. Her research focuses on the Roman and post-Roman periods in the Barbaricum, with particular emphasis on Sarmatian communities, cultural identities, and interactions with the Roman Empire. She is especially interested in funerary practices, material culture, and the circulation of Roman goods beyond the imperial frontiers. She has been involved in several national and international research projects, including as project director, and has carried out research stages at major institutions such as the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich), Freie Universität Berlin, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the British School at Athens.

Selected publications

Books

Grumeza, L. (2019). Corpus der römischen Funde im europäischen Barbaricum. Rumänien. Band 1: Kreis Arad. Cluj-Napoca: Mega.

Grumeza, L. (2014). Sarmatian Cemeteries from Banat (Late 1st–Early 5th Centuries AD). Cluj-Napoca: Mega.

Grumeza, L., Ursuțiu, A., Copos, G. (2013). Arad „Barieră”. Cercetări arheologice preventive într-un sit de epocă sarmatică / Rescue Excavation in a Sarmatian Period Site. Cluj-Napoca: Mega.

Articles

Grumeza, L. (2021). The Sarmatian Cemetery of Mitoc-Malu Galben (Botoșani County): 60 Years Later, în Migration and Identity in Eurasia, p. 167–200.

Grumeza, L. (2021). Sarmatae and Sarmatia: From the North Pontic Area to the Great Hungarian Plain, în Environment and Habitation around the Ancient Black Sea, p. 157–176.

Grumeza, L. (2020). New Threats or New Friends? The Roman Strategies at the Lower Danube…, în Beyond the Fringes of Empire, p. 193–232.

Grumeza, L. (2020). Corpus of the Roman Finds in the European Barbaricum…, Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 26, p. 332–349.