Contact: magdalazarovici@gmail.com

Research Interests

• Neolithic and Chalcolithic archaeology
• Cucuteni–Tripolye cultural complex
• Prehistoric architecture and settlement organization
• Ethnoarchaeology and ethnoreligion
• Symbolism, ritual practices, and prehistoric religion
• Archaeological methodology and chronologies of prehistoric cultures

Biography

Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici is a Senior Scientific Researcher I at the Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, where she has developed a long-standing academic career in prehistoric archaeology. She is a PhD supervisor and a leading specialist in the study of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Southeastern Europe. She completed her doctoral studies at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași under the supervision of Prof. Mircea Petrescu-Dîmbovița, focusing on research methods and dating techniques in the Cucuteni cultural area. Her academic training also includes international fellowships and research stages at institutions such as the University of Heidelberg, San Francisco State University, and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio). Her research is primarily dedicated to the Cucuteni–Tripolye cultural complex, one of the most significant Chalcolithic civilizations in Europe, with particular emphasis on architecture, settlement organization, symbolic systems, and ritual practices. She has also contributed substantially to interdisciplinary approaches, including ethnoarchaeology, archaeoreligion, and archaeoastronomy. Over the course of her career, she has authored and co-authored numerous monographs and studies, edited important collective volumes, and coordinated research projects. Her scholarly output includes over 200 articles and studies, as well as multiple edited volumes and conference contributions.

Selected publications

Books

Lazarovici, C.-M., Lazarovici, Gh., 2006, Arhitectura Neoliticului și Epocii Cuprului din România. I. Neoliticul, Bibliotheca Archaeologica Moldaviae IV, Romanian Academy, Iași: Trinitas Publishing House, 738 p., ISBN 978-973-7834-72-0.

Lazarovici, C.-M., Lazarovici, Gh., 2007, Arhitectura Neoliticului și Epocii Cuprului din România. II. Epoca Cuprului, Bibliotheca Archaeologica Moldaviae VI, Romanian Academy, Iași: Trinitas Publishing House, 680 p.

Lazarovici, C.-M., Lazarovici, Gh., 2012, Ruginoasa – Dealul Drăghici. Monografie arheologică, Bibliotheca Archaeologica Moldaviae XX, Karl A. Romstorfer Publishing House, Suceava, 415 p.

Lazarovici, C.-M., Babeș, M., 2015, Poienești – Așezări preistorice, Bibliotheca Archaeologica Moldaviae XXII, Karl A. Romstorfer Publishing House, Suceava, 256 p.

Lazarovici, C.-M., Lazarovici, Gh., 2009, Cucuteni. A Great Civilization of the Prehistoric World, Iași: Palatul Culturii Publishing House, 350 p.

Articles

Lazarovici, Gh., Lazarovici, C.-M., 2021, „A gold processing workshop from the Copper Age”, în Memoria Antiquitatis XXXVI (2020), Piatra-Neamț, p. 7–17.

Lazarovici, C.-M., 2021, „Mesele altar de la Scânteia–Dealul Bodești (jud. Iași) și observații privind acest tip de artefact în cultura Cucuteni”, în Arheologia Moldovei XLIV.

Lazarovici, C.-M., Lazarovici, Gh., 2020, „Mari teme religioase în arta rupestră din România și legăturile sale cu Europa”, în Cercetări Istorice 39, p. 79–104.

Lazarovici, C.-M. et al., 2020, „Situl Cucuteni A3 de la Dobrovăț – Pădurea Buda. Cercetările din 2019”, în Arheologia Moldovei XLIII, p. 141–173.

Lazarovici, C.-M., Lazarovici, Gh., 2020, „Atelier specializat în prelucrarea aurului în epoca cuprului”, în Mărgărit, M., Boroneanț, A. (eds.), Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder, Târgoviște, p. 323–342.