“A revisit of the interpretation of the Neolithic terracotta figurines from Albania” 

The second meeting of the Group for Archaeological Debate took place in the library of ICAA on February,23rd 2006. It was attended by as many as twenty five people, members of the ICAA, IoA and IoM.

The topic of this meeting was “A revisit of the interpretation of the Neolithic terracotta figurines from Albania”, presented by Rudenc Ruka.

Ruka provided an interesting overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches that many similar studies have proposed. Building on these approaches, he has started to create a framework for the interpretation of the figurines from Dunavec, with the goal of extending this study to the whole body of Neolithic figurines from Albania. The presentation raised considerable interest and was followed by many interesting questions and discussions.
Many more interesting discussions continued during the “now-traditional, post-seminar gathering.”

Among the most active discussants in this case, (as the photographic documentation shows) were Ilir Zaloshnja, Albana Meta, Ols Lafe. Not surprisingly, the issue debated quite lively was that of the reform of the scientific research, recently proposed by the Government.

This very issue will be the focus of out next extraordinary meeting, on Tuesday, February 28th, at 18.00 PM. With the title “Reforming the Archaeological System in Albania” the main goal of our next meeting is to discuss models of conceptual and institutional reformation of the Archaeological System in the country and define the best ways of promoting and explaining them among the decision-making bodies of the Government as well as the wider public.
 

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