The Institute of Archaeomythology is an international organization of scholars dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary approach to cultural research with particular emphasis on the beliefs, rituals, social structure and symbolism of past and present societies. The Institute encourages dialogue among specialists from diverse fields by sponsoring international symposia, by publishing collected papers and monographs, and by promoting creative collaboration within an atmosphere of mutual support. We welcome your interest and participation.

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Now available from the Institute of Archaeomythology:

PREHISTORIC ROOTS of ROMANIAN
and SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN TRADITIONS (IAM, 2010)
by Romanian linguist / archaeomythologist

ADRIAN PORUCIUC

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Copies of SIGNS OF CIVILIZATION: NEOLITHIC SYMBOL SYSTEM OF SOUTHEAST EUROPE (IAM, 2009) are still available.

This a collection of papers is from the first international symposium on the Old European / Danube Script held in collaboration with the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the proceedings, send an email to <jmarler@archaeomythology.org>.

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Journal of Archaeomythology

The Summer 2010 issue of the Journal of Archaeomythology will feature selected papers from two International symposia: THE DANUBE SCRIPT: NEO-ENEOLITHIC WRITING IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE, Casa Altemberger, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania 2008) and THE DANUBE SCRIPT IN LIGHT OF THE TURDAS AND TARTARIA DISCOVERIES, National History Museum of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2009).

The 2009 issue of our online Journal - Corpus of Inscriptions: Investigating the Bodies of Neolithic Figurines - investigates the form, function, and symbolic significance of figurines within various cultural contexts.

The Journal of Archaeomythology, is a peer-review online publication.

To download the complete texts of the articles of all current and previous Journal issues, we invite you to become a member of the Institute of Archaeomythology.

COLLECTED PAPERS from the International symposium "Signs of Civilization" held in Novi Sad, in collaboration with the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.