Dionysus in Thrace

Megalithic culture in Ancient Thrace

International scientific seminar

26-29.08.2014

Zlatograd, Bulgaria

 

PROGRAMME

August 26th

18.00-18.15 Opening and welcome speeches, oral presentations

 

Carl A. P. Ruck - Boston University USA

The Mushroom Stones. Dionysus, Orpheus, and the Wolves of War


19.30-20.00 Discussion

 

August 27th

9.00-14.00 Tour to Regional Historical Museum in Kardzhali and megalithic sanctuaries with Mushroom Stones in the region

18.00-20.00 Oral presentations

 

Alexey Stoev, Penka Maglova - Space Research and Technology Institute, Branch in Stara Zagora, BAS Bulgaria

Thracian megalithic sanctuaries in the Eastern Rhodopes. Archaeoastronimical aspects

 

Аngel Yankov, Grozdelina Georgieva - Regional ethnographic museum Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Thracian megalithic sanctuaries in the Eastern Rhodopes. Ethnological aspect

 

Vassil Markov - South-West University "Neofit Rilski" Bulgaria

Megalithic sanctuary in the valley of the Struma River

 

Alexey Gotsev - National institute of Archaeology with Museum BAS Bulgaria

Thracian megalithic sanctuaries from the Western Rhodopes. Archaeological aspects

 

19.40-20.10 Discussion

 

August 28th

9.00-14.00 Tour to Ethnographic museum in Zlatograd and megalithic sanctuaries with Mushroom Stones in the region

18.00-20.00 Oral presentations

 

Stavros Kiotsekoglou (Greece)- South-West University "Neofit Rilski" Bulgaria

Thracian megalithic sanctuaries from Prefecture of Evros, Greece

 

Nikoleta Petkova - South-West University "Neofit Rilski" Bulgaria

Thracian megalithic sanctuaries from Tsentralna Sredna Gora


Anton Genov - South-West University "Neofit Rilski" Bulgaria

Thracian megalithic sanctuaries from the Western Rhodopes. Аnthropological aspects

 

19.30-20.00 Discussion

 

August 29th

Departure from Zlatograd