Marcela-Rodica Boroffka

Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte

Marcela-Rodica Boroffka, born in 1969, studied at the Faculty of History of the University Bucharest, specializing in prehistoric archaeology. She finished her studies in 1992 with a thesis on the Mycenaean influence on the region of Lower Danube.

From 1992 until 1995 she was engaged at the National Museum of the History of Romania, Bucharest. From 1996 onwards she took part in several rescue excavations in Brandenburg, Germany. Since 1998 she was participant in several research projects of the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute, in countries of the former Soviet Union, Iran and Pakistan. In 2008 she has been engaged in Group A-II of the Topoi Excellence Cluster, studying kurgans (burial mounds) of the Iron Age (Scythian) in Kazakhstan. She is occupied with the documentation in the field, graphic processing of the data, preparations for publication and the administration of scientific samples.
 

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Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Langhansbau

Address

Spandauer Damm 22
14059 Berlin
Deutschland

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+49 30 32674841
 

Curriculum Vitae

Studies
1987-1992 Facultaty of History, University Bucharest, Romania, specialization on pre- and early history (finished 1992)

Professional activities
06/2008 State Museums in Berlin – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
1998-2008 German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia-Department, Berlin (Various excavation contracts and production of drawings and illustrations for publication; participation in, organization and execution of expeditions/excavations in: Georgia, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
1996-2001 Brandenburg State Museum for Pre- and Early History, Wünsdorf (excavator)
1992-1995 National Museum of the History of Romania, Bucharest (scientific researcher)