A comment on the “Oxford Report”, the material heritage of Roşia Montană and the policy of Romania’s Ministry of Culture
A comment on the “Oxford Report”, the material heritage of Roşia Montană and the policy of Romania’s Ministry of Culture

Summary/Abstract: In the present text, red at a press conference organised in October 2013, at the time of public protests against a new and neoliberal mining law, I argue that the criticism raised to the policies of Roşia Montană Gold Corporation mining project, regarding the material heritage of Roşia Montană (Alba County, Romania), have been deliberately ignored by those responsible with heritage within the Ministry of Culture of Romania, while promoting in the public and political space only the interpretations that were in favour of RMGC; I also maintain that the archaeological researches carried out beginning with 2001 at Roşia Montana and coordinated by the Ministry of Culture, as part of “Alburnus Maior” National Research Programme, are far from matching the current academic standards in the field. Therefore, the policy of the Ministry of Culture regarding the material heritage of Roşia Montană must be secondarily challenged by the members of the archaeological community.

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