CURRICULUM VITAE
Muzafer
Korkuti
Current
position
- Prof. Dr. of Historic Sciences
- Specialist of Prehistory and Prehistoric Archaeology
of Albania
- Director of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology of
the Academy of Sciences
1967-1975 Director of the Department of Archaeology in the Institute of History
1982-1990 Director of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences
1998-2006 Director of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences
- Editor in chief of “ILIRIA”, Review published
by the Institute of Archaeology (last volume XXXI, ILIRIA, 1-2, 2003-2004).
- Chief Editor of the first number of the review published
in 1971 and of all the proceeding numbers.
- Lectures of “Archaeology of Albania” held
in Tirana University from 1967 to 2000.
Office
address
Institute
of Archaeology, Sheshi “Nėnė Tereza”, Tirana/Albania
Tel
& Fax: 00355 4 2240712
Phone
home: 00355 4 2227984
Mobile:
00355 69 22 03560
E-mail:
instark@albmail.com
E-mail
home: adk@sanx.net
Personal
Data
Born in 17.05.1936 in
Saranda, Albania (17.05.2006 the 70th anniversary)
Education
and other experiences
1962 - The University of Tirana, History-Philology Faculty
1986 - Member
of the Permanent Committee of World Pre and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP)
1986 - Correspondent Member of German Institute of Archaeology
1988 - Included in “Who’s Who” publication
Doctoral
Dissertation
1978 - “Neolithic and Copper Age in Albania” (450 pages, 180 plates), Tirana
1998 - Professor of Historic Sciences
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
I.
Publications in Albania
² Monography
© Parailirėt,
Ilirėt, Arbėrit-Histori e shkurtėr (Preillyrians,
Illyrians, Arbėrs-A short history), Tirana, 2003, 125 p., 24 tabs.
² University
texts
© Arkeologjia
(Archeology), Tirana, 1972, 332 p., (Co-author).
© Historia
e Popullit Shqiptar (History of Albanian people), publication of the Academy of Science in
four volumes. Author: Illyrians the communal primitive order, vol. 1, Tirana, 2002, 48 p.; redactor
of the first volume and member of the leader group of the four volumes.
© Arkeologjia
(Archeology), Tirana, 1993, 429 p., 301 figs., (Co-author).
² Articles and papers published in periodicals: “Studime Historike”, “Iliria”,
“Studia Albanica”, etc.
© Varreza e Gajtanit
(The necropolis of Gajtan), “Studime Historike”, 1967, 3, p. 159-171.
© Aleksandėr Stipēevič,
Ilirėt (Alexander Stipēevič, the Illyrians), Prishtina, 1967, “Studime Historike”, 1968, 4,
p. 201-206.
© Problemi ilir dhe
i gjenezės sė shqipėtarėve nė dritėn e kėrkimeve arkeologjike shqiptare (The Illyrian problem and that of the Albanian genesis
in the light of the Albanian archeological researches), “Studime Historike”, 1969, 1, p. 27-61.
© Piktura
e Trenit (The picture of Tren), “Studime Historike”, 1969, 2, p. 127-132.
© Qeramika
e pikturuar e kohės sė vonė tė bronzit dhe e kohės sė hershme tė hekurit dhe karakteri ilir i bartėsve tė saj (The painted
pottery of the Late Bronze Age and of the Early Iron Age and the Illyrian character of its bearers), “Studime Historike”,
1969, 3, p. 159-171.
© Marrėdhėniet
kulturore Iliro-Egjeane nė epokėn e bronzit tė vonė dhe mbijetesa e disa objekteve tė tipit miken nė epokėn e hekurit (The
Illyrian-Aegean cultural relations in the Late Bronze Age and the survival of various objects of Mycenean type in the Iron
Age), “Studia Albanica”, 1970, 2, p. 43-59.
© Vendbanimi
prehistorik i Trenit (The prehistoric settlement of Tren), “Iliria” I, 1971, p. 7-11.
© Shqipėria
vendi i njė kulture tė lashtė (Albania – the place of an ancient culture), “Shqipėria Arkeologjike”,
1971, p. 5-11.
© Vendbanimi
neolitik i Dunavecit (The Neolithic settlement of Dunavec), “Buletini Arkeologjik”, 1971, p. 211-227.
© Vendbanimi
i Dunavecit (The settlement of Dunavec), “Iliria” III, 1974, p. 383-387.
© Rreth
formimit tė etnosit ilir (Concerning the Illyrian ethnic formation), “Studime Historike”, 1972, 3,
p. 57-77.
© Rreth
vendbanimeve tė fortifikuara ilire tė periudhės sė parė tė hekurit nė territorin e Shqipėrisė (Concerning the Illyrian fortified
settlements of Iron Age in the Albanian territory), “Studia Albanica”, 1973, 2, p. 91-104.
© Stacioni
i Neolitit tė mesėm nė Cakran tė Fierit (The middle Neolithic phase in Cakran of Fier), “Iliria” III, 1974,
p. 45-101.
© Mbi rezultatet
e gėrmimeve tė vitit 1973 nė vendbanimin neolitik tė Dunavecit (About the results of excavatios of the year 1973 in the Neolithic
dweling of Dunavec), “Iliria” III, 1974, p. 383-387.
© Raport
mbi rezultatet e gėrmimeve tė vitit 1973 nė Dunavec (Report concerning the results of excavations of the year 1973 in Dunavec),
“Buletini Arkeologjik”, 1974, 4, p. 1-13.
© Rreth
formimit tė etnosit ilir (About the formation of the Illyrian ethnos), “Kuvendi i Parė i Studimeve Ilire”,
1974, p. 67-84.
© Stacioni
prehistorik i Vashtėmisė (The prehistoric site of Vashtėmi), “Buletini Arkeologjik”, 1975, 5, p.
4-10.
© La peinture rupestre de Lepenicė (Vlorė), "Studia Albanica", 1979, 2, p.
183-195.
© Vendbanimi
prehistorik i Kolshit (The prehistoric dwelling of Kolsh), “Iliria” VII-VIII, 1977-1978, p. 239-248.
© Vendbanime
tė fortifikuara tė Labiatisė (Fortified settlements of Labiata), “Buletini i Shkodrės”, 2, 1979,
p. 121-130.
© Stacioni
prehistorik i Vlushės dhe rėndėsia e zbulimit tė tij (The prehistoric site of Vlusha and the importance of its discovery),
“Buletini i Skraparit”, 1980, p. 24-29.
© Tuma
e Patosit (The tumulus of Patos), “Iliria” 1981, 1, p. 7-55.
© Mbi disa
probleme lidhur me etnogjenezėn e ilirėve (Problems concerning the Illyrian ethno-genesis), “Iliria” 1982,
1, p. 157-190.
© Vashtėmia,
njė vendbanim i Neolitit tė hershėm (Vashtėmia, an Early Neolithic settlement), “Iliria” 1982, 2,
p. 91-146.
© Gjetje
tė reja tė Paleolitit tė mesėm nga stacioni i Xarės-Sarandė (New finds of the Middle Paleolithic period from Xara-Saranda),
“Iliria” 1983, 1, p. 39-49.
© Vendbanimi
neolitik i Kolshit (The Neolithic settlement of Kolsh), “Iliria” 1983, 2, p. 11-75.
© Gėrmime
tė vitit 1983-shpella e Bėnjės (Excavation of the year 1983 – the cave of Bėnja), “Iliria” 1983,
2, p. 245-247.
© Piktura shkėmbore e Lepenicės (La peinture rupestre de Lepenica), "Iliria" 1984,
1, p. 5-14.
© Marrėdhėniet
midis dy brigjeve tė Adriatikut jugor nė kohėn e bronzit dhe tė hekurit (The relations between the two coasts of the Adriatic
during the Bronze and Iron Age), “Iliria 1985”, 1, p. 93-109.
© Probleme
etno-kulturore tė epokės sė eneolitit nė Shqipėri (Ethnocultural problems of the Eneolithic period in Albania), “Iliria”
1985, 2, p. 43-82.
© Gėrmime
arkeologjike tė vitit 1986 nė Katundas (The archeological excavations of the year 1986 in Katundas), “Iliria”
1986, 2, p. 151-152.
© 25 vjet
kėrkime pėr neolitin dhe eneolitin nė Shqipėri, 1961-1986 (25 years of research on the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Albania,
1961-1986), “Iliria”, 1987, 2, p. 5-12.
© Blagoje Govedarica - Rano bronzano doba na podrucju
istocnog Jadrana, Sarajevo 1989 (review), “Iliria”, 1989, 1, p. 253-256.
© Ēėshtje
themelore tė prehistorisė nė Shqipėri (Main issues concerning the prehistory in Albania), “Iliria” 1989,
2, p. 15-29.
© Gėrmime
arkeologjike tė vitit 1989, Konispol-Sarandė (The archeological excavations of the year 1989, Konispol-Saranda), “Iliria”
1989, 2, p. 260-262.
© Njė kushtim
i epokės sė bronzit nė Ēukė-Sarandė (A dedication of Bronze Age in Ēukė-Saranda), “Iliria” 1990, 1,
p. 75-83.
© Paleoliti
nė Shqipėri (The Paleolithic in Albania), “Iliria” 1995, 1-2, p. 5-15.
© Kultura
e epokės sė bronzit nė vendbanimin e Cetushit (The Bronze Age civilization in the settlement of Cetush), “Iliria”
1996, 1-2, p. 5-19.
© Shpella
e Konispolit-Raport paraprak mbi gėrmimet 1992-1994 (The Conispol cave-A Preliminary Report on Excavation 1992-1994), “Iliria”
1996, 1-2, p. 183-224, (Co-author).
© 50 vjet
arkeologji shqiptare (Half Century Albanian Archaeology), “Iliria”, 1998, 1-2, p. 19-48.
© Projekti
arkeologjik i rajonit tė Mallakastrės: sezoni i parė, 1998 (The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project: First Season,
1998), “Iliria” 1998, 1-2, p. 253-274, (Co-author).
© The Hinterlands
of Apolonia, “Iliria” 2002-2003, 1-2, p. 305-322, (Co-author).
© Vendbanimet
e fortifikuara paraqytetare nė bregdetin e Jonit (The fortified preurban dwellings in Jon
coast), “Himara nė shekuj”, 2004, p. 25-40.
© Zbulime
tė reja arkeologjike (New archeological discoveries), “Studia Albanica”, 2, 2005, p. 135-245.
© Vlera
arkeologjike nė veprėn e Shuflait (The archeological value of Sufflay’s work), “Candavia”, 2, 2005, p. 417-432.
II.
Publications abroad
² Monography
© Neolithikum und Kalkolithikum in Albanien,
Mainz, 1995, 273 S., 207 taf.
² University texts
© Pour une grande histoire des Balkans des origins aux guerres balkaniques, publication of A.I.E.S.E.E, Paris 2004, 296 p., (co-author of the Illyrian part).
² Articles
and papers
© Le pitture
rupestri di Treni (Albania), “Bolletino del centri comuni di studi preistorici”,
v. 4, Breschia 1968, pp. 89-93.
© Rapport
sur les fouilles archeologiques effectuées durant les annes 1965-1966 en Albanie, “Bulletin
d’archeologie sud est Europčene”, Bucarest 1969, p. 11-32.
© Fouilles
archeologiques en Albanie dans l’intervalle 1967-1969, “Bulletin d’archeologie
sud est Europčene”, Bucarest 1971, p. 11-35.
© Les rapports
de civilization illyro-égéens a l’age du bronze et la survivance de certains objets de type mycénien a l’age du
fer, “ACTES du IIe Cong. Int Sud-est Europen”, Athenes 1972, T. II, p. 109-120.
© De l’Illyrie
d’hier a l’Albanie d’Aujourd’hui, “Le Courier Unesco”,
1974, p. 4-12.
© Alcune
caratteristiche degli abitati protourbani nell’Iliria meridionale, “Centar za Balkanološka ispitivanja”,
Knjiga 6, Zagreb 1976, pp. 131-135.
© Un sguardo sui rapporti fra le cultura neolitice di Cakran e di Velca con le limitrofe culture, in “CIVILTA preistoriche e protostoriche della DAUNIA”, Firence 1975, pp. 158-162.
© Die Siedlungen
der spaten Bronze und der fruhen Einsenzeit in Sudwest Albanien, “Sudosteuropa
zwischen 1600 und 1000 VCHR”, Berlin 1982, S. 235-253.
© New date about the middle and late paleolithic in Albania, “Anthropos”
10, Athens 1983, p. 499-508.
© Geschite
und Kultur Albaniens in vorgeschicht seherzeit, “Antike Welt” 1983,
S. 3-11.
© I rapporti
fra le due coste dell’Adriatico meridionale nell’eta del bronzo e del fero, “Estrato da Magna Grecia, Epiro e Macedonia” Napoli 1985, pp. 167-179.
© Decouvrir
l’archeologie Albanaiese, “Dosierrs Archeologie”, Paris 1986,
p. 6-19.
© Illyrien
in der Vorgeschichte, Katalog “Albanien Schätze aus dem Landen der Skipetaren”, Mainz 1988, S. 7-31.
© Aspects de la culture eneolithique en Albanie, “Die kupferzeit als historische
Epoche” Bonn 1991, S. 247-258.
© Protezione
e conservazione dei monumenti archeologici, “EVTOPIA” 1992, 1-2, pp.
103-109.
© Forme
e strutture insediative neo ed eneolitico in Albania, “Mem. Museo Civ st.Nat.”, Verona 1995, pp. 99-105.
© Archaeology
in Albania, “American Journal of Archaeology”, 1993, vol. 97, p. 703-743.
© Die Frśhe
stafe des mittleren neolithikum in Albanien, “Anatolica”,
XIX, Istambul 1993, S. 75-84.
© Electrical
resistivity surveys as indicators of site potential: example from a rockshelter in southern France and a cave southern Albanian,
“Geoarchaeology”, nŗ. 8, p. 217-227.
© Radiaocarbon
and archaeomagnetic dates from Konispol Cave, Albania, “Antiquity”, v. 68, nr. 259, 1994, p. 335-339.
© Il mesolitico
in Albania, “XIII International Congress of Prehistoric and protohistoric Sciences”,
USPP, Forli 1995, pp. 195-184.
© Upper
Paleolithic age in Albania, UISPP, XIII Congres UISPP, Forli 1996, p. 73-76.
© Paleoclimate
Characterization and Intre-site Correlation Using Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements: an example from Konispol Cave, Albania, “Journal of Field Archaeology”, Vol.23, Number 3, Fall. 1996, p. 263-271.
© Kosova
nė vėshtrimin historiko-arkeologjik, (Kosovo in the Historical & Archaeological Prospective) “Atdheu”, New York 1995, p. 53-57.
© Il neolitico
e l’eneolitico Albanese, “Fonti di informacione e contesto archeologico”,
Lecce 1999, pp.115-119.
© Epoka
neolitike dhe epoka e bronzit, (Neolithic & Bronze Age) “The Balkans in Prehistory”, Athens 2001, p. 115-123.
© En Überblick
über die Wohnsiedlungen des Neolithikums und Chalkolithikums im Korēa-Becken, Lux Orientis,
2001, S. 257-267.
© New directions
in Albanien Archeology, “Minerva”,
vol. 14, nr. 2, p. 24, march/aprile 2003.
© Premessa
“PHOINIKE I”, Firenze 2002, pp. 9-12.
© Dhimosten
Budina una vita dedicata all’antica Caonia, “Phoinike III”, Bologna 2003-2004, in press.
© Researches
and Studies of Prehistory of Albania, “Recent research in the Prehistory of the
Balkans”, Thessalonike 2003, p. 205-257.
© Die illyriche
kultur vom 11 bis 6 Ih.vor.Chr.in Albanien. “Die Illyrer”, Asparn (Viena)
2004, S. 3-20.
© Enciclopedia
dell’Arte Antica “TRECCANI”, Roma, (8 voices)
© The Early
Neolithic of Albania in a Balkan prespective, “Quaderni della Societa per la
Preistoria della Regione”, Fruili-Venezia Giulia, Quad.11.2005, in press.
© Early
Bronze Age: Milutin Garašanin s’important work and the research of Albanian Archaeology, “A la mémoire de Milutin Garašanin”, Beograd 2006, in press.
III.
Lectures held at Universities and Institutes abroad
© Full time course on
Archaeology, at the University of Prishtina (Kosovo), 1972-1975.
² Various lectures regarding issues on Albanian History and
Archaeology at:
© Dipartimento di Scienze
dell’ Antichitą, Univeristą degli Studi di Lecce, (Italy), 1984 and 1990.
© Centre de Recherches
Protohistoriques, Université de Paris I, Sorbonne (France), 1986.
© Scuola Normale Superiore,
Pisa (Italy), 1990.
© Institut fur ur-und
Fruhgeschichte der Universitet Berlin (Germany), 1991 and 1998.
© Université de Paris
I, Sorbonne (France), 1995.
© University of Texas,
Arlington-Texas (USA), 1996.
© University of Cincinnati,
Ohaio (USA), 1996.
© Universitą di Lecce
(Italy), 1998.
© Universitą di Bari
(Italy), 1998.
© University of Berlin
(Institute of Prehistory) (Germany), 1998.
© University of Ioannina
(Greece), 1998.
© The Ionian University
of Corfu (Greece), 1999.
© The Greek Society
of Archaeologists, Athens (Greece), 2001.
© University of Cincinnati,
Ohaio (USA), 2001.
© Universitą degli Studi
di Bologna (Italy), 2001 and 2004.
© University of Viena
(Austria), 2002.
© University of Jerusalem
(Israel), 2005.
IV.
Projects
1992-1995
Co-director of the “Conispoli Cave” Project,
the Institute of Archaeology, Tirana and the University of Texas-Arlington, USA, Co–director Prof. Karl Petruso.
1998-2003 Co–director
of the “Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project” (MRAP), Institute of Archaeology, Tirana and
University of Cincinnati, USA, Co-director Prof. Jack Davis.
2004-2006 Scientific
Consultant of the “Lofkend Tumulus” Project, Institute of Archaeology, Tirana, International Center
for Albanian Archaeology and University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Co-director Prof. J. Papadopoulos.
2006
Supporter and approving of the “Urbanistik und sozio-ökonomische Strukturen einer hellenisti-schen Polis
in Illyrien” Project, Institute of Archaeology, Tirana, Co-director Prof. Ass. G. Hoxha, Deutsches Archäologisches
Institut, Berlin, Germany, Co-director Dr. O. Dally.
2006
Supporter and approving of the Project “The function of the theatre in the polis of Apolonia (Illyria)
and in its hinterland, Bylis, Klos and Orikos”, Institute of Archaeology, Tirana, Co-director Prof. Ass. B.
Lahi and the University of Köln, Germany, Co-director Prof. H. von Hesberg.
V. Archaeological Exhibitions abroad
1988
Scientific director of the exhibition “ALBANIEN. Schätze aus dem Land der Skipetaren”, Museum
of Hildesheim. Organized under the curation of Mr. Genschner, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Mr.
Malile, Foreign Minister of Socialist Republic of Albania.
2003-2006 Scientific
director of the exhibition “DIE ILLYRER” in Aspern- Vienna, Austria.
2005
Scientific director of the exhibition “DIE ILLYRER” in Künzing- Bavaria, Germany and Heuneburg-
Bavaria, Germany.
2006
Scientific director of the exhibition “DIE ILLYRER” in Stadtmuseum in Wels, Austria.
A liste of the nominee’s
most important academic publications
from the last five years
© En Überblick
über die Wohnsiedlungen des Neolithikums und Chalkolithikums im Korēa-Becken, Lux Orientis,
2001, S. 257-267.
© Epoka
neolitike dhe epoka e bronzit, (Neolithic & Bronze Age) “The Balkans in Prehistory”, Athens 2001, p. 115-123.
© Historia
e Popullit Shqiptar (History of Albanian people), publication of the Academy of Science in
four volumes. Author: Illyrians, the communal primitive order, vol. 1, Tirana 2002, 48 p.; redactor
of the first volume and member of the leader group of the four volumes.
© The Hinterlands
of Apolonia, “Iliria” 2002-2003, 1-2, Tirana, p. 305-322, (Co-author).
© New directions
in Albanian Archeology, “Minerva”,
vol. 14, nr. 2, p. 24, march/aprile 2003.
© Parailirėt, Ilirėt, Arbėrit-Histori e shkurtėr (Preillyrians, Illyrians, Arbėrs-A
short history), Tirana 2003, 125 p., 24 tabs.
© Researches
and Studies of Prehistory of Albania, “Recent research in the Prehistory of the
Balkans”, Thessalonike 2003, p. 205-257.
© Die illyriche
kultur vom 11 bis 6 Ih.vor.Chr.in Albanien. “Die Illyrer”, Asparn (Viena)
2004, S. 3-20.
© Vendbanimet
e fortifikuara paraqytetare nė bregdetin e Jonit (The fortified preurban dwellings in Jon
coast), “Himara nė shekuj”, Tirana 2004, p. 25-40.
© Pour une
grande histoire des Balkans des origins aux guerres balkaniques, publication of A.I.E.S.E.E,
Paris 2004, 296 p., (co-author of the Illyrian part).
© Zbulime
tė reja arkeologjike (New archeological discoveries), “Studia Albanica”, 2, Tirana 2005, p. 135-245.
© Vlera
arkeologjike nė veprėn e Shuflait (The archeological value of Sufflay’s work), “Candavia”, 2, Tirana 2005, p. 417-432.
© The Early
Neolithic of Albania in a Balkan prespective, “Quaderni della Societa per la
Preistoria della Regione”, Fruili-Venezia Giulia, Quad.11.2005, in press.
© Early
Bronze Age: Milutin Garašanin s’important work and the research of Albanian Archaeology, “A la mémoire de Milutin Garašanin”, Beograd 2006, in press.
