STRATUM plus. Archaeology&Anthropology

Since 1999 High Anthropological School issues the international periodic magazine "Stratum plus" devoted to actual scientific problems of cultural anthropology and archeology. The magazine is published in А4 demy six times a year as thematic series; each of the issues is devoted to the particular historical epoch, or enough special actual scientific problem. The subjects of magazine’s articles are not limited regionally or chronologically. All publications contain the resume in English.

Standing editorial boards are situated in 4 cities - Kishinev (the basic one, where all materials go through the full publishing cycle), St. Petersburg, Odessa and Bucharest. In structure of the standing editorial board 25 scientists of 11 scientific centres of Kishinev, St. Petersburg, Bucharest, Odessa and Simferopol are represented.

18 issues of magazine are already published by the present moment. 20 monographies and 412 original articles from over 20 countries of the world - Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Germany, the Great Britain, Italy, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, the USA, Turkey, China, Israel, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan are published. Academicians of the High Anthropological School have written 3 of monographies and 44 articles.

"Stratum plus" magazine is the unique periodical in Moldova, devoted to archeology and cultural anthropology. In opinion of experts "Stratum plus" is the best profile edition in the Eastern Europe:

"...The archaeological journal STRATUM PLUS became a leading one from the very moment of its foundation, it is the main and the best archaeological magazine on the post-Soviet area. Your journal managed to force the "Russian Archaeology", which has been published for over 50 years in Moscow, and Saint-Petersburg's "Archaeological News" out of their first place. I held lectures in a few leading world universities and will not palter if say that the level of your audience can be compared to the students' audiences in other capitals, and perhaps your level is even stronger. And your energy, enthusiasm and readiness to work are apparently stronger".

Leo Klejn

"...It is so important to hear from eastern Europe and to encourage the development of archaeology there. If STRATUM PLUS maintains the breath and the energy so many pages of its first year, it will become an invaluable point of reference and a stimulus".

Antiquity, 2000

"...It is not occasional that both the collection and the peiodical series to follow are called "STRATUM". The word here is not used in its "geomorphological" sense. Rather, it offers a cultural stratum, a union of like-minded persons".

Clio, 2000

"...The general impression one gets on reading STRATUM is that post-Soviet archaeology is alive and well, developing on the solid foundations of Russian archaeological scholarship".

Slavic Review, 2001

This Journal's goal is to contribute to further progress of archaeology by consolidating the best creative strengths of this science, mobilizing the stratum
which keeps evolving subject to natural doubts, challenges, expeditions, findings and failures, regardless of hasty change of authorities, banners and rulers. K. Levi-Strauss said that the 21st century would either be a century of humanities or it would not be at all. This means the cultural text reading techniques that have been developed by archaeologists must be made applicable in other humanities and through them in all spheres of social life.

Editor-in-chief – M.E.Tkachuk