Dr. Cristian Popa is a Romanian archaeologist at the
1 Decembrie 1918 University, Alba Iulia
"" University, Alba Iulia is a public higher education and research institution founded in 1991 in Alba Iulia, Romania. It is a state institution, integrated into the national higher education system, which functions based on the Constitution of ...
, Romania.
He is one of the most extensively published experts on the Coţofeni culture and generally acknowledged as an authority on this prehistoric culture. He is also known for having discovered the flint mining settlement at the Piatra Tomii {{coord, 46, 1, 29.63, N, 23, 18, 46.99, E, display=title
Piatra Tomii is a late Jurassic limestone outcrop forming a small hill near Răcătau village, Alba county, Romania. It is most well known for the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age flint mining sett ...
archaeological site.
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Romanian archaeologists
Living people
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Place of birth missing (living people)
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