Articolul de faţă analizează un umbo de scut descoperit la Capidava, în campania arheologică 2007, respectiv în zona porţii principale --clădirea C 1, în camera III. Umbo-ul este din fier şi are un diametru de 17,50 cm, cu o înălţime de 6,70 cm, dimensiuni standard pentru descoperirile de acest tip. Contextul în care a apărut, alături de numeroase piese ceramice şi în apropierea unui tezaur monetar din bronz (51 piese -46,50 fol/es), datează complexul la începutul anilor 580 p. Chr., când clădirea a fost distrusă într-un violent atac atribuit slavilor. Umbo-ul aparţinea, cel mai probabil, unui scut de infanterist, iar prezenţa solitară a acestei piese militare într-un context civil permite, cu titlu de ipoteză, atribuirea sa unui membru al comunităţii locale de limitanei, fără însă a exclude posibilitatea ca păstrarea acestui obiect în clădirea amintită să fi avut un scop comercial. Articolul aduce în discuţie tipologiile cunoscute, aspecte tehnice despre producţie, structură şi utilizare, analogii şi datare privind această categorie de piese.CUVINTE CHEIE: scuturi romane, cetate romano-bizantină, echipament militar, limes-ul

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The archaeological research at Balomiru de Câmp (Şibot commune, Alba County) was undertaken in the framework of Autostrada National Research Project and was carried out in April-May 2012. The archaeological excavations led to the discovery of 13 archaeological complexes: a Roman building and its debris, 8 dwellings and 2 kilns from the Early Medieval period.The Roman building represents an annex of a rural Villa type complex from the 2"d-3'd c. Due to intensive agricultural works and natural phenomena, the only preserved part of the building is the foundation. Out of the numerous findings discovered in the building's context we can mention a stamped ceramic lamp (FA VOR I F) and two tile fragments bearing the stamp of a local manufacturer (L S).The medieval dwellings belong to a settlement from the l l 1h-13 1 h c.; the structure 's size cannot be accurately determined at this point of the investigations. The artefacts found in the dwellings are similar to other finds of early medieval period made along the Mureş Valley. Among them we can mention a large quantity of pottery (such as ceramic cauldrons, cooking pots and pot lids along with metal artefacts (an iron spur, an arrowhead, a spearhead etc.)A particular feature of the site is represented by the wide spread network of modem draining ditches covering an important area of the investigation area, which overlap or cut in some cases the archaeological complexes making their stratigraphy difficult to interpret. KEYWORDS: preventive archaeology, early medieval dwellings, the Mureş Valley, Early Medieval pottery CUVINTE CHEIE: arheologie preventivă, locuinţe medievale timpurii, Valea Mureşului, ceramică medievală timpurie CONSIDERAŢII GENERALECercetările arheologice de la Balomiru de Câmp (corn. Şibot, jud. Alba) au fost efectuate în cadrul Proiectului National de Cercetare "Autostrada" 1• Evaluarea teoretică a urmărit realizarea unei documentări de arhivă, cât mai complete, asupra diverselor categorii de surse istorico-arheologice (texte, fotografii, hărţi, schiţe etc.) şi a referinţelor bibliografice relevante, dar şi a celor aerofotografice de arhivă, precum şi realizarea unor observaţii directe pe teren (în perimetrul vizat) pentru identificarea zonelor susceptibile să conţină vestigii arheologice, având în vedere semnalările anterioare.Cercetările arheologice cu caracter preventiv, efectuate în primăvara anului 2012, în perioada martie-mai, au confirmat potenţialul arheologic, semnalat anterior, fiind identificate şi cercetate exhaustiv 13 complexe arheologice: o clădire din epoca romană, opt locuinţe medievale, două cuptoare de exterior şi două şanţuri moderne 2 .1 În urma solicitării firmei STRABAG S.R.L. adresate Muzeului Naţional de Istorie a României, între cele două părţi s-a încheiat un contract de prestări servicii în vederea efectuării cercetărilor arheologice preventive pe traseul viitoarei autostrăzi A I Orăştie-Sibiu, Lot I Orăştie-Sebeş (km O ---> km 24+ I 00), în scopul întocmirii documentaţiilor necesare derulării procedurii de descărcare de sa...

The computing systems, and particularly microarchitectures, are in a continuous expansion reaching an unmanageable complexity by the human mind. In order to understand and control this expansion, researchers need to design and implement larger and more complex systems' simulators. In the current paradigm the simulators play the key role in going further, by translating all complex processing mechanisms in relevant and easy to understand information. This paper aims to make a suggestive description of the concepts and principles implemented into a Simultaneous Multithreading Architecture. We introduce the SMTAHSim framework, an educational tool that simulates in an interactive manner the important aspects of this particular microarchitecture. The graphical simulation and the results reporting techniques provide a lot of easy to understand information that outline an expressive image of Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) processing mechanisms. Our developed software tool facilitates the understanding of theoretical questions, thus allowing students to feel more confident when studying SMTrelated issues.

This study represents a summary of the funerary features identified in the confluence area of Siret and Danube rivers. The tumuli in question, representing the main subject of our presentation, were mapped on a relatively large area, both within the "Galati vallum" and its outer surroundings. Our initial research theme aimed the Roman necropolis from Barboși, which was a starting point for a wider analysis concerning the funerary landscape in the site's vicinity.Our first contact with this area took place during the preventive archaeological excavation carried out in the eastern part of the Barboși necropolis, situated on Dunărea neighborhood, in the city of Galați.During 2008-2009 we undertook non-invasive field surveys and aerial photographs in the area, in the framework of the STRATEG research project. Upon analyzing this documentation and after corroborating the entire relevant information, we started to develop different scenarios for the complex distribution of the funerary features identified in the archaeological landscape of the named area. The aerial photographical campaign was doubled by a field walking campaign to identify and confirm the information. In addition, new features were identified, mainly through the discovery of ceramic material. The field walking campaigns continued during the years 2010 and 2012.This article aims to provide first a status of research to the topic; the final conclusions will follow after the completion of the analysis and mapping of the findings. Our discussion is based on an ample repertoire with correspondence to the maps illustrating this paper.