writer and archaeologist

Cătălin Pavel is a Romanian writer and archaeologist, currently an associate professor of archaeology at Ovidius University, in Constanța, Romania.

During his career, he has participated in archaeological excavations in Germany, France, Morocco, Israel, the United Kingdom and Turkey.

He is now best known for his book of essays ‘Archaeology of Love’, in which he recounts, poetically and scientifically, how human beings have loved across time and space, from the Palaeolithic to the cemeteries of the First World War, through the study of genetic codes, inscriptions, mythologies, tiny remains and great monuments.