Așezarea Starcevo-Criș de la Munteni - "Broscărie" (Tecuci)

Abstract

The Starcevo-Criș Settlement at Munteni - "Broscărie" (Tecuci)

The Starčevo-Criș settlement at Munteni – "Broscărie" / "Ghiolărie" (Galați County) is located on the lower terrace of the Bârlad River, near the village of Munteni (fig. 1, 2). Over time, this site was affected by the work for dam construction, and recently by arrangement of a fishing pond (fig. 3, 4). Between 1963 and 1975 have been made some surveys here and with these occasions were recovered several sherds (fig. 5-9), as well as artifacts made by stone (fig. 12/6-9), flint (fig.12/1, 4), obsidian (fig.12/2-3) or animal bones (fig. 11/3-5). During the 1990 excavation in SI a complex (remains of a dwelling) and four pits (fig. 10) were identified. The inventory found on this occasion is quite poor, consisting of ceramic pieces (fig. 13/1-5, 7-10; fig. 14), animal bones, artifacts made of animal bones (fig. 11/1), a processed wild-boar tusk (fig. 13/6) or of flint. On the basis of the ceramic analysis settlement can be assigned to the Starčevo-Criș IIIB/IVA interval, only few elements can be framed to IIIB phase (fig. 8/4; fig. 9/1, 6), most of pottery indicate IVA phase. At about 5km upstream on the Bârlad bank there is another Starčevo-Criș settlement at Negrilești that can be assigned to the Starčevo-Criș IIIB phase.

Keywords: Starčevo-Criș culture, location of the settlement, archaeologic inventory.