Ghenadie Sirbu

Moldova State University · Department of History

Field research with non-invasive methods completes the database of archaeological sites in the Prut-Dniester interfluve. is also the case of a new discovery made in the Răut river basin, near the locality of Cașunca (Florești district), where as a result of magnetometric prospecting of a series of tumuli a flat necropolis from the Sarmatian period...

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Makohonienko M. and Słowiński M. 2023. Was Gordineşti II-Stînca goală abandoned due to cultural changes or environmental impacts? The case of the late Trypillia settlement in northern Moldova. Sprawozdania Ar-cheologiczne 75/1, 51-75. This study aims to provide information on cultural and environmental factors influencing the development and declin...

The center of our attention will be the fortification of Horodca Mica, district Hincesti, Republic of Moldova. It has been explored during six archaeological campaigns. The vigorous defensive system and a part of the intra‑mural space were investigated. The processing of the numerous archaeological materials raised many problems, but in the followi...

This paper deals with the problem of the radiocarbon dating of the Horodiştea-Gordineşti sites in northern Moldova and western Ukraine. So far, the timeframe of Late Trypillia culture has been displayed in various ways by researchers of Eastern European Eneolithic. This applies especially to the end of this culture. Based on the currently available...

This paper presents the results of recent rescue excavations conducted in Tulcea county, Dobrudja, Romania, with a focus on the Late Bronze Age finds from the Jijila-La grădini site. The contexts (mainly pits) and the archaeological material (pottery; objects made of clay, stone, and bone; animal remains) are discussed in detail and placed in a chr...

By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with the Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus and Anatolian...

Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare¹. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling2–4 at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 bc³. Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestic...

The Cucuteni-Trypillia complex (CTC) flourished in eastern Europe for over two millennia (5100–2800 BCE) from the end of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Its vast distribution area encompassed modern-day eastern Romania, Moldova and western/central Ukraine. Due to a lack of existing burials throughout most of this time, only little is known a...

The article describes a new archaeozological material from the Eneolithic settlement Gordinești II-Stînca goală, collected during the archaeological excavations of the 2017 and 2018 field campaigns. The new material comes from sectors A and B of the excavated part of the archaeological site. In addition to the remains of cattle, domestic goat, hors...

Interest in the research on the Late Eneo- lithic in Southeastern Europe is an import- ant direction for many international centres, serving as a theme for various projects. One of these projects was carried out by an inter- national team of researchers from the Repub- lic of Moldova, Poland and Ukraine at the Gordineşti II-Stînca goală site. The s...

The Cucuteni-Trypillia complex (CTC) flourished in eastern Europe for over two millennia (5100-2800 BCE) from the end of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Its vast distribution area encompassed modern-day eastern Romania, Moldova and western/central Ukraine. Due to a lack of existing burials throughout most of this time, only little is known a...

In this article we would like to point out some issues related to a series of ceramic materials found in sites attributed to the Late Enolithic groups of Brînzeni and Gordinești in the Dniester-Prut interfluve. In terms of technology and stylistics in the case of pottery from the Brînzeni type sites and stylistics in the case of pottery from the Go...

The present paper describes an archaeozoological assemblage from Late Eneolithic settlement of Gordineşti II-Stînca goală. The studied osteological material is characterized by low number of remains of wild animals, the predominant position of cattle and small cattle (with apparent importance of Capra hircus among small cattle), sparce remains of h...

The article publishes the pottery kiln from Costeşti IX settlement, which was discovered in 1974 by E. A. Rikman and V. I. Grosu, during rescue archaeological investigations in the area of construction of the accumulation lake from the village of Costeşti (Rîşcani district, Republic of Moldova). The kiln was well preserved, allowing to reconstruct...

Two pottery kilns were uncovered on the multilayer site Trinca-Izvorul lui Luca located in the basin of the Prut River (Republic of Moldova). The structures are related to the layer of the Gordineşti group which is dated to the Triploye CII period (second half of the IV mill. BC). The kilns were situated within special small buildings or plots wher...