Madalina Dimache

Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a României

Pottery is a complex archaeological material that is found ubiquitously in various spatial–temporal frameworks from all over the world; therefore, it is of great importance to archaeological research. The current paper aims to present and discuss the results obtained on a batch of Neolithic (ca. 6000–5000 BC) and Chalcolithic (ca. 5000–3900 BC) pot...

The current study aims to present and discuss the results obtained by complementary archaeometric methods applied for the first time on white pigments inlaid on excised pottery of the Boian-Vidra tradition (Early Chalcolithic, c. 4900-4600 BCE). The samples came from three settlements located in Southern Romania (Sultana-Ghețărie, Vidra, and Vlădic...

The tell settlement from Gumelnița is the eponymous site of the Eneolithic civilization with the same name. It is probably the largest tells settlement north of the Danube, and it belongs to the Kodjadermen - Gumelnița - Karanovo VI civilisation that occupied the Balkan area in the second half of the fifth millennium BC. During the 2021 fieldwork s...

The tell settlement from “Măgura Gumelnița” is the eponymous site of the Eneolithic civilization with the same name. It is probably the most significant tell settlement north of the Danube, and it belonged to the Kodjadermen ‐ Gumelnița ‐ Karanovo VI cultural complex that occupied the Balkan area in the second half of 5th millennium BC. During 2018...

The necropolis of Sultana-Valea Orbului (Călărași County) has been investigated by Done Șerbănescu (starting with 1974). Over 250 inhumation graves which were attributed to the Boian culture have been discovered. For this study, we analyzed the archaeological assemblage preserved in the Museum of Gumelnița Civilization from Oltenița (Călărași Count...

The Necropolis of Chirnogi – Suvita Iorgulescu (Calarasi county) was located on the high terrace of the Danube and was investigated by Done Serba˘nescu (in 1989) by means of the archaeological excavations carried out for the construction of the Danube-Bucharest Channel. For this study, we analysed the archaeological assemblage preserved in the Muse...

The Necropolis of Chirnogi – Suvita Iorgulescu (Calarasi county) was located on the high terrace of the Danube and was investigated by Done Serbanescu (in 1989) by means of the archaeological excavations carried out for the construction of the Danube-Bucharest Channel. For this study, we analysed the archaeological assemblage preserved in the Museu...

In this paper we analyzed a batch of 64 clay weights from three archaeological sites located in Romania (Gumelniţa, Măgura-Jilava, and Sultana) that belong to Kodjadermen-Gumelniţa-Karanovo VI cultural complex (4600-3900 cal. BC). Our approach includes an interdisciplinary investigation based on technological analysis, experimental archaeology , an...

In this contribution the polished stone artefacts from the Neolithic settlement at Şoimuş - La Avicola (Ferma 2), Hunedoara County are analysed. These items belong to Turdaş facies and were discovered during rescue excavations on the A1 Motorway route in 2011. The items are analysed from the point of view of their typology, technology and context,...

The tell settlement from “Măgura Gumelnița” is the eponymous site of the Eneolithic civilization with the same name. It is probably the biggest tell settlement North of the Danube, and it belonged to the Kodjadermen ‐ Gumelnița ‐ Karanovo VI civilization that occupied in the Balkan area in the second half of 5th millennium BC. In 2017, a complex in...

During the recent rescue excavation of a Late Bronze Age settlement from Șagu, an unusual archaeological feature has been unearthed: a handmade pot, reclined on a side, contained the remains of a human skull. The anthropological analyses revealed that it belonged to a fetus. Many examples of infant jar burials are known in the Near East and souther...

We present a contextual approach to Foeni pottery from Pianu de Jos - Podei site, the two main objectives of our analysis being the chrono-cultural assignment and the determination of the archaeological contexts. The secondary objectives targeted obtaining information on the organizing within the settlement, the organizing of production, the manufa...

In this paper, there are presented the main results obtained through the study of a batch of 18 ceramic fragments, analysed at binocular microscope and at optical microscope in polarised light. These sherds come from Chalcolithic pots found in the tell settlement from Bordușani Popină, Ialomița County, and attributed to Gumelnița culture, phase A2....

Au cours des fouilles des années 2012-2014 dans le tell de Bordusani ont était étudié divers types de complexes, habitations (no. 19, 47, 50 et 56), ou C. 379 (zone de passage) et C. 394 (espace commun). Le Sondage I Est, pratique sur la côte Est de la Popina, au but de mettre en évidence la succession des séquences anthropiques, a permis l'observ...