Between the East and the West: Dynamics of Social Changes from the Eastern Carpathians to the Dnieper in 4 - beginning of 3 mil. BC. (2015-2017). Coordinated by Dr.Hab. Małgorzata Rybicka, Institute of Archaeology from Rzeszow, Poland

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 Gordinești type sites, we can see some analogies in the cultural environment of the central European area. For the Brînzeni group the clearest analogies tend to be seen in eastern, southern and southeast -ern areas of the Funnel Beaker culture, whereas for the Gordinești group this seems to be visible within the Złota culture in the San-domierz Upland, Middle Vistula region. Another issue of our study concerns the chronological frames of these two groups. Analyses of 105 the radiocarbon data series obtained so far allow us to make some careful corrections in the chronological scheme of the Late Eneolith-ic for eastern Europe. Both mentioned issues fit into socio-cultural relations in the East Carpathian area in the context of the cultural transformations in the second half of the 4th millennium BC.

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 horse and apparent ab- sence of pig in this sample. Systematical structure of the archaeozoological material from Gordineşti II-Stînca goală and specific post-mortem modifications of bone remains are similar to the animal remains complexes from the described earlier sites of the Cucuteni-Tripolie Culture Horodca X and Trinca-La Șanț.

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 settlement is eponimic for the groups of sites with pottery painted in a geometric style with corded orna- ment known in the literature as the Late Eneo- lithic facies of the Gordineşti type. The works were carried out between May 14th and June 30th, 2016, with the purpose of completing the ceramic material database and collecting a se- ries of samples required to perform a series of analyses.

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, horse, wild boar, fox, red deer, and roe deer, known on this monument according to the data from the previous excavation, the new archaeozological mate- rial indicates the presence of the domestic pig and sheep in the settlement. The dog remains are extremely few. It should also be noted the relatively large number of remains of red deer and roe deer, which make up about 21% of the total number of the determined archaeozoological material. The new findings of the horse are of particular interest, since the new material allows us to give a preliminary characterization of the Eneolithic form of the domestic horse from Moldova.