Ocupațiile și meșteșugurile tradiționale din comuna Orăștioara de Sus (județul Hunedoara)
Occupations and Traditional Crafts from Orăștioara de Sus Commune (Hunedoara County)

Summary/Abstract: Connecting agriculture with the other traditional main occupations (shepherding and animal breeding, beekeeping, mining, forestry), as well as with crafts (processing textile yarn, woodworking, naive painting, stone sculpting), mainly developed at sedentary agricultural populations, clarifies, also, from this perspective, the direction by which the way of life of the neighbouring villages to Orăştioara de Sus commune took.Located in the contact area with the mountain, in the small villages of the commune, terraced agriculture was practised where the arable alternated with the pasture, a system that pursued the natural fertilisation of the arable.Ploughing was made with the mobile handlebar plough, adapted for agriculture on terraces that were disposed parallel on the level curves of the neighbouring hills. Reaping was made a little later due to the higher altitude of the cultivated plots. By organisation of shepherding in stables is preserved the connection with the village households. Applied norms evidence the labour division between household members, with exact obligations for men, women and even children.Around the mid-19th century, more extensive exploitation of pine wood for construction and timber began. As arranging roads necessary for transport was expensive, were set up here, bodies of water to may transport the firewood on rafts. Such a pond was also at Grădişte, three hundred meters below the place from where the Anineş Valley joins the Grădiştii Valley.

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