PERIOADA MIJLOCIE A EPOCII BRONZULUI ÎN SUBCARPAȚII CURBURII: ANATOMIA MICROZONEI PIETROASELE
THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE IN THE CURVATURE SUBCARPATHIANS. THE ANATOMY OF THE PIETROASELE MICROZONE

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the Middle Bronze Age sites (ca. 2200-1600 BC) from a small area located at the outer limit of the Curvature Subcarpathians. The study area covers 6 km2 on the south-eastern slope of the Istrița Hill, near the villages Pietroasa Mică and Câlțești (Pietroasele commune, Buzău).A number of 20 sites were inventoried from published and unpublished data. The revision of this package was conducted through field surveys and a critical analysis of the data.The Monteoru communities settled on the mid- to high altitudes of the Istrița Hill, on rocky ridges (Dealul Dogaru, Gruiu Dării) and on open plateaus (Via lui Despan). Complex earthworks and several construction layers were documented at Gruiu Dării, suggestive of the existence of a major settlement between 2200-2000 BC.The data from the western part of the study area is more scattered and less impressive (Dealul Dogaru, Via lui Despan), corresponding to a different settlement pattern (perhaps from a slightly later period).Later on, in the final stage of the Middle Bronze Age the archaeological evidence is mainly related to the funerary domain (Dealul Dogaru, Șapte Frați). The identification of the contemporary settlement of these cemeteries will be the subject of future studies.

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