Tumulii din zona Neamțului. O privire sintetică asupra contribuțiilor de până în prezent
The Mounds from the Neamț area. A Synthetic Overview of the Contributions until the Present

Summary/Abstract: The Neamț area has a consistent and varied archaeological heritage, but differently investigated. Archaeological research has not placed a particular emphasis on the repertory and investigation of tumuli, perhaps because their number is extremely small compared to other areas in eastern Romania.The first mentions of the existence of burial mounds date from the eighth decade of the 19th century, but later, until the beginning of the next century, records of burial mounds appear in the Neamţ area.Very late, in the 1970s, the first archaeological excavations were carried out in some tumuli, specific to the IVth century AD.In this article, a synthesis is made of the most important sources that indicate the presence of burial mounds on the territory of Neamț county. A first observation is that such funerary monuments appear on maps from the end of the XVIIIth century, but also within other regional or local cartographic sources. As a general finding, in the Neamț area, an increased share of mounds located on high areas is observed and very rarely they are mentioned on low areas. Even though around 40 isolated mounds and several tumular groups are known, until recently only burial mounds specific to the IVth century AD were excavated. Recently two tumuli that belong to the first half of the 1st millennium BC have been investigated, but we do not exclude the possibility that other tumuli contain prehistoric graves.

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