CERCETARI ARHEOLOGICE PREVENTIVE LA ALBA IULIA -LUMEA NOUA. O DESCOPERIRE APARTINÂND GRUPULUI FOENI
PREVENTIVE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AT ALBA IULIA -LUMEA NOUA SITE. A NEW DISCOVERY BELONGING TO THE FOENI GROUP

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at promoting the archaeological material resulted from the investigation of a single closed context (pit house B1/S. II-2005) of the Alba Iulia-Lumea Noua settlement, belonging to the Foeni group. After emptying the pit house, a significant quantity of ceramic materials, bone remains and lithic material was recovered. The archaeological material is unitary and belongs to a single habitation level within the pit house. Therefore, 18 complete vessel profiles (base, body, rim) could be reconstructed. Based on the statistic analysis, we could establish the main firing types, vessel shapes and decoration patterns. Black pottery and black-topped pottery are predominant in the fine ware category. We have also presented several zoomorphic protomes, some of them being particular representations. The study of the pottery coming form the culture layer that overlaps the pit house leads to the idea that we are dealing with a local development of these communities, more precisely with an evolution of the Foeni communities towards the Petresti culture. We believe that the pottery artefacts presented in this study illustrate an early stage of the Foeni habitation at Lumea Noua settlement. They probably date to the period when the first Foeni communities settled there. The ceramic materials from B1/S II (2005), as well as artefacts from several closed contexts revealed during the 2005-2006 archaeological campaigns, were processed and studied. Thus, we may state that an intense Foeni habitation was identified at Alba Iulia-Lumea Noua settlement. At the present state of research we may assert that this habitation level belongs to a developed stage of the internal evolution of the Foeni group.

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