Interdisciplinary investigations. The tell settlement from Vătaşi Măgura (Teleorman County, Romania)
Interdisciplinary investigations. The tell settlement from Vătaşi Măgura (Teleorman County, Romania)

Summary/Abstract: Discovered in 2011 by the Chronos team, the tell from Vătaşi Măgura is located at the limit between the floodplain and the lower left terrace of the Dâmbovnic river; in the vicinity, there are a few springs, at approximately 820 meters West from the village church. At the foot of the terrace, a small stream flows, a left tributary of the Dâmbovnic River. Through magnetometric scanning of the southern area of the tell, a delimitation trench was revealed, which was made at the base of the anthropic mound. The separation element was also identified based on aerial photographies. Also a series of soil corings made on two main transects, North-South and East-West oriented, showed the existence of a stratigraphy thicker than 2.50 meters. Moreover, in the areas between the inhabited space itself – which was central, and the delimitation ditch of the tell, a series of sediments were identified, which can be connected to the conscious action of erecting the anthropic mound. 100 meters North of the tell we have identified the exterior inhabitation, which was contemporaneous with one of the Gumelniţa moments. In the eastern proximity of the tell, a series of magnetic anomalies indicate the presence of another external occupation. The results of our non-destructing researches from Vătaşi confirm, without a doubt, the Gumelniţa tell construction patterns and preferred internal management of this type of settlement.

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