New discoveries in the Eneolithic settlement from Coţatcu “Cetăţuia”,Buzău County
New discoveries in the Eneolithic settlement from Coţatcu “Cetăţuia”,Buzău County

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the researches carried out at Coţatcu “Cetăţuia”, an Eneolithic tell-settlement placed in the Buzău hilly region. Related with the land slides which destroyed most of the settlement, a stratigraphic profile was made in order to establish the site cultural evolution. The cultural layer has about 3,5 m thickness and it is composed of six main sequences, the first belonging to Starčevo-Criș culture and the last five to Stoicani–Aldeni cultural group. Even thought the researches are still carried out, some preliminary observations will be presented. Most of them refer to the remains of a burnt house (House no. 8) which offered many details concerning building materials and techniques. On a surface of only 2 m width there were researched remains of a wall, a floor, a hearth and many ceramic vessels. Finally some considerations are made concerning the Stoicani–Aldeni cultural group identity and evolution at the border of the two great civilizations – Precucuteni/Cucuteni and Gumelnița.

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