DESPRE CERAMICA DE TIP PRECUCUTENI ÎN TRANSILVANIA
ABOUT PRECUCUTENI POTTERY IN TRANSYLVANIA

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present study is the research and introduction to the scientific circuit of a number of pottery artefacts from Petresti-Groapa Galbena that have a decoration specific to the Precucuteni-type of excised ornamentation. The decoration was made in the interior of the parallel incised lines and employed the excision technique with „wolf’s teeth” and „chess board” motif. These types of decoration are typical to Precucuteni Culture, Phase I and II. The repertory of the Precucuteni-type discoveries in present Transylvania (Plate IV) includes 35 archaeological references. The present state of research determines us to believe that all these artefacts cannot be interpreted merely as Precucuteni import in the Transylvanian settlements anymore. We consider that the most part of the excised pottery of the Neolithic settlements in the Middle Mures basin lost its initial ethnical and cultural component. At this moment, it becomes visible a separation of the settlement group of the Southern Eastern part of Transylvania from the archaeological sites of the Southern Western and Central parts of the province.

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