Valea Teleormanului. Consideraţii asupra plasticii antropomorfe
Teleorman Valley. Considerations about anthropomorphic figurines

Summary/Abstract: The anthropomorphic figurines that make the subject of the present paper are discovered on Teleorman Valley, most of them during the Southern Romania Archaeological Project. The majority of the pieces come from Măgura-Buduiasca site, as well as from Beciu and Lăceni. The figurines belong to Early and Late Neolithic and the beginnings of Eneolithic period, respectively to the cultures: Gura-Baciului-Cârcea, Starcevo- Criş, Dudeşti, Boian and Vădastra (cca. 6000-4500 BC). Even though the pieces are few in number, it can be said that in the first phases of the Neolithic the clay figurines are quite simple modeled. It can also be observed that from the same early period, the existence of patterns that seem to be changing periodically. For example, the representation of the head as a column, then like a band and finally with two perforated lobs and a preeminent nose. The flat body together with the arms, represented like triangular extensions, forms a rhomb shape on which the breasts are represented as two little prominences. The representation of the basin is very interesting, as well as that of the bottoms and hips which are always exaggeratedly modeled. Concerning the modeling process, the majority of the figurines seem to be made of two longitudinal pieces pasted together. The figurines morphology and decoration seem to suffer major changes at the Boian culture level, when the silhouettes seem more massive because of the exaggerate dimensions of the bottoms and hips and because of the more complicated incised geometric decoration. It must be underlined the fact that the conclusions have a certain amount of relativity because of the little number of the analyzed artifacts.

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