INDUSTRIA MATERIILOR DURE ANIMALE DIN NIVELUL VĂDASTRA DE LA MĂGURA ‘BUDUIASCA - BOLDUL LUI MOŞ IVĂNUŞ’ (JUD. TELEORMAN)
Osseous materials industry in the Vădastra level of Măgura ‘Buduiasca – Boldul lui Moş Ivănuş’ (Teleorman County)

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the present paper is to make known an extremely interesting archaeological assemblage of the Vădastra culture, discovered during archaeological research carried out at of Măgura ‘Buduiasca’ settlement. The methodology used aimed to identify the operational schemes used for the manufacture of different typological categories, and to find in which ways the Eneolithic communities exploited the animal environment in order to obtain hard animal material artifacts. Both local (from domestic and wild species) and imported raw materials were used. For bone, generally there is a preponderance of two species, from which a reduced number of skeleton elements were selected as blanks. Antler is not intensely exploited in the industries of the Neolithic from the North-Danube territory and this seems to continue at the beginning of the Eneolithic. The two fragments of Spondylus valves were imported, demonstrating the exchange networks of this community within the Mediterranean area. The study is important because information on Vădastra culture hard animal material industry in Romania is absent and therefore it could have a decisive contribution in outlining an exploitation model for the animal resources of Vădastra communities.

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