ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA REGARDING THE DACIAN (II-I C.BC) FUNERARY FINDS FROM ROTBAV, BRAŞOV COUNTY
ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA REGARDING THE DACIAN (II-I C.BC) FUNERARY FINDS FROM ROTBAV, BRAŞOV COUNTY

Summary/Abstract: The Geto-Dacian world was intensely studied in the past two decades and one of the most interesting areas for such a research and which have fruitful results is the micro-zone situated between Rotbav and Crizbav where, between 2014 and 2016, were identified at least nine funerary complexes and numerous single objects, all placed on the two banks of the Valea Seacă River. In that region, there are also some other important sites, like the davae from Crizbav and Feldioara-Dealul Cetății, but also the settlement from Rotbav- Căldărușe, with discoveries dated to the 2nd BC - 1st AD c. All of them, according to the archaeologists, were obviously placed along an important route, which connected the Codlea area, with the Olt River Valley. Most of those sites were found by using the metal detectors but, on the other hand, many of them were also surveyed by archaeologists, thus, being not lost some of the important and useful data from the field. In the following lines, we will present the anthropological research, carried out upon the finds from the Rotbav site, that provided some complexes containing human and animal cremains, associated with grave goods, which were all usually buried together.

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