Earthen burial mounds and the Coțofeni Culture south of the Carpathians. The archaeological research in Ariceștii-Rahtivani – Movila pe Răzoare
Earthen burial mounds and the Coțofeni Culture south of the Carpathians. The archaeological research in Ariceștii-Rahtivani – Movila pe Răzoare

Summary/Abstract: Inside an earthen mound from the municipality of Ariceștii-Rahtivani (Prahova County),researched in 2016, archaeologists discovered a grave containing human skeletal remains from four individuals,numerous ornaments made of copper, shells, bone, several flint tools, but also a pot specific to the CoțofeniCulture. Taking this burial with exceptional grave goods as a starting point, this study will focus on analysingthe relation of the Coțofeni communities with the North-Danubian tumular phenomenon. One should mentionthat in Muntenia the Coțofeni Culture is a novel presence and the discovered materials are rather interpreted asimports to the local cultural environment. In order to contextualize this discovery I shall provide an overview ofthe cultural background during the second half of the 4th millennium BC at the Lower Danube and the dynamicof the West-Pontic funerary tumular phenomenon.

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