DESPRE FORMELE DE TURNARE DE LA SFÂRŞITUL EPOCII BRONZULUI ŞI ÎNCEPUTUL EPOCII FIERULUI, DESCOPERITE ÎN OLTENIA
ON VARIOUS FORMS OF CASTING DISCOVERED IN OLTENIA AT THE END OF BRONZE AGE AND THE BEGINNING OF IRON AGE

Summary/Abstract: In this study, we didn’t want to realize a statistics with regard to these pieces – casting forms in the intra-Carpathian space. But even on a general view, it seems, more abviously that, unlike in Oltenia, inside the Carpathian region, the huge number of bronze pieces found there and the general quantity of metal, in connection with the small number of the discovered casting forms, recommend us a behaviour different from what we can notice in the space that we have studied. It is interesting that in Transylvania, more exactly at Lăpuş, is the only place where casting forms had been found deposited even inside the funerary space. We don’t necessary have to regard this as bearing implications on the metallurgical activity itself (mustn’t be seen in association with a r elation such as numerous casting forms = intense metallurgical activity), but actually it seems to be connected with a behaviour different from the custom of depositing the casting forms. In this respect, the presence in Oltenia of some hoards made only of bronze casting forms (Pleniţa, Logreşti), might be interpreted as the result of the circulation of some qualified workers that came here, maybe, from the northern side of Romania. But in this situation too we must become aware of the fact that in most of the casting forms discovered in the studied area had been made Transylvanian type items.

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