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Field prospections in Western Romania. Preliminary results

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DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32486.73283

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BRONZE AGE TELL SETTLEMENTS IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN
~2500/2400-1500 BC
 BRONZE AGE TELL SETTLEMENTS IN WESTERN ROMANIA
Ier Valley and Carei Plain Project

 Start: 2009
 Partners: Institut für Archäologische
Wissenschaften, Ruhr-Universität Bochum &
Satu Mare County Museum
 Since 2014: Institut für Ur- und
Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln & Satu
Mare County Museum
 Study region: Satu Mare County, North-
Western Romania

Living in the Bronze Age Tell Settlements.

A study of settlement archaeology at the
eastern frontier of the Carpathian Basin

 Start: 2013
 Partners: Institute of Archaeology and Art
History, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca &
Criş County Museum & Arad County Museum
 Study region: Arad & Bihor Counties,
Western Romania
Ier Valley and Carei Plain Project
Ier Valley and Carei Plain Project

Berveni
Satu Mare County, Romania
Ier Valley and Carei Plain Project

Căpleni Andrid
Satu Mare County, Romania Satu Mare County, Romania
 Munar
(Arad County, Romania)
 Toboliu
Bihor County, Romania
 SINCE SEPTEMBER 2016: A UNIFIED PROJECT INVESTIGATING
BRONZE AGE TELLS FROM WESTERN ROMANIA

 Start: 2016
 Partners: Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln, Institute of Archaeology and Art History,
Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Criş County Museum & Satu Mare County Museum
 Study region: Western Romania
 Objectives:
- determining the settlement system of Bronze Age (BA) tell settlements from the region
- investigating BA tells by means of non-invasive methods & determining their structure
- recording outer sites surrounding the BA tells, their extents and internal structure &
establishing their chronological relation with the central mounds
- collecting samples for radiocarbon dating
- reconstructing the ancient landscape of these sites with the help pollen analyses
- excavation of targeted sites (planned for summer 2017: Toboliu)

 Methods:
1) So far: geophysical surveys, drillings, unsystematic fieldwalk
2) Forthcoming: systematic fieldwalks, targeted excavations, aerial photography
 Carei - Bobald
Satu Mare County, Romania

 Dating:
- Tell settlement: Middle Bronze Age 1-3
(~ 2100/2000 – 1500 BC)
- Other periods: Late Neolithic, Early Iron Age,
Middle Age
 Archaeological ceramic styles: Sanislău,
Otomani
 Outer surrounding settlement: yes, possibly (after Németi/Molnár 2012)
3, dating to Otomani I-II, Otomani II and
Otomani III phases
(after Gogâltan/Cordoș/Ignat 2014)

(after Németi/Molnár 2012)

 Carei - Bobald
Satu Mare County, Romania

Results of the magnetometer survey

March-April 2017
 Crestur - Cetăţuie
Bihor County, Romania

 Dating: Middle Bronze Age (~ 2100/2000 – 1500 BC)

 Archaeological ceramic styles: Otomani (after Gogâltan/Cordoș/Ignat 2014)

 Outer surrounding settlement: yes, dating to the MBA?

(after Gogâltan/Cordoș/Ignat 2014)

Crestur - Cetăţuie
Bihor County, Romania

Results of the magnetometer survey

October 2016; April 2017
Săcueni - Cetatea Boului
Bihor County, Romania

 Dating: Early Bronze Age III; Middle Bronze Age 1? Middle

Bronze Age 2 (~ 2200 – 1700 BC)
 Archaeological ceramic styles: Otomani
 Outer surrounding settlement: not yet detected

(after Gogâltan/Cordoș/Ignat 2014)

Săcueni - Cetatea Boului
Bihor County, Romania

Results of the magnetometer survey

October 2016
 Roșiori – La sere
Bihor County, Romania

 Dating: Early Bronze Age III? - Middle Bronze Age 3? (~ 2200 – 1500 BC)
 Archaeological ceramic styles: Otomani
 Outer surrounding settlement: yes, detected with the help of
magnetometer surveys conducted in March 2017

(after Gogâltan/Cordoș/Ignat 2014)

 Roșiori – La sere
Bihor County, Romania

Results of the magnetometer survey

March 2017
 Toboliu - Dâmbu Zănăcanului
Bihor County, Romania

 Dating: Early Bronze Age III - Middle Bronze Age 3 (~ 2200 – 1500 BC)
 Archaeological ceramic styles: Otomani
 Outer surrounding settlement: yes, detected with the help of systematic
fieldwalks & magnetometer surveys

(after Gogâltan/Cordoș/Ignat 2014)

(after Lie et al. 2015)

 Toboliu - Dâmbu Zănăcanului
(Bihor County, Romania)

Results of the magnetometer survey March 2017

 Toboliu
Bihor County, Romania

Excavations: August-September 2017 conducted by Criş (Bihor) County Museum ( MA Gruia Fazecaş),
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln (Prof. Dr. Tobias Kienlin, Dr. Alexandra Găvan),
Institute of Archaeology and Art History, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca (Dr. Florin Gogȃltan, MA Marian-
Adrian Lie)
 Acknowledgements:

• Team members of the Autumn (September-October 2016)

and Spring (March-April 2017) campaigns: Dr. Florin
Gogȃltan, Dr. Astrid Röpke, Marian-Adrian Lie, Elena
Cristina Cordoş, Anna Sophie Roß, Tim Piccolini, Maik
Gehrmann, Patrick Cuth, Julian Böke, Maximilian Krämer,
Tom Noack, Gian-Luca Paul.
• Criş County Museum: Gruia Fazecaş
• Satu Mare County Museum: Dr. Liviu Marta

Long Live the Bronze Age Tells!

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