This is the moment in which at the researches begun to
participate young researchers, some of them still students, who
constituted from 1996 the nucleus of the National Center of
Pluridisciplinar Researches from The National Museum of Romanian
History, namely M. Tomescu. C. Haită, D. Moise, A. Bălăşescu, V.
Radu and I. Tomescu, thus conferring to these researches a real
complex pluridisciplinar character.
In reversed order to depositions we may mention vestiges which
were attributed to a Getical inhabiting with several occupational
sequences, Hallstatt epoch and Cernavoda, Gumelniţa and Boian
cultures.
The La Tene inhabiting is represented by nine horizons, each
represented by structures (dwellings, holes), which were
chronologically framed in the interval from the second half of the II
century a. Chr., when we considered that the inhabiting begun, and
the first half of the I century p. Chr when it ends.
The space organization in this community proves to be highly
elaborated (unique until now among the Getical settlements from
Wallachia) the dwellings being probably disposed in in parallel rows,
E-W oriented. In the researched surface were found the vestiges of
such a row of dwellings. This situation was interpreted as being the
result of a model for space organization which manifests probably
under Hellenic influence.
The discovered dwellings are in surface, rectangular, unicellular and
an average surface of approx. 40 m². They were all oriented N-S.
Each of them has one to three combustion structures of bakestone
type. Their placement in the interior space suggests the practice of
entrances, thus the access to the dwelling, on one of the long sides,
W or E.
Some of the discovered pieces also prove the existence, a lot more
intense than we would have thought, of trade relations (and not only),
with the late Hellenic world, North-Pontical and Roman.
Today the research of the archeological deposit which corresponds to
the getical inhabiting is closed, being published two volumes.
Important results were also discovered in the Gumelnitean levels.
Interesting is the situation which prove that subsequently to the last
sequences of Gumelnitean inhabiting, the popina was practically
abandoned, the Cernavoda and Hallstatt vestiges proving
occupational sequences of very short duration, very insignificant, at
least regarding the researched surface.
In this period, the vestiges of the Gumelniţa inhabiting,
situated in the superior part of the archaeological deposit,
sorresponding to this inhabiting, exposed to the caprices of nature,
were affected so that this level presents as unitary from
sedimentological perspective, suggesting the manifestation of a
situation which characterized the entire tell. One of the major
consequences consisted in the fact that the rests of the unburned
abandoned dwellings, were affected by the disintegration of the
adobe masses which sensitively hardened the possibility of reading
the stratigraphic reading. To these we may add destructions, often
very important, of the Eneolithic complexes by the numerous as big
Getical holes.
In the case of this sit also we were able to prove the
existence of a model of space organization defined by the placing of
dwellings in rows. Both between those and between the dwellings
were reserved passing areas with widths between 2 m, (between
the dwellings rows) and approx. 0.8-0.9 m (between dwellings). The
sedimentologic analysis proved the polyvalent utilization of this type
of space, meaning that here were deposited at least a part of the
domestic garbage and episodically developed diverse other
activities.
We were able to prove, like in the case of the Gumelniţean
inhabiting from Hârşova, that the so called leveling were in fact the
rests of the abandoned, unburned dwellings, a fact that explains the
inexistence of exterior bakestones and the existence of combustion
structures belonging to this type of complexes.
The constructive solutions are similar to those observed at
Hârşova, namely surface dwellings, with floor of battered clay, rarely
with wood and clay platforms and only as exception with sanitary
void, walls for whose construction was preferred the solution of
foundation ditches in which were fixed the wood pars of the
resistance structure. Usually these dwellings were
compartimentalized, existing structures with two modules. From the
perspective of the constructive solutions sometimes these were
differentiated and certainly from the utilization perspective.
The developing analysis of the different types of furniture also
suggest the existence of differences between dwellings and the
differentiated utilization of the interior space.
