Dwellings and their nearest surroundings in the 4th millennium BC in the Eastern Carpathian area: a case study from the Gordineşti II-Stînca Goală settlement

Ghenadie Sîrbu; Dariusz Król

doi:10.23858/SA/73.2021.2.2672

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Vol. 73 No. 2 (2021)

Dwellings and their nearest surroundings in the 4th millennium BC in the Eastern Carpathian area: a case study from the Gordineşti II-Stînca Goală settlement

Ghenadie Sîrbu , Dariusz Król

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne

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https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/73.2021.2.2672

Abstract

Investigation into the construction of dwellings, their spatial arrangements, and the nearest surroundings is highly relevant in the field of study on functioning of archaeological phenomenona. During the recent years of excavation undertaken at the Gordineşti II-Stînca goală site, we revealed the remains of at least two dwellings and their economic surroundings that may be referred to on the whole as household clusters. In this paper, we would like to focus on one of them (dwelling no. 1). Our main goal is to present not only the key attributes of the dwelling, but also the results of the spatial analysis of features and artifacts found inside and outside of it. Based on that data, we can suggest that this dwelling consisted of two functionally-varied rooms. This inference seems to be also relevant in the broader sense; it can expand the general knowledge related to issues relating to the household clusters usage in the Eastern Carpathian area in the end of the 4^th Millennium BC.

Keywords:

Late Eneolithic, Gordineşti, Moldova, settlements, dwellings, household cluster

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Sîrbu, G., & Król, D. (2021). Dwellings and their nearest surroundings in the 4th millennium BC in the Eastern Carpathian area: a case study from the Gordineşti II-Stînca Goală settlement. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 73(2). https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/73.2021.2.2672

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