Aspects of a Bandkeramik settlement near Olteni in Transylvania

Bibliographic Data

ID11001258
AuthorsThomas Saile (0000-0003-0834-5567, University of Regensburg Chair of Prehistory and Early History Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg Germany, corresponding author), Maciej Dębiec (0000-0002-8679-6278, University of Regensburg Chair of Prehistory and Early History Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg Germany), Dan Lucian Buzea, Dan Buzea (0009-0000-4943-8271, National Museum of the Eastern Carpathians Str. Gabor Aron, nr. 16, 520008 Sfântu Gheorghe Romania)
Year2022
Volume97
Issue1
Pages1-21
Publication date2022-06-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePraehistorische Zeitschrift (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0079-4848 • E-ISSN: 1613-0804
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/pz-2021-2006
OpenAlexW3203393963
LanguageEN
Citations received1

In Transylvania, settlements of the Transdanubian Linienbandkeramik (LBK) are predominantly found in the Braşov Depression. Excavations at the LBK settlement of Olteni, located on the right bank of the Olt River, brought to light the fragmented remains of at least two ground plans of Early Neolithic longhouses. These are the first convincing evidence of such structures in Romania. The pottery allows dating the site to a later Notenkopf phase of the LBK. Among the ceramic pieces, a fragment of a small altar and several multiply perforated objects are particularly conspicuous; this is the first time sieves have been discovered in an LBK context in Romania. In addition, the Olteni site yielded the most extensive collection of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic plastic in the entire Eastern Bandkeramik milieu

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Excavation · Geography · Human settlement · Pottery · Settlement (finance · Stone tool · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Mineralogy and Gemology Studies