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Consideraţii preliminare asupra unor oase umane descoperite în aşezarea gumelniţeană de la Căscioarele-Ostrovel

  • Subiect: This study presents some human bones discovered in non-funeral context, from Căscioarele-Ostovel settlement, Călăraşi County. The bones are at Anthropological Research Center “Francisc J. Rainer” in Bucharest. Because of unknown reasons they weren’t analyzed nor published. The human bones were discovered by Vladimir Dumitrescu during the archaeological campaigns from 1962 to 1968. There are 11 bones: 2 complete skulls (no. 2 and 3), 2 frontal bone fragments (no. 9 and 10), 1 maxilla (no. 8) and 6 femurs (no. 1, 4 - 8 and 11). All of them come from non-funeral context (waste area) and belong to 11 individuals: 7 of them were males (no. 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11), 3 female (no. 1, 4 and 6), 1 infant (no. 10) and a non-defined sex one (no. 8). These bones have old breaks, smashes, cuts which indicate a human intervention. Other similar cases were discovered also in Kodjadermen-Gumelniţa-Karanovo VI cultural complex. Most of the researchers consider that human skulls discovered inside the settlement have a ritual significance, being related to skull cult, which was practiced in the Near East and in the south-eastern Europe. Some of the researchers consider that these isolated human bones discoveries come from ancient disturbed graves. We have to remember that these bones usually appear in waste area and pits. This fact leads to the idea that there were some anthropophagical practices (see Mancos or Fontbrégoua cave). Without archaeological context of these discoveries, without a detailed analysis of the human bones – so that we can identify the cutting, breaking and fragmentation types – we cannot prove a real case of cannibalism.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Studii şi articole
  • Vezi publicația: Cultură şi civilizaţie la Dunărea de Jos
  • Editura: Muzeul Dunării de Jos
  • Loc publicare: Călăraşi
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2005
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XXII; anul 2005; subtitlu: In honorem Silviae Marinescu-Bîlcu, 70 de ani
  • Paginaţia: 297-316
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