Aria sudică de răspândire a culturii Otomani

  • Subiect: Analyzing the cultural realities of the Bronze Age in the Banat region I came upon several old theories concerning the spreading territory of the Otomani culture. After a series of archaeological excavations, the analyses of the unpublished materials from the museums of Timişoara, Vrsac, Arad etc. and on the basis of recent information from the secondary literature, a new map with the most important archaeological sites belonging to the Middle Bronze Age in the South Western part of Romania can be established (Fig.15). Our observation is that the western border of the Romanian Banat (the Zone MureşAranca) was inhabited by the population which developed the Mureş Culture. The most representative site of this culture is the tell from Pecica. Therefore, the center of the Mureş civilization was situated in the delta area of the Mureş river even if some imported products have been found further east. During Middle Bronze Age, the largest area of the Banat region was inhabited by the communities lately identified with the group Corneşti-Crvenka. The analysis of the material coming from the old discoveries from Corneşti and Satu Marc, together with the new excavations from Foeni "Gomila Lupului" offered mc the opportunity to study the ceramics belonging to the Corneşti-Crvenka group. Pointing on a map the spreading area of this group shows that there is a great number of discoveries in the northern part of the Mureş river too. One of these points is represented by the settlement from Cicir. As a consequence of the connections which could be established with the tell from Socodor, the big majority of these sites were labeled as being a part of the Otomani Culture. ln order to discover whether this statement is valid or not, the discussion has to take into consideration the settlement from Socodor. I have to mention that T. Soroceanu is the one who offered me for study the Socodor materials coming from M. Roska and N. Covaciu excavation (located in the History Museum from Cluj). I selected, out of these materials, the most representative pieces, as far as the forms and decoration is concerned. However, my plates do not reflect the real proportion of decoration and ceramic types. There is no information about the stratigraphy, therefore a statistical analyses is hard to be done. Moreover, D. Popescu published his materials relating them to the depth where they have been found. The ceramic finds which were deposited in the museU1n from Arad are similar to those in the museum from Cluj. Taking into consideration that there is not much chance that the excavations from Socodor will start again very soon, the discussion of the southern âborderî of the Otomani culture has to be based on the existing materials. The discoveries from Socodor was compared with the ceramics found in two sites belonging to the Corneşti-Crvenka group from the south of Mureş: Comeşti and Foeni together with the neighboring settlement from Vărşand and the contemporary tells from Beretty6 (Barcău) valley investigated by Mathe Sz. M.
  • Limba de redactare: română
  • Secţiunea: Preistorie
  • Vezi publicația: Acta Musei Porolissensis: ActaMP
  • Editura: Muzeul Judeţean de Istorie şi Artă Zalău
  • Loc publicare: Zalău
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2000
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XXIII-1; nr. în TOM: I; anul 2000; subtitlu: Anuarul Muzeului Judeţean de Istorie şi Artă Zalău
  • Paginaţia: 121-152
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