ECONOMIC AND EVERYDAY LIFE FACETS IN AN EARLY MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT FROM NORTH-WESTERN TRANSYLVANIA, REFLECTED BY THE BONE ARTEFACTS (original) (raw)
As a result of preventive archaeological research in 2007–08, the Early Medieval settlement in Jucu de Sus (com. Jucu, Cluj County) was investigated by approximately two thirds. Its preliminary dating seems to start during the second half of the 8 th century and the first third or half of the 9 th century AD. The recovered bone artefacts are not that numerous while being also not that diverse judging from a typological point of view and are represented by about 29 bone awls and one bone " skate ". The analysis aims at presenting the discoveries in an extensive technological manner. The contributions generated by the analysis of the assemblages comprising bone artefacts from the intra-Carpathian area of Romania dated from the second half of the 1 st Millennium AD, which have not been systematically studied, allows us to discern useful methodological and typological patterns on this type of manifestations of the material culture, especially in the above mentioned area and in its surrounding regions. Such realities offered the support for a discussion regarding the chronological distribution of the bone awls in the Early Medieval settlements of Romania as well as from the neighbouring regions. In the same time, in comparison with the settlement at Jucu, the production of bone implements attested for the settlement at Lozna (a settlement situated at the northeastern periphery of the Carpathians, in nowadays Moldavia) is being closely examined, while the presence in this settlement of a local workshop manufacturing such implements is also sustained by the archaeological data. Archaeological investigations in the settlement and main results 5 In the first phase, the identification of the archaeological sites from Jucu de Sus – Tetarom III (Cluj County) seemed somehow surprising, since they are situated in the lower floodplain of the Someșul Mic River, in the close vicinity of its riverbed and the information regarding the
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