THE PETROGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS RESULTS OF GROUND STONE TOOLS DISCOVERED IN THE EARLY NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT FROM SOIMUS (HUNEDOARA COUNTY, ROMANIA)
2011; Linguagem: Inglês
10.5593/sgem2015/b11/s1.060
ISSN1314-2704
Autores Tópico(s)Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
ResumoIn this study, we intend to present the petrographic and geochemical analysis results for the ground stone industry discovered in an Early Neolithic settlement placed in the South-West of Transylvania (Hunedoara County, Romania). The artefacts we will refer in to the following lines, from an archaeological and geological perspective, were unearthed during the salvage archaeological research on the Deva – Orastie highway in the year 2011, in the south-eastern part of the Soimus village. After proceeding to the macroscopic, microscopic and physico-chemical analysis, some important issues were revealed concerning the supply with raw materials of the Starcevo-Cris Neolithic community from Soimus, respectively the use of natural resources from the vicinity of the site. A confirmation of this aspect is the fact that the geology of the raw materials discovered in the Starcevo-Cris settlement from Soimus is similar with the geology of the perimeter where the site is located, in the contact area of the Apuseni and Poiana Rusca Mountains. In conclusion, we can assume that the inhabitants of the Early Neolithic community from Soimus did not cover long distances for the supply of raw materials for making ground stone tools, their geology being linked mainly to volcanic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.
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