Traces of an Early Avar Period Settlement. The Archaeological Findings from Pecica –Rovine / Căprăvanul Mic (Arad County)
Traces of an Early Avar Period Settlement. The Archaeological Findings from Pecica – Rovine / Căprăvanul Mic (Arad County)

Summary/Abstract: Archaeological rescue excavations of the past decade, carried out due to infrastructure invest ments, have led to discovering new traces of the early medieval period in the Lower Mureş Basin. The building arrangements in 2014 of a parking area for trucks near Pecica revealed a multi-layered archaeological site (forty-nine archaeological features belonging to four archaeological periods), datable in four chronological horizons as follows: the Sarmatian period, the Early Avar period, the post-Avar period, and the late medieval period (overlapped by the Ottoman period). In the present article, only a few features will be analysed, which seem to belong to the Early Avar horizon of habitation like the two graves situated in the immediate vicinity, treated separately in another study. In 2018, a new project extending the initial investment allowed the archaeological investigation of the remaining surface of the terrace to the east. New surveys have confirmed the eastward extension of both traces of habitation and of funerary spaces.

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