Descoperiri din eneoliticul timpuriu în zona Pietroasele
Early Chalcolithic in the Pietroasele Area

Summary/Abstract: The Pietroasele area has been well known in the Romanian archaeological landscape since the first half of the 19th century, due to discoveries attributed to the 1st millennium BC. Subsequent research has focused on sites from the same period, but also from the Dacian period, the Bronze Age, and the Late Chalcolithic. For the Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods, discoveries are few. Some are older and were forgotten in the museum’s deposit, accompanied by little (sometimes uncertain) information about their context, while others are more recent, with slightly more precise data. This study presents the Boian and Precucuteni discoveries from the Pietroasele area and provides an overview of all traces attributed to these human communities from the Istrița Hill and the contact zone between the hill and the plain, between the Nișcov Valley and the Cricovul Sărat Valley. In most cases, these are accidental discoveries or results of surface research, with very few originating from systematic excavations. Although the volume of information is not large, a preliminary overview of human settlement in the area during the first half of the 5th millennium BC can be outlined.

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