The Archaeological Excavations at Susani – Grămurada de la Jupani. Report on the 2025 Field Campaign
The Archaeological Excavations at Susani – Grămurada de la Jupani. Report on the 2025 Field Campaign

Summary/Abstract: The field campaign of 2025 in the barrow Grămurada de la Jupani from Susani village (Traian Vuia rural municipality, Timiș county, Romania), coincides with the partial excavation of the research unit SIIB, situated in the central area of the northern sector of the mound. The main archaeological feature identified, labeled as C.83, was the continuation to the north of the feature C.11, excavated in 2018. The whole archaeological feature C.11/C.83 was, in fact, a sunken structure, rectangular in shape with rounded corners, partitioned in two rooms (room A to the north and room B to the south). Even if two looting pits (C.90 and C.92) have affected in a proportion of ca. 45% the inner part of C.83 (especially in the northern, center and south-eastern sector), the obtained results allow us to propose a double functionality for this ”sunken house”: room B dedicated to the deposition of the cremated remains of the deceased and room A, with a multilayer, clay decorated floor, for performing ritual activities connected more likely to the honoring of the people laid to rest in the same structure.

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