The Starčevo-Criş settlement from Zăuan „Dâmbul Cimitirului”. Old and new viewpoints

The settlement, which was studied several times in digging campaigns in 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980 and 1981, offered us the chance to determine the features of the settlement Starčevo-Criş in the N-W of Romania in late IIIB-IVA. The reassessment of the objects from Zăuan pointed out the existence of 10 surface dwellings that can be assigned to three living stages over the two phases IIIB-IVA and most likely IVB (S. Băcueţ Crişan 2005, p. 225-228). We want to state that the numbering of the dwellings is made by us; that is why there can be discrepancies between the current study and the first digging reports that kept the name of “platform” for all the identified complexes (E. Lakó 1978, p. 15). Even if this research is focused on the material specific for the three living stages, we consider that it is required a brief presentation of the research campaigns and of the main habitat issues. The issues raised by the discoveries in the settlement from Zăuan are far to be settled. Our enterprise considers mainly a positivistic presentation of the pottery material, needed in the present context, where is little information regarding the evolution stages from Starčevo-Criş, in the N-W of Romania.