Un nou tumul preistoric cercetat la Ariceștii Rahtivani (jud. Prahova)

In 2013 rescue archaeological research was carried out in Ariceștii Rahtivani, in a barrow with a height of 1.2 m and a maximum diameter of 50 m. Five inhumation burials placed around the centre of the mound were unearthed. The primary grave was surrounded by a stone ring. The grave pits were rectangular or oval-shaped. Three of the burials were collective and two of them were individual graves. The inventory consisted of pottery, ornaments such as silver hair rings, tubular copper pearls, a copper torque, a clay pendant, bone pearls and red ochre as well. The ware is attributed to the Coţofeni-Baden cultural horizon and the silver ornaments are well known in burials of the Pit-Grave communities. For the moment, the copper torque is an unique finding in graves attributed to Yamnaya communities. The five radiocarbon dates obtained assign this funerary monument to the last third of the IV millennium BC and the first period of the III millennium BC.