ASEZAREA STARČEVO-CRIŞ DE LA MUNTENI – „BROSCĂRIE” (TECUCI)

The Starčevo-Cris settlement at Munteni – “Broscărie” / “Ghiolărie” (Galaţi County) is located on the lower terrace of the Bârlad River, near the village of Munteni (fig. 1, 2). Over time, this site was affected by the work for dam construction, and recently by the arrangement of a fishing pond (fig. 3, 4). Between 1963 and 1975 have been made some surveys here and with these occasions were recovered several sherds (fig. 5-9), as well as artifacts made by stone (fig. 12/6-9), flint (fig. 12/1, 4), obsidian (fig. 12/2-3) or animal bones (fig. 11/3-5). During the 1990 excavation in SI a complex (remains of a dwelling) and four pits (fig. 10) were identified. The inventory found on this occasion is quite poor, consisting of ceramic pieces (fig. 13/1-5, 7-10; fig. 14), animal bones, artifacts made of animal bones (fig. 11/1), a processed wild-boar tusk (fig. 13/6) or of flint. On the basis of the ceramic analysis, settlement can be assigned to the Starčevo-Cris IIIB/IVA interval, only few elements can be framed to IIIB phase (fig. 8/4; fig. 9/1, 6), most of the pottery indicate IVA phase. At about 5km upstream on the Bârlad bank, there is another Starčevo-Cris settlement at Negrilesti that can be assigned to the Starčevo-Cris IIIB phase.