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Die begleitenden archäologischen Rettungsmasnahmen entlang der Autobahn Nr. 2 führten im Abschnitt Cernavodă-Medgidia, beim km. 152, zur Entdeckung eines Grubenfeldes, das allerdings nicht vollständig ausgegraben werden konnte. Die Fundstelle liegt südlich der Stadt Cernavodă bei „Dealurile [Hügel] Cochirlenilor“, auf einer hohen Donau-Terasse. Die Grube Nr. 121, die 2012 freigelegt worden ist, lieferte hervorragende Inventarstücke aus Bronze und Keramik und erweist sich dadurch als wegweisender Fund an der unteren Donau und sogar in größeren kulturellen Arealen. In die nicht tiefe Grube wurden zuerst drei Keramik-Gefäße der Coslogeni-Kultur deponiert – das eine umgestülpt –, dann obendrauf, vermutlich minimal unter der damaligen Erdoberflache, vier Bronzegegenstände, die vom Bagger gestört und teilweise beschädigt worden sind. Es handelt sich um einen vernieteten Kessel, eine kalottenförmige Schale, ein säbelförmiges Langmesser/Machaira und eine Schaftrohraxt mit kugelsegmentförmiger Nacken. Die vier Bronzen verweisen auf Verbindungen mit dem nordpontischen Raum (vor allem mit seiner westlichen Hälfte), mit dem ostpontischen Bereich und mit dem nördlichen Karpatenbecken. Die Zusammensetzung der Gegenstände stellt bislang ein typologisch-geographisches Unikum dar und kann in die BD-Zeit (14.-13. Jh., vgl. auch die C 14-Datierungen) versetzt werden.

The Vârghiș Gorges karst system (Perșani Mountains, Eastern Carpathians) constituted a point of interest for speleologists, paleontologists and archaeologists since the second half of the 19th century. Their efforts succeeded in highlighting the notable archaeological potential of the area, although the actual research results were not always thoroughly reported. Since 2014, our team reunited specialists from 10 different institutions and various fields of research and initiated archaeological excavations, coupled with achaeozoological, sedimentological and chronometric investigations, in several caves within the Vârghiș Gorges. As the paper below will show, although the results obtained so far are definitively informative, further investigation are clearly needed, in order to accurately clarify aspects pertaining to the intricate cultural and chronological framework.

The aim of this paper is to present a series of discoveries attributed to the Turkic nomadic populations (11th– 12th centuries), resulting from archaeological research conducted in 2018 and 2019 in several burial mounds placed in the localities of Târgșoru Nou and Inotești from Prahova County, as well as Lunca from Buzău county. It includes descriptions of the investigated archaeological features, the results of the anthropological and archaeozoological determinations as well as those of the physico-chemical investigations of some metal artefacts, and absolute chronology dates. Given that artefacts were part of the archaeological features investigated, we briefly present information regarding their analogies and occurrence. These discoveries highlight a time period which is otherwise scarcely known in this region and at the same time add weight to other materials already published during past years

Human skeletal remains of at least three individuals were unearthed during excavations at the Early Neolithic site of Grumăzeşti – Deleni in northeast Romania (Moldova region) between 1968 and 1978. They comprise the articulated skeleton of an adult buried in a crouched position (M1), and the disarticulated remains of another adult and a juvenile found together in another part of the site and interpreted by the principal excavator, S. Marinescu-Bîlcu, as a disturbed burial (referred to here as M2/ 1– 2). The human remains are described and analysed in terms of state of preservation, age-at-death, sex, stature and pathology. Results of radiocarbon dating and carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bone collagen from M1 and radiocarbon dates on herbivore bones from the site are presented and discussed.