Personal ornaments, especially those made from the shells of marine mollusks and animal teeth, have been recovered from many Mesolithic sites across Europe. This paper reviews the evidence of personal ornaments from the Mesolithic of the Iron Gates, where such finds...
The Mesolithic site at Ostrovul Banului was investigated by Vasile Boroneant in 1966, prior to the building of the Iron Gates I hydroelectric dam. 227 items made of hard animal materials (in various stages of manufacturing) were the subject of the present research....
The Mesolithic settlements in the Iron Gates have yielded rich assemblages of antler, bone and Sus scrofa canines, exemplified here by the site of Alibeg (Romania). These raw materials represent for the Iron Gates region, a hallmark of local Mesolithic. The...
Măgura ”Buduiasca” (”Boldul lui Moș Ivănuș”) settlement has an important place among the Prehistoric settlements from the Balkans territory. It is characterize by a continuous inhabiting since Early Neolithic, until Early Chalcolithic, that allows us to sketch the...
This paper proposes to identify changes in the processing of osseous materials in the southeastern European Neolithic, beginning with three cases of production by manufacture wear technique (bipartition by abrasion, segmentation with abrasive fibers and perforation by...
In the Măgura „Buduiasca” („Boldul lui Moș Ivănuș”) settlement, the first Neolithic inhabitants (Starčevo-Criș I) had settled in the ‘Bold’, and in a later stage of early Neolithic (Starčevo-Criș III) the inhabitance had extended henceforth to the entire ‘Buduiasca’...
