Turanici la Dunărea Inferioară – complexe cercetate recent în nordul Munteniei / Turanians at the Lower Danube – recently investigated contexts in the northern Wallachia

Abstract

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.

Following the traces of the earliest Corded Ware in Moravia and steppe elements in its content

“…75: A2; 96: B12; 121: A4; 124: A6; 147: A3 etc.). We can also find many types of decorated and undecorated amphorae (Kośko 2011;Ivanova 2013;Ivanova et al 2018), and decorated footed bowls, accompanying pit burials also in the Carpathian Basin, probably having their secondary focus in the area of the Vučedol and Ljubljana Moors cultures (Korošec and Korošec 1969, T. 37-47;Frînculeasa et al 2017;Kaiser 2019, 245-257;Bátora 2021, fig. 16;Dani and Szeverényi 2021, fig.…”