The First Neolithic Sites in Central/South-East European Transect. Volume II: Early Neolithic (Starcevo-Cris) Sites on the Territory of Romania

The modelling of the process of Neolithization one of the basic tasks of the FEPRE project requires the building of a complete data base, including radio carbon dates and inventory of FTN sites: both those excavated as well as those re corded in the course of surface surveys. In view of the fact that in the Neolithization of Europe the axis running from the Balkans to the Carpathians is of essential importance the editors have decided to compile the inventory of FTN sites along this axis and subdivided into: I Bulgaria, II Romania, III Eastern Hungary, IV Eastern Slovakia, V South-Eastern Poland. The result is a five-volume catalogue of FTN sites: Vol. I Bulgaria sites of the Monochrome and the Early Painted Pottery Phase (Karanovo I type); Vol. II Romania (Transylvania and Banat) sites of the Early Phase (with white-painted pottery); Vol. III Eastern Hungary (Tisza basin) sites of the Körös-Starèevo Cul ture; Vol. IV Eastern Slovakia sites of the Early Phase of the Eastern Linear Pottery Culture; Vol. V South-Eastern Poland LBK sites. The database and analysis of archaeological records provide the most up-to-date groundwork for the construction of the model on Neolithization of Central Europe within the frame work of the FEPRE project. Contents: 1) Starcevo-Cris Culture in Western part of Romania Transylvania, Banat, Crisana, Maramures, Oltenia and Western Muntenia: repository, distribution map, state of research and chronology (Sabin Adrian Luca, Cosmin Ioan Suciu and Florian Dumitrescu-Chioar); 2) Architecture of the Early Neolithic in Romania (Gheorghe Lazarovici and Cornelia Magda Lazaovici); 3) Technological uniformity? Early Neolithic ceramic vessels, cult objects, net weights and daub production in Romania (Michela Spataro); 4) The management of livestock in Early Neolithic settlements (Starèevo-Cris complex) from Transylvania and Banat (Georgeta El Susi); 5) Technology of skeletal materials of the Starèevo-Cris Culture in Romania. Some considerations (Corneliu Beldiman and Diana-Maria Sztancs); 6) Some aspects of the earliest Neolithic chipped stone assemblages of Transylvania and the Banat (Romania) (Paolo Biagi); 7) Catalogue of the Early Neolithic settlements in Western part of Romania Transylvania, Banat, Crisana, Maramures, Oltenia and Western Muntenia (Sabin Adrian Luca, Cosmin Ioan Suciu and Florian Dumitrescu-Chioar). [See also BAR S2048, 2009 The First Neolithic Sites in Central/South-East European Transect Volume I: Early Neolithic Sites on the Territory of Bulgaria edited by Ivan Gatsov and Yavor Boyadzhiev. Specific Targeted Research Project on the Formation of Europe: Prehistoric Population Dynamics and the Roots of Socio-Cultural Diversity. Institute of Archaeology,Jagiellonian University. ISBN 978 1 4073 0624 7]