Recreating osseous artefacts and their uses in the activities of the prehistoric communities at the Lower Danube: experimentation design and its applications in archaeology
RESULTS

Brief presentation of the results

In this project, the members of the research team created replicas of prehistoric artefacts made of osseous materials (bone, antler, ...
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Results – phase III (2022)

Abstract: This phase aimed at validating the results accumulated through the study of archaeological collections, experimental workshops and the comparison ...
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Results – phase II (2021)

Abstract. The second phase of the project involved the transition to the practical stage, respectively to the implementation of the ...
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Results – phase I (2020)

Abstract. This phase aimed at testing and implementing the specific methodology of investigation at experimental and archaeological level. Two analysis ...
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DISSEMINATION

Recreating artefacts and ancient skills: from experiment to interpretation (Eds. Monica Mărgărit and Adina Boroneanț), Cetatea de Scaun, 2022

This volume focuses on the role and means of archaeological experimentation in understanding the processes involved in the design, manufacture ...
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Experimental replication of the antler arow points from Vităneşti Măgurice-tell settlement (Author: Ion Torcică), in: M. Mărgărit, A. Boroneanț (eds.), Recreating artefacts and ancient skills: from experiment to interpretation, Cetatea de Scaun, 2022, p. 79-102

The present study focuses on the experimental reconstruction of two typologically different red deer arrow points, found at the tell ...
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Shell gastropods as prehistoric adornments at the Lower Danube: archaeological and experimental data (Author: Monica Mărgărit), in: M. Mărgărit, A. Boroneanț (eds.), Recreating artefacts and ancient skills: from experiment to interpretation, Cetatea de Scaun, 2022, p. 163-182

Processed gastropods transformed into personal adornments were discovered in several prehistoric settlements at the Lower Danube. These archaeological sites include ...
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Processing Unio sp. valves for adornments at the Gumelnița communities (mill. V BC): archaeological and experimental data (Authors: Monica Margarit, Valentin Radu), Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica (BDI indexed journal), vol. 25(issue 1), p. 13-36, https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2020.25.1.2

Valves of the Unio sp. processed to be made into personal adornments are discovered from several settlements of Gumelnița culture (the second ...
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Implements of wild boar canines during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic at the Lower Danube (Authors: Monica Mărgărit, Adina Boroneanț), Documenta Praehistorica (BDI indexed journal), XLVIII, 2021, p. 394-413

This paper proposes to discuss the Sus scrofa teeth technological exploitation and transformation into tools during the Neolithic and the ...
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Production of bone rings at the Hamangia settlement of Cheia (Romania): a technological and experimental analysis (Authors: Monica Mărgărit, Valentina Voinea), Pontica (BDI indexed journal), 53, 2020, p. 89-107

Studies on osseous objects specific to the Hamangia culture (5th millennium cal BC) have paid more attention to exotic raw ...
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Learning from experiment: Unio freshwater mussel shells in fifth-millennium BC Romania (Authors: Monica Mărgărit, Valentin Radu, Valentina Voinea), European Journal of Archaeology (ISI indexed journal), 24(2), 2021, p. 180-203

Raw materials from aquatic environments were systematically used for domestic activities even before the appearance of modern humans. Here, the ...
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