The 2008 archaeological rescue excavation at Ciorani – „Ogradă – Chirnogi” was occasioned by the ... more The 2008 archaeological rescue excavation at Ciorani – „Ogradă – Chirnogi” was occasioned by the unearthing of several ceramic vessels, during the works at an absorbing well for the sewage system. After the analysis of all the artefacts and, given the circumstances of discovery, it was obvious that we were facing the remains of a funerary context. As it turned out, the feature is typical to the Sântana de Mureș – Černjachov cultural milieu, and dated probably during the last quarter of the 4th century AD and the first part of the 5th century AD, which in terms of the Central European chronology would mean the late C3-D1 stages with the possibility of an extension even in the D2 horizon. Given the late dating of this closed feature, closer attention was payed to the many problems related to the end of the Sântana de Mureș – Černjachov culture. Several analogies from similar features having a late dating were explored, along with some of the ancient literary sources depicting the realities of the respective era. After a thorough scrutiny of all these data, we advanced several working hypotheses such as the fact that the Sântana de Mureș – Černajchov culture continued to exist even after the arrival of the Huns, as shown by the study of several artefacts and their archaeological contexts datable throughout the chronological stage D1; we observed very clearly the exaggeration of the impact that the Huns had upon this region (seen especially in the Romanian archaeological literature) and also the inexistence of a good reason for us to believe that the end of a certain archaeological culture must be related to an exact date given by some military conflicts recorded by the ancient writers. In other words, we cannot speak about major chronological differences between Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania that could be related with the massive migration of the Goths, pressed by the new coming force represented by the Huns, as presumed by some Romanian archaeologists. Starting with the end of the 4th century AD, the cultural mosaic that we mentioned before starts to be even more complex and we can easily see that we are now facing an extremely sensitive period, a time of great changes, at the whole European level, which allows us to feel the turbulent atmosphere that was marking the analysed era.
The 2008 archaeological rescue excavation at Ciorani – „Ogradă – Chirnogi” was occasioned by the ... more The 2008 archaeological rescue excavation at Ciorani – „Ogradă – Chirnogi” was occasioned by the unearthing of several ceramic vessels, during the works at an absorbing well for the sewage system. After the analysis of all the artefacts and, given the circumstances of discovery, it was obvious that we were facing the remains of a funerary context. As it turned out, the feature is typical to the Sântana de Mureș – Černjachov cultural milieu, and dated probably during the last quarter of the 4th century AD and the first part of the 5th century AD, which in terms of the Central European chronology would mean the late C3-D1 stages with the possibility of an extension even in the D2 horizon. Given the late dating of this closed feature, closer attention was payed to the many problems related to the end of the Sântana de Mureș – Černjachov culture. Several analogies from similar features having a late dating were explored, along with some of the ancient literary sources depicting the realities of the respective era. After a thorough scrutiny of all these data, we advanced several working hypotheses such as the fact that the Sântana de Mureș – Černajchov culture continued to exist even after the arrival of the Huns, as shown by the study of several artefacts and their archaeological contexts datable throughout the chronological stage D1; we observed very clearly the exaggeration of the impact that the Huns had upon this region (seen especially in the Romanian archaeological literature) and also the inexistence of a good reason for us to believe that the end of a certain archaeological culture must be related to an exact date given by some military conflicts recorded by the ancient writers. In other words, we cannot speak about major chronological differences between Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania that could be related with the massive migration of the Goths, pressed by the new coming force represented by the Huns, as presumed by some Romanian archaeologists. Starting with the end of the 4th century AD, the cultural mosaic that we mentioned before starts to be even more complex and we can easily see that we are now facing an extremely sensitive period, a time of great changes, at the whole European level, which allows us to feel the turbulent atmosphere that was marking the analysed era.
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terms of the Central European chronology would mean the late C3-D1 stages with the possibility of an extension even in the D2 horizon. Given the late dating of this closed feature, closer attention was payed to the many problems related to the end of the Sântana de Mureș – Černjachov culture. Several analogies from similar features having a late dating were explored, along with some of the ancient literary sources depicting the realities of the respective era. After a thorough scrutiny of all these data, we advanced several working hypotheses such as the fact that the Sântana de Mureș – Černajchov culture continued to exist even after the arrival of the Huns, as shown by the study of several artefacts and their archaeological contexts datable throughout the chronological stage D1; we observed very clearly the exaggeration of the impact that the Huns had upon this region (seen especially in the Romanian archaeological literature) and also the inexistence of a good reason for us to believe that the end of a certain archaeological culture must be related to an exact date given by some military conflicts recorded by the ancient writers. In other words, we cannot speak about major chronological differences between Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania that could be related with the massive migration of the Goths, pressed by the new coming force represented by the Huns, as
presumed by some Romanian archaeologists. Starting with the end of the 4th century AD, the cultural mosaic that we mentioned before starts to be even more complex and we can easily see that we are now facing an extremely sensitive period, a time of great changes, at the whole European level, which allows us to feel the turbulent atmosphere that was marking the analysed era.
terms of the Central European chronology would mean the late C3-D1 stages with the possibility of an extension even in the D2 horizon. Given the late dating of this closed feature, closer attention was payed to the many problems related to the end of the Sântana de Mureș – Černjachov culture. Several analogies from similar features having a late dating were explored, along with some of the ancient literary sources depicting the realities of the respective era. After a thorough scrutiny of all these data, we advanced several working hypotheses such as the fact that the Sântana de Mureș – Černajchov culture continued to exist even after the arrival of the Huns, as shown by the study of several artefacts and their archaeological contexts datable throughout the chronological stage D1; we observed very clearly the exaggeration of the impact that the Huns had upon this region (seen especially in the Romanian archaeological literature) and also the inexistence of a good reason for us to believe that the end of a certain archaeological culture must be related to an exact date given by some military conflicts recorded by the ancient writers. In other words, we cannot speak about major chronological differences between Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania that could be related with the massive migration of the Goths, pressed by the new coming force represented by the Huns, as
presumed by some Romanian archaeologists. Starting with the end of the 4th century AD, the cultural mosaic that we mentioned before starts to be even more complex and we can easily see that we are now facing an extremely sensitive period, a time of great changes, at the whole European level, which allows us to feel the turbulent atmosphere that was marking the analysed era.