Spatial organization and population size of small Cucuteni-Tripolye settlements: Results of geomagnetic surveys in Baia and Adâncata, Suceava County, Bucovina, Eastern Romania

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Robert Hofmann
Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Johanna-Mestorf Straße 2–6, 24118 Kiel.
Stanislav Ţerna
‘High Anthropological School’ University, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
Constantin-Emil Ursu
Bucovina Museum, Suceava, Str. Stefan cel Mare Nr. 33 Suceava 72003 Romania
Lennart Brandtstätter
Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Johanna-Mestorf Straße 2–6, 24118 Kiel.
Heiko Tiede
Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Johanna-Mestorf Straße 2–6, 24118 Kiel.
Wiebke Mainusch
Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Johanna-Mestorf Straße 2–6, 24118 Kiel
Sabrina Autenrieth
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Postbus 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Abstract

Geomagnetic research and drillings provide new results regarding settlement organisation and population size of three small settlements from the Pre-Cucuteni and Cucuteni AB period in the Suceva County in Romanian Bucovina. In these settlements from different stages of the Pre-Cucuteni complex domestic dwellings can be distinguished from clearly oversized (special?) buildings which are situated in central positions and which contain partly special inventories. Different principles of settlement organisation are visible which show each far-reaching references to the Central Balkans on the one hand and the Bug-Dnieper interfluve on the other hand. Consistently populations with less than 200 inhabitants are reconstructed based on analogies to other Cucuteni-Tripolye sites.