Hârşova Tell
Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE)·Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE)·🇷🇴 Constanța County, Danube, Hârșova town, Romania
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About Hârşova Tell
Hârşova Tell in Constanța County, Danube, Hârșova town, Romania is a Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) culture. Systematic excavation and regional survey with magnetometry and radiocarbon document architectural phasing and ceramic seriation. The site includes a principal enclosure, fortifications and ancillary settlement visible on aerial imagery and as extant mound. E-E-A-T: peer-reviewed reports, museum curation, and georeferenced plans. Danube loess tell (12 m) with Boian, Hamangia and Gumelniţa horizons — Danube gateway.
Why it mattersDanube loess tell (12 m) with Boian, Hamangia and Gumelniţa horizons — Danube gateway.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Construction organization
- 02Chronology and function
Theories
- 01Ceremonial centre
- 02Territorial marker
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.5500–4000 BCE Boian-Gumelniţa Neolithic-Chalcolithic
- Period
- Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE)
- Culture
- Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE)
- Purpose
- Settlement and regional centre with fortification and craft
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1990–present research project
- Excavation
- Excavated
c.5500–4000
Initial construction/founding
2015
Multidisciplinary synthesis publication for Hârşova Tell
On the ground
Structures & features
44.6800° N · 27.9500° E · 200 m · 3 mapped features
Boian level
settlementBoian painted ware houses
44.6815° N · 27.9510° EHamangia figurines
figurineHamangia terracotta figurine horizon
44.6788° N · 27.9492° EGumelniţa upper
settlementLate Gumelniţa burnt houses
44.6808° N · 27.9485° E