Sultana-Malu Roşu Southern Extension
Sultana South · Malu Roşu South
Eneolithic (5200–3800 BCE)·Boian → Gumelnița (KGK VI)·🇷🇴 Călărași County, Mostiștea Valley, Lower Danube, Romania
About
About Sultana-Malu Roşu Southern Extension
Sultana-Malu Roşu Southern Extension is the southern terrace-cemetery zone south of the Sultana-Malu Roşu Gumelnița tell on the Mostiștea high terrace. The extension lies between the Malu Roşu tell and the Boian Ghețărie settlement 320 m east — the first Gumelnița site with scientific research. Southern trenches expose a Boian–Gumelnița burnt-house sequence and the Eneolithic cemetery (94 inhumations) with children's burials, copper awls and anthropomorphic vessels — documenting Gumelnița mortuary–tell linkage in the Lower Danube KGK VI world.
Why it mattersFirst Gumelnița science site — southern cemetery terrace with 94 inhumations bridging Malu Roşu–Ghețărie
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Children's burials — status or pathology pattern?
- 02Malu Roşu to Ghețărie diachrony — Boian-Gumelnița continuity?
Theories
- 01Andreescu Gumelnița cemetery rules — Sultana funerary canon
- 02KGK VI Mostiștea tells as communism-surviving tells (Europeana)
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.5200 BCE Boian; Gumelnița tell 4500 BCE
- Period
- Eneolithic (5200–3800 BCE)
- Culture
- Boian → Gumelnița (KGK VI)
- Builders
- Boian villagers, Gumelnița tell builders (KGK VI)
- Purpose
- Southern extension of Sultana-Malu Roşu tell — Gumelnița tell (500m N village) southern terrace cemetery zone between Malu Roşu and Ghețărie tells
- Abandoned
- c.3800 BCE Gumelnița decline
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1958–present Andreescu & Lazăr (Bucharest)
- Excavation
- Excavation ongoing
1958
Andreescu opens Sultana south, Boian levels found
2008
94-grave Eneolithic cemetery with children's burials published
2015
Sultana-Malu Roşu Gumelnița mortuary–tell synthesis (Andreescu–Lazăr)
On the ground
Structures & features
44.2609° N · 26.8670° E · 28 m · 3 mapped features
- Southern Terrace Burnt-House Sequence (Boian→Gumelnița)settlementBoian to Gumelnița burnt daub superposition southern terrace 5200–4000 BCE44.2617° N · 26.8676° E
- Eneolithic Cemetery (94 Inhumations)necropolis94 inhumation graves with children's burials 320m E of tell, Gumelnița44.2602° N · 26.8661° E
- Mostiștea High Terrace RetainingfortificationTerrace-edge retaining between Malu Roşu and Ghețărie tells, Mostiștea valley44.2620° N · 26.8677° E