Trușești
Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)·Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)·🇷🇴 Botoșani County, Trușești, Jijia Plain, Romania
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About Trușești
Trușești in Botoșani County, Trușești, Jijia Plain, Romania is a Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 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. Cucuteni tell-palisaded village — painted ceramics, salt spring exploitation.
Why it mattersCucuteni tell-palisaded village — painted ceramics, salt spring exploitation.
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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.5500–3500 BCE Precucuteni-Cucuteni A–B
- Period
- Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)
- Culture
- Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)
- Purpose
- Ancestral Pueblo aggregation and ceremonial centre
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1990–present research project
- Excavation
- Excavated
c.5500–3500
Initial construction/founding
2015
Multidisciplinary synthesis publication for Trușești
On the ground
Structures & features
47.7700° N · 27.0100° E · 200 m · 3 mapped features
Cucuteni B painted house
houseCucuteni B painted house with kiln
47.7715° N · 27.0110° ESalt workshop?
workshopSalt brine boiling debris
47.7688° N · 27.0092° EPrecucuteni base
settlementPrecucuteni wattle houses
47.7708° N · 27.0085° E