Abstract
The Trinca «Izvorul lui Luca» site is an archaeological object with several cultural and chronological horizons, including the late Hallstatt period. The settlement of this period is attributed to the Western Podolian / Podolian-Moldavian cultural group and is the only one investigated in the Northern Moldavian Plateau. The investigations have revealed a number of complexes (dwellings, auxiliary structures, platforms, hearths, and pits), artifacts made of various raw materials (clay, sand, stone, bone, and metal — bronze and iron), a considerable amount of other archaeological remains (pottery, osteological material, stones, fragments of fired clay, etc.) The detailed and overall analysis of all elements specific to the material culture gives us novel information about the way of living, the architectonics of the dwellings, and so on. All this plays a very important role in the research of the cultural and historical processes of the late Hallstatt period in the East Carpathian region in general and in the Northern Moldavian Plateau in particular. The results undoubtedly confirm once again that this region was a zone of cultural interference between the late Hallstatt communities (Thracian) in the Carpathian-Dniester area and the communities in the forest—steppe on the right bank of the Dnieper that existed simultaneously with them.
Highlights
The Trinca «Izvorul lui Luca» site is an archaeological object with several cultural and chronological horizons, including the late Hallstatt period
The Trinca locality is in the north-western part of the Republic of Moldova, in the area of the left bank of the Prut River, the physico-geographical region of the Northern Moldavian Plateau (Рымбу 1982, с. 94—99)
It became called the region of the Northern Moldavian Plateaux and Plains (Boboc, Sârodoev 2010, p. 14)
Summary
The Trinca locality is in the north-western part of the Republic of Moldova, in the area of the left bank of the Prut River (fig. 1), the physico-geographical region of the Northern Moldavian Plateau (Рымбу 1982, с. 94—99). Toltras are Neogene reef formations, they are spread in the north-western part of the Republic of Moldova on an area of about 2500 km (for a length of over 100 km along the Prut River — from Larga to Bolotina and the width of about 50 km — the most eastern point in Bârladeni, in the Ciugur River valley). They are located in stripes from the northeast to the southwest, like the valleys of the left tributaries of the Prut River — Larga, Vilia, Lopatnic, Draghişte, Racovăţ, Ciugur, Camenca, Căldăruşa The share of the native, Thracian and alien elements of traditions in the territory north and northeast of the Dniester attested in the funeral rite and ritual practiced by the communities that inhabited the area of Northern Moldavian Plateau during the late Hallstatt period are widely presented in the necropolis of Trinca «Drumul feteştilor» (Leviţchi 2006)
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