A CUCUTENI A3 SETTLEMENT AT POCREACA, IAŞI

Abstract: We present the results of the archaeological investigations carried out in the Neolithic Cucuteni A3 settlement from Pocreaca–Cetăţuia site, Schitu Duca commune, Iaşi county. The excavations unearthed a house platform of fired clay, alongside flint and polished stone tools, tri-chromatic painted and unpainted pottery, and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic idols. Rezumat: Sunt prezentate rezultatele cercetărilor arheologice din așezarea neolitică Cucuteni A 3 de la Pocreaca, punctul „Cetățuia”, comuna Schitu Duca, județul Iași. În cursul săpăturilor a fost descoperită o platformă de locuință din lut ars, unelete de silex și piatră șlefuită, ceramică pictată tricromă și nepictată, idoli antropomorfi și zoomorfi. Between 1991 and 1994, during four excavation campaigns, archaeological investigations were carried out in the village of Pocreaca, commune of Schitu-Duca, Iaşi County, at the site called ‘Cetăţuia ’ , in order to study the existent fortification with earth walls. This archaeological site had been signalled since the 1950s, when the archaeologists conducted surface investigations in this area collected ceramic fragments belonging to the A phase of the Cucuteni culture, as well as to the first Iron Age2. In 1966 Adrian and Marilena Florescu carried out a survey whose results remained unpublished. The site was later registered in the Archaeological Repertory of the Iasi County3, in A. Laszlo’s work dedicated to the beginning of the first Iron Age on Moldavian territory4, and in the Repertory of Cucuteni Settlements5. Because my investigations concerned the fortress belonging to the first 1 Institute for Archaeology Iaşi