A re-evaluation of the archaeological discoveries of mounds II and III from Ciulnița (Ialomița County, Romania)

Between 1994 and 1997, as a result of the exploitation of an archaeological site in the village of Ciulnița (Ialomița County) as a source of soil for the Transeuropa N-S Highway, rescue archaeological excavations were conducted. The discoveries were published monographically, but recently, the available information on mounds II and III was completed by the bio-anthropological analysis of the human osteological remains and by six radiocarbon dates that specify the absolute chronology of uncovered graves. The aim of this article is to present the results of interdisciplinary research and contextualise the findings from Ciulnița in the tumular landscape north of the Lower Danube. Research shows that burial mounds were used as burial sites at several stages, beginning in the 4th millennium BC until the 1st millennium AD.Peer reviewe