Obiecte de podoabă cucuteniene: coliere şi pandantive

Abstract

The practice of embellishing the human body with jewels has accompanied throughout millennia the evolution of human societies. Made of various materials, jewels were assigned throughout time a multitude of valences, illustrating both the development degree of an epoch and the artistic taste of the human communities and last but not least transmitting messages that need to be understood and pointed out. From the data resulted so far from archeological researches, no other prehistoric European civilization than the Cucuteni culture transmitted to our times so varied items, providing information regarding this topic. The paper aims at presenting the types of Cucutenian collars and pendants, a topic that has been too little approached so far. Our research is based on exceptional discoveries within treasures and also isolate finds resulting from sites, corroborated with plastic or painted representations on the anthropomorphic statuettes.