BEYOND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGINATION. OBSERVATIONS ABOUT KODJADERMENGUMELNIŢA-KARANOVO VI ARCHITECTURE BASED ON A STUDY OF EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Abstract

The experimental archaeology project presented here aimed at the reconstruction of a dwelling, at the 1:1 scale, belonging to the Kodjadermen-Gumelnitsa-Karanovo VI culture (5th millennium BC), based on archaeological data accumulated from research carried out mainly at the site of Sultana-Malu Roşu (South-East Romania). This reconstruction was followed by the estimation of the volume of materials used for raising the construction in conjunction with the human factor and the time needed for building it. Further, a reconstruction and verifification of difffferent techniques for the construction of surface area houses was made. The sources for this project were based on archaeological remains discovered in the fifield, such as, fragments of walls with impressions of building materials, charred fragments of posts, the size and arrangement of the post holes, and on the indirect information provided by miniature house models of Kodjadermen-Gumelnitsa-Karanovo VI dwellings, which are mostly reflflected by ethnographic data. These data were used to verify some of our hypotheses.