Liviu, Marta - Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Andrid. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2011)
Mărturii arheologice
ments. The richness of the area caused not only rapid flourish of settlements, but sometimes led to their extinctions, because of others communities’ wish to settle or plunder. Being especially a natural barrier that is hard to go through, the swampy Ier Valley was sometimes playing the role of border not only between the counties (districts), but also between political entities. Local legends keep alive the memory of some local natural disasters: earthquakes that swallowed the old settlements located once on the present territory of the commune or plagues that decimated the population dramatically making them to regroup in the existing settlements. Perhaps these legends are a living memory of many settlements that worked over time; some of them were mentioned in documents, while others were identified in the traces from the surface or within archaeological excavations. The pre-history of the commune of Andrid is known through numerous archaeological discoveries, some of them researched through small scale archaeological excavations. The oldest known settlement on the territory of the commune dates from the middle Neolithic (6th millennium BC). This was on the pasture from the outskirts of Andrid, and it was discovered when the southern dam was built on the lake between the villages of Andrid and Dindeşti. The settlement revealed pottery fragments, some of them nicely painted with black linear motifs, stone axes and numerous pieces of obsidian, a stone with sharp edges, which was used to make tools and weapons. Recently, a settlement was identified on the sand bank at the present-day farm of Dindeşti, from the late Neolithic period, while two more settlements were identified on the territory of Andrid, at the sites Corlat and Drumul Poştei. Pottery fragments attesting the existence of some Neolithic settlements were discovered in two sites near the road to Pir village, at Dâmbul Ars and at the Canton area, near the Ier canal. Şanţul fortificaţiei de epoca bronzului de la Andrid-Dâmbul Taurului. Fotografie aeriană şi prospecţiune geomagnetică Bronzkori erődítmény árokrendszere Érendréd-Bikadomb lelőhelyről. Légifelvétel és geomágneses felmérés The ditch of the bronze age fortification at Andrid-Dâmbul Taurului site. Aerial view and geomagnetic survey 7
