Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 9. (1979)
Recenzii
654 the Christian characteristics are admitted as a result of the intensified process of spreading the Christian religion among the populations from this geographical area, as well as a direct consequence of the multiple and permanent connections with the Byzantine civilization. The inventory of the autochtonous settlements and tombs from the 5—7th centuries, AD, consists of: a) tools, particularly those of various metals, bones, grit stone, clay; b) objects oi adornment made both of common metals (bronze, copper, iron) and of precious ones or of glass; c) coins discovered either isolately or under the form of bronze treasures and which had been issued by the Byzantine Empire. All these set forth new elements that evidence the economical relationships of the Byzantine Empire with the populations in the North of Low Danube and Moldavia; d) ceramics, rich and varied, is divided into four cathegories: I — Ceramics processed on fast potter's wheel; If — Ceramics processed on slow potter's wheel; III — Hand-made ceramics; IV — Imported ceramics. An important place within Chapter I is afforded to the treating of Costi$a-Boto$ana Cultural Aspect (5—7‘h centuries, AD) which in analyzed evolutively, in steps, evidencing its local origin. This cultural aspect, considered as eastern variant of the Bratei Culture, represents the civilization of Daco-Roman population from the east-Carpathian region of Romania, which, in its turn, had been subdued to the process of Romanization. This civilization will prove its vigor and durability during the following centuries in its direct contact with the new migratory peoples, among which an important role was played by the Slavs. They wolud adhere to the superior forms of the local civilization they met here and their culture (being in a lower stage of development) was gradually replaced while they were assimilated up to the 8-th century. Analysing the penetrating process of the Slavonian tribes in the territory of Romania (6—7th cc., AD) and their relationships with the autochtonous population there is evidenced the contradiction occuring between the information obtained from the written sources and those from the archaeological realities regarding to the actual period in which the Slavs effectively settled down in the North of Danube. Up to the middle of the 6-th century we van speak only about predatory expeditions and not of a real settlement of the Slavs in the North-Danubian area. In the case of Moldavia there could be establshed two main directions of the Slavonian tribes’ pentration: one from North (East Sub-Carpathian Ukraina — southward on the course of Siret River — the Danubian plain), a direction along which had advanced a known better group due to the investigation made at Horodi§tea-Dorohoi, Suceava-$ipot, Botolani, Ude$ti-Suceava etc., and the second from east of Prut River along which a group had infiltrated towards the eastern part of the Central Moldavian Plateaux — i.e., the lower courses of the Prut, Birlad and Siret rivers — to Tutova's Hills and the Plain of Muntenia. Then, the Slavonian Archaeological Discoveries oi 6—7tu Centuries in Moldavia are presented specifying that a series of vestiges had been eroneously dated or ethnically atributed, especially certain discoveries of autochtonous feature had been previously attributed to the Slavs or to other migratory populations, a fact that resulted in conclusions highly eroneous. At the end of the first chapter we are shown the Cultural Aspect oi the 6—7th cc. Suceava-ipipot Type which convincingly evidences the ascendent evolution of the civilization from the east-Carpathian area of Romania during the 8—10th centuries, AD, an important step in the general evolution of civilization in Moldavia during the second half of the first millennium, AD By its major Roman component, the cultural aspect of Suceava-$ipot presents close linkages with the Costi$a-Boto§ana type civilization, constituting thus eloquent evidence of the continuity of the autochtonous population under the conditions of the first contacts with the old Slavs. The first chapter is closed by a minute and substantial reference list consisting of 222 notes that complete its content.
