Peuce (Nov 2014)
O periegeză prin istoricul cercetării protistorice dobrogene: necropolele“ de tip Murighiol”
Abstract
Dobrudjan necropolises from 4th-3rd c. BC have been researched for the past six decades. The first diggings at Murighiol (1954-1958) were shortly followed by investigations at Satu Nou (1958-1959) and Telița (1959). Later, three large necropolises were investigated at Enisala (1968-1976), Bugeac (1968-1984) and Canlia (1969-1974). However, the above-mentioned necropolises did not benefit from systematic publication from their authors. Only Canlia necropolis was published systematically, almost three decades after the diggings. All the other necropolises are known only through preliminary and incomplete reports. The systematic analysis of the whole archaeological monuments was deciphered or abandoned on various occasions. The debates no longer rooted in the documented particularities, instead entered the realm of approximate generalizations that allowed the perpetuation, without reflexive revisions, of the traditional historiographic clichés. Thus the Dobrudjan necropolises from the 4th-3rd c. BC cannot be judiciously compared to other similar vestiges from Walachia or Bulgaria. Full methodical introduction of the results of the old excavations in the scientific circuit ought to be a stringent priority in present-day protohistoric research.
