Despre ce ne vorbesc hărțile? Problema lipsei necropolelor din perioada secolelor VIII‒X în Transilvania Estică și Centrală, respectiv în nordul și centrul Olteniei și Munteniei: între stadiul cercetării, contextualizare regională, statutul periferic și habitusul cultural.

Abstract

In the scientific debates published to date, there is a huge number of contributions addressing the archaeological spectrum of burial sites in the Transylvanian Basin and Muntenia from a general and comprehensive perspective, however, without taking into account regional or microregional conditions. This omission is mainly caused by an antagonistic presumption of uniformity, perpetuated in the theoretical approaches in archeology, the roots of which can be traced back to the 18–19th century dogmatics about the nation as the primary human organizational form. This article proposes to debate ‒ perhaps in a non-classic way ‒ the lack of burial sites in certain regions of the Transylvanian Basin, Oltenia and Muntenia, and explains this hiatus to a lesser extent by the current state of research and much more probably by the differences in burial customs, respectively by the differently demographical indexes between these regions.

Keywords

• 8–10th centuries
• transylvanian basin
• muntenia
• oltenia
• funerary sites
• lack of burial sites
• cultural habitus