{"id":6542,"date":"2025-07-01T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:41:02","slug":"exponatul-lunii-iulie-2025-bratara-de-spondylus-descoperita-la-limanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/exponatul-lunii-iulie-2025-bratara-de-spondylus-descoperita-la-limanu\/","title":{"rendered":"Exponatul lunii iulie 2025 &#8211; Br\u0103\u021bar\u0103 de Spondylus descoperit\u0103 la Limanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Comunit\u0103\u021bile neo-eneolitice din spa\u021biul sud-est european au confec\u021bionat podoabe de Spondylus, dintre care cele mai cunoscute sunt br\u0103\u021b\u0103rile masive, descoperite mai ales \u00een contexte funerare, pe ambele bra\u021be ale defunc\u021bilor, deopotriv\u0103 femei \u0219i b\u0103rba\u021bi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Br\u0103\u021bara de Spondylus analizat\u0103 a fost descoperit\u0103 \u00eentr-un morm\u00e2nt de inhuma\u021bie, par\u021bial distrus, din necropola situat\u0103 \u00een proximitatea Lacului Limanu (1960), al\u0103turi de ofrande \u0219i alte piese de inventar funerar (un craniu de animal, dou\u0103 lame de silex \u0219i c\u00e2teva fragmente ceramice Hamangia). Materialul ceramic permite \u00eencadrarea morm\u00e2ntului \u00een faza final\u0103 a culturii Hamangia (4700 \u2013 4600 BC). Br\u0103\u021bara, realizat\u0103 prin percu\u021bie direct\u0103, puternic lustruit\u0103 \u0219i cu urme de uzur\u0103, prezint\u0103, de o parte \u0219i de alta a unei fisuri, dou\u0103 perfora\u021bii; cel mai probabil, prin perfora\u021biile acesteia a fost trecut un fir vegetal menit s\u0103 sus\u021bin\u0103 fisura ap\u0103rut\u0103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Av\u00e2nd \u00een vedere originea mediteranean\u0103 a acestei scoici, putem considera c\u0103 circula\u021bia podoabelor de Spondylus pe distan\u021be mari, ca \u0219i \u00een cazul altor piese \u201eexotice\u201d (topora\u0219e de jadeit, lame de obsidian, perle de malahit), eviden\u021biaz\u0103 existen\u021ba unor schimburi materiale complexe, care dep\u0103\u0219eau nevoile uzuale. Piesele \u00een discu\u021bie reprezentau \u00eensemne ale puterii, ajunse \u00een spa\u021biul autohton pe calea schimburilor directe \u0219i indirecte, bunuri greu de procurat de c\u0103tre majoritatea popula\u021biei, fiind accesibile doar elitelor. Prezente at\u00e2t \u00een morminte de adul\u021bi, c\u00e2t \u0219i de copii, br\u0103\u021b\u0103rile de Spondylus tr\u0103deaz\u0103 practicarea principiului eredit\u0103\u021bii de c\u0103tre comunit\u0103\u021bile Hamangia, \u00eensemnele de putere fiind transmise urma\u0219ilor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Spondylus Bracelet discovered in Limanu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neo-eneolithic communities in the southeast of Europe have made Spondylus ornaments, the most famous of which are the massive bracelets, discovered especially in funerary contexts, on both arms of the deceased, both women and men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The analyzed Spondylus bracelet was discovered in an inhumation grave, partially destroyed, from the necropolis located in the proximity of Lake Limanu (1960), along with offerings and other funerary inventory pieces (an animal skull, two silex blades and several Hamangia ceramic fragments). The ceramic material allows the tomb to be placed in the final phase of Hamangia culture (4700 \u2013 4600 BC). The bracelet, made by direct percussion, heavily polished and with traces of wear, shows, on both sides of a crevice, two perforations; most likely, through its perforations was passed a vegetal thread meant to support the crack that appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the Mediterranean origin of this shell, we can consider that the movement of Spondylus adornments over long distances, as in the case of other \u201eexotic\u201d pieces (jadeite tops, obsidian blades, malachite pearls), highlights the existence of complex material exchanges that exceeded the usual needs. The pieces in question represented signs of power, arrived in the native space by direct and indirect exchanges, goods difficult to obtain by the majority of the population, being accessible only to elites. Present in both, adult and child graves, Spondylus bracelets betray the practice of the principle of heredity by Hamangia communities, the power insignia being passed on to the descendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bibliografie \/ Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 D. Galbenu, A\u0219ezarea \u0219i cimitirul de la Limanu, Materiale \u0219i cercet\u0103ri arheologice, 9, 1970, pp. 77 \u2013 86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 M. M\u0103rg\u0103rit, Shell adornments from the Hamangia cemetery excavated at Cernavod\u0103 \u2013 Columbia D. Techno-typological analysis, R. Kog\u0103lniceanu, R. G. Curc\u0103, M. Gligor, S. Stratton (eds), Homines, Funera, Astra Proceedings of the International Symposium on Funerary Anthropology, 5-8 June 2011, \u201e1 Decembrie 1918\u201d University (Alba Iulia, Romania), BAR International Series 2410, 2012, pp. 97 \u2013 106.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 V. Voinea, G. Neagu, V. Radu, Spondylus shell artefacts in Hamangia Cultures, Pontica, 42, 2009, pp. 9 \u2013 25.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Comunit\u0103\u021bile neo-eneolitice din spa\u021biul sud-est european au confec\u021bionat podoabe de Spondylus, dintre care cele mai cunoscute sunt br\u0103\u021b\u0103rile masive, descoperite mai ales \u00een contexte funerare, pe ambele bra\u021be ale defunc\u021bilor, deopotriv\u0103 femei \u0219i b\u0103rba\u021bi. Br\u0103\u021bara de Spondylus analizat\u0103 a fost descoperit\u0103 \u00eentr-un morm\u00e2nt de inhuma\u021bie, par\u021bial distrus, din necropola situat\u0103 \u00een proximitatea Lacului Limanu (1960), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exponatul-lunii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6544,"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions\/6544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minac.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}