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The archaeological documentation allow us to observe that in parallel with the existence of a "scattered" habitat, similar to the communities that used the grazing for earning their living, appear some fortresses that, show the existence of leaders in some communities, fiefs, that were interested in the affirmation and the maintaining of the social prestige. The chronology of the Early Hallstatt from the south-west of Romania has a first stage characterized by the grooved ceramics (Vârtop type), which is dated in the absolute chronology in the 12th - 11th centuries B.C. The second stage, with imprinted ceramics of Insula Banului - Gornea - Kalakaca type is dated in the 10th - 9th centuries B.C.

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Lazar, Simona
Simona Lazar - Ph.D. scientific researcher Ph.D., "C.S.Nicolaescu Plopsor" Socio-Human Research Institute, Craiova, Romanian Academy. Author of several books; over 80 scientific articles; participated in over 50 national and international conferences; archaeological excavations at Piatra Olt, Ghidici, Cârcea etc.; Romanian Academy Award, in 2013.

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