Ithyphallic figurines from Geangoești Hulă, a north to Danube Kodjadermen-Gumelnița Karanovo VI culture site

Abstract

Forty years after the first excavation on Geangoești-Hulă, a new archaeological research project on site, a Kodjadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI culture settlement, allow a better understanding of the stratigraphic sequences and gives new insight over constructive solutions and dimensions of a KGK VI settlement, sketching regional patterns. In the last five years, an impressive quantity of archaeological artefacts, mostly ceramic sherds, but over 200 whole vessels, a big lot of clay figurines and chipped flint and obsidian industry, some clay miniature objects, zoomorphic clay figurines, whirls and loom weight, but also copper and polished stone objects, was collected from different archaeological features and structures, as contemporaneous pits, foundation ditches, constructive pits, waste areas, houses etc. The present study brings to light the only three male figurines from the anthropomorphic collection from Geangoești, occasion to analyse them in a larger context, by comparing them with other male figurines from K G K VI culture and by reviewing some other forms used in Neolithic and Copper Age Eastern Europe to express masculine element.