AUTHOR: Dan Ștefan
PAGES: 167-187
LANGUAGE: Romanian with English abstract and figures captions.
ABSTRACT: The landscape evolution from Prehistory until modern period in the south-eastern Transylvanian depressions was shaped by a complex system of relations – developed during the multifaceted processes of human occupation and exploitation of the land. The traces of the interaction between the people from the past and the natural environment can be easily recognized in the northern sector of the Sfântu Gheorghe Depression, in the remains of settlements, fortifications, funerary areas or sacred sites discovered along the Olt valley, at Olteni, Zoltan or Bedehaza.
The interdisciplinary investigation of this geographic zone is currently being done in a larger programme employing remote sensing, aerial archaeology in visible and infrared spectre, geophysics and the geospatial data modelling with GIS. The following study represents a first report on investigations carried on in the site at Zoltan ‘Nisipărie’ known for its discoveries belonging to Eneolithic and Bronze Age, with the purpose of characterizing the the site’s spatial extent and to reveal the ways in which the landscape, heavily altered by humans in the past, connects with a larger surrounding relief.
Cercetarea relației dintre mediul natural şi comunitățile umane din trecut. Studiu de caz în aşezarea din epoca bronzului de la Zoltan, ”Nisipărie”/Exploring the relation between the natural environment and human communities. Study case – the Bronze Age settlement at Zoltan ‘Nisipărie’