The Catalogue of the Neolithic and Eneolithic Funerary Findings from Romania

The study of funerary rites and rituals used by different prehistoric communities is one of the most difficult issues of the scientific research, because of the complexity of the phenomenon itself and the so-called “opacity” of the archaeological discovery. Given these conditions, the subject needs careful attention, both from the perspective of the structure of the existing data but also of the different types of possible interpretations. Unfortunately, in the Romanian literature are severely lacking syntheses dedicated to the funerary discoveries from the Neolithic and Eneolithic. The only attempt to publish such a study is the article written by E. Comsa in 1960, Contributie cu privire la riturile funerare din epoca neolitica de pe teritoriul tarii noastre (Comsa 1960a). Some years later, in 1974, the same author updates the data in an article called Die Bestattungssittenim Rumänischen Neolithikum (Comsa 1974b). Besides these two syntheses, there are diverse attempts to present