Hoișești
Hoișești — La Pădure · Hoișești Cucuteni Necropolis · Hoisesti La Pădure · Hoisesti Iași
Eneolithic Cucuteni A3–B (4500–3800 BCE) Moldavian Plateau·Cucuteni A3–B (Moldavian Iași variant)·🇷🇴 Iași County, Comuna Dumești, Hoișești village on Bahlui–Prut watershed (Moldavian Plateau, La Izvor La Pădure), Romania
About
About Hoișești
Hoișești (Hoișești-La Pădure/La Izvor) — Cucuteni A3–B tell-necropolis (c.4500–3800 BCE, 2 ha settlement + extramural cemetery 50 graves) on Bahlui watershed, Iași County, Moldavian Plateau. Excavated R. Alaiba–D. Monah: Cucuteni A3 ditch 3 m, house platform with painted C, cremation and inhumation graves with ochre, copper beads, Spondylus shells. Links Cucuteni A3 painted ware decline to C? Links intra-muros houses vs extramural Bahlui terrace cemetery. Key for Cucuteni burial rite (rare — Trypillia usually lacks formal cemetery). Bahlui–Prut interfluve fertile. Abandoned 3800.
Why it mattersRare Cucuteni formal cemetery — 50 graves extramural with copper/Spondylus 4500–3800
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Why formal cemetery rare Trypillia?
Theories
- 01Bahlui fertility → cemetery emergence
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.4500 BCE Cucuteni A3 foundation; B 4100–3800
- Period
- Eneolithic Cucuteni A3–B (4500–3800 BCE) Moldavian Plateau
- Culture
- Cucuteni A3–B (Moldavian Iași variant)
- Builders
- Cucuteni A3 farmers (Hoișești ditch builders)
- Purpose
- Moldavian tell-necropolis 2 ha with rare formal cemetery Bahlui watershed
- Abandoned
- c.3800 BCE C? horizon
- Rediscovered
- 1970s Alaiba La Pădure survey
- Excavation
- Excavated
4500 BCE
Cucuteni A3 tell ditch 3 m Bahlui
4100 BCE
Cucuteni B transition 50 graves extramural
1970s
Alaiba La Pădure 2 ha cemetery reveals
On the ground
Structures & features
47.1800° N · 27.3500° E · 110 m · 3 mapped features
Tell Ditch 3 m Cucuteni A3
earthworkBahlui watershed ditch 3 m wide enclosing tell 2 ha A3 painted houses
47.1805° N · 27.3505° EExtramural Cemetery 50 Graves
cemetery50 cremation–inhumation graves with copper beads and Spondylus on terrace
47.1790° N · 27.3510° ELa Pădure House Platform
houseHouse platform with A3 painted and tripod vessels inside tell
47.1810° N · 27.3490° E