Subiect: The preventive archaeological research performed on the Deva – Orăştie highway route led us to discover a large settlement dating from the Late Bronze Age. Some of the investigated features from this site contain ceramic and bone artefacts, which could have cultic role. Among these, there are animal bones such as vertebras an phalanges, some of them processed and with intense using traces. They are associated with fragmentary decorated hearths and portable stoves (pyraunoi). There are also such vessels decorated with anthropomorphic plastic applications. We consider that these artefacts were used in cultic rituals and, probably, in shamanic practices.
