Câteva noi date arheologice despre Mănăstirea Neamț

Abstract

The authors highlight the outcomes of preventive archaeological research carried out at the Neamț Monastery, in Neamț County (eastern Romania) in 2019. Though it was a limited type of research, consisting of the investigation of two surfaces (i.e., a survey inside and a section outside the church founded in 1497 by Stephen the Great (1457-1504), the authors obtained a series of relevant information for the history of the monastic establishment. Recent studies have highlighted within the church the presence of a segment of a previous foundation of the current building, which we attribute to an older ecclesiastical building. Excavations carried out on the outside, limited in terms of surface, have provided new data related to the foundation level of the current church. On this occasion, the authors have also identified two funerary complexes (reburials), and they have analysed subsequently the osteological material from an anthropological perspective.