ABSTRACT
In the summer of 1982, while widening and deepening a trench of his garden allotment near the village of Dumes¸ti (northeastern Romania), Ion Onofrei found several clay figurines. Researchers from the local museum widened the trench and recovered more figures, some complete pots and many sherds; all were characteristic of the A3 phase of the Cucuteni culture and date to the second half of the fifth millennium BC. Two years later Ruxandra Maxim-Alaiba carried out a larger excavation during which she uncovered the building which had originally contained the material that Mr Onofrei discovered (Maxim-Alaiba 1983-4, 1987). Of particular interest is a set of 12 figurines.
