ABSTRACT
Natural landmarks define the area known in the literature as the Carpathian-Danube Region or the northern region of the Lower Danube. The Tisza, Danube, and Dniester rivers lie to the west, east, and south, the Black Sea coast to the southeast, and the Northern Bukovina region to the north. This is certainly part of the so-called forgotten or neglected Europe, areas which now lie in Moldova, Romania, and Hungary. For a better understanding of the role of such areas through the centuries when the written sources are almost non-existent we need other means to explore these hidden regions, such as archaeological data. The first step is to collate all the known data, map them, and then move to research at the macro- and micro-regional levels. The second step concerns the regional distribution of archaeological sites and artifacts. Recording, mapping, and examining the archaeological data from surface surveys and excavations (rescue or systematic) has made rich and diverse archaeological materials available about the populations north of the Lower Danube in the early medieval period.
