Message #105998

[Bianca]

             







The floor was next to be reconstructed and it was one of the most important architectural elements with a special role in the ecology of the house. In time, the villagers from Cucuteni have developed many types of floors, from the simplest, made of a layer of battered clay, to the most complex i.e. a structure of chopped beams covered by a mixture of clay, straws and water. The floor had to provide a good isolation from the condition of the environment at that time when there had been a raising of the FREATICE waters.

For the first house rebuilt in The Archaeological Cucuteni Park we have chosen a simple floor of yellow clay. In some special places designed for interior architectural elements we have made a special structure of oak and lime leaves and branches covered in a layer of clay mixed with water and straws.