摘要：The archaeozoologic sample we are analysing comes from the Poiana settlement where complexes entirely and exclusively of the VIII th - IX th centuries were found. The archaeological site lies in the Poiana village, in the Zvora.tea commune, in the district of Suceava, at about 20 km N-NW of the city of Suceava and at about 5 km west of the Siret river. The fauna remains were gathered and dated under the coordination of the archaeologist Mugur Andronic, to whom we are grateful. The archaeological diggings at Poiana took place in three archaeological campaigns in the years 1998, 2000 and 2001. We have already published ( STANC, BEJENARU , 2001; STANC et al ., 2002) a partial archaeozoological analyses of the samples gathered during the diggings in the first two campaigns, some data concerning the ages of the animals when they were killed and some osteometrical data. In this paper we present the cumulated data which we obtained from the fauna remains gathered during all three archaeological campaigns. A number of 1523 bone remains, which are household remains were studied. These were in an advanced fragmentary state, which was due to some extent to precarious conditions of preservation in the sediment, but also to the fact that the bones had been broken in order to get the marrow out for food. The archaeozoological sample consists of bones, teeth, horns of vertebrate animals and mollusc shells. Out of the total of 1523 bone remains only 589 could be allowed specific determination. The determinated fragments could be considered as belonging to three systematic groups: Mollusca, Aves and Mammalia, the last one being better represented in the sample (fig. 1). Two species of molluscs were identified: Helix pomatia (47 whole and fragment shells) and Unio sp . (3 fragments of valve).
