A FLANGED-AXE DISCOVERED AT PETREȘTI-DEALUL NETOTU (ALBA COUNTY) AND SOME REMARQUES ABOUT THE DETECTORISTS

Abstract

Starting from a recent discovery realized in the area of Petrești (Petersdorf, Sebeș, Alba County), the present study try to add new data to the bibliography of the end of Copper Age and Early Bronze Age on the Sebeș River Valley, as well as regarding the phenomenon of metal detection on the Romanian territory. The subject is not a new one, but it captures a paradigm shift in the case of the authors, in what we can define as: the management of the relations between public institutions of the Romanian State and owners of metal detectors interested of using these devices to discover archaeological artifacts. The most correct - deontological and moral - would be that the central idea to which we must refer permanently when we talk about this phenomenon, be that of the primordial attention paid to the context and the artifact i.e. the Cultural Heritage. As long as the legislation still in function, does not unequivocally define the concept of ”fortuitous (accidental) discovery”, and archaeological sites (at least those that are known officially!) are not signalized, marked and delimited, according to low (!), public representatives and archaeologists will be put frequently in the situation to find ”emergency solutions” which must have in the central plan the idea of protecting the archaeological heritage