Vulcăneşti

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For the village in Nisporeni district, see Cioreşti.

Vulcăneşti is a town in Gagauzia, Moldova. One village is administered by the town, Vulcăneşti station. It was the site of an archcaeologic investgation, which found a Neolithic sculpture that echoes Rodin's The Thinker. [1] [2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gimbutas, Marija. "The 'Sorrowful God'". The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe 6500-3500 B.C. Myths and Cult Images. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp. 230-234. ISBN 0520046552. 
  2. ^ Passek, T.S.; Gerasimov, M.M. (1967) "Novaja statuetka iz Vulkaneshti" KSIIMK Archaeological Museum of the Institute of History of the Moldavian Socialist Republic 111: 38-41 

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