The area around Piatra Neamţ is
one of the oldest inhabited areas in Romania. The oldest traces of human
civilisation in the present territory date back to the higher Paleolithic,
about 100,000 years BCE. The Cucuteni culture, whose development lasted
approximately one thousand years (ca. 3600-2600 BCE) was attested in the
territory of Neamţ county by a remarkable number of settlements (approx. 150),
archaeological diggings unearthing important museum collections of Aeneolithic
artifacts. Archaeologists have also discovered objects here dating back to the
Neolithic
