Dictionaries tell us that utensils are objects that serve to perform some operations in the household. The kitchen is, in addition to the room / space where the food is cooked, also all the objects and means used to cook the food. In our presentation we will focus on all the tools that a hominid worked with in the cultural environment of Gumelnița, in the kitchen. Archeology has allowed us to recover various artefacts from the prehistoric settle-ments of Gumelnița culture, some are undoubtedly kitchen utensils, such as: various cups, plates, bowls, spoons, colanders, grinders, in fact characteristic of eneolithic communi-ties. Others may also be assumed to be used in the kitchen, for example various knives, flint blades, hammers, axes, stone teslas. If we take into account that the entire human evolution is a continuous search for food, then we can associate all inventions and dis-coveries with cuisine. However, in our presentation we will categorize the utensils de-pending on the stage of use in the meal preparation process: hunted, cultivated, harvested, slaughtered, frozen, cooked, served. Being aware that a significant part of the kitchen inventory was made of perishable materials: wood, bark, fabrics, skins, etc., we will pre-sent and intuit some functionalities of some inventory pieces made of clay, bone, horn, stone, copper, recovered from the Gumelnița settlements. We cannot recreate the gastronomic environment of the Copper Age without at least a brief analysis of the inventory, conventional called for cuisine. Kitchen utensils were vital to the evolution of civilization, especially in the eneolithic communities of farmers from the lower Danube in the middle of the 5th millennium BC.

Dictionaries tell us that utensils are objects that serve to perform some operations in the household. The kitchen is, in addition to the room / space where the food is cooked, also all the objects and means used to cook the food. In our presentation we will focus on all the tools that a hominid worked with in the cultural environment of Gumelnița, in the kitchen. Archeology has allowed us to recover various artefacts from the prehistoric settle-ments of Gumelnița culture, some are undoubtedly kitchen utensils, such as: various cups, plates, bowls, spoons, colanders, grinders, in fact characteristic of eneolithic communi-ties. Others may also be assumed to be used in the kitchen, for example various knives, flint blades, hammers, axes, stone teslas. If we take into account that the entire human evolution is a continuous search for food, then we can associate all inventions and dis-coveries with cuisine. However, in our presentation we will categorize the utensils de-pending on the stage of use in the meal preparation process: hunted, cultivated, harvested, slaughtered, frozen, cooked, served. Being aware that a significant part of the kitchen inventory was made of perishable materials: wood, bark, fabrics, skins, etc., we will pre-sent and intuit some functionalities of some inventory pieces made of clay, bone, horn, stone, copper, recovered from the Gumelnița settlements. We cannot recreate the gastronomic environment of the Copper Age without at least a brief analysis of the inventory, conventional called for cuisine. Kitchen utensils were vital to the evolution of civilization, especially in the eneolithic communities of farmers from the lower Danube in the middle of the 5th millennium BC.