The construction of the A1 Highway (Deva-Orăştie sector) led, in 2011, to a rescue excavation in the settlement of Şoimuş-La Avicola (Ferma 2), Huedoara County, located between Şoimuş and Bălata villages, on the first terrace of Mureş river. The excavation was undertaken by the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology (Bucharest), the Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization from Deva, and the National Museum of Romanian History (Bucharest). According to the field observations, a Neolithic settlement with two main habitation phases was located here. From the stratigraphic perspective, the first phase contains sogns of human habitation in pit-huts, and the second phase is indicated by surface dwellings. The dwellings were identified in the form of daub fragments scattered throughout the surface, hearths, fragments of clay floors with a substructure of river gravel, post holes and a very rich assemblage (pottery, bones, lithics). These two phases are separated by a leveling. Most of the Neolithic features are pits with different functions, i.e. storage or clay extractions, later reused as domestic waste pits. Also, 12 enclosing structures were documented, a few of them with traces of poles indicating palisades or fences. As a prelimnary fact we can say that the site from Şoimuş was intensely inhabitaed during the Neolithic period by the people of Vinča tradition, at the end of the VIth and the beginning of the Vth Millennium BC according to three radiocarbon dates obtained from human bones from the settlement. The archaeological material is rich and interesting consisting of pottery, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines, clay weights, lithics (flint, obsidian, polished axes), processed and unprocessed animal bones, miniature altars, etc.