Open AccessSome remarks on the genesis of the early Eneolithic in the Central Balkans
Author(s) -
Aleksandar Bulatović,
H. Arthur Bankoff,
Wayne Powell,
Vojislav Filipović
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
starinar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0739
pISSN - 0350-0241
DOI - 10.2298/sta2070009b
Subject(s) - pottery , chalcolithic , prehistory , archaeology , ancient history , beaker , period (music) , inscribed figure , geography , stratigraphy , settlement (finance) , history , bronze age , art , geology , paleontology , aesthetics , tectonics , geometry , mathematics , world wide web , computer science , payment
The study addresses an imprecisely defined period between the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Eneolithic in the Central Balkans. The study primarily refers to the characteristic ceramic forms common to both the Vinca culture and the Early Eneolithic groups, especially the Bubanj-Hum I group. The pottery under consideration originates exclusively from absolutely dated sites, single-layered sites, and sites that possess a well-defined vertical stratigraphy. The analyses of pottery, combined with brief reviews on economic strategies, the chipped stone industry, settlement topography and the process of metallurgy indicate that the transitional period from the Vinca culture to the Bubanj-Hum I group was a gradual process in the Central Balkans, without major external factors, yet continuous cultural contacts with the neighbouring communities, especially into the east. This gradual process of vertical genetic transmission between the 47th and the 45th century calBC resulted in the formation of the Bubanj-Hum I group.