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• 6400 – 5800 B.C. – Early neolithic – “monocrom” Starčevo• 5800 – 5250 B.C. – Middle Neolithic – Starčevo painted pottery• 5250 – 4500 B.C. – Late Neolithic – Vinča culture
Defining the Vinča
Problems:• Insuficient number of excavated sites• Insuficient number of publicated excavations• Selective publication of excavated material in the past• False methodology of researches• Over-attention devoted to typological analyses• Lack of closely-spaced absolute datas and detailed
stratigrafic evidence
The Starčevo culture
• Two main ceramic styles: coarse ceramics with impressed, incised or barbotine decoration, and fine painted wares
• multi-level occupations are rare, settlements are small and temporary
•M. Garašanin (1949)
Vinča-Tordoš IVinča-Tordoš IIGradac phaseVinča-Pločnik I
Vinča-Pločnik IIaVinča-Pločnik IIb
•V. Milojčić (1950)
Vinča A1-2Vinča B1Vinča B2
Vinča B2/CVinča C/D
Vinča D1/2
Chronology of Vinča culture
Absolute cronological dates (Borić, 2009)
• Vinča A: 5400/5300 – 5200 cal. BC• Vinča B: 5200 – 5000/4950 cal. BC• Vinča C: 5000/4950 – 4850 cal. BC• Vinča D: 4850 – 4650/4600 cal.BC
Territory• Area of the Vinča culture approximately corresponds with the extension of
previous Starčevo culture
Pottery• The fundamental Vinča pottery are dark monochrome ceramics - different preparation and the reduced technique of pottery firing – controling of
temperature and atmosphere technological innovation• Very fine and lustrousblack polishing, red crusted painting and a pattern burnishing• The shape that marks Vinča pottery is byconic vessel• Combination of northern Linearbandkeramik, and southern black burnished elements
over a substrate of coarse wares derived from Early Neolithic
The comparison between Starčevo and Vinča pottery
• spherical shapes• rough fracture• predominantly red tones and
their variants• plastic ornament• Painting (only on fine pottery)
• biconical forms• fine fracture• dark and black tones• pattern-burnished ornaments
(Politurmuster)• incision, puncturing
• Late Starčevo II-b - new technique of preparing clay – using of mica, biconic shapes, linear barbotine- an announcement of the comming Vinča chanelling arnament
• General trend during the Balkans middle neolithic: disappearance of the painted and the emergence of black burnished wares
Vinča A
Vinča B 1
Vinča B 2
Vinča C
Vinča D
Oltenian variant
Settlements
• Increasing in settlement size• Appearance of multi-layer settlements• There isn’t any tell, stratification is more horizontal
then vertical• Situated on river terraces, on elevated terrains in
plains or on hill slopes – certain number of them on the same sites as previous Starčevo settlements
• During the Vinča–Pločnik phase – appearance of settlements on the hard accessible tops of the hills
• Many Vinča settlements were founded on the same places as previous Starčevo sites
• But on the most sites with Late Starčevo material, Vinča layer belongs to late Vinča, and on sites with early Starčevo material, Vinča layer to early Vinča culture
• Šljivik- Stragari – 3 layers (Vinča-Tordoš I,II) and all of them containing pottery from final phases of Starčevo culture)
coexistence?
• Dwelings are rectangular in plan, with walls of postholes and wattle covered with a daub, floors of a soil or a coated floor beams
• During the existence of Vinča culture, size of houses increases with subdivisions of interiors
• But also during the Late Starčevo – appearance of rectangular houses
• Contrary, during the Inital Vinča phase, existence of digouts
• Changes in settlement pattern:
Setting of houses in parallel rows – organization of settlement space
Figural plastic• Found in all parts of settlements, but never in graves• Early Vinča clay figurines follow that of Starčevo in development
line. Also the same is with so called amulets, 3,4 legged tables...
• By the time, “evolution” of figurines, emphasising of details
• Lady of Vinča
Burials
• Mortuary practices are the same as in Stračevo culture – inhumation in hocker position
• Appearance of cemeteries - in Botoš and Gomolava –
intramural, in unocupied part of village
• Grave 12 – traces of powdered malachite, stone axe, two ceramic vessels, amuleth - a distinctive status marks in comparison to all other individuals buried at this necropolis.
• Ritual is Institutionalised – the appearance of ritual centres – documented by a big number of figurines and bucranium shrines (Parta, Jakovo-Kormadin)
For the first time indications of buildings for ritual prurposes
Ore mining and metal processing
• Rudna Glava – an evidence of the
exploitation of ore• final phase
represents the earliest signs of the process that would be traditionally called Eneolithic.
• Copper beads at Vinča and Gomolava, 4 hoards with copper and stone tools at Pločnik
• Vinča – house with three metallurgical furnaces• Copper has certainly been used since Gradac phase and throughout the Vinča-
Pločnik phase, but any significant changes in culture and life hadn’t appear.
Agriculture and animal hearding• In crop cultivation there’re no changes comparing to Starčevo period, except
intensification of agriculture• Exception – increasing in the number of cattle consisting about 80% of faunal
remains on Vinča
Chipped stone industry• Two main processes: - specialization of production separation of production areas from settlements - Malo
Brdo – covered in a dense scatter od axe blanks and vaste fakes tool preparation site - progressing standardization of lithic tools - characterized a strong microlithic
component- bladalets and flakes• But in sense of tool types, there are not significant changes comparing to STračevo• Using of opsidian in a large amounts
The origins of Vinča culture
Three ways of Balkans neolithic origins:• Endemic development• Acculturation – by excanging of ideas or/and
commodities• Migration – organized colonization or sporadic
population movement
Larissa culture
Karanovo IV
AşagıpınarLevel 5
5480 – 5300 cal. BC
Level 4/55310 – 5260 cal. BC
Level 45280 – 5000 cal. BC
Level 3/45000 – 4850 cal BC
Level 3
• With the begining of Late Neolithic, important series of internal social, economic and cultural changes, caused by various innovations, transformed the early agriculturists into fully sedentary societies irreversibly commited to a new way of life
The end of Vinča culture
• The Vinča culture in its core region was ended violently by the Bodrogkersztur culture at about 3500 B.C. the number of settlements have been destroyed in fire