Reinvestigation of 6,800-year-old site in Serbia reveals larger settlement and egalitarian social structure
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Reinvestigation of 6,800-year-old site in Serbia reveals larger settlement and egalitarian social structure
Southeastern Europe and the Balkans are a key region for understanding the European Neolithic. Many ways of life and economic systems that continue to shape our lives today first emerged there in Europe and later spread across the continent. An archaeological culture named after the Vinča site in present-day Serbia marks a late phase of the Neolithic period in the region. More than 6,500 years ago, people there lived in large settlements for ext…
The late Neolithic settlement of Opovo in Serbia was much larger than previously thought and had a significantly egalitarian social structure. Read more here: This 6,800-Year-Old Settlement Was Larger and More Egalitarian Than Thought - Archeofili.
Did the Vinca Culture Build Europe’s First Civilization 6,000 Years Ago?
When a local stumbled upon a figurine in the mud of the Danube River in the early 20th century, he could never have guessed that it belonged to one of Europe’s oldest civilized societies. At this site, archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a Neolithic culture that was ahead of its time. Vinča functioned as […]
6,800-year-old Serbian settlement was larger than thought and showed little social inequality | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A 6,800-year-old settlement in Serbia was far larger than archaeologists first thought, new research shows. Opovo Ugar-Bajbuk was a Late Neolithic settlement linked to the Vinča culture. People lived there more than 6,500 years ago, during a period of large settlements and long-distance trade in southeastern Europe. Archaeologists first studied Opovo in the 1980s. Their […]
A new archaeological research in the village of Opovo, Serbia, revealed that human occupation in the region was significantly higher than previously thought. The study, which used advanced geophysical techniques, challenged...
In the early 1980s, a Yugoslav and American team opened a 16 by 20 metre trench on a hill near the Serbian town of Opovo. Between 1983 and 1989 it exposed six neolithic houses, wholly or partially, and from there came a portrait that has lasted until today: a [...]
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