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…
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 [...]
The Balkans and Southeastern Europe represent a key region for understanding the European Neolithic. Many new ways of life and economic systems, which are still shaping today.
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