The end of the affair: formal chronological modelling for the top of the Neolithic tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo

Tasić, Nenad; Marić, Miroslav; Penezić, Kristina; Filipović, Dragana; Borojević, Ksenija; Russell, N; Reimer, Paula J.; Barclay, Alistair; Bayliss, Alexandra; Borić, Dušan; Gaydarska, Bisserka; Whittle, Alasdair

doi:10.15184/aqy.2015.101

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“…16). This is the first time that detailed modelled estimates are available at Vinča-Belo Brdo for a long sequence of buildings and structures; the string in our second strand only comes from the top of the tell (Tasić et al 2015). There is also interesting patterning in the durations of the successive buildings.…”

Section: Burning Issues: House Deathsmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…If burning was principally symbolic, and individual (house by house), why would such embedded social practice -as seen in early levels at both Vinča-Belo Brdo and Uivar -suddenly be given up, to be abandoned for a significant period of time, and then quickly readopted? We cannot exclude the possibility of accidental burnings in a crowded settlement, but we have argued elsewhere that the burning visible in Sector II could be seen instead as evidence of hostile intent, either by insiders or perhaps more probably outsiders, given its extent, the presence of a fire victim in the earlier such context, and the short interval -only some 25 years -between the conflagrations (fire frequency; Tasić et al 2015, fig. 9).…”

Section: Burning Issues: House Deathsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…That could apply here too, given the comparatively short durations estimated for the houses in question. The suggestion would be strengthened if we could be more precise about the dating of the earliest burnt houses detectable in the Vasić sequence, using for example the scheme devised by Blaženka Stalio (1968;Tasić et al 2015;in press), but as we explain elsewhere, that is difficult (Fig. 17).…”

Section: Burning Issues: House Deathsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…We now have estimated the date of construction and use for nine (or possibly ten) structures from this trench to add to the dating of House 8 in Sector II, the structure there whose duration can be estimated (Tasić et al 2015, fig. 8).…”

Section: House Lives On the Growing Tellmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…17). It need not be the case that every house burning was deliberate, and a wide range of motives and situations can be suggested (Tasić et al 2015).…”

Section: Burning Issues: House Deathsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interwoven Strands for Refining the Chronology of the Neolithic Tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbia

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The setting and context of the Vinča-Belo Brdo tellThe great tell or settlement mound of Vinča-Belo Brdo sits directly beside the Danube, a little to the south of Belgrade, Serbia (Fig.1). Its eight metres of Late Neolithic deposits span the later sixth to the mid-fifth millennium cal BC, and are underlain by a Starčevo culture occupation of the earlier sixth millennium cal BC (Tasić et al. 2015; in press). The site has given its name to the Vinča culture (or interaction sphere or network; for convenience and familiarity we use the first term here), which extends through the river valleys of the Danube, its tributaries and their catchments, in the northern and central Balkans, from southernmost Hungary and easternmost Croatia through southern Serbia and Kosovo down to northern Macedonia, and from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina eastwards as far as parts of Transylvania in Romania (Fig. 1). Belo Brdo, near the centre of this distribution, appears to have emerged relatively early in the Vinča culture sequence and was clearly, as the largest known tell of the complex, a place of considerable and enduring significance. This was a time, after the initial emergence of a Neolithic way of life in the region, of the spread, consolidation and diversification of settlement, involving the formation of large settlements and tells; the emergence of both larger communities and distinctive households within such sites; the intensification of subsistence; and changing materiality and the expansion of material networks (Chapman 1981;Kaiser and Voytek 1983;Tasić 2009;Tringham and Krstić 1990;Tripković and Milić 2009;Orton 2010). To understand the initiation, formation, duration and ending of Vinča-Belo Brdo is to grasp some of the major features of the development of Neolithic communities in a major swathe of south-east Europe as a whole.

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Section: Burning Issues: House Deathsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Burning Issues: House Deathsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Burning Issues: House Deathsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: House Lives On the Growing Tellmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…17). It need not be the case that every house burning was deliberate, and a wide range of motives and situations can be suggested (Tasić et al 2015).…”

Section: Burning Issues: House Deathsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Severe traumatic lesions in the Late Neolithic cattle from the site of At‐Vršac, Serbia

Marković

Bulatović

Krstić

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Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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This paper aims to assess the etiology and differential diagnosis of severe pathological lesions in wild and domestic cattle from the Late Neolithic site of At-Vršac in the northeast part of the present-day Serbia. Excavations of this multilayered site revealed the remains of a Late Neolithic settlement belonging to the Vinča culture network of the Central Balkans. An aurochs metacarpal bone, two domestic cattle fragments of fused ulna and radius and of tibia, all with massive bone proliferations were recovered during the archaeological excavations in 1976. Paleopathological study was undertaken using an interdisciplinary approach, including AMS dating, radiography, computed tomography (CT), and histopathology. The results show severe oblique healed fracture with secondary pronounced bone reaction in the aurochs metacarpal bone and in the domestic cattle ulna-radius, while traumatic alteration infected with disseminated osteomyelitis was found in the domestic cattle tibia.These pathologies of wild and domestic cattle are discussed to reveal the level of environmental and human influence on the origin and development of the lesions in the Late Neolithic cattle.

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Depicting Trypillia: Emergence and Transformation of the Realistic Style

Shatilo,

Hofmann

2024

Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling

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Transformation processes have not only different scales, significance and aspects. They can also be reflected in social behavior, and thus also in material culture. This chapter examines various categories of objects of non-utilitarian nature with realistically depicted elements. By analysing a Trypillian group of ceramic objects and anthropomorphic figurines from the Middle and Late Neolithic tell Vinča-Belo Brdo, we can show their temporal and spatial change within the transformation of aggregated settlements during the periods with the highest population density. Our analysis of one of the components of material culture shows huge prospects for studying anatomy and different aspects of transformations and their reflections.

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The end of the affair: formal chronological modelling for the top of the Neolithic tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo

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Interwoven Strands for Refining the Chronology of the Neolithic Tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbia

Interwoven Strands for Refining the Chronology of the Neolithic Tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbia

Severe traumatic lesions in the Late Neolithic cattle from the site of At‐Vršac, Serbia

Depicting Trypillia: Emergence and Transformation of the Realistic Style

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