Cernavodă culture

The Cernavodă culture (approx. 4000–3200 BC) is an archaeological culture of the late Copper Age on the Lower Eastern Bug and the Danube along the coast of the Black Sea and a little inland. It is named after the Romanian city of Cernavodă .

It is a successor to the Neolithic Gumelniţa culture and settled in roughly the same area. The connection between the two cultures mentioned seems certain due to a determined horizon of destruction.

Fortified hill settlements are characteristic of the Cernavodă culture. The ceramics show similarities with those found in the southern Russian steppe. The burials also point to the east.

It is discussed whether the Cernavodă culture belongs to the Balkan-Danubian complex , which extends over the entire length of the Danube and over the Elbe to northern Germany and could have influenced Baden culture in the area of ​​the Middle Danube . In the northeastern sub-area, it could have preceded the Usatovo culture .

literature

• JP Mallory: Cernavoda Culture, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.