Danilo Hvar culture
The Danilo Hvar culture , which dates back to around 5500 BC. BC in Dalmatia , in today's Croatia , is remarkable for its contacts. The name Danilo goes back to a site near Šibenik [ˈʃibɛnik] (Italian: Sebenico) in Dalmatia, while Hvar is the fourth largest Adriatic island .
The people of civilization must have been familiar with sea-going vessels that have been in the Mediterranean since at least 9,500 BC. BC (1st settlement of Cyprus ) are indirectly documented. Their contacts extended to Bosnia , Slavonia and the Hungarian Plain . It influenced the Butmir and Lengyel cultures . Typical ceramics and spondylus shells found in the Balkan-Danubian region are believed to come from Dalmatia and obsidian from Italy reached the east coast of the Adriatic .
Some settlements were surrounded by trenches one or two, two to three meters wide and 1.5 m deep. The villages were located away from the coast near arable land in valleys where drinking water was available. Caves were thought to have been used as places of worship, as painted pottery from the late civilization was found in some. In Smilčić near Zadar , early Neolithic layers of the cardial or imprint culture followed , layers with artistic Danilo Hvar ceramics. A layer without any finds separated the imprint relics from the 13 settlement horizons of the Danilo-Hvar culture.
Based on the Impresso, Danilo ceramics come in a wide variety of shapes and techniques. Developments can be seen in pottery and teeing technique. The fine ceramics show a relationship with the Ripoli culture on the opposite side of the Adriatic. It is barely skinned , whitewashed, painted with black and red patterns and polished after firing. The Danilo culture could have been carried by people who came from the south along the Albanian coast. The isolation of Albania in the 20th century left a void in archaeological research. Other pottery was polished and spirals , rafters, striped triangles, diamonds , zigzag patterns , grids, herringbones and the like were scratched. Rhytoi with a strong handle are also typical. They are usually decorated all around, with the patterns of the other ceramics - lines, meanders and spirals and have bear's feet. They must have been made on site, even if the origin of this form is in Greece, where vessels with ring-shaped handles are known from the Sesklo culture from the early 6th millennium. Apparently they were used in ceremonies, because the shape was widespread from Thessaly across central Greece and along the Adriatic coast to Bosnia.
Time position
Finds from the island of Hvar mark the last stage of this culture. However, there is no radiocarbon dating for any stage. Using the Italian parallels and the typological comparison with the well-dated late Starčevo and Butmir material, it is possible to trace the culture to the period between 5500 and 4000 BC. Classify.