Pločnik (archaeological site)
Pločnik is an archaeological site near the village of Pločnik in the south of Serbia . It is a settlement of the Neolithic Vinča culture from approx. 5400 to 4500 BC. Chr.
The Vinča culture is part of the Southeast European Early Neolithic . These include the Starčevo-Körös-Criş cultures , the Karanovo I complex, the West Bulgarian, East Albanian and Macedonian Early Neolithic and the Greek Proto-Sesklo and Sesklo cultures . The connecting element is the painted ceramic, which, however, made up a small percentage of the ceramic spectrum and only reached its peak in the Lengyel culture .
The site was first discovered in 1927 during railway work, and the Serbian National Museum has been excavating there since 1996 .
The inhabitants of the settlement near Pločnik processed in the middle 6th millennium BC. BC copper for jewelry, tools and weapons. The soil around Pločnik is rich in copper ore, which is often deposited directly on the surface. Copper violet (Viola kupfferi) grows on copper-floor and indicate where copper is located. In the Stone Age, stones were collected early on, such as the green shimmering malachite with a copper content of around 57%. The oldest artifacts found are dated to around 5300 BC. Dated. Archaeologists found axes, hatchets and club heads made of copper in Pločnik.
Web links
- Literature on Pločnik in Zenon. DAI
- Angelika Franz: Archaeologists are puzzling over 7000 year old copper finds . In: Spiegel Online from December 27, 2010
- Bastian Asmus: The oldest copper in the world on archaeometallurgie.de
- Ljilja Cvekic: Prehistoric women had passion for fashion. Reuters November 12, 2007
- Ancient metal workshop found in Serbia. In: Stone Pages Archaeo News October 9, 2007
- Pločnik archaeological site. PanaComp, accessed January 27, 2014 .
- View from the trenches: Serbia II. UCL Institute of Archeology, October 9, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2014 (English).
Coordinates: 43 ° 12 ′ 38 " N , 21 ° 21 ′ 53" E