Starčevo-Körös-Criş culture
The Starčevo-Körös-Criș culture is the earliest Neolithic culture in Serbia , Macedonia , Romania , Hungary and Croatia . It dates between 6200 and 5500 BC. Chr. ( Cal. ). It is often divided into different sub-cultures, the borders of which are often determined less by prehistoric stylistic differences than by modern national borders. In Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia one usually speaks of the Starčevo culture , in Romania of the Criș or Starčevo-Criș culture, in Hungary of the Körös culture . Eszter Bánffy assigns the Transdanubian finds to the Starčevo culture and sees a difference to the Körös finds in eastern Hungary. The Mehtelek group of Eastern Hungary is often assigned to the Criș culture.
Overall, in the southeastern distribution area of the Starčevo-Körös-Criș culture, there are mainly tell settlements with buildings made of adobe bricks , while in the northwest, flat settlements with wattle houses are predominant. Here the ceramic is painted much less often and obsidian as a lithic raw material predominates over the blond Balkan flint. Further research would have to clarify whether these differences are solely geographical and chronological or whether they are different identity groups.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michela Spataro, Miriam Cubas, Oliver E. Craig, John C. Chapman, Adina Boroneanţ, Clive Bonsall 2019. Production and function of Neolithic black-painted pottery from Schela Cladovei (Iron Gates, Romania). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, 6287-6288
- ↑ z. B. Eszter Bánffy 2003, Szentgyörgyvölgy-Pityerdomb: Data to the contact zone between Mesolithic and Starcevo groups in Transdanubia. Acta Archaeologica Carpathica 28, 2003, 5-25