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Making Spaces into Places: The North Aegean, the Balkans and Western Anatolia in the Neolithic
Edited by Nenad N. Tasić, Dushka Urem-Kotsou and Marcel Burić
During three millennia of the Neolithic in southeastern Europe important changes in the social organisation, everyday practices and beliefs formed a diverse and rich cultural landscape expressed in settlement patterns, architecture and numerous aspects of material culture. A growing body of data uncovered over the last few decades shows striking variety in settlement organisation, from single-layered, short-lived sites to long-lived tell settlements located in different geographical settings. In addition, small sites (e.g. 0.5 ha) and extended settlements also appear in most sub-regions. This volume brings together new data on the Neolithic of southeastern Europe, emphasising the organisation and use of space within the regions of Northern Greece, the Balkan hinterland and north-western Turkey. To this end, individual chapters focus either on the intra-site organisation of recently excavated settlements or provide an up-to-date synthesis on the regional level, combining old and new data.
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Cover page
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Title page
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Copyright
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Of related interest
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Contents
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Introduction
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1. Narratives of Space and Contemporary Archaeological Theory
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Kostas Kotsakis
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Introduction
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Cultural history and processualism
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Postprocessualism
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Phenomenology and meta-postprocessualism
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Theory in practice
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Epilogue
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2. Timelines in the Neolithic of Southwestern Anatolia, the Circum-Aegean, the Balkans and the Middle Danube Area
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Agathe Reingruber
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Introduction
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General remarks regarding the quality of the dates
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Timeline 1: 6600–6400 calBC
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Case A: Mediterranean and southwestern Anatolia
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Case B: The circum-Aegean
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Case C: The northeastern Aegan and the Marmara region
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Timeline 2: 6200–6000 calBC
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Case A: The northwestern and the northeastern Aegean
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Case B: The central and eastern Balkans
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Timeline 3: 5500–5300 calBC
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Case A: The middle and lower Danube river
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Conclusions
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3. By the Rivers They Settled: Settlement Patterns and the Neolithic Landscape in Albania
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Gazmend Elezi
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4. Transformations of Settlement Space at Neolithic Avgi, NW Greece
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Georgia Stratouli & Dimitris Kloukinas
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Introduction
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The Neolithic settlement of Avgi
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Settlement space through time: A short overview
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Avgi I (ca. 5700–5200/5100 calBC)
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Avgi II (ca. 5200/5100–4900 calBC)
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Avgi III (ca. 4900–4500/4300 calBC)
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Approaching spatial transformation
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Discussion
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5. Outside the Residential Place at the Neolithic Settlement of Toumba Kremastis Koiladas, Northern Greece
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Areti Chondroyianni-Metoki
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Introduction
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The site
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The finds
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The pits
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The ditches
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Burials
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Cremations
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Inhumations
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Scattered human bones
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Conclusions
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6. Identifying Ritual at Late Neolithic Toumba Kremastis Koiladas: Ceramic Assemblages of Representative Contexts
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Teresa Silva, Marianna Lymperaki, Areti Chondroyianni-Metoki & Dushka Urem-Kotsou
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Introduction
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Ritual
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The settlement of Toumba Kremastis Koiladas
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Selected contexts
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Cremation 7
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Pit 4
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Pit 314
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Pits 175, 176, and 177
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Conclusions
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7. Settling Neolithic Central Macedonia, Northern Greece
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Dushka Urem-Kotsou & Stavros Kotsos
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Introduction
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Settlements and landscape
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Settlement types
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The architecture
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Burials
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Neolithic food and spatial organisation of the settlements
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Networking in central Macedonia
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Concluding remarks
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8. Settlements and Landscape in the Neolithic of the Southern and Central Balkans
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Stavros Kotsos
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Introduction
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Geographical distribution of settlements in the Axios and Morava regions
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Settlement location and the wider landscape
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Settlements and their local environmental setting
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Intra-site organisation and architecture of Early and Middle Neolithic settlements
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Intra-site organisation and architecture of Late Neolithic settlements
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Discussion
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Concluding remarks
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9. Pelagonian Tells and Pile Dwellings of Lake Ohrid
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Goce Naumov
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Introduction
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Tells of Pelagonia
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Pile dwellings of Lake Ohrid
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Continuity and networks: In conclusion
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10. The Neolithic and Post-Neolithic Settlement Mounds of Western Serbia
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Boban Tripković
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The Mačva district of Western Serbia: An overview of geography and prehistory
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The small settlement mounds of Western Serbia: Previous research
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The current project
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Conclusions
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11. Vinča-Belo Brdo Settlement Size
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Kristina Penezić
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Introduction
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Vinča-Belo brdo settlement size
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In place of a conclusion
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12. Use of Space in a Late Neolithic/Early Eneolithic Building at the Site of Vinča-Belo Brdo in the Central Balkans
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Ksenija Borojević* (corresponding author), Dragana Antonović, Jasna Vuković, Vesna Dimitrijević, Dragana Filipović, Miroslav Marić, Kristina Penezić, Boban Tripković, Vera Bogosavljević Petrović & Nenad Tasić
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Introduction
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Late Neolithic buildings at Vinča-Belo brdo
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Building 01/06
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Contents of Room 1 (north room)
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Contents of Room 2 (central room)
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Contents of Room 3 (south room)
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Absolute dating of Building 01/06
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The use of space in Building 01/06
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Room 1
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Room 2
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Room 3
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Rooms 2 and 3
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Houses of the late Vinča culture
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Conclusion
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13. The Neolithic Settlement at Drenovac, Serbia: Settlement History and Spatial Organisation
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Slaviša Perić, Olga Bajčev, Ivana Stojanović & Đurđa Obradović
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Introduction
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The site
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Form of the site and formation processes
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Site size
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Early Neolithic settlement
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Late Neolithic settlement
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Early Vinča phase
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Late Vinča phase
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Settlement size and layout
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Internal organisation of the settlement
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Late Vinča houses
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Conclusion
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14. Neolithic Settlements in the Central Balkans between 6200 and 5300 calBC: Issues of Duration and Continuity of Occupation
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Sofija Stefanović, Marko Porčić, Tamara Blagojević & Jelena Jovanović
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Introduction
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Jaričiste
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Topole-Bač
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Dynamics of the Early Neolithic settlements in the central Balkans
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Conclusions
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15. Off-settlement Ritual Practices in the Neolithic: Pit-Digging and Structured Deposition at Sarnevo in Bulgarian Thrace
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Krum Bacvarov & John Gorczyk
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Introduction
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The archaeological site of Sarnevo in Upper Thrace
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Relative and absolute chronology
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Feature types
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Deposits
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Composition of deposits
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Deliberate fragmentation, selectivity and diversity in the combination of items
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Clay plastering/sealing
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Firing/burning
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Sealing with burnt house debris
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Structured deposition at Sarnevo
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Conclusion: The Late Neolithic ‘ritual package’
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16. Contextualising the Neolithic House: A View from Aşağı Pınar in Eastern Thrace
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Eylem Özdoğan & Heiner Schwarzberg
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Introduction
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Aşağı Pınar
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Architectural features of the site
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Discussion
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Houses
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Settlement layout
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17. Living in an Enclosed Settlement: Settlement Pattern and Social Organisation at Aktopraklık
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Necmi Karul
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Introduction
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The site
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Central houses and inner court
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Graveyard
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Discussion
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Houses and ditch
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Houses and open spaces
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The consistency of the settlement and the houses
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Published: 2020
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407353807 (paperback)
- 9781407354743 (ebook)
BAR Number: S3001
- Theory and Method (general titles)
- Archaeometry / Scientific Dating
- Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
- Landscape Archaeology
- Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
- Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
- Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
- Ritual / Religion / Temples
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
- Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic
- Ceramics and Pottery Studies