The Balkans in Later Prehistory: Periodization, Chronology and Cultural Development in the Final Copper and Early Bronze Age (Fourth and Third Millennia BC)

Front Cover
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Table I
Part 1: Introduction and setting
Chapter 1: Goal, data-base and methods
Chapter 2: Recent investigations on Balkan prehistory in the Fourth and Third Millennia BC: An outline
Chapter 3: Balkan early prehistory: Culture sequence and chronology
Chapter 4: Landscape, environment and micro-regions
Chapter 5: Balkan later prehistoric record (tells, open settlements, caves and burials)
Part 2: Cultural and ceramic sequence and chronology
Chapter 6: Final Copper Age (c. 4050 BC — 3600 BC)
Chapter 7: Cernavoda I culture
Chapter 8: Early, Bronze I (3600/3400 BC — 3000 BC)
Chapter 9: Early Bronze II (3000 — 2500/2450 BC)
Chapter 10: Early Bronze III (2500/2450 BC — 2000 BC)
Chapter 11: Early Bronze Age in Romania
Chapter 12: Synchronizations
Part 3: Development and interactions
Chapter 13: Settlement pattern
Chapter 14: Subsistence economy
Chapter 15: Metallurgy
Chapter 16: Social strategies
Chapter 17: Anthropomorphic figurines
Chapter 18: Early Bronze cultural pattern in Romania
Chapter 19: Cultural Interactions
Part 4: Burial customs
Chapter 20: Settlement burials
Chapter 21: Graveyards and single flat graves
Chapter 22: Tumulus burials of the Pit Grave Culture
Chapter 23: Tumuli of the Balkan local cultures
Concluding remarks
Table A
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