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Two cultures enter the region which will lead into the Balkan eneolithic period.
"Musical note Linear pottery"
The "Linear pottery" of central Europe expanded east, entering Moldavia via the Ukraine, where it was know as "musical note linear pottery"
due to the decoration pattern.
Hamangia & Boian cultures
The Hamangia culture of Dobrogea most probably originated from Anatolia. The previous
Dudeşti culture mixed with elements of the linear pottery
groups to form the Boian and Vădastra culture which formed the base of the future
Gumeliţa culture.
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- Butmir culture
- Area - around Sarajevo, Bosnia
- Pottery - dark poor quality, & Kakanj, Balkano-Anatolian and some Danilo group
- Houses - phase I pit houses, phase II & III rectangular
- Links - Danilo group, Vinča-Turdaş II
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- Karanovo IV culture
- Origin - direct continuation of phase III
- Settlements - open types in addition to "tells"
- Houses - rectangular, two rooms, hearth, wattle
- Pottery - both poor quality & a finer type
- Links - Vinča-Turdaş
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- Vădastra culture
- Origins - evolution of Dudeşti culture, no links with Linear
Pottery or Hamangia
- Area - East Oltenia
- Pottery - black and greyish-black
- Links - Boian culture
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- Boian culture
- Origins - Boian culture formed north of the Danube from Dudeşti
and Musical Note Linear groups,
- Area - phase I Muntenia, phase II exended to SE Transylvania, phase II extended to N Bulgaria
- Pottery - decorations inherited from both Dudeşti and Musical
Note Linear groups
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- Vinca culture
- This late Neolithic group continues in parallel to the neighbouring eneolithic cultures
- Phases - either A-D or Vinča-Turdaş I & II then Vinča-Pločnik
I-III with a transition between
- Area - Serbia, south to Vardar-Morava watershed, along Save Danube and Mures rivers
- Pottery - high quality black burnished ware
- Houses - first pit-dwellings then rectangular two rooms, later phases three rooms
- Settlements - later included fortifications
- Links - has with elements from the earlier Karanovo III culture
- Metal - copper introduced Vinča-Pločnik I
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- Lisičići-Hvar group
- Area - Adriatic coast, Hvar represents the coastal and island
form, Lisičići in Hercegovina represents the inland form
- Houses - caves, pit-dwellings
- Pottery - fine globular vessel, amphorae
- Links - after Danilo group, related to Butmir group, links with west Mediterranean groups
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- Hamangia culture
- Area - Dobrogea, Muntenia and sporadically in Bulgaria
- Origins - some attribute to the Mediterranean impressed pottery cultures, figures link to Asia Minor
- Pottery - black with dark brown slip, decorated with parallel rows of impressions
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- Linear pottery
- Part of the group covering Czech, Slovakia, Germany referred to simply as Linear Pottery or by the German term Linienbandkeramik abbreviated to LBK.
- Origins - thought to be in Hungary evolving from the
Starčevo-Körös-Criş and Vinča cultures
- Area - Hungary, plus Szakálhát group replacing the Körös group
- Houses - long rectangular wattle & daub, can be up to three sections
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- Musical note linear
- Origin - from Poland and Ukraine northern sub-Carpathians
- Area - entered Moldavia and extended to east of the Diester and
south of the Bug, and from Moldavia into Transylvania, and Muntenia
were assimilated with Starčevo-Criş
- Pottery - greyish, incised with narrow lines and small "musical notes"
- Houses - none of the large dwellings of central Europe, many
semi-subterranean houses similar to Starčevo-Criş
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- Banat culture
- Area - N Banat ( between Mureş, Timişul mort, Tisa rivers
- Origin - local evolution of the Starčevo-Criş with newer Vinča
settlements
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- Larisia culture
- Area - west Thessaly, central Greece, west Macedonia
- Settlements - in Thessaly became fortified with stone walls
- Pottery - very different from Sesko, termed neolithic urfirnis
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- Dhimini culture
- Area - east Thessaly
- Settlements - in Thessaly became fortified with stone walls
- Pottery - inferior to Sesklo, spiral and meander patterns,
probably people from Starčevo Pannonian region
- Metal - copper and gold imported
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- Maliq I - Kamnik
- Origins - continuity with Cakran/Dunavac
- Area - south Albania
- Pottery - fine, polished, grey-black, painted either before & after firing, linear-geometric, meanders
- Links - pottery decoration similar to Dhimini (which links to
Starčevo), later pottery similar to Vinča
