Ethnocultural processes in southern Dobrogea during the Vth millennium BC

  • TITLU în română: Procese etnoculturale în Dobrogea sudică în mileniul al V-lea î.e.n.
  • Subiect: The region of Dobrogea was uninhabited up to the beginning of the Late Neolithic, when the Hamangia culture appeared (around 5300-5200 BC). The southernmost point known of the culture during its first phase is the settlement at Durankulak-Nivata. In the beginning of the Early Chalcolithic the Hamangia people gradually spread in Southern Dobrogea and established relations with their neighbours in the region. These relations were peaceful, based on exogamic matrimonies and trading. The process of “mixing” of both populations is clearly visible in the number of changes in the burial rite during the last phase of the Hamangia culture which shows the strong influence of its neighbours. Around the end of the Early Chalcolithic the Hamangia expansion spread south to the already inhabited area of the Varna lakes. This led to armed conflicts with the local population, as a result of which the Hamangians settled down in the region. The subsequent assimilation of the local people, as well as the preceding integration processes led to the formation of the Varna culture. In its first phase evidences for armed conflicts are still visible. The subsequent phases seem to have been more peaceful and this peace led to expanding trade relations with the neighbours as well as with remote areas. In the last quarter of the V-th millennium BC an invasion of steppe tribes began (probably connected with the Sredni Stog II culture or its variants) which led to the extinction of the Chalcolithic civilization in Northeastern Bulgaria.
  • Limba de redactare: engleză
  • Secţiunea: Préhistoire
  • Vezi publicația: Cultură şi civilizaţie la Dunărea de Jos
  • Editura: Muzeul Dunării de Jos
  • Loc publicare: Călăraşi
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2008
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XXIV; anul 2008
  • Paginaţia: 23-33
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