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The White-painted Linear A Phase of the Starčevo Culture in Croatia
Kornelija Minichreiter
; Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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The picture of development of the Starčevo culture in its incipient phases was significantly altered and complemented by the ten-year long systematic archaeological excavations of the settlement at Galovo in Slavonski Brod. The excavation results confirm that northern Croatia in the early neolithic also belonged to the central territory of development of this culture from its very earliest phase. The discovery of vessels with white-painted vegetative drop-shaped and linear motifs in the two work-pits 205 and 207 and in the large burial pit 9 with three skeletons in the Starčevo settlement of Galovo in Slavonski Brod, places these structures in the earlier phase of the settlement. Their chronological position determined by means of the stylistic features of the archaeological material was confirmed by 14C dating, which helped to establish three phases of construction of the structures in the settlement. The earliest phase comprises the western cult structures 149 and 389, the work-pits 205 and 207 and the large burial pit 9, dated to the time around 6100 to 5700 cal BC. Work-pit 155, dated to the time from approximately 5760 to 5630 cal BC, belongs to the middle phase, while the residential pit 37 and the small burial pit 15, dated from around 5380 to 4960 cal BC belong to the latest phase. These dates corroborate S. Dimitrijević’s assumption regarding the existence of an earlier phase with white-painted motifs on vessels in the context of the incipient pre-barbotine phase of development of the Starčevo culture, Linear A, in the territory of northern Croatia. A comparison with identically painted vessels from the early neolithic settlements at Donja Branjevina II and III’, Magareći Mlin near Apatin, Divostin I a-c, Drenovac I b, Zmajevac, Starčevo I, Gura Baciului I b, Anzabegovo I and Govrlevo I, backs up the attribution of the settlement at Galovo in Slavonski Brod to the phase of the white-painted motifs of the Linear A phase at the beginning of the development of the Starčevo culture within the central territory of the Starčevo cultural complex.
Ključne riječi
early neolithic; white Linear A phase; Starčevo culture; Slavonski Brod; Galovo; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
25093
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Datum izdavanja:
9.7.2008.
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