Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.41.1.1
Copper in the prehistoric communities of northern Croatia with special emphasis on the Vučedol culture
Danijela Roksandić Vukadin
; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Slavica Bošnjak
; Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The area of southeastern Europe played a key role in the development of copper processing since the Late Neolithic. During that time, metallurgical technology and mining were being developed along with production centres and distribution networks circulating a large amount of metal. At the same time, finds of copper objects are extremely rare in northern Croatia, and its Early Eneolithic communities hardly knew metallurgical technology. A sudden change occurred with the arrival of the Baden and Vučedol cultures during the Late Eneolithic, when the area became intensively and actively involved in metallurgical production. This paper uses archaeological evidence to investigate the metallurgical role of Eneolithic communities in the area of northern Croatia and place them in the chronological and technological context of the development of metallurgy in southeastern Europe. Special emphasis is placed on the Vučedol culture, which became the main bearer of metallurgical technology and economic and social changes, thus creating the preconditions and preparing the area for the Bronze Age.
Keywords
Eneolithic; Copper Age; metallurgy; copper; arsenic copper; antimony copper; protobronze; northern Croatia
Hrčak ID:
320693
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Publication date:
16.9.2024.
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