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150:, which is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1400 BC. It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the
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seashores (It is evident that the current sea level is 100 m higher, and a number of sites were covered by water.) means that the
Mesolithic Southeastern Europe could be referred to as the Epipalaeolithic Southeastern Europe, which might describe better its gradual changes and poorly defined development.
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morphological features, indicating considerable
Neanderthal/modern human admixture, which in turn suggests that, upon their arrival in Europe, modern humans met and interbred with Neanderthals. Recent reanalysis of some of these fossils has challenged the view that these remains represent evidence of
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It is equally important to recognize that the Balkan upper
Palaeolithic was a long period containing little significant internal change. The Mesolithic may not have existed in the Balkans for the same reasons that cave art and mobiliary art never appeared: the changes in climate and flora and fauna
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in the region. The notion of the Upper
Palaeolithic Revolution that has been developed for core European regions is not applicable to the region. What is the reason? This particularly significant moment and its origins are defined and enlightened by other characteristics of the transition to upper
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it is important to recognize that the
Southeastern Europe Upper Palaeolithic was a long period containing little significant internal change. Thus, regional transition was not as dramatic as in other European regions. Crucial changes that define the earliest emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens are
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In regions with limited glacial impact (e.g. Southeastern Europe), the term
Epipalaeolithic is preferable. Regions that experienced less environmental impact during the last ice age have a much less apparent and straightforward change, and occasionally are marked by an absence of sites from the
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The single site with materials related to the
Mesolithic era in Bulgaria is Pobíti Kámǎni. There has been no other lithic evidence of this period found in Bulgaria. There is a 4,000-year gap between the latest Upper Palaeolithic material (13,600 BP at Témnata Dupka) and the earliest Neolithic
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The aforementioned allows us to speculate whether or not there was a period which could be described as
Mesolithic in Southeastern Europe, rather than an extended Upper Palaeolithic. On the other hand, lack of research in a number of regions, and the fact that many of the sites were close to
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The relative climatic stability in
Southeastern Europe, compared to northern and western Europe, enabled continuous settlement in Southeastern Europe. Southeastern Europe therefore may have effectively functioned as an ice-age refuge from which much of Europe, especially eastern Europe, was
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Mesolithic is the transitional period between the Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gathering existence and the development of farming and pottery production during the Postglacial Neolithic. The duration of the classical Palaeolithic, which lasted until about 10,000 years ago, is applicable to
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to the extent that they did in the northern and central regions. The evidence of forest and steppe indicate the influence was not so drastic; some species of flora and fauna survived only in this part of Europe. The region today still abounds in species endemic only to this part of Europe.
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Olariu A., Stenström K. and Hellborg R. (Eds), 2005, Proceedings of International conference on Applications of High Precision Atomic & Nuclear Methods, 2–6 September 2002, Neptun, Romania, Publishing House of Romanian Academy, Bucharest,
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writes, “Flint-cutting tools as well as time and effort needed to produce such tools testify to the expressions of identity and more flexible combinations of materials, which began to be used in the late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic.”
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Activities began to be concentrated around individual sites where people displayed personal and group identities using various decorations: wearing ornaments and painting their bodies with ochre and hematite. As regards personal identity
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Trinkaus, E., Moldovan, O., Milota, Ş., Bîlgăr, A., Sarcina, L., Athreya, S., Bailey, S.E., Rodrigo, R., Gherase, M., Hilgham, T., Bronk Ramsey, C., & Van Der Plicht, J. ( 2003), An early modern human from Peştera cu Oase, Romania.
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Olariu A., Alexandrescu E., Skog G., Hellborg R., Stenström K., Faarinen M. and Persson P, Dating of two Palaeolithic human fossil bones from Romania by accelerator mass spectrometry, NIPNE Scientific Reports 2001-202, pag.
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The notion of gradual transition (or evolution) best defines southeastern Europe from about 50,000 BP. In this sense, the material culture and natural environment of the region of the late Pleistocene and the early
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Wren, Linnea Holmer; Wren, David J.; Carter, Janine M. (1987). Perspectives on Western Art: Source Documents and Readings from the Ancient Near East Through the Middle Ages. Harper & Row. p. 55. ISBN
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rock shelter in the Danube gorges and in the nearby caves of Climente, there are finds that people of that time made relatively advanced bone and lithic tools (i.e. end-scrapers, blade lets, and flakes).
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At Odmut in Montenegro there is evidence of human activity in the Mesolithic period. The research on the period has been supplemented with Greek Mesolithic finds, well represented by sites such as
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Olariu A., Skog G., Hellborg R., Stenström K., Faarinen M. and Persson P. and Alexandrescu E., 2003, Dating of two Palaeolithic human fossil bones from Romania by accelerator mass spectrometry,
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in the east of Southeastern Europe in the 5th century BC. By the 6th century BC the first written sources dealing with the territory north of the Danube appear in Greek sources. By this time the
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were the first to establish a system of trade routes in Southeastern Europe and, in order to facilitate trade with the natives between 700 BC and 300 BC, they founded several colonies on the
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from the later 4th century BC. By the end of the 4th century BC Greek language and culture were dominant not only in Southeastern Europe but also around the whole Eastern Mediterranean.
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The human fossil remains from Muierii Cave, Baia de Fier, have been dated to 30,150 ± 800 years BP, and the skull from the Cioclovina Cave has been dated to 29,000 ± 700 years BP.
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Neolithic settlements are also spotted in modern day Greece, trading routes that are based in the late Mesolithic period exist all over the Aegean sea. Some major settlements of
1092:. Mycenaean Greece was dominated by a warrior elite society and consisted of a network of palace states. It was followed by the Greek Dark Ages and the introduction of iron.
582:, AMS group, by Göran Skog, Kristina Stenström and Ragnar Hellborg. The samples of bones were dated by radiocarbon method applied at the AMS system of the Lund University.
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Thus, in speaking about southeastern Europe, many classic conceptions and systematizations of human development during the Palaeolithic (and then by implication the
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began to develop in Southeastern Europe, the Aegean islands and the western Asia Minor Greek colonies starting around the 9–8th century (the
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Southeastern Europe. It ended with the Mesolithic (duration is two to four millennia) or, where an early Neolithisation was peculiar to, with the
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Trinkaus, E., Milota, Ş., Rodrigo, R., Gherase, M., Moldovan, O. (2003), Early Modern Human Cranial remains from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania in
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862:(approximately 4 km from the city centre), internationally considered one of the key archaeological sites in world prehistory. The oldest
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treasure in the world, dating from 4,600 BC to 4,200 BC, was discovered at the site. The gold piece dating from 4,500 BC, recently founded in
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was subsequently used by the Greeks and Romans as a generic name to refer to different peoples within a well defined but much greater area.
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caves in Romania have been radiocarbon dated using the technique of the accelerator mass spectrometry to the age of ~ 30,000 years BP (see
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400:: “Less dramatic changes to climate, flora and fauna resulted in less dramatic adaptive, or reactive, developments in material culture.”
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of the Pleistocene (from 131,000 till 12,000 BP), Europe was very different from the regional glaciation. The glaciations did not affect
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1050:(modern Bulgaria). The Bronze Age cultures of the central and western Southeastern Europe are less clearly delineated and stretch to
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were gradual and not drastic. (…) Furthermore, one of the reasons that we do not distinguish separate industries in the Balkans as
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was originally used to refer to a people occupying an area centered on Lake Skadar, situated between Albania and Montenegro (see
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Harvati K, Gunz P, Grigorescu D. Cioclovina (Romania): affinities of an early modern European. J Hum Evol. 2007 Dec;53(6):732-46
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is because the lithic industries of the early Holocene were very firmly of a gradually developing late Palaeolithic tradition
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Andrei Soficaru, Adrian Dobo and Erik Trinkaus (2006), Early modern humans from the Peştera Muierii, Baia de Fier, Romania,
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cultures. By one interpretation of the historiography criterion, Southeast Europe enters protohistory only with
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in Southeast Europe is conventionally divided into smaller periods, such as Upper Paleolithic,
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in the area some 44,000 years ago, until the appearance of the first written records in
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Old Stone Age. The environment, climate, flora and fauna corroborate the implications.
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Evoluţia istorică pe teritoriul României din paleolitic până la inceputul Neoliticului
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in Thessaly that represent the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic as well as the early
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with early Upper Palaeolithic material correlate that the transition was gradual.
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presented at Bacho Kiro at 44,000 BC. The Bulgarian key Palaeolithic caves named
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situated in the area corresponding to today's Montenegro and Albania. The name
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evidence presented at Gǎlǎbnik (the beginning of the 7th millennium BC).
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Southeastern Europe was the site of major Neolithic cultures, including
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There is evidence of human presence in the Southeastern Europe from the
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João Zilhão, (2006), Neanderthals and Moderns Mixed and It Matters, in
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and the 3rd millennium BC), stretching around the course of the
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onwards, but the number of sites is limited. According to
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was an early culture of Southeastern Europe (between the
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culture, which is notable for its early urbanization, at
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During the last interglacial period and the most recent
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Proceedings of the National Acadademy of Science U.S.A.
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Fundamental elements for the technic description of a
290:(Bulgaria), date from at least 1.5 million years ago.
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Periodization of Balkan Prehistory ~ 6200 - 1100 BC
1162:After the period that followed the arrival of the
660:. Iron Gates mesolithic sites are found in modern
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1745:. London and New York: Routledge. p. 228.
493:Two human fossil remains found in the Muierii (
1855:South East Europe pre-history summary to 700BC
877:" of the eastern Southeastern Europe (and the
612:Sculpture found at the archaeological site of
1039:gradually sets in over the 13th century BCE.
1028:Middle Bronze Age: 16th to 14th centuries BCE
471:These are some of Europe's oldest remains of
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271:Regional Transition to the Upper Paleolithic
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1031:Late Bronze Age: 14th to 13th centuries BCE
27:Prehistorical period of Southeastern Europe
700:period. Yet southern and coastal sites in
442:In 2002, some of the oldest modern human (
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1294:Lists of ancient tribes in the Balkans
1178:) and peaking with the 5th century BC
560:Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology
482:interbreeding. A second expedition by
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1759:from the original on 15 January 2023
1591:http://arXiv.org/abs/physics/0309110
1190:(Pontus Euxinus) coast, Asia Minor,
30:For the history of Earth before the
1880:Ion din Anina, primul om din Europa
1872:The Aegeo-Balkan Prehistory Project
1140:National Museum of Romanian History
551:, published a study of this skull.
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881:adjacent to the north) during the
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1920:Prehistory of Southeastern Europe
1896:Human fossils set European record
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1229:List of ancient tribes in Illyria
625:Neolithic introduction of farming
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652:There is lithic evidence of the
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526:Constantin Nicolaescu-Plopşor
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339:Upper Palaeolithic Revolution
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1777:The Illyrians. John Wilkes
1739:Castleden, Rodney (2005).
1475:Journal of Human Evolution
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1720:28 September 2019 at the
1494:Evolutionary Anthropology
835:and Montenegro, Romania,
664:, south-west Romania and
367:Aurignacian double edged
739:Old Europe (archaeology)
240:Geography of the Odyssey
236:Historicity of the Iliad
216:(3000–1200 BC), Minoan,
32:occupation by the genus
1828:The Dacian Stones Speak
1661:15 January 2023 at the
1636:15 January 2023 at the
1453:15 January 2023 at the
1172:classical Greek culture
558:, archaeologist at the
516:, in the Muierii Cave,
333:period, literally the “
276:(2,600,000 – 50,000 BP)
247:in the 5th century BC.
1935:History of the Balkans
1640:By Douglass W. Bailey
1457:By Douglass W. Bailey
1411:e.g. Thrace in book V.
1344:Timeline of glaciation
1304:Paleo-Balkan languages
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1818:Alexandru Păunescu,
1804:Douglass W. Bailey,
1339:Proto-Indo-Europeans
1299:Old European culture
1158:(1,100 BCE – 150 CE)
831:, northern parts of
784:Elite burial at the
556:Emilian Alexandrescu
444:Homo sapiens sapiens
416:(50,000 – 20,000 BP)
256:(2,600,000 – 13,000
206:Proto-Indo-Europeans
202:Neolithic Revolution
1596:8 June 2022 at the
1428:on 25 December 2014
1319:Prehistoric Croatia
1279:Aegean civilization
1266:Alexander the Great
1067:Minoan civilization
1017:(3,500 – 1,100 BCE)
769:Artefacts from the
735:Chalcolithic Europe
570:, physicist at the
385:southeastern Europe
266:Palaeolithic Europe
180:Bronze Age collapse
136:Classical Antiquity
1925:Prehistoric Europe
1629:Balkan prehistory
1446:Balkan prehistory
1391:978-0-06-438942-6.
1329:History of Albania
1324:Prehistoric Europe
1309:Paleolithic Europe
1284:History of Eurasia
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1806:Balkan prehistory
1555:"Dating Bulletin"
1289:History of Europe
1262:Macedonian Empire
1149:Distribution of "
969:Bronze Age Europe
957:Kurgan hypothesis
761:(c. 5250-4550 BC)
604:Mesolithic Europe
496:Peştera Muierilor
426:Peștera Muierilor
306:Lower Paleolithic
214:Bronze Age Greece
128:Upper Paleolithic
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