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The early Balkan village

Varia archaeologica Hungarica • II • Published In 1989 • Pages: 33-53

By: Chapman, J. C..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

Chapman compares different types of settlements, mostly tells and flat-site hamlets or villages, in the Balkans from the Neolithic through the Copper Age. Chapman concludes with some interesting points. '…[T]here is no evidence for inter-polity domination at village level … instead there is evidence for close structural and functional links between parent communities and dispersed farmsteads and between settlements of similar size.' (page39). 'In flat sites…house building and re-building was not centrally planned. By contrast, at certain …tells, there is … evidence that all the buildings ..were knocked down …at the same time and rebuilt in one single operation…Such a village re-building may well have involved as much work as constructing an Atlantic megalith…[this] may be an accurate reflection of lineage control on frequently re-built tells.' Chapman also explores the possiblity of communal ownership of agricultural land.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Population

Cultural participation

Settlement patterns

Community structure

traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Southeastern Europe Late Chalcolithic

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

2017

RegionThe area the document pertains to

Europe

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Southeastern Europe

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

article

Evaluation

Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Archaeologist

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

4: Excellent Secondary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Sarah Berry ; 2001

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

no date

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

Copper Age

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

southeast Europe; Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldava, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Ukraine

NotesAdditional notes

J. C. Chapman

Includes bibliographical references

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Copper Age--Europe, eastern