Neolithic and Bronze Age: The Danube and central Europe

Neolithic and Bronze Age:
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The Danube and central Europe
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Danubemap.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Donaueschingen_Donauzusammenfluss_20080714.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Passau_aerial_view_1.jpg
Satellite map of the Black Sea and eastern
Mediterranean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Danube_Spills_into_the_Black_Sea.jpg
http://pdf.wri.org/watersheds_2000/watersheds_europe_p2_38.pdf
Early hominid jaw from a cave in the Carpathian
Mountians
http://news bbc co uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3129654 stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3129654.stm
Anina where bones were found
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.091667,21.853333&spn=0.1,0.1&t=p&q=45.091667,21.853333
Lepenski
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Vir
Anina (B) in relation to Lepenski Vir (B)
Iron Gate Gorge on the Danube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Danube_near_Iron_Gate_2006.JPG
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House
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lepenski_vir_03.jpg
Sculpture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lepenski_vir_11.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neolithic_expansion.svg
The Fertile Crescent
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/HarranPlains/Images/fertile_crescent_350.jpg
&imgrefurl=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/HarranPlains/&h=263&w=350&sz=21&tbnid=r0cayXDDehyUM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfertile%2Bcrescent&usg=__R_kgjkp5EhYuRppZwk8ZW07ekk=&sa=X&ei=jL80TN79O4qQjAfa35HgBw&ved=0CDQQ9QEwBw
The Fertile Crescent
http://www fsmitha com/h1/map00 fc html
http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/map00-fc.html
Looking down on the site towards the Dead Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jericho_Panorama.jpg
A i l view
Aerial
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off JJericho
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Tell
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Gobekli Tepe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smithsonian_map_göbekli_tepe.jpg
Hill top sanctuary of Gobekli Tepe
Hill-top
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gobekli.jpeg
Catal Huyuk
Gobekli Tepe
The Fertile Crescent
http://www fsmitha com/h1/map00 fc html
http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/map00-fc.html
http://www.catalhoyuk.com/visitors/getting_there.html
Catal Hoyuk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CatalHoyukSouthArea.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Catal_Hüyük_Restauration_B.JPG
C t l Hoyuk
Catal
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k wallll painting
i ti
http://upload wikimedia org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Museum of Anatolian Civilizations003 jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Museum_of_Anatolian_Civilizations003.jpg
Catal Hoyuk clay figure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ankara_Muzeum_B19-36.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Catal_Hüyük,_bull_heads.JPG
C t l Huyuk
Catal
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k tiger
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relief
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http://en wikipedia org/wiki/File:Catal Hüyük reliefs JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Catal_Hüyük_reliefs.JPG
Middle Neolithic cultures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:European_Middle_Neolithic.gif
L t Neolithic
Late
N lithi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:European
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‘The
The Thinker’
Thinker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ganditorul_de_la_Hamangia.jpg
Rodin’s Thinker of 1902
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Thinker,_Rodin.jpg
Cucuteni clay ‘Thinker’
Thinker from Tarpesti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GanditorulDinTarpestiCucuteniCultura.JPG
‘The Sitting
g Woman’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2006_0814Hamangia_Histria_Museum20060298.jpg
Cucuteni stone figure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tripolye_statue.jpg
Cernavoda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dobrudja_topographic_map-en.svg
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Danube
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Basin
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Danube delta Landsat 2000.jpeg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Danube_delta_Landsat_2000.jpeg
Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CuTryOutline.svg
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Cucuteni
t i clay
l figure
fi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cucutenimalefigure.JPG
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Cucuteni
t i pottery
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CucuteniOmega.jpg
Ukranian site of Talianki
http://maps google com/maps?ll=48 808333 30 548333&spn=0 1 0 1&t=p&q=48 808333 30 548333
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.808333,30.548333&spn=0.1,0.1&t=p&q=48.808333,30.548333
Reconstruction of a house at the
Aratta-Ukraine Museum
http://www arattagar co uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia html
http://www.arattagar.co.uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia.html
Types
yp of figures
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painted on walls
http://www.arattagar.co.uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia.html
Types of designs painted on ceilings
http://www.arattagar.co.uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia.html
Potteryy displayed
p y in the museum
http://www.arattagar.co.uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia.html
Pottery in the museum
http://www.arattagar.co.uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia.html
Figurines
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http://www.arattagar.co.uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia.html
Cucuteni clayy female figurine
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MotherGoddessFertility.JPG
Reconstruction of a Cucuteni village
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ScaleRepoductionOfaCucutenivillage.JPG
Reconstruction of a house in the Tripillian Museum
http://en wikipedia org/wiki/File:Tripolye hut jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tripolye_hut.jpg
Cucuteni
Vinca
Sesklo
Cucuteni in relation to earlier Sesklo and later Vinca
Lunca (A) and Cucteni (F-J)
(F J)
Lunca
Lunca and its salt springs
Cucuteni pottery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cucutenireprezentarezoomorfica.JPG
Red and black Cucuteni pottery
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CucuteniTypicalCeramic.jpg
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Danubian
bi Neolithic
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L t N lithi if
Black
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Varna
Lake Varna
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Varna elite male burial with gold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Or_de_Varna_-_Nécropole.jpg
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Varna
gold
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Or_de_Varna_-_Bijoux.jpg
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Mining
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simplified_world_mining_map_2.png
Map of Europe showing the distribution of
farming by 5000BC, as well as the
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European copper and
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Archaeological site of Langweiler
Linear Pottery Culture
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/LBK-Pottery.jpg
Late 4th millennium Europe
http://en wikipedia org/wiki/File:Old Europe png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Europe.png
Yamna culture
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/IE5500BP.png
Makop
Makop
Bl k S
Black
Sea
Sea of
Azov
Black Sea
Sea, Kuban River and Sea of Azov
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Kuban_River.png
Gold bull from kurgan burial
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/R3_2_2d_eneolith_bull.jpg
Sil
Silver
vessell (10
(10cms)) from
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the
th Kurgan
K
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/First Cities/death caucasus.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/First_Cities/death_caucasus.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yamna06.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yamna07.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yamna05.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yamna02.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Old_Europe.png
The archaeological site of Vinca (C)
Vinca excavations 1924
http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/vinca/vinca_eng.html#_Toc504111709
Vinca excavations,
excavations 10
10.5
5 metres
http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/vinca/vinca_eng.html#_Toc504111709
Vinca pottery
http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/vinca/vinca_eng.html
Vi
Vinca
‘‘script’
i t’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vinca %22M%22.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vinca_%22M%22.jpg
Vinca terracotta animal
http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/vinca/vinca_eng.html
Vinca terracotta figure
http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/vinca/vinca_eng.html
Vinca figurine
http://www rastko rs/arheologija/vinca/vinca eng html# Toc504111709
http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/vinca/vinca_eng.html#_Toc504111709
Lady of Vinca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_of_Vinca.jpg
Corded Ware
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Corded
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_Ware_culture.png
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Beaker culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beaker_culture.png
Beaker culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beakerculture.jpg
Late Bronze Age Europe
Danubian/brown and Urnfield red
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Cultures%2C_1200_BC.PNG
Vrable
Bronze Age settlement of Vrable,
Vrable Slovakia
Nebra
Vrable
Nebra and Vrable
Late Bronze Age sky disk (30mcs
(30mcs.)) from Nebra,
Nebra
south Germany
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Nebra_Scheibe.jpg
Bronze swords said to have been
found with the disk
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Nebra_Schwerter.jpg
Trundholm
Tr
ndholm sun
s n disk
(25cm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solvogn.jpg
Site where Trundholm
sun disk was found
T dh l sun disk
Trundholm
di k
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solvogn.jpg
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Suggested
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d off the
th chariot
h i tb
burials
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Chariot
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_spread.png
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Urnfield culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnfield_culture
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Spread
d off Urnfield
U fi ld Culture
C lt
b
by 750BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UrnfieldCulture.jpg
Fortified hill-top settlements
http://en wikipedia org/wiki/File:Burgstallkogel Sulm valley jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burgstallkogel_Sulm_valley.jpg
Urnfield Culture pottery
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Urnfield_culture_002.jpg
Urnfield weaponry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Urnenfelder_panoply.png
Miniature chariot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DBP_-_Bronzekultwagen_-_30_Pfennig_-_1976.jpg
Halstatt Culture
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Hallstatt_culture.png
Lake Hallstatt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1053_-_Hallstätter_See.JPG