About the Meaning of Square and Circle in the Neolithic Ornamental System

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Nenad Tasić
Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine

Abstract

The study of the prehistory of the central Balkans during the last thirty years of the twentieth century is strongly marked by the existence of two completely different views of the origin of Neolithic cultures from this area. The first is the position of Dragoslav Srejović, who, after the discovery of the Lepenski Vir culture, increasingly sought to connect the roots of the Starčevo culture with the Mesolithic culture of the Djerdap area. In fact, Srejović's entire cultural scheme of the early and middle Neolithic of the Central Balkans was strongly influenced by this epochal discovery of his. Hence, the introduction of terms such as Proto-Starčevo was intended to emphasize the genetic kinship and continuity of development in the Mesolithic-Neolithic relationship, that is, to express the autochthonousness of the Neolithic in the area of ​​the central Balkans. The second circle of prehistorians was gathered around Milutin Garašanin, a researcher of Anzabegov in Macedonia, who advocated the idea of ​​close ties between the Balkan Neolithic and the cultures of the Anatolian plateau. Garašanin's well-known term "Balkan-Anatolian complex" basically emphasizes the high level of kinship that, from that point of view, should exist in the material and spiritual culture of these two regions.

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Tasić, N. (2024). About the Meaning of Square and Circle in the Neolithic Ornamental System. Godišnjak Centra Za balkanološka Ispitivanja, 37, 5–21. https://doi.org/10.5644/Godisnjak.CBI.ANUBiH.37.1

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