Vinca culture
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The Vinča culture was an early culture of Europe (between the 6th and the 3rd millennium BC), stretching around the course of Danube in Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, although traces of it can be found all around the Balkans.
It was named after Vinča, a suburb of Belgrade, where in 1908 several artifacts were found by the first archaeological excavation team lead by Miloje M. Milojević. After WWI excavation took part since 1924, so Vinča came into the focus of attention of European archaeological science between 1929 and 1931. Thus, site has been visited by numberous noticied persons of culture: Veselin Čajkanović, Ch. Hyde, J. L. Myres, W. A. Hurtley, Bogdan Popović,
See also
- Old European script (Sometimes called "the Vinča alphabet".)
- Tartaria tablets
- Old European cultures
- Cucuteni culture
- Yamna
External links
- Vinca culture pottery (http://netsell.com/lococo/pottery.html)
- culture.fr: The Vinca Culture (http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/harsova/en/balk6.htm)
- Vinca, Centre of the Neolithic culture of the Danubian region (http://www.rastko.org.yu/arheologija/vinca/vinca_eng.html)