Neolithic Communities in the Republic of Macedonia

The Neolithic in the Republic of Macedonia has been well explored and researched in the past five decades. The numerous excavations and reports enabled preliminary conclusions on the most elemental characteristics of the cultures present here from the middle of the 7th to the 5th millennium BC. However, in the course of the years, the quantity of findings offered abundant data on the Neolithic, so that numerous questions arose, as well as debates, which attempted to define this period. This information, discussions and standpoints contributed to the perception of particular segments of life of the populations inhabiting this area, but they remained registered in numerous papers, periodicals or monographs concentrated on particular issues and regions. Thus, the need to gather and review all accessible knowledge about the Neo-lithic in Macedonia in one place, and to propose a new overall perceiving of life, social processes, and ideas of the Neolithic communities, gradually emerged. This edition is exactly a result of our consideration and explorations generated through the past years, aimed at meeting the requirements of the situation, as well as to explicate truthfully as much as possible what happened during the Neolithic in Macedonia. Guided by this idea we decided to assemble the available data pertaining to the material culture of this period in one place, sharing our considerations with the professional and other community. In this edition we have included different considerations about the questions that have been raised for a long time, with due respect to the standpoints of the numerous Macedonian and foreign researchers of the Neolithic cultures in Macedonia and wider. We therefore tried to bear in mind all available written sources referring to the Neolithic in Macedonia, as well as ongoing research. This relatively voluminous literature mostly refers to preliminary, but very relevant data concerning the character of the settlements as well as the life and ideas of their inhabitants. On the other hand, scarcity of comprehensive literature pertaining to different aspects of the Neolithic in Macedonia hinders complete understanding of this period. Even so, we tried to make certain conclusions about the ways and the processes whereby the Neolithic of this area manifested itself.

(Abstract and Figures)

İngilizce

2009

256 Sayfa

21 x 30 cm