Cernavodă culture
The Cernavodă culture, ca. 4000–3200 BC, was a late Copper Age archaeological culture. It was along the lower Eastern Bug River and Danube and along the coast of the Black Sea and somewhat inland, generally in present-day Romania and Bulgaria. It is named after the Romanian town of Cernavodă.
| Geographical range | Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria |
|---|---|
| Period | Chalcolithic Europe |
| Dates | c. 4000 BC – 3200 BC |
| Preceded by | Karanovo culture |
| Followed by | Coțofeni culture, Baden culture |
It is a successor to and occupies much the same area as the earlier Karanovo culture, for which a destruction horizon seems to be evident. It is part of the "Balkan-Danubian complex" that stretches up the entire length of the river and into northern Germany via the Elbe and the Baden culture; its northeastern portion is thought to be ancestral to the Usatovo culture.
It is characterized by defensive hilltop settlements. The pottery shares traits with that found further east, in the Sredny Stog culture on the south-west Eurasian steppe; burials similarly bear a resemblance to those further east.
Together with Sredny Stog culture its spread from east resulted in development of the Anatolian language complex.[1][2]
See also
- Bronze Age in Romania
- Coțofeni culture
- Basarabi culture
- Otomani culture
- Pecica culture
- Wietenberg culture
- Hamangia culture
- Prehistory of Transylvania
- Prehistoric Romania
Notes
- Краткая история освоения индоевропейцами Европы (in Russian)
- Anthony 2007.
References
- Anthony, David W. (2007). The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691058870.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- J. P. Mallory, "Cernavoda Culture", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.