No. XXIII (1992)
Articles

Life After Selevac: Why and How a Neolithic Settlement Is Abandoned

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  • Ruth Trigham
Ruth Trigham
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Anthropology

Published 01.12.1992

Keywords

  • neolithic,
  • Balkans,
  • Selavac,
  • anthropology,
  • settlements

How to Cite

Trigham, R. (1992). Life After Selevac: Why and How a Neolithic Settlement Is Abandoned. Balcanica - Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies, (XXIII), 133–145. Retrieved from https://balcanica.rs/index.php/journal/article/view/824

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Abstract

The period of the 4th to mid-3rd mill. B.C. is a period during which urban centres and early states were established in Mesopotamia. Six thousand years ago, the Near East and Europe were demographically, technologically and economically at not such very different levels, but no cities or states developed in Europe until 3000 years after the earliest examples in the Near East. How does one explain such contrasting paths of social evolution? Environmental and demographic factors have been in the past suggested and critiqued as primary causes of the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia. The emphasis in this article is on the socioeconomic factors.
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