Early Copper Age and the Beginning of the Middle Copper Age in Yugoslavia

Abstract

In order to sort out easily the particular chronological stages of the early Eneolithic and the beginning of the middle Eneolithic in Yugoslavia, as to lay down precisely the distribution area of certain eneolithic groups, we point to the following: the early Eneolithic and the beginning of the middle Eneolithic in Yugoslavia can be traced in the South Pannonia and Danube area - Morava - North Vardar - South Macedonia - Middle Balkan - Pre-Alpine and Alpine region - and the Adriatic coast. However, we should not accept these above mentioned regions as culturally strictly isolated areas with autonomous develpments and with permanently defined borders. On the contrary, in certain development phases the boundaries are changing and do even surpass certain geographical and cultural areas within Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav territory is especially interesting because one can trace the boundaries between the Central European, Balkan and West Mediterranean cultural complex.