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Submitted by davidmorgan on Monday, 13 April 2015  Page Views: 2395

Multi-periodSite Name: Vinca Belo Brdo Alternative Name: Vinča-Belo Brdo
Country: Serbia
NOTE: This site is 49.362 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Belgrade  Nearest Village: Vinča
Latitude: 44.762062N  Longitude: 20.623103E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Ancient Settlement in Serbia

A settlement on the bank of the Danube River occupied by people of the Early Neolithic Starčevo culture from 5700 BCE and then by the Vinča culture from 5200 BCE to 4900 BCE.
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Clay balls - Stone balls. Vinča culture and the possible connection to Scotlan by Andy B on Thursday, 14 July 2016
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Old European culture writes: Carved Stone Balls are petrospheres, usually round and rarely oval. They have from 3 to 160 protruding knobs on the surface. Their size is fairly uniform at around 2.75 inches or 7 cm across, they date from the late Neolithic to possibly as late as the Iron Age and are mainly found in Scotland, but also elsewhere in Britain and Ireland. They range from having no ornamentation (apart from the knobs) to extensive and highly varied engraved patterns. A wide range of theories have been produced to explain their use or significance, without any one gaining very wide acceptance. Carved Stone Balls are up to 5200 years old, coming from the late Neolithic to at least the Bronze Age.

Nearly all have been found in north-east Scotland, the majority in Aberdeenshire, the fertile land lying to the east of the Grampian Mountains. A similar distribution to that of Pictish symbols led to the early suggestion that Carved Stone Balls are Pictish artefacts.


At least 1000 years earlier, in Serbia, people from Vinča culture made very very very similar objects from burned clay which they wore as amulets.

This is extremely interesting and significant. It points to the possibility that the origin of the Scottish so called "stone carved balls" could be found in the clay amulets from Serbia. The fact that the Vinča artifacts were made of clay, whereas the Scottish artifacts were made from stone is also very interesting. This is not the only type of artifacts which were first found in Vinča cultural layers in the Balkans, small and made of burned clay, only to be found later in Britain much larger and made of stones. Progressively bigger and bigger stones.

It looks like the British Megalithic culture could be in a way the continuation of the Vinča culture. Vinča culture which somehow got to Britain and there went Megalomaniac and Megalithic.

What do you think of all this?

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http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/clay-balls-stone-balls.html
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Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context by Andy B on Wednesday, 22 July 2015
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The most well known of the group of Vinča sites is the tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo (p.9)

Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context – An Exploration Into Culture, Society and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 1 – Critique: Europe and the Mediterranean by Tobias L. Kienlin.

This study challenges current modelling of Bronze Age tell communities in the Carpathian Basin in terms of the evolution of functionally-differentiated, hierarchical or ‘proto-urban’ society under the influence of Mediterranean palatial centres. It is argued that the narrative strategies employed in mainstream theorising of the ‘Bronze Age’ in terms of inevitable social ‘progress’ sets up an artificial dichotomy with earlier Neolithic groups. The result is a reductionist vision of the Bronze Age past which denies continuity evident in many aspects of life and reduces our understanding of European Bronze Age communities to some weak reflection of foreign-derived social types – be they notorious Hawaiian chiefdoms or Mycenaean palatial rule. In order to justify this view, this study looks broadly in two directions: temporal and spatial.

First, it is asked how Late Neolithic tell sites of the Carpathian Basin compare to Bronze Age ones, and if we are entitled to assume structural difference or rather ‘progress’ between both epochs. Second, it is examined if a Mediterranean ‘centre’ in any way can contribute to our understanding of Bronze Age tell communities on the ‘periphery’.

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http://archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={4D68BF13-2064-429C-903A-BDC8A0AE1EDD}
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Re: Vinca Belo Brdo by davidmorgan on Monday, 13 April 2015
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