Excavations at Vinca

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Excavations at Vinca

• Section 106
• Eric Bansal
• Katie Ratican
• Sept. 30, 2003

Serbian Academy of Arts
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Excavations at Vinca- 1908

• Professor Miloje M. Vasic
• Vertical Excavation
• Change through time
• Law of Superposition
• 10 cm arbitrary levels
• 4 Main Phases- A,B,C,D

Serbian Academy of Arts
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1908 in Hindsight

• The provenience
• Relative depths
• Contamination among the layers (pits)

Serbian Academy of Arts
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Excavations at Vinca- 1998

• Horizontal Excavation
• Daily Life through Spatial arrangement
• Social Organization and Relation
• Natural Stratigraphy
• Layered by material deposits
  - leveling of terrain
  -
  building of a dwelling
  - building destroyed

New Excavations- J. Matsunaga
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References

• Chapman, John. 1981. The Vinca Culture of
  South-East Europe Studies in Chronology, Economy
  and Society. Oxford BAR International Series
  117.
• Schier, Wolfram. 2000. Measuring Change the
  Neolithic Pottery Sequence of Vinca Belo-Brdo.
  Documenta Praehistorica XXVII 187-197.
• Stevanovic, Marjana, and Brosilav Jovanovic.
  1996. Stratigraphy of Vinca Belo-Brdo
  Reconsidered. Starinar XLVII193-204
• Vassits (Vasic), Miloje.1930.Excavations on the
  Neolithic Site at Vinca, on the Danube,1930. Man
  XXX197-200.
• Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn. 2000
  .ArchaelogyTheories Methods and Practice. New
  York. Thames and Hudson.
• Pictures 1. Vinca House from Vasic Excavations
  (Serbian Academy of Arts)
• 2. Early Vasic Excavations (Serbian
  Academy of Arts)
• 3. Vasic Excavation Team (Serbian
  Academy of Arts)
• 4. Picture of New Excavations by John
  Matsunaga