Landscape and Context: Vinca

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Landscape and ContextVinca

• Section 106
• Brandi Firestine
• Mia Orsini

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Map of Vinca Culture
(Gimbutas, pp 63)
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Culture/Tradition
Landscape
Change
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Cultural Landscapes The Early Phase

• Tell building- households close together
• Stable households- long-term land tenure
• Changing the landscape affects the experiences of
  the people who lived on it
• Three finds
• Ritual finds
• Personal Ornaments
• Exotic Lithics (obsidian)

(Cultural Social Practices)
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Main Occupation

• 5 Meters in height gained competition between
  people at Vinca for longer occupation and longer
  standing tradition
• There is also competition related to Vinca and
  other sites people that didnt share Vinca
  ancestry did not settle there
• Materials found indicate competition generated by
  intensive social interactions

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In Summary

• Cultural finds made at Vinca by archaeologists
  mark it as a distinct site
• Culture is perceived in different ways by
  different people
• People interpret culture as they experience it.
  Therefore, archaeologists interpretations may
  differ from what Vinca people experienced

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