Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
The 70th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 30 - April 3, 2005
Session: The Neolithic in Southwest Asia and Europe
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THE BALKANS IN PREHISTORY
Copyright © 2005 Lolita Nikolova, Ph.D.
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SAA: Mutual Interdependence between Social Complexity and Cultural Layering in the Balkan Neolithic, Abstract by Lolita Nikolova
Mutual Interdependence between Social Complexity and Cultural Layering in the Balkan Neolithic

Lolita Nikolova

Abstract
One of the criteria for social complexity is the culture heterogeneity. A diachronic approach to some records such as village burials and anthropomorphic figurines gives us an opportunity for reconstruction of the dynamic, global and non-invertible nature of the early social complexity that was mutually interdependent with cultural layering in the Balkan Neolithic. In particular, the material culture demonstrates the life of prehistoric population was a system of social strategies for production and reproduction of social relationships within the household as an elementary social unit and within other variable in size communities.