British Archaeological Reports, International Series vol. 1139
ISBN 1 84171 334 1

EARLY SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATION IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE
Vols. 1-2

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VOLUME 1

Preface and Acknowledgments, i
Contents, iii
List of Contributors, viii

PART 1
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1
Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics: Indo-European Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century, p. 1      
MARK STEFANOVICH

CHAPTER 2
Archaeology of Social Change: A Case Study from the Balkans, p. 9      
LOLITA NIKOLOVA

CHAPTER 3
The Household Cluster Concept in Archaeology: A Brief Review, p. 21                  
TINA JONGSMA AND HASKEL J. GREENFIELD

PART 2
SYMBOLS AND RITUAL

CHAPTER 4 
Language of Symbols: Communicating with the Supernatural in Prehistoric Anatolia, p. 25
JAK YAKAR  
 
CHAPTER 5  
Colour in Balkan Prehistory (Alternatives to the Berlin & Kay Colour Paradigm), p. 31
JOHN CHAPMAN

CHAPTER 6 
Sacred Symbols on Neolithic Cult Objects from the Balkans, p. 57                                       GHEORGHE LAZAROVICI
      
CHAPTER 7 
Cult Practices in the Early Neolithic Village of Rakitovo, p. 65                                              VELICHKA MATSANOVA   

CHAPTER 8 
The Magic of the Signs or Signs for Magic (Some Comments Based on Decorated    Loom-weights from the Neolithic Tell Samovodene, Near Veliko Turnovo), p. 71     
ALEXANDER CHOKHADZHIEV  

CHAPTER 9 On Problems in Identifying Ritual Pottery: The Example of the So-called “Cult-tables”, p. 79  
HEINER SCHWARZBERG

CHAPTER 10
Pre-writing Signs on Neo-Eneolithic Altars, p. 85
CORNELIA-MAGDA LAZAROVICI 

CHAPTER 11 
Neolithic Pintaderas in Bulgaria (Typology and Comments on Their Ornamentation), p. 97      TANYA DZHANFEZOVA

CHAPTER 12 
Ceramic Pintaderas from Nova Zagora Region (Southeast Bulgaria), p. 109                           TANYA KUNCHEVA-RUSSEVA 

CHAPTER 13
Vorschriftliche Zeichen aus dem Frühchalkolithikum in Westbulgarien, p. 113                       STEFAN COCHADZIEV

CHAPTER 14
Towards the Interpretation of the Copper Age Male Figurines, p. 119                         LILYANAPERNICHEVA 

CHAPTER 15 
Flat Bone Figurines from the Tell Yunatsite (Iconography and Semantics), p. 125         
STOILKA TERZIJSKA-IGNATOVA

CHAPTER 16 
Communication through and in the Religion in Ancient Thrace during the Early Bronze Age (According to Archaeological Data), p. 131   
KRISTINA KOSTOVA

CHAPTER 17 
Continuity and Change in Burial Customs: Examples from the Carpathian Basin, p. 135          CLEMENS LICHTER

CHAPTER 18 
Myth Ritual Value of the Human Graves with Dog Skeletons in Southeastern Europe  and Anatolia in the Bronze Age, p. 153 
IVAN DIMITROV 

CHAPTER 19 
The Social Differentiation in the Pit-Grave Culture Society: A Reconstruction Based on Burial Data, p. 157       
SVETLANA IVANOVA 

CHAPTER 20
Towards the Thracian-Aegean Contacts in the Pre-Colonization period  (The Legend           of the March of Argonauts in Light of New Finds from Bagachina), p. 169                        ALEXANDER BONEV 

PART 3
CERAMIC STYLES AND COMMUNICATION

CHAPTER 21
Painted Pottery Ornamentation as a Communication System between Generations           (Based on Evidence from the Early and Middle Neolithic Layers at Tell Kazanlak), p. 173        VASSIL NIKOLOV AND DESSISLAVA KARASTOYANOVA 

CHAPTER 22
The White Painted Ornament of the Early and Middle Neolithic of the Central Balkans, p. 181
NENAD TASIC

CHAPTER 23 
Signs on Vessel Bottoms from the Developed Neolithic in the Carpathian-Balkan, p. 193         Region
VALERIU SIRBU AND STANICA PANDREA

CHAPTER 24  Earlier Chalkolithic Ornamentation on the Pottery from Dzhuljunitsa Tell (North Central Bulgaria), p. 203
RUMEN PEJKOV

CHAPTER 25  Earlier Chalcolithic Decorated Pottery from Plovdiv - Yasa Tepe Tell (Approach to the Typology of the Ceramic Ornamentation of the Maritsa Culture), p. 209      GEORGI P. KATSAROV 

CHAPTER 26  Late Chalkolithic Pottery from Sudievo Tell, Nova Zagora District (Towards the Characteristics of Karanovo VI Ceramic Style in Eastern Upper Thrace), p. 241            NADEZHDA TODOROVA, PETUR LESHTAKOV AND TATYANA KUNCHEVA-RUSSEVA
CHAPTER 27  The Ornamentation of Late Chalcolithic Pottery from Yunatsite Tell, Pazardzhik District (Systematization and Analysis), p. 291
NADEZHDA TODOROVA             

CHAPTER 28 
Innovations in the Ceramic Style and the Bronze Age Genesis in the Northeast Balkans, p.313 IGOR MANZURA 


VOLUME 2

PART 4
MATERIAL EVIDENCE AND CULTURAL CONTACTS

CHAPTER 29 
New Data on the Early Neolithic of the Upper Adriatic Region, p. 337             
PAOLO BIAGI 

CHAPTER 30 
Symbolic Systems in the Context of Transition to Farming in Southeast Europe:  Pottery        and Boundaries, p. 347    
MIHAEL BUDJA

CHAPTER 31  Evidence of Long Distance Connections at the Edge of the Balkans: Economic or Symbolic Value?, p. 361  
EMANUELA MONTAGNARY KOKELJ

CHAPTER32 Copper Axes and Bracelets in the Cultural Context of Prehistoric Europe, p.371 IGOR MANZURA

CHAPTER 33  Towards the Characteristics of the  Graphite Ceramic  Ornamentation  (From the Later Copper Age in the Osum Valley, Central Northern Bulgaria), p. 419        
MARTIN HRISTOV


PART 5
SETTLEMENT PATTERN, HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY

CHAPTER 34 
Neolithic Communities and Symbolic Meaning  (Perceptions and Expressions of Symbolic      and Social Structures at Late Neolithic Dimini, Thessaly), p. 429  
STELLA SOUVATZI  AND EVANGELIA SKAFIDA

CHAPTER 35 
Settlement Pattern during the Neolithic and Copper Age in the Struma Valley (Topography,     Fortification and Building Techniques), p. 443 
STEFAN COCHADZIEV 

CHAPTER 36 
A Dialogue between the Households and Community: A Case Study of Banjica, p. 447            BOBAN TRIPKOVIC

CHAPTER 37  Neolithic and Copper Age Sites in the Northeast Balkans (With Special Reference to Hamangia Culture), p. 459                  
TODOR DIMOV

CHAPTER 38  Häuser der Frühbronzezeit auf der Pevkakia-Magula (Thessalien) (Hinweise auf ihre Nutzung), p. 469                                                                                                 ELMAR CHRISTMANN

CHAPTER 39  Towards the Early Bronze Settlement Structure in Northeast Thrace (The Japanes Excavations at Dyadovo Tell, Nova Zagora District, Southeast Bulgaria), p. 485         HITOSHI KAMURO

CHAPTER  40 The Distribution Range of Tei Culture (With Special Reference to North of the Danube), p. 493      
CRISTIAN SCHUSTER

CHAPTER 41  Paleoethnobotanical Study of Early Bronze II in the Upper Stryama Valley (Dubene – Sarovka IIB), p. 499
ELENA MARINOVA


PART 6
THE STAROSEL TEMPLE-TOMB AND THE THRACIAN CULTURE

CHAPTER 42 
A Thracian Cult Complex  Near Starosel (Chetinyova Mogila in Light of the Investiga-          tions in 2000), p. 505  
GEORGI KITOV

CHAPTER 43 
Texts and Contexts: The People of the Odrysian Kingdom, p. 519   
ZOFIA ARCHIBALD

CHAPTER 44  The Emergence of the Odrysian Aristocracy, the Greek Trade in Central Thrace, and the Emergence of Monumental Tomb Constructions (A Comparative Approach),
p. 525
JAN BOUZEK AND LIDIA DOMARADZKA

CHAPTER 45  Odrysian Cavalry Arms, Equipment, and Tactics, p. 529                            CHRISTOPHER WEBBER

CHAPTER 46 
Le roi odryse Hebryzelmis et sa politique unificatrice vers le début du IVs.av. J.-C., p. 555     MARGARITA TATCHEVA

CHAPTER 47
Odrysian Tribal Territories, Dynastic Seats and Their Boundaries during the 6th-4th Century BC (According to the Latest Archeological and Numismatic Studies in Thrace), p. 559         
IVAN HRISTOV

CHAPTER 48 
On the Cultural Development of Early Hellenistic Thrace (In Light of the Excavations at the Getic Capital in Sboryanovo Reservation Near Isperih in Northeast Bulgaria), p. 563      
TOTKO STOYANOV

CHAPTER 49 
Hellenistic Order Architecture in Odessos, p. 573 
DANIELA STOYANOVA
                                                                
  
Sociality and Communication (Final Considerations), p. 577
      
PART 7

ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of Chapters 1-49, p. 579 

Supplementary Abstracts (2002 ESF Workshop in Karlovo, Bulgaria)

Signs on the Neo- and Chalcolithic Figurines (An Attempt of Their Classification), p. 605
KRASSIMIR LESHTAKOV

Social Complexity in Southeastern Europe and in the Near East (A Comparative Look           in View of Early Symbolic Systems), p. 605    
MEHMET ÖZDOGAN

Where are the Burials in Southeast European and Anatolian Neolithic?, p. 606   
KRUM BACVAROV

Early Chalcolithic Pottery from the Region of Panagyurishte, p. 606            
MARTIN HRISTOV

Clay Models of Wheels from Later Prehistory: Evidence for Transport or Symbols of            the Eternal Motion (Sun-Symbols)?, p. 607   
VANYA PETROVA

The Bronze Age in Romania: Periodization, Chronology and Relation to the Prehis-           toric Fire Symbolism, p. 607
CRISTIAN F. SCHUSTER

Geo-Archaeological Research around Tarsus Gözlükule, Southwest Turkey, p. 608
ERTUG ONER, LEVENT UNCU & BEYCAN HOCAOGLU

International Archaeological Meetings in Karlovo, Bulgaria, p. 609
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