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Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age culture or civilisation in Southeast Europe, centred in the Lower Danube Valley. [1] [2] [3] Old Europe is also referred to in some literature as the Danube ...
The people who inhabited the Iron Gates area during this period of time have been surmised, through archaeological discoveries, to have lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, living off food they gather from land or from the Danube River. [1] [2] Varying burial practices have also been observed by these people. [3]
Paleolithic Europe, or Old Stone Age Europe, encompasses the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in Europe from the arrival of the first archaic humans, about 1.4 million years ago until the beginning of the Mesolithic (also Epipaleolithic) around 10,000 years ago. This period thus covers over 99% of the total human presence on the European continent. [1]
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The study of the settlements of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture provides important insights into the early history of Europe.The Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, which existed in the present-day southeastern European nations of Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine during the Neolithic Age and Copper Age, from approximately 5500 to 2750 BC, left behind thousands of settlement ruins containing a wealth of ...
Old Europe (archaeology) (c. 6500 – c. 2800 BC), a culture of Neolithic Europe; Old European languages, the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families; Old European script, Vinča symbols; Old European hydronymy (c. 2500 – c. 1500 BC), in Central and Western Europe "Old ...
Archaeological horizons Hallstatt A–B are part of the Bronze Age Urnfield culture, while horizons Hallstatt C–D are the type site for the Iron Age Hallstatt culture. The Tumulus culture was eminently a warrior society , which expanded with new chiefdoms eastward into the Carpathian Basin (up to the river Tisza ), and northward into Polish ...
The Starčevo culture is an archaeological culture of Southeastern Europe, dating to the Neolithic period between c. 6200 and 4500 BCE. [1] [2] It originates in the spread of the Neolithic package of peoples and technological innovations including farming and ceramics from Anatolia to the area of Sesklo.