Bubanj, the famous site in the very heart of the Balkans, was inhabited for the first time during the Middle Neolithic Starčevo culture, and the fates of its prehistoric inhabitants interwove during the Eneolithic and Bronze Age, while it served as a necropolis for the local population several centuries ago, at the beginning of the Modern Age. The impact of the excavations in the 1930s and 1950s positioned the tell Bubanj as a key site in the prehistoric Balkans, especially for the Copper and Early Bronze Ages between the 5th and early 3rd millennia BCE. The well-known ‘Bubanj-Hum group’ of the central Balkans is embedded in a broad cultural horizon, which is discussed in this volume in many aspects. 80 years after the first excavations at Bubanj were published in the MPK series, this publication presents the results of recent excavations in the eastern plateau (2008–2014), the only portion of the site which was partially preserved. The book guides the reader through important data on the life of prehistoric communities in the Central Balkans and the Morava Region during the Eneolithic and the Bronze Age, when life on the site flourished, but also during the Late Bronze Age, the layers from which were almost completely destroyed by Modern Age activities. The results are presented through various aspects – analysis of the environment and the position of the site in the context of concurrent sites in the wider region, analysis of the site stratigraphy and architecture, the chronology of all settlements recorded at the site, and analysis of the material culture within the cultural and historical paradigm of lifeways during the abovementioned periods in the Central Balkans and neighbouring regions. Special attention was dedicated to specialised analyses and interpretations, which form the second part of the book and, through the prism of the site of Bubanj, complement the image of everyday life in the region between the mid-5th and the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC.weiterlesen