Vatin culture
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Period | Bronze Age |
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Dates | c. 2000 – 1500 BC/13th century BC |
Type site | Vatin |
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Preceded by | Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture, Nagyrév culture, Vučedol culture |
Followed by | Encrusted Pottery culture, Belegiš culture, Urnfield culture, Glasinac-Mati culture |
The Vatin culture (Serbian: Ватинска култура, Vatinska kultura or Ватинска група, Vatinska grupa) is a name of an prehistoric Bronze Age culture, which was named after Vatin, a village in Serbia. The culture had Indo-European roots and was culturally connected with Mycenaean Greece.[1] The Vatin culture is dated to the middle Bronze Age and is generally divided into three phases: Pančevo-Omoljica, Vatin-Vršac, and Belegiš-Ilandža.[2] It flourished from c. 2000 BC to 1500 BC,[3] or until the 13th century BC according to some sources.[4]
The people of the Vatin culture inhabited the entire territory of Vojvodina (Banat, Bačka, Syrmia) and many surrounding areas (including Slavonia, Oltenia, Bosnia and Central Serbia). Its core area was in Serbian-Vojvodinian Podunavlje.[2] The remains of this culture were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century near the village of Vatin (Banat region, Vojvodina province, Serbia). However the real importance of this culture was only realised at the end of the 20th century, when the locality of Feudvar near the village of Mošorin was investigated.
Characteristics
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The Vatin culture was highly influenced by Mycenaean Greece and had already developed social differentiation within its population. The culture also developed large central settlements, which were surrounded by smaller settlements and farms. Large settlements were economical and social centers, as well as the seats of tribal leaders. These fortified centers had a defensive character and a large number of them existed in the wider area. The thick network of large fortified settlements represents an example of the collective defense of a wide space.
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The site of Feudvar in Serbia was an important proto-urban settlement and central place located on the edge of the Titel plateau, above a steep escarpment overlooking the Tisza river and plains below. It consisted of a central fortified tell of 2 hectares, surrounded by an open settlement of up to 6 hectares at its greatest extent. An average of 1000 people are estimated to have lived in the tell itself. There is evidence of craft specialisation, social differentiation and the presence of a ruling elite at the site. Houses were 5-6 m by 10-12 m in size, laid out in a dense rectangular pattern with wide alleys and small squares between them.[7][8]
The main occupations of inhabitants of the Vatin culture were agriculture and animal husbandry and it is assumed that they also produced beer. In many of the settlements, remains of children's toys were discovered. Tools, weapons and jewelry were mainly purchased by trade, but some larger settlements also had their own workshops that produced bronze objects. One foundry of bronze objects was discovered in Feudvar, and according to the researchers, it was probably used for several hundreds of years. There are indications that people of the Vatin culture also had basic mathematical knowledge.
According to Anthony (2007), chariotry spread westwards to the Vatin culture from the Multi-cordoned ware culture.[9]
Gallery
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Early Bronze Age (classical) Vatin culture ceramics from Feudvar
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Middle Bronze Age Vatin culture ceramics
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Late Vatin ceramics
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Late Vatin ceramics
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Ceramic vessel
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Vatin ceramics
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Chariot model, Arkaim museum
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Aerial view of the Feudvar fortified tell site
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The Titel plateau, Serbia, site of the fortified settlement of Feudvar
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The Titel plateau seen from the Tisza river
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Židovar, Serbia
Localities
[edit]Localities of the Vatin culture are:[2][10]
See also
[edit]- Encrusted Pottery culture
- Hatvan culture
- Monteoru culture
- Nordic Bronze Age
- Ottomány culture
- Tei culture
- Tumulus culture
- Unetice culture
- Vatya culture
- Wietenberg culture
References
[edit]- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b c "brončano doba - skripta". Scribd.com. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ Molloy, Barry; et al. (2023). "Resilience, innovation and collapse of settlement networks in later Bronze Age Europe: New survey data from the southern Carpathian Basin". PLOS ONE. 18 (11): e0288750. Bibcode:2023PLoSO..1888750M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0288750. PMC 10637690. PMID 37948415.
- ^ "[Projekat Rastko] Dragoslav Srejovic: Kad smo bili kulturno srediste svetaКад смо били културно средиште света". Rastko.rs. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ "Lovas hoard". Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. 21 September 2022.
- ^ "Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context, p. 55". Archaeopress. 2015.
- ^ Falkenstein, Frank (2016). "Feudvar near Mošorin (Serbia) – Excavations and Research in a Micro-region at the Confluence of the Danube and Tisza: a recapitulation after thirty years".
- ^ Kienlin, Tobias (2015). "Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context (Part 1)". Archaeopress.
- ^ Anthony, David (2007). The Horse, the Wheel, and Language. Princeton University Press. p. 411. ISBN 978-0-691-14818-2.
Chariotry spread west through the Ukrainian steppe MVK [Mnogovalikovaya] culture into southeastern Europe's Monteoru (phase Icl-Ib), Vatin, and Otomani cultures
- ^ "Праисторија на тлу Србије". Scribd.com. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
Further reading
[edit]- Dr M. Grbić, Preistorisko doba Vojvodine, Zbornik "Vojvodina", knjiga I, PROMETEJ, Novi Sad, 2008.
- Dr Predrag Medović, Praistorija na tlu Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 2001.
External links
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- Vatin čeka arheologe - Vatin waits for archaeologists (in Serbian)
- Bronzano doba - Bronze Age (in Croatian)
- Dragoslav Srejović, Kad smo bili kulturno središte sveta, Beograd, 2001. - When we were cultural center of the World (in Serbian)
- Praistorija na tlu Srbije - Prehistory on Serbian soil (in Serbian)
- Praistorija na tlu Srbije - Prehistory on Serbian soil (in Serbian)
- Kulture bronzanog doba u Vojvodini - Bronze Age cultures in Vojvodina (in Serbian)
- narodnimuzej.rs - Bronze Age collection
- Archaeological cultures of Europe
- Archaeological cultures in Serbia
- Archaeological cultures in Romania
- Archaeological cultures in Croatia
- Archaeological cultures in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bronze Age cultures of Europe
- Bronze Age Serbia
- History of Banat
- Prehistory of Romania
- Prehistoric Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Prehistoric Bulgaria
- Prehistory of Vojvodina