Bordjosh, a 7,000-Year-Old Mystery
A comprehensive view of late stone age in southern Central Europe based on story about new discovered settlement. The analysis of animal and plant remains on Bordjosh shows that people were beginning…
Bordjosh, a 7,000-Year-Old Mystery
A comprehensive view of late stone age in southern Central Europe based on story about new discovered settlement. The analysis of animal and plant remains on Bordjosh shows that people were beginning to settle there around 5200 B.C. and about 4450 B.C. it was consumed by fire. At the time when Bordjosh was most heavily populated, between 4850 and 4700 B.C., the settlement was home to some four thousand people. That may not seem many, but if you consider that the earth's total population was between eight and ten million, then, in comparison with to-day, we're talking about the equivalent of a city with a few million inhabitants. Bordjosh be-longed to the so-called TISZA CULTURE, which included the territories near the river Tisza in northern Vojvodina in Serbia, eastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia. A large number of objects from the so-called VINTCHA CULTURE were also found in the settlement, which means that Bordjosh was actually a border point in which two great late Neolithic cultures in-mingled. Research on Bordjosh, carried out by teams from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad and the "Christian Albrecht" Institute for Prehistory and Early History at the University of Kiel (Germany) cast a new light on the late stone age and open up questions about things in Pannonia Plain. For example: how did materials that originating 700 kilometers away from Bordjosh get there, a 1.000 years be-fore horses were domesticated? Does fact that 300 pieces of obsidian in one single house mean that Bordjosh was some sort of trade center of the southern Pannonia Basin? If Bordjosh was a trade center, that might answer another question - if agriculture, plus hunting and gathering activities could feed about two thousand people, what did the other 2,000 eat?
Bordjosh, a 7,000-Year-Old Mystery
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A comprehensive view of late stone age in southern Central Europe based on story about new discovered settlement. The analysis of animal and plant remains on Bordjosh shows that people were beginning to settle there around 5200 B.C. and about 4450 B.C.
it was consumed by fire. At the time when Bordjosh was most heavily populated, between 4850 and 4700 B.C., the settlement was home to some four thousand people. That may not seem many, but if you consider that the earth's total population was between eight and ten million, then, in comparison with to-day, we're talking about the equivalent of a city with a few million inhabitants.
Bordjosh be-longed to the so-called TISZA CULTURE, which included the territories near the river Tisza in northern Vojvodina in Serbia, eastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia. A large number of objects from the so-called VINTCHA CULTURE were also found in the settlement, which means that Bordjosh was actually a border point in which two great late Neolithic cultures in-mingled. Research on Bordjosh, carried out by teams from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad and the "Christian Albrecht" Institute for Prehistory and Early History at the University of Kiel (Germany) cast a new light on the late stone age and open up questions about things in Pannonia Plain.
For example: how did materials that originating 700 kilometers away from Bordjosh get there, a 1.000 years be-fore horses were domesticated? Does fact that 300 pieces of obsidian in one single house mean that Bordjosh was some sort of trade center of the southern Pannonia Basin? If Bordjosh was a trade center, that might answer another question - if agriculture, plus hunting and gathering activities could feed about two thousand people, what did the other 2,000 eat?.