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The Starčevo culture, also called Starčevo–Kőrös–Criş culture, is an archaeological culture

Archaeological culture

An archaeological culture is a recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place, which are thought to constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society. The connection between the artifacts is based on archaeologists' understanding and interpretation and...

of Southeastern Europe, dating to the Neolithic

Neolithic

The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...

period between c. 6200 and 5200 BCE.

Starčevo

Starcevo

Starcevo can refer to:* Starčevo, a town in Serbia* Starčevo culture, a neolithic culture of Europe* Startsevo, a village in Bulgaria...

, the type site

Type site

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, is located on the north bank of the Danube

Danube

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in Serbia

Serbia

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(Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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province), opposite Belgrade

Belgrade

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. It represents the earliest settled farming society in the area, although hunting and gathering still provided a significant portion of the inhabitants' diet.

The pottery

Pottery

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is usually coarse but finer fluted and painted vessels later emerged. A type of bone spatula

Spatula

The term spatula is used to refer to various small implements with a broad, flat, flexible blade used to mix, spread and lift materials including foods, drugs, plaster and paints...

, perhaps for scooping flour, is a distinctive artifact

Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact or artefact is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest"...

. The Kőrös is a similar culture in Hungary

Hungary

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named after the River Kőrös with a closely related culture which also used footed vessels but fewer painted ones. Both have given their names to the wider culture of the region in that period.

Parallel and closely related cultures also include the Karanovo culture

Karanovo culture

The Karanovo culture is a neolithic culture named for the Bulgarian village of Karanovo . The site at Karanovo itself was a hilltop settlement of 18 buildings, housing some 100 inhabitants....

in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, Criş in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

and the pre-Sesklo

Sesklo

Sesklo is a village nearby the city of Volos, in Thessaly , in the prefecture of Magnesia. It is part of the municipality Aisonia...

in Greece

Greece

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.

The westernmost locality of this culture can be found in Croatia

Croatia

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, in the vicinity of Ždralovi

Ždralovi

Ždralovi is a village in Croatia....

, a part of the town of Bjelovar

Bjelovar

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. This was the final stage of the culture. Findings from Ždralovi belong to a regional subtype of the final variant in the long process of development of that Neolithic

Neolithic

culture. It is designated as Ždralovi facies of the Starčevo culture or the Starčevo - Final stages.

In 1990, Starčevo was added to the Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance

Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)

Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance are the archaeological sites in the Republic of Serbia that have the highest level of the State protection, and some of them are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites....

list, protected by Republic of Serbia.

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