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The course of culture during the 5th millennium presents a distinct depiction of the specific character of the northwest Black Sea region and particularly its role as mediator between the various cultural worlds. This can be demonstrated and verified on the basis of the emergence and dissemination of the Group of “sceptre burials”. The example shows impressively how a culturally and socially affective unit could develop out of a culture historical indolent substrate. Thereby, of crucial relevance was the economic interaction with an advanced and foreign cultural sphere, which occurred in this geoculturally exposed borderland.

Keywords: Steppe culture, agricultural society, copper age, Sceptre bearer, Bolgrad-Aldeni, Varna, Giurgiuleşti, Suvorovo, Northwest Black Sea Area

Information about author:

Blagoje Govedarica (Berlin, Germany). Professor, Doctor habilitat. German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung, Im Dol 2-6, Haus II, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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