AU - Nikolova, Lolita. AU - Schuster, Cristian. AU - Manzura, Igor. TI - The Balkans in later prehistory: periodization, chronology and cultural development in the Final Copper and Early Bronze Age (fourth and third millennia BC) SN - 184171108 AV - GN778.22.B33 N55 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Oxford, England PB - J. and E. Hedges, Distributed by Hadrian Books KW - Bronze age KW - Balkan Peninsula KW - Copper age KW - Antiquities, Prehistoric KW - Antiquities N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-442); Part 1. Introduction and setting -- Chapter 1. Goal, data-base and methods -- Chapter 2. Recent investigations on Balkan Prehistory in the Fourth and Third Millennia BC -- Chapter 3. Early Prehistory : Culture sequence and chronology -- Chapter 4. Landscape, environment and micro-regions -- Chapter 5. Balkan later prehistoric record (tells, open settlements and burials -- Part 2. Cultural and ceramic sequence and chronology -- Chapter 6. Final Copper Age (c.4050 BC - 3700/3600 BC) -- Chapter 7. Cernavoda I Culture / by Igor Manzura -- Chapter 8. Early Bronze I (3600/3400 BC - 3000 BC ) -- Chapter 9. Early Bronze II (3000 BC - 2550/2450 BC) -- Chapter 10. Early Bronze III (2550/2450 BC - 2000 BC) -- Chapter 11. The Early Bronze Age in Romania / by Cristian Schuster -- Chapter 12. Synchronizations -- Part 3. Development and interactions -- Chapter 13. Settlement pattern -- Chapter 14. Subsistence economy -- Chapter 15. Metallurgy -- Chapter 16. Social strategies -- Chapter 17. Anthropomorphic figurines -- Chapter 18. Early Bronze Age culture pattern in Romania / by Christian Schuster -- Chapter 19. Cultural interactions -- Part 4. Burial customs -- Chapter 20. Settlement burials -- Chapter 21. Graveyards and single flat graves -- Chapter 22. Tumulus burials of the Pit Grave Culture -- Chapter 23. Tumuli of the local cultures. N2 - Focuses on pottery, establishing a cultural and ceramic sequence and chronology from the Final Copper Age to the Early Bronze Age (c.4050 BC - 2000 BC). From the evidence of these, and from metallurgy, burials and anthropomorphic figurines, the author detects settlement pattern, subsistence mode, social strategies and cultural interactions ER -