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Archaeozoological aspects of social and cultural changes in the Central Balkans during the fifth millenium BC
Predmet prouÄavanja ovog istraživanja su arheozooloÅ”ki aspekti druÅ”tvenih i
kulturnih promena na centralnom Balkanu u petom milenijumu p.n.e. U tu svrhu detaljno je
analiziran faunalni materijal sa tri eponimna arheoloÅ”ka nalaziÅ”ta ā VinÄa-Belo Brdo,
PloÄnik i Bubanj. Kako bi se uoÄilo u kojoj meri se novi podaci uklapaju u postojeÄa
saznanja o ekonomskim strategijama na centralnom Balkanu u ovom periodu, dobijeni
rezultati uporeÄeni su i sa dostupnim podacima iz literature.
Cilj istraživanja bio je definisanje ekonomskih strategija eksploatacije domaÄih i
divljih životinja koje su praktikovane u naseljima VinÄa-Belo Brdo, PloÄnik i Bubanj;
potom, da se istraži da li postoje razlike u ekonomskim strategijama i ulogama
najznaÄajnijih domaÄih životinja izmeÄu ovih naselja, i na kraju, da li se mogu uoÄiti
izvesni dijahroni trendovi i razlike na regionalnom nivou.
Istraživanje je ukazalo da se generalno mogu izdvojiti dva tipa strategija u
stoÄarstvu na centralnom Balkanu u petom milenijumu p.n.e. Prvi tip, ā koji se zasnivao na
uzgajanju goveÄeta, uoÄen je samo u velikim kasnovinÄanskim naseljima iz prve polovine
petog milenijuma p.n.e. (npr. PloÄnik, Divostin II, Stubline), dok je drugi tip stoÄarstva
praktikovan u naseljima iz druge polovine petog milenijuma p.n.e. (Bubanj, Velika humska
Äuka), i kasnije. On se uglavnom zasnivao na uzgajanju ovikaprina, i u znaÄajnoj meri
domaÄeg goveÄeta i domaÄe svinje. Ovakav tip stoÄarstva verovatno je bio viÅ”e prilagoÄen
manjim zajednicama iz druge polovine petog milenijuma p.n.e., Äiji su proizvodni
potencijali bili manji, usmereni ka zadovoljavanju sopstvenih potreba, smanjenju rizika i
poveÄanju bezbednosti uzgajanih stada. S druge strane, stoÄarstvo u velikim komunalno
orijentisanim zajednicama iz prve polovine petog milenijuma p.n.e., bilo je usmereno
iskljuÄivo ka uzgajanju velikih stada goveda, koje je podrazumevalo drugaÄiji vid
organizacije, veÄe proizvodne kapacitete i druÅ”tvene pobude.This thesis addresses archaeozoological aspects of social and cultural changes in the
Central Balkans during the fifth millennium BC. For this purpose, detailed analysis of the
faunal material from three archaeological type-sites ā VinÄa-Belo Brdo, PloÄnik i Bubanj,
was conducted. The obtained results were compared with the available published data, in
order to recognize the extent to which these new data fit into the existing knowledge of the
economic strategies in the central Balkans during this period.
The aim of this research was to define economic strategies for the exploitation of
domestic and wild animals that were practiced in the settlements of VinÄa-Belo Brdo,
PloÄnik and Bubanj; then, to detect whether there were changes in the economic strategies
and roles of the most important domestic animals among these settlements, and finally,
whether certain diachronic trends and differences can be noticed on the regional level.
The research has shown that in general, two types of animal husbandry strategies
can be distinguished in the central Balkans during the fifth millennium BC. The first type,
based on the cattle herding, was only observed in the large late VinÄa culture settlements
dated to the first half of the fifth millennium BC (f.e. PloÄnik, Divostin II, Stubline), while
the second type of animal husbandry was practiced in the settlements from the second half
of the fifth millennium BC (Bubanj, Velika humska Äuka), and onward. It was oriented
towards caprines herding, while domestic cattle and domestic pig were also significant.
This type of animal husbandry was probably more adapted by smaller communities from
the second half of the fifth millennium BC, whose production potentials were smaller,
oriented to meet their own needs, to risk reduction and to increase the herd stability. On the
other hand, animal husbandry in large communal-oriented settlements from the first half of
the fifth millennium BC was oriented to the large cattle herding, which implies a different
form of organization, larger production capacities and social incentives
Š medieval burial from the site of Š”upska: an anthropological and contextual analysis of the skeletal remains from grave 1
In 1956, the Institute of Archaeology and the National Museum in Belgrade
carried out excavations at the site of Supska, near Äuprija, in Central Serbia. Based on
the material culture findings, the site is mostly known as a Late Neolithic one; however, archaeological findings from other periods were discovered too. In the 1956 excavations, the cultural layers, and archaeological features with the VinÄa culture archaeological materials were examined, as well as one grave, marked as Grave 1. The results of this excavation have been previously published in one monograph; however, an anthropological analysis of the individual found in Grave 1 has not been conducted before. In this paper, we present the results of contextual, bioanthropological, stable isotopes and C14 analyses of human skeletal remains found in Grave 1. The results showed that a young adult, who had experienced nonspecific metabolic stress during childhood, as evidenced by traces of linear enamel hypoplasia and porotic hyperostosis, was buried in this grave. AMS date revealed that this individual lived between 1280ā1390 cal. AD, while the results of the stable isotope analyses suggested that it had mixed diet
based on C4 plants (such as millet) and/or C3 plants, with larger amounts of animal
protein, possible deriving from freshwater fish
Synthesis, X-ray structure and strong in vitro cytotoxicity of novel organoruthenium complexes
Two p-cymene ruthenium chlorido complexes containing isobutyl (C1) and isoamyl (C2) esters of (S,S)ethylenediamine-N,N'-di-2-(3-cyclohexyl) propanoic acid as ligands were prepared from p-cymene ruthenium dichloride dimer and corresponding ester. All compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis, IR, ESI-MS, H-1 and C-13 NMR spectroscopy. Single crystal X-ray structure diffraction analysis of C1 shows the usual piano-stool geometry of complexes, with coordination of ester ligand via nitrogen donor atoms. Ligands exhibit moderate anticancer activity (IC50 gt 50 mu M), while the complexes were significantly more cytotoxic towards various cancer cell lines, including B16, A375, HCT116, A549 and MCF7 cells (IC50 min.-max. 2.9-8.0 mu M). We stress that cisplatin resistant HCT116 cell line was highly sensitive to the treatment with C1 and C2 (IC50 values: 4.4 and 5.5 mu M versus IC50 gt 120 mu M for cisplatin). In parallel, primary fibroblasts-MRC-5 were remarkably less affected by these compounds. (C) 2013 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved