THE RESULTS OF DIMITRIJEVIĆ’S EXCAVATIONS AT SOPOT IN LIGHT OF RECENT RESEARCH

U radu se donose rezultati sustavnog arheološkog istraživanja eponimnog lokaliteta Sopot u svjetlu istraživanja koja je 1957. proveo S. Dimitrijević. Osim arheoloških, u radu se donose rezultati geofizičkih, arheobotaničkih, arheozooloških i radiokarbonskih analiza.This paper includes the results of archaeological research carried out at the eponymous site of Sopot in the light of research carried out by S. Dimitrijević in 1957. Apart from archaeological, the paper also includes results of geographical, archaeobotaical, archaeozoological and radiocarbon analyses

First palynological results from the archaeological site Sopot, Croatia

This paper presents first results of research drilling and pollen analysis at the eponymous site of Sopot. Drilling was conducted in 2010 to give an overview of the spatial relationship of the “tell” with the immediate surroundings and preliminary data on geological and cultural layering of Sopot. Among other things, the goal of the research was finding suitable organic sediments, in order to take test for palynological analysis, to try to reconstruct the vegetation cover, agricultural development and land use

The results of Dimitrijević's excavations at Sopot in light of recent research

U radu se donose rezultati sustavnog arheološkog istraživanja eponimnog lokaliteta Sopot u svjetlu istraživanja koja je 1957. proveo S. Dimitrijević. Osim arheoloških, u radu se donose rezultati geofizičkih, arheobotaničkih, arheozooloških i radiokarbonskih analiza.This paper includes the results of archaeological research carried out at the eponymous site of Sopot in the light of research carried out by S. Dimitrijević in 1957. Apart from archaeological, the paper also includes results of geographical, archaeobotaical, archaeozoological and radiocarbon analyses

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: a bridge between West Asia and Europe

By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with the Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus and Anatolian/Levantine ancestry northward, and the Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on the steppe, then spread southward into the Balkans and across the Caucasus into Armenia, where they left numerous patrilineal descendants. Anatolia was transformed by intra–West Asian gene flow, with negligible impact of the later Yamnaya migrations. This contrasts with all other regions where Indo-European languages were spoken, suggesting that the homeland of the Indo-Anatolian language family was in West Asia, with only secondary dispersals of non-Anatolian Indo-Europeans from the steppe

Prehrana in preživetje na poznoneolitskih najdiščih Sopot, Slavča in Ravnjaš na vzhodu Hrvaške

This paper presents archaeobotanical data from three late Neolithic Sopot Culture (c. 5200–4000 cal BC) tell sites, Sopot, Slavča and Ravnjaš, located in eastern Croatia. Tell settlements are well suited for exploring aspects of diet and subsistence, as they present a concentrated area with successive generations building upon previous occupation levels. The plant remains from the three study sites suggest a crop-based diet of mainly einkorn, emmer, barley, lentil and pea, as well as evi­dence of crop-processing activities. This diet was also probably supplemented by wild fruit from the local environment, such as cornelian cherry, chinese lantern and blackberry.V članku predstavljamo arheobotanične podatke iz treh poznoneolitskih najdišč so­pot­ske kulture (ok. 5200 do 4000 pr. n. št.), in sicer na najdiščih Sopot, Slavča in Ravnjaš, ki so naselbi­ne tipa tell na vzhodu Hrvaške. Naselbine tipa tell so primerne za preučevanje različnih as­pek­tov pre­hrane in sredstev za preživetje, saj predstavljajo zgoščena območja, kjer so naslednje genera­cije gradile neposredno na predhodne poselitvene plasti. Rastlinski ostanki in dokazi o aktivnostih, po­ve­zanih s predelavo poljščin, kažejo na vseh treh najdiščih na prehrano, ki je temeljila na polj­šči­nah kot so enozrnica, dvozrnica, ječmen, leča in grah. Prehrano so verjetno dopolnjevale še divje ra­st­li­ne iz lokalnega okolja kot so rumeni dren, navadno volčje jabolko in navadna robida

Diet and subsistence at the late Neolithic tell sites of Sopot, Slavča and Ravnjaš, eastern Croatia

This paper presents archaeobotanical data from three late Neolithic Sopot Culture (c. 5200–4000 cal BC) tell sites, Sopot, Slavča and Ravnjaš, located in eastern Croatia. Tell settlements are well suited for exploring aspects of diet and subsistence, as they present a concentrated area with successive generations building upon previous occupation levels. The plant remains from the three study sites suggest a crop-based diet of mainly einkorn, emmer, barley, lentil and pea, as well as evi­dence of crop-processing activities. This diet was also probably supplemented by wild fruit from the local environment, such as cornelian cherry, chinese lantern and blackberry

First palynological results from the archaeological site Sopot, Croatia

This paper presents first results of research drilling and pollen analysis at the eponymous site of Sopot. Drilling was conducted in 2010 to give an overview of the spatial relationship of the “tell” with the immediate surroundings and preliminary data on geological and cultural layering of Sopot. Among other things, the goal of the research was finding suitable organic sediments, in order to take test for palynological analysis, to try to reconstruct the vegetation cover, agricultural development and land use