Prilog proučavanju rane metalurgije u centralnoj Bosni
A Contribution for studies of the early Metallurgy of the Central Bosnia

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to prove, on the basis of objective assumptions that have been derived from the archaeological documents produced by revision and systematic research of late Neolithic and manifestation of early Eneolithic cultures in the central Bosnia, that the process of early metallization affected this area in the period of Butmir Culture. We have to especially pay regard to the revision excavations of the Butmir site near Sarajevo. All our knowledge about the size of the site where the Neolithic settlement was stationed, chronologically defined relations with other related settlements and cultural groups, so that a relative and an absolute chronology, was based, for a long time, on the results of the archaeological excavations from 1893-1896. Revision analysis of those older data and results of the new excavations give us information that the inhabitants of Neolithic Butmir were familiar with the initial exploitation of copper. They could have received this knowledge from the holders of the Podrinje variant of Vinča culture. Life was organized in and around overhead houses after the classical phase of Butmir culture, which mainly characterized this site. Directions of the influences or even the penetration of the Podrinje variant of Vinča culture as a holder of early copper metallurgy into the area of Central Bosnia are logical and relatively well documented. The latest archaeological research in Visoko basin opened question of interpretation of settling of early eneolithic groups in Central Bosnia and their relation towards the autochthonous substrate of Butmir. In that context, excavations on the sites of Okolište, Donje Moštre and Zagrebnice have a great importance, especially because we expect much more information by future interdisciplinary researches.

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