Vučedolska kultura na istočnoj jadranskoj obali
Vučedol Culture on the Eastern Adriatic Coast

Summary/Abstract: The question of the presence of Vucedol culture on the eastern Adriatic is observed as a part of the problems concerned with the eneolitic of this area. Author suggest that earlier hypotheses on the spreading of this culture to the Adriatic are rather a result of poor knowledge of the eastern Adriatic eneolithic than of the knowledge of the Vucedol culture in that area. It is also pointed out that Typological approach and the method of indirect deduction prevailed in proving these hypotheses based on the assumption of an integral connection betwen Vucedol and to so called ’’Adriatic type of Ljubljana culture”. The presence of the latter culture was taken as an evidence of the presence of Vucedol culture that preceded it. Based on an extremely small number of authentic Vucedol artifacts out of their original Vucedol positions, complete absence of any settlements and known Vucedol layered deposits, author reject its presence in a form of a consistent and independent phenomen on the Adriatic coast. The concept of the ’’Adriatic type of Ljubljana culture” was also renounced within the same context, since its remains occur in small numbers and always associeted with far greater numbers of artifacts of local character. On the other hand, author points to the fact that spreading of Vucedol culture to the Adriatic means either that this area was completely uninhabited or that Vucedol culture spreading had an invasive character. Since it is inpossible to prove the invasive character of its spreading and the result of more recent studies point to the significant number of autochtonous populations, the author accepts a defined presence of Vucedol remains but ascribes in to the effects of other mechanisms. It is pointed to the significance of copper metallurgy in the Vucedol culture economy. This economy branch meant a persistent search for copper mineral deposits, which does not exclude possibility of actual presence of individual members of Vucedol population on a foreign territory. However, this kind of their presence meant nothing for a general demographic and cultural properties of these areas.

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