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Middle Neolithic in southwestern part of Pannonian plain: particular instance of divergent cultural evolution

During the course of the mid-sixth millennium BC, diversification of material culture appears in the regions close to major rivers (Drava, Sava and Danube) in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Plain. Pottery styles, as well as settlement inner structures, change after a relatively uniform early Neolithic period. Some sites appear to be meeting points of various material culture traditions and the site of possible interconnections among various groups of people, demonstrating a particular instance of divergent cultural evolution from which new traditions of material culture in the Late Neolithic developed. Settlement distribution also changes during this period. Early Neolithic site positions are abandoned and new positions settled, mostly on somewhat higher ground and on different types of soil. All these changes are contemporaneous with the changes documented in the wider region of the south Pannonian plain. Interestingly, the Middle Neolithic period of change in this region coincides with the second half of the IRD 5b phase, but it is not yet clear whether these events are in any way connected or if and how the environmental change contributed to this divergence.

Pannonian plain ; Drava and Sava rivers ; Middle Neolithic ; 6th millennium ; divegrent cultural evolution ; IRD 5b phase

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