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Environmental conditions and the neolithisation of the Sava river valley – the first results of interdisciplinary research

In 2016 Croatian-Polish team conducted geoarchaeological prospection of several Neolithic sites, including Early Neolithic Slavonski Brod – Galovo and Vinkovci – Sopot sites. Preliminary results show oscillation in humidity with pronounced drought episodes during the Early Neolithic period which is most visible in the data obtained from Slavonski Brod – Galovo site. Previous archaeological excavations on this site yielded settlement features dated to the beginning of Starčevo culture just after 6000 BC and continuing to at least 5500 BC. However, the 2017 and 2018 campaigns uncovered new settlement horizon consisting of settlement features dug in, what appears to be, the first layer of sediment covering the site. This younger settlement horizon was eventually covered by more sediment and abandoned. New excavations confirmed that the settlement of this site occurred during two pronounced drought episodes refuting initial assumption that the settlement could have been abandoned precisely because of the drought. Preliminary results also show that the sediments in question are most likely of diluvial origin which again refutes the first assumption of their alluvial source. Situation at Vinkovci – Sopot site is less clear but confirms Galovo results to a certain degree.

Sava river valley ; Slavonski Brod - Galovo and Vinkovci - Sopot sites ; Early Neolithic ; Starčevo culture ; change in environmental conditions

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