Added December 26, 1997. Updated November 28, 2000

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Monuments and Mobility in SE Europe around 3000 BC.

Megalithic tombs and Southeast European tumuli overlap in time and share the aspect of visibility. Recent excavations of the tumuli reveal hidden social dimensions and unexpected complexity. Most evident are prominent central graves, a succession of grouped individual burials, or a combination of both. The first tumulus burial horizon in SE Europe is linked with a wave of advance in metallurgy. It was not incipient metallurgy but the start of new techniques and broad-scale use. A web of interaction linked the Black Sea area to the Central Balkans, the Aegean and the Adriatic. Fortified settlements and graves, built as markers, seem to be mutually exclusive in the landscape.

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Dr. Margarita Primas

Universität Zürich

Abteilung fur Ur- und Fruhgeschichte

Karl Schmid-Strasse 4

CH-8006 Zürich

Switzerland

Tel. ++41/ 257 38 31, Fax ++41/ 252 96 77, prehist@uhist.unizh.ch

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