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Old Europe (other)
Old Europe or Old European may refer to: * Old Europe (archaeology) (6500-2800 BC), a culture of Neolithic Europe * Old European languages, the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families * Old European script, Vinča symbols * Old European hydronymy (ca. 2500-1500 BC), in Central and Western Europe * ''Old Europe'', a term for pre-modern (i.e. pre-1800) European history coined by Austrian historian Otto Brunner * "Old Europe" (politics), used by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld * '' Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe'', a book See also * Ancient Europe (other) * History of Europe The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500 to AD 1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early ... * New Europe (other) {{Disambiguation eu:Aur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Europe (archaeology)
Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age cultural horizon or civilisation in Southeastern Europe and part of Central-Eastern Europe, centred in the Danube River valley. Old Europe is also referred to in some literature as the Danube civilisation. The term 'Danubian culture' was earlier coined by the archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe to describe early farming cultures (e.g. the Linear Pottery culture) which spread westwards and northwards from the Danube valley into Central and Eastern Europe. Old Europe Old Europe, or Neolithic Europe, refers to the time between the Mesolithic and Bronze Age periods in Europe, roughly from 7000 BCE (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) to c. 2000 BCE (the beginning of the Bronze Age in Scandinavia). The duration of the Neolithic varies from place to place: in Southeastern Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
