The Vatin culture ( sr, Ватинска култура, Vatinska kultura / or sr, translit=Vatinska grupa, Ватинска група, label=none) is a name of an prehistoric

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

culture, which was named after Vatin, a village in

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. The culture had

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roots and was culturally connected with

Mycenaean Greece Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.. It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland ...

. The Vatin culture is dated to the middle Bronze Age and is generally divided into three phases:

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, Vatin-

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, and

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. It flourished from the 16th to the 13th century BC. The people of the Vatin culture inhabited the entire territory of

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(

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) and many surrounding areas (including

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and

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). Its core area was in

n- Vojvodinian

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. The remains of this culture were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century near the village of Vatin (

region,

province,

). However the real importance of this culture was only realised at the end of the 20th century, when the locality of Feudvar near the village of Mošorin was investigated.

Characteristics

The Vatin culture was highly influenced by

and had already developed

social differentiation Role theory is a concept in sociology and in social psychology that considers most of everyday activity to be the acting-out of socially defined categories (e.g., mother, manager, teacher). Each role is a set of rights, duties, expectations, norm ...

within its population. The culture also developed large central settlements, which were surrounded by smaller settlements and farms. Large settlements were economical and social centers, as well as the seats of tribal leaders. These fortified centers had a defensive character and a large number of them existed in the wider area. The thick network of large fortified settlements represents an example of the

collective defense Collective security can be understood as a security arrangement, political, regional, or global, in which each state in the system accepts that the security of one is the concern of all, and therefore commits to a collective response to threats t ...

of a wide space. The main occupations of inhabitants of the Vatin culture was agriculture and animal husbandry and it is assumed that they also produced

beer Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from ce ...

. In many of the settlements, remains of children's

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s were discovered. Tools, weapons and jewelry were mainly purchased by trade, but some larger settlements also had their own workshops that produced bronze objects. One foundry of bronze objects was discovered in Feudvar, and according to the researchers, it was probably used for several hundreds of years. There are indications that people of the Vatin culture also had basic mathematical knowledge.

Localities

Localities of the Vatin culture are: * Vatin *

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* Vinča *

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* Lovas *

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*Feudvar near Mošorin * Novigrad na Savi * Ludoš *

- Židovar * Gomolava * Ljuljaci * Dobrača

References

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External links

Vatin čeka arheologe - Vatin waits for archaeologists
(in Serbian)
Bronzano doba - Bronze Age
(in Croatian)

(in Serbian) * ttps://www.scribd.com/doc/52498501/Праисторија-на-тлу-Србије Praistorija na tlu Srbije - Prehistory on Serbian soil(in Serbian)
Praistorija na tlu Srbije - Prehistory on Serbian soil
(in Serbian)

(In Serbian) Archaeological cultures of Southeastern Europe Archaeological cultures in Serbia Archaeological cultures in Romania Archaeological cultures in Croatia Archaeological cultures in Bosnia and Herzegovina Bronze Age cultures of Europe Bronze Age Serbia Prehistory of Romania Prehistoric Bosnia and Herzegovina Prehistoric Bulgaria History of Banat Prehistory of Vojvodina Indo-European archaeological cultures

Characteristics

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