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Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Europe (ca. 4600 B.C.): Just before Varna, Salt Cakes and Flint Blades.

Laurence Manolakakis
Olivier Weller

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Although signs of durable social hierarchy are clearly visible in the Karanovo VI / Varna period, a number of economic and symbolic traits emerge earlier and are archaeologically visible in the preceding period. The Balkan Chalcolithic is characterized both by technological innovation (copper metallurgy, gold-working, graphite decoration, lever pressure debitage, salt cake production etc.) and by upheavals of economic and social nature (regionalized production, long-distance exchange, durable and hereditary hierarchy). Cemeteries on the Bulgarian coast, and especially Varna, concentrate products in ostentatious and spectacular manner, suggesting particularly large-scale patterns of circulation. Well-established for the Varna Culture, these changes do not appear suddenly at this time. They are in fact the outcome of transformations that gradually emerged during the previous period (Karanovo V / Hamangia IV). Our aim here is to compare two special productions, very long flint blades and moulded salt cakes, both of which are well-documented in terms of sources and manufacture. The confrontation will examine modes of production, as well as the economic and/or symbolic value of the goods, within a chronological framework that is sufficiently broad to enable a dynamic approach to change in north-east Bulgaria in the first half of the 5th millennium.
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Laurence Manolakakis, Olivier Weller. Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Europe (ca. 4600 B.C.): Just before Varna, Salt Cakes and Flint Blades.. 78th Society of American Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Society of American Archaeologists, Apr 2013, Honolulu, United States. ⟨hal-02553582⟩
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