К вопросу о комплексной культурной модели генезиса бронзового века на Балканах (IV тыс. до н. э.): накопление богатства
Toward a Complex Cultural Model of the Genesis of Bronze Age in the Balkans (4th millennium cal BCE): Accumulation of Wealth

Summary/Abstract: In light of current evidence the genesis of the Bronze Age in the Balkans can be the best explained by an interaction cultural model which includes Western Anatolia, the Balkans, the North Black Sea and Central Europe. In this research wealth has been proposed as a factor in the genesis of the Bronze Age in the Balkans (Early Bronze I). The wealth is the sustainable component of the prehistoric society and its core parameters can be connected with the agricultural and pastoral economies. Another core parameter is the house as property which became a wealth parameter probably in the Early Neolithic. The metal artifacts have special wealth values during Copper and Bronze Ages. The change of the wealth centers — from northeast Bulgaria (later Copper Age) to Upper Thrace (Ezero and Yunatsite culture) (Early Bronze Age) during the 3rd millennium is due to the emergence of the first states in Near East and their impact on Anatolia, as well as the integration of Upper Thrace with Anatolia, although both regions kept their cultural peculiarities. From this perspectives, the proposed Anatolian-Balkan interaction factor for emergence of Bronze Age Cultures in the Balkans had an important role in the development of standards of accumulation, distribution and re-distribution of wealth in the neighbor regions during the fourth millennium cal BCE. In addition, the 4th millennium would be the stage when wealth was accumulated as a stock by the mobile and semi-mobile communities which could be invested in gold and silver in later period.

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