Bronze time in Macedonia – a period covering mainly ⅱ millennium BC. It occurs as a kind of ethnocultural stabilization in the youngest Indo-European penetrators of this part of the Balkans, which caused a prolonged duration of the previous period of copper time (Eneolithic) to the last centuries of ⅲ millennium PR. AD Early bronze time covers the end of ⅲ and first centuries of ⅱ millennium BC. Realizes cultural and chronological relations with culture from the early bronze time after the valley of the River Morava (Bubard Human ⅲ), in the north, and with the middlehelean culture in Thessaly, south. The most significant discoveries of this phase are those at the site Gradiste – Pelince, in Kumanovo (north), and especially the settlements in the rims of the local Pelagonia or the so-called. Armenochors group (south). The locality Gradiste – Pelince is a rare settlement with a sanctuary, while the sites in the Pelagonia group are multilayer settlements, the so-called. Tumbi, with continuous life since the time of Neolithic. The secondary bronze time is characterized by the continuation of both the further development of traditions of the previous phase, until the penetrating elements and the acceptance of cultural influences from the Aegean South, during the ⅹⅳ century BCE. The most significant findings of this phase are discovered at the site of Tumbborje in Bitola (multilayer settlement with rich archaeological material, most ceramic vessels, mostly unused, in the original position in several explored spacious baking furnaces for baking ceramics). The late bronze time covers the period of HIV to ⅻ century BCE, when establishing immediate contacts with the Aegean world. The strongest expression of this stage is the so-called. Vardar Valley or Ulc group of late bronze time. The sites of this group, mainly necropolises, extend the most over the course of the river Vardar, but also after its main tributaries (Crna Reka and Bregalnica) – Vardarski Reed, Ulans, Voca, Demir Kapija, Dolno Song, Beania, etc. Basic markings of this group are burials with crushed inhumation, characteristic forms of monochric ceramics, local matte-colored vessels, copies of Miketan forms, as well as some specific forms of bronze jewelry that feels a strong influence than the Aegean bronze time. Lit.: M. Garashan, Central Balkan Complex Bronzannog Age, PHZ, IV, Sarayevo 1983; D. Mitrevski, prihista in the Republic of the Republic of Macdomonia, Balcan Prehista, Tesesaliks, 2003. Dr. M.
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