The Opovo Project: a Study of Socioeconomic Change in the Balkan Neolithic

// Journal of Field Archaeology. Vol. 12 — No. 4 — 1985. — P. 425 - 444.This report provides the preliminary results of an archaeological project currently underway in the Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. The project focuses on the site of Opovo-Ugar Bajbuk, which lies in the lower valley of the Tamis River, north of the Danube. Excavation of the site began in the summer of 1983.
Materials so far uncovered indicate that the site represents a late neolithic - early eneolithic settlement, belonging to the Vinéa-Plocnik culture. The project is designed to investigate problems generated by earlier research efforts in the area of the late neolithic and early eneolithic of SE Europe. In addition, it provides an opportunity to study variation within the Vinča culture, in terms of its regional setting and its economic activities.