Early Neolithic in North Macedonia and Bulgaria: geographical and cultural relations

Abstract

The paper focuses on different aspects of material culture in communities that inhabited two of the most important regions in the Early Neolithic Balkans, North Macedonia and Bulgaria. Paper seeks to discover the causes for similarities of certain artefact types in communities that produce and use rela-tively different material culture.

Keywords

• balkans en
• en sites and cultures
• the problems of 'culture'
• microregional specifics
• cultural contacts