Innovation and periphery: Interaction in the central and western Balkan region during the Neolithic and early Eneolithic.

在公元前6千纪的过程中，巴尔干半岛的中部地区成为一个重要的地区，在那里发展或采用了巴尔干半岛的半岛南部地区的一些创新，如等级定居系统，导致定居土丘积累的建筑形式，铜冶金，某些陶器技术和风格。上述创新典型地反映了影响深远的社会和经济变革，这些变革导致形成了更加复杂的社会，专业化程度更高，社会不平等日益加剧。由于时间的耽搁，上述创新措施在创新地区周边地区，包括波斯尼亚东部和中部的高地地区得到采用。哪些具体机制和触发因素决定了这些过程？在波斯尼亚中部深入细致的前期工作的基础上，本研究项目旨在对巴尔干中部创新地区的发展以及波斯尼亚东部、东北部和中部不同周边高地地区的发展进行历时性综合。公元前六千年和五千年。本研究试图回答以下问题：1）在多大程度上可以识别创新阶段？2)这些阶段可以与波斯尼亚中部新石器时代和新石器时代早期已经精细的时间顺序和差异化的空间发展同步吗？3)能否区分创新的核心区域、边界区域和流程的外部区域？具体而言，该项目的目的是，一方面，综合已经公布的数据，解决地理，建筑，经济和物质文化的各个方面。另一方面，将对过去几年在东波斯尼亚戈拉日德地区进行的广泛实地调查的结果进行处理、补充和发表。在这样做的时候，第一次系统地评估数据之间的关系的“中心”和“周边”的中部和西部巴尔干半岛在新石器时代和早期的新石器时代。

In the course of the 6th millennium cal BC, the Central Balkan area emerged as an important region where several innovations were developed or adopted from the southern region of the Balkan Peninsula such as hierarchical settlement systems, architectural forms which led to the accumulation of settlement mounds, copper metallurgy, certain pottery technologies, and styles. The mentioned innovations exemplarily reflect far-reaching social and economic changes that resulted in the formation of more complex societies with greater specialization and growing social inequality. With time delays, the abovementioned innovations were adopted in areas that were situated peripheral to the innovative regions, including the upland area of Eastern and Central Bosnia. Which concrete mechanisms and triggers determined these processes?Based on intensive preliminary work in Central Bosnia, the present research project aims at formulating a diachronic synthesis of the development in innovative regions of the Central Balkans on the one hand, and in different peripheral highland areas in Eastern, Northeast, and Central Bosnia on the other hand during the 6th and 5th millennia cal BC. The research attempts to answer the questions: 1) To what extent can innovative phases be identified? 2) Can these phases be synchronized with the already fine-chronological and differentiated spatial development in Central Bosnia in the Neolithic and the Early Eneolithic? 3) Can core zones with innovations, border zones, and external zones of the processes be distinguished?Concretely, the project aims, on the one hand, to synthesize already published data on settlement geography, architecture, economics, and various aspects of material culture. On the other hand, results obtained in the course of extensive field surveys in the region Gorazde in Eastern Bosnia during the last years will be processed, augmented, and published. In doing so, for the first time a systematic evaluation of data concerning the relationship between 'centre' and 'periphery' for the Central and Western Balkans during the Neolithic and the Early Eneolithic is to be carried out.