CULTURAL HERITAGE: - Macedonian Information Centre

PreHiStoriC MaCedonian FiGurineS - 41
1. The main exhibition hall, Sainsbury Centre for visual arts
university of east anglia, norwich
(The venue for the next Balkans Figurines exhibition in 200 )
Throughout the decades of archaeological excavations, researches
and reconnaissance activities that have been rather intense in the past
thirty years, about four hundred prehistoric sites have been identified on
the territory of the Republic of Macedonia dating from the Neolithic
and Eneolithic periods. Archaeological excavations have been carried out
only at some of them, having resulted so far with a pretty clear picture
of the prehistoric chronological development. Having been correlated
with the analysis of the overall archaeological material, figurines have
been ascribed to a certain chronological framework. They have also been
attributed with specific features and traits of the designated period.
By C 14 analysis carried out in Macedonia and in the neighboring
countries, and also by comparative analyses, the chronological framework
of the Neolithic era has been set from 6500 till 4800 BC and of the
Eneolithic from 4800 till 2500 BC.
Concerning the Neolithic period on the territory of the Republic of
Macedonia the basic widely accepted cultural groups are the Anzabegovo
- Vrsnik, i.e.(st)., Zelenikovo culture and Velusina - Porodin culture. On