Architecture at Vinca

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Architecture at Vinca

• Researcher Ben Doyle
• Assistant Maria Rosales
• Section 114

Serbian Academy of Arts Sciences
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Why Study Architecture?

• Architecture designing and erecting buildings
• Analyzing how space is made organized
• How architecture changes overtime

Ruth Tringham
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Vinca Houses

• Started as subterranean pit-huts
• pit huts got larger
• raised to ground level
• Evolved into large rectangular houses made of
• Clay
• Wood
• Stone
• Contained separations of living quarters
• recreational economic activities

Bogdanovic, M. (1988)
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Building Techniques

• Pit-huts made from material that was easily
  accessible
• involved modification transportation of
  materials
• used for longer periods of time
• surface-level structures
• more substantial durable materials
• walls of larger wooden posts
• posts interwoven
• materials acquired from longer distances

Bogdanovic, M. (1988)
Serbian Academy of Arts Sciences
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Culture

• Artifacts found show daily ritual performed in
  the house
• most of daily ritual done outside
• pit-hut villages were loosely associated with one
  another
• no real spatial relationship with each other

Ruth Tringham

• Later came about order to village
• buildings closer together
• built larger
• internal sub-divisions
• gave community permanence continuity

Serbian Academy of Arts Sciences
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Bibliography

• Bailey, Douglas
• 1999 The Built Environment Pit Huts and
  Houses in the Neolithic. Documenta
• Prehistorica XXVI 153-162
• Markotic, Vladimir
• 1984 The Vinca Culture. Calgary Western
  Publishers. P. 91-98
• Stevanovic, Mirjana
• 1997 The Age of Clay The Social Dynamics
  of House Destruction. Journal of
• Anthropological Archeaology 16
  334-395
• Stevanovic, Mirjana and Ruth Tringham
• 1998 The Significance of Neolithic Houses
  in the Archeological Record of Southeast
• Europe. In Zbornik posvecen Dragoslavu
  Srejovicu Antidoron Dragoslavo
• Srejovic. Milutin Garasanin, et al., eds. Pp.
  195-207. Belgrade Centre for
• Archeological Research.
• Bogdanovic, Milenko
• 1988 Architecture and Structural Features
  at Divostin. In Divostin and the Neolithic of
  Central Serbia. Alan McPherron and Dragoslav
  Srejovic, eds. Pp. 35-142. Pittsburgn Department
  of Anthropology, Univeristy of Pittsburgh.
• Slide 1 Serbian Academy of Arts Sciences
• Slide 2 Ruth Tringham
• Slide 3 Bogdanovic, M. (1988)