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Bronze Age in Serbia

[Projekat Rastko] Dr Draga Garasanin: Bronze Age in Serbia Summary from the catalogue, Belgrade 1972 (exhibition in National museum of Serbia, Belgrade) The Bronze Age, the period whose archaeological survey is the theme of this exhibition, represents in history, art and socio-economic relations, an important stage in the earliest history of Europe. Formally, the Bronze Age was the period, with greater or lesser variation which encompasses the second millenium BC (the period of time from 2000-1000 BC), the era which was dominated by the technique of working metal an the exploitation of certain ores, more modem methods of production of tools, more perfected shapes of weapons and different new forms of jewelry. But we must not forget the fact that these new forms depended also on the new especially developed abilities for exploiting certain raw materials: mining techniques as well as the techniques of working and shaping metal into definite forms which created and demanded the specialized activity of a group of people in the community. In this period it is not any longer possible to speak only of the division of labor between men and women, as it was in the previous Neolithic period. But we must consider the unequal distribution, of the ores which were necessary for the production of bronze, that is the simultaneous need of two ores: copper and tin, which made necessary closer trade and barter between different areas and regions. This unequal distribution also created the basis for a certain state of noneqilibrium in the relations between different groups; naturally this created insecurity, and frequent conflicts which reflected the need for the creation of a definite system of defense and attack. The Bronze Age was at the same time

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