Archaeology of the Paleo Balkan People

Pre-requisites: To have passed the following examinations: Iron Age in the Balkans during basic academic studies or Illyrians and Thracians in the pre Roman times

Course objectives: Gaining an in depth knowledge of proto history in present day Serbia and the neighboring countries.

Course description: Evaluation of Greek and Roman written sources for the study of Illyrian and Thracian tribes in the Balkans; The opportunities and limitations that archeological data provides, in the process of understanding the uniqueness of material and spiritual culture of certain paleobalkan tribes; The question of defining the boundaries between Thracians, Illyrians, Dacomesians, Peonians and others; The influence of Eastern Celts on the development of the autochthonous inhabitants in Serbia and the Northern part of the Balkans; The acceptance and opposition to Hellenization and Romanization by the northerly neighbors of Greece and Macedonia; The birth of first proto urban centers in the central Balkan region.

Learning Outcomes: Attendance, essay, oral examination

Literature/Reading:

• M. Jevtić, Gvozdeno doba u okolini Bora / The Iron Age in the Bor Area, Bor i okolina u praistoriji, antici i srednjem veku/The Bor Area in Prehistory, Antiqutiy and the Middle Ages. (ed. M. Lazić), Bor-Belgrade 2004, 127-164
• FOL A, SPIRIDONOV T., Istoričerska geografija na trakiskite plemena do III vek pre n.e., BAN Institut ot Trakologija, Sofija 1983
• THEODOSSIEV N., North –Western Thrace from the Fifth to First Centuries BC, BAR International Series 859, 2000m (Oxford Press)
• PAPAZOGLU F., Srednjobalkanska plemena u predrimsko doba, Sarajevo 1968. Reprint: Beograd (Equilibrium) 2007
• Papazoglu F., Iz istorije antičkog Balkana (zbornik radova,ur. Đokić V.), Beograd, Equilibrium, 2007.
• ANCENT GOLD: THE WEALTH OF THE THRACIANS, New York 1998
• - KACAROV, DEČEVI i drugi, Izvori za starata istorija i geografija na Trakija i Makedonija, Sofija 1949 (BAN).
• - WIESNER J., Die Thaker, Stuttgartt 1963
• HODDINOTT R.F., The Thracians, Thames and Hudson, London 1981