To understand the social changes behind the seemingly identical material culture in
the second half of the fourth millennium BC, we need to know the medium where the
processes took place. Among many other questions, we still lack the necessary knowledge
about the internal structure of Late Copper Age settlements, the locations of activities,
and the social organization of human communities that lived there. Our funded (NRDI
Fund K_129332) research is based on the premise that the archaeological identification
of households and activity areas is possible since the basic activities of everyday
and symbolic life were carried out in a delimited area and within a delimited timeframe.
As a result of the multidirectional
approach, through the analysis of the finds and the locations of everyday and symbolic
activities, we will attempt to reconstruct the organizational levels of Late Copper
Age communities at increasingly complex levels, from which we will be able to conclude
the prime movers of the cohesion of the so called Baden complex.
