The UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series is pleased to present a lecture by Zhaneta Gjyshja, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Gjyshja’s lecture, It Takes a Village: Craft Specialization at a Late Neolithic (5400-4600 BC) Site in Kosova, will be held on Friday, January 26, 12-1 p.m. in Room 1322 in the School of Education Building.
This talk will present the results of four fieldwork seasons at a newly discovered Late Neolithic site located in western Kosova. The pilot data suggests that Lluga is a three-hectare village with numerous rectangular wattle-and-daub houses surrounded by a ditch. Also, it appears that it was a peripheral village of the Late Vinča culture group—with evidence of various craft production, a mixed economy, rituals, and deliberate house burning. What differentiates it from other contemporary sites is the evidence that it was probably a specialized site for chipped stone tool production, specifically blades. However, some questions still need to be addressed. If there was craft specialization, was it organized at the household or village level? Was production for export or domestic consumption? Did the system of social organization change over time?
The Museum's Brown Bag Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
