LIFE IN VUČEDOL

Documentary | 2025 | Col | 52m

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Summary

VUČEDOL CULTURE (3000.-2500. B.C.) We can locate the beginnings of the Vučedol culture in the area of eastern Slavonia and Srijem in Croatia. This climatically ideal area on the 45th parallel, with an annual abundance of sunshine, is located on the richest land for agriculture and livestock in southeast Europe. The Danube River's right flanks in eastern Slavonia and western Srijem are covered by loess terraces 10 to 15 km wide. These dry, well-drained fertile fields and broad pastures were the most heavily settled areas in Europe. Without natural barriers, they allowed easy travel. They hosted permanent settlements for the first Neolithic agriculturalists in Europe (the Starčevo Culture), who in 6200 B.C. started to expand from the Anatolian Plateau. The first herding peoples settled this area about 3500 B.C., arriving from the East, from between the Ural Mountains and the northern Caucasus. The broad loess terraces, on which grew only seasonal grasses, enabled free movement of these peoples with their newly invented carts. In the time between 3000 and 2600 BC, the right bank of the Danube at the far eastern end of present-day Croatia was settled by an Indo-European population which we now call the Vučedol Culture. This culture is Europe's response to the great step forward in civilization in the Near East that began about 3000 BC with the establishment of the first states and the first appearance of writing. The Vučedol Culture is contemporaneous with the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, the Old Kingdom in Egypt, and early Troy. The extremely advanced technological world of the Vučedol culture is reflected in various aspects of the daily life of the Vučedolians.

Director: Darko Puharić
Type: Documentary
Year of completion: 2025
Country of origin: Croatia

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