Linear Ceramic Culture Starcevo-Cris Culture Precucuteni Culture Cucuteni Culture Vadastra Culture Vinca Culture Dudesti Culture Salcuta Culture Vase of the Salcuta culture polished, with grooved decoration (origin. Salcuta).

Geographic Setting : Extending into the east of the former Yugoslavia, westward into Bulgaria and Romania (southeast of Banat, Oltenia, and west of Valachia) this area is better known as "Salcuta-Krivodol-Gradesnita". Habitation : Throughout their evolution, which comprises three or four separate phases, the settlements seem to be located on elevations. Tells appear in the latter period. At first the homes were buried, later, made of wood and earth, they were built at ground level. Material Means : The ceramic is characterized by truncated or bi-truncated shapes decorated with impressions and incisions, less often, painted red, white or with graphite. Lithic tools, in Balkan or local flint, as with those made of bone and horn, are very refined and varied. Anthropomorphic statues, dominated by female representations, were made in bone or clay. The practice of metallurgy is significant, as the discoveries of many diverse objects attest : axes, scissors, needles, harpoons (fishing spears), and jewelry. Economics : The economy is characterized by agriculture, the breeding of animals, hunting and fishing. Funeral Rites : Cemeteries and graves have been discovered.