ment might not have
appeared as a result of
an invasion. In recent
years there has been
an increase in the number of researchers considering the idea of a
In addition, there is
evidence of the incursion of horse-riding
warriors. “The concept
of an invasion of tribes
coming from the steppes
into the Balkans at the
without reoccupation
around 4200–4000 BC,
which in some regions
continued for up to
800 years,” said Dr
Slavchev.
end of the Late Copper
Age is based on several pieces of evidence.
One is the stratigraphic
and chronological rupture between the Late
Copper Age and the
Early Bronze Age in
the eastern Balkans,
reflected in the abandonment of settlements
peaceful penetration of
“Concrete evidence groups of people from
for an external military the steppes and their
invasion into the ter- gradual cultural infilritory of present-day tration.”
Romania and Bulgaria
is scarce and rather
Nevertheless, it may
uncertain, consisting
of secondary evidence not have been one rearather
than
direct son or the other, but
proofs. The steppe ele- rather a combination of
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