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Hamangia culture
Summary
The Hamangia culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria) between the Danube and the Black Sea and Muntenia in the south. It is named after the site of Baia-Hamangia, discovered in 1952 along Golovița Lake.
The Hamangia culture began around 5250/5200 BC and lasted until around 4550/4500 BC. It was absorbed by the expanding Boian culture in its transition towards the Gumelnița culture.
Its cultural links with Anatolia suggest that it was the result of a recent settlement by people from Anatolia, unlike the neighbouring cultures, which appear descended from earlier Neolithic settlement.
The Hamangia culture attracted and attracts the attention of many art historians because of its exceptional clay figures.
Painted vessels with complex geometrical patterns based on spiral-motifs are typical. The shapes include: bowls and cylindric glasses (most of them with arched walls). They are decorated with dots, straight parallel lines and zig-zags, which make Hamangia pottery very original.
Pottery figurines are normally extremely stylized and show standing naked faceless women with emphasized breasts and buttocks. Two figurines known as "The Thinker" and "The Sitting woman" are considered masterpieces of Neolithic art.
File:Human-sized clay head found at Varna necropolis.png|Life-sized clay head, {{Circa|4500 BC}}
File:Bucharest - The Thinker of Cernavoda - no bg.png|Male figurine, "The Thinker"
File:Bucharest - The Sitting Woman of Cernavoda - no bg.png|Female figurine, "The Sitting Woman"
File:08 ENEOLIT-Ceramik.tif|Pottery
File:Female figurines, clay, ivory, bone, 4900-4600 BC, AM Varna, Varm51.jpg|Figurines
File:Durankulak-nekropola Hamangia.tif|Anthropomorphic pottery
File:2006 0814Hamangia Histria Museum20060298.jpg|Figurine
Settlements consist of rectangular houses with one or two rooms, built of wattle and daub, sometimes with stone foundations (in Durankulak). They are normally arranged on a rectangular grid and may form small tells.
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