Coțofeni culture

The Coţofeni culture (Serbian: Kocofeni), also known as the Baden-Coţofeni culture, and generally associated with the Usatove culture, was an Early Bronze Age archaeological culture that existed between 3500 and 2500 BC in the mid-Danube area of south-eastern Central Europe.

Coţofeni/Kocofeni culture
Geographical rangeRomania, Bulgaria, Serbia
PeriodChalcolithic to Early Bronze Age
Datesbetween c. 3500 and 2500 BC
Preceded byCernavoda culture, Usatove culture, Bodrogkeresztúr culture
Followed byBaden culture, Vučedol culture, Glina-Schneckenberg culture, Wietenberg culture, Ottomány culture

The first report of a Coţofeni find was made by Fr. Schuster in 1865 from the Râpa Roşie site in Sebeş (present-day Alba County, Romania). Since then, this culture has been studied by a number of people to varying degrees. Some of the more prominent contributors to the study of this culture include C. Gooss, K. Benkő, B. Orbán, G. Téglas, K. Herepey, S. Fenichel, Julius Teutsch, Cezar Bolliac, V. Christescu, Teohari Antonescu, and Cristian Popa.

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