The First Civilization of EUROPE
The Lost World of OLD EUROPE 🇷🇴
Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. For 1,500 years, starting earlier than 5000 B.C., they farmed and built sizable towns, a few with as many as 2,000 dwellings. They mastered large-scale copper smelting, the new technology of the age. Their graves held an impressive array of exquisite headdresses and necklaces and, in one cemetery, the earliest major assemblage of gold artifacts to be found anywhere in the world.
CUCUTENI ❤️💛💙 A Great Civilization of the Prehistoric World.
Today, more than ever, the understanding of the present and the future is connected to the past. The Cucuteni civilization is the expression of a dynamic, well-organized society that created numerous art objects, which fascinate and touch the modern man. We are happy to acknowledge the recent growing interest in the Cucuteni civilization as demonstrated by the efforts of various colleagues in organizing national and international exhibitions as well as in extensively publishing the available data on this topic.
Their work has facilitated the dissemination of the information regarding one of the most astonishing European civilizations. In this context, the optimal valorization of the collections of various institutions is an imperative step in the process of the European reintegration of the Romanians. We hope that this volume shall inspire other colleagues in trying to present to the public at large the entire Prehistory on Romanian lands, of which Cucuteni is only a small part. Romanian prehistory remains largely unknown, in spite of its numerous treasures that need to be revealed and explained.
The exhibition organized in Olten, in Switzerland, in 2008 aimed at familiarizing the international public with Romanian Prehistory. However, the exhibition catalogue did not fully valorize such potential. This is why our intention in this volume is to provide a more comprehensive view of the topic. We hope that the format will inspire other colleagues in using and improving it.
360 ° EUROPE GENESYS ❤️💛💙
