The Settlement of Serbs on Balkans and the First State
	Introduction
	Paleolithic - second period of the Stone Age
	Neolithic - latest period of the Stone Age
	The Bronze Age
	The Iron Age
	The Roman Period
	The Arrival of Slavs, the Adoption of Christianity and the Serbian State of Stefan Nemanja
	Chronological table
The Serbian State of the Nemanjićes 1199-1321
The Serbian State of the Nemanjićes 1321-1371
The fall of the Serbian Empire1371-1389

The Settlement of Serbs on Balkans and the First State

The Bronze Age

Science has defined the period from 2000 to 1000 B.C. as the Bronze Age of the human history, since, contrary to earlier periods, the use of metals prevailed for the working of implements, weaponry and jewelry. In the Balkan peninsula, the Bronze Age is also linked with the Indo-Europeanization of the indigenous population and the creation of ethnic groups which would generate the old Balkan tribes: the Thracians and Illyrians, and north of the Sava and Danube rivers - the Dacians and Getae. Indo-Europeanization means folk penetration from central Asia to Europe.

Archeological sites of the Bronze Age (particularly Bubanj at Nis) indicate that these people primarily lived by stock raising. Their vessels with two handles and poor ornamentation are characteristic. The technique of their work indicates tradition.

The site Glodar at Paracin is most important for the so-called Paracin group. It is known solely from cemeteries - necropolis. The dead were cremated, and their remains put in urns, along with various objects, most jewelry.

The Vatin group (after the site Vatin near Vrsac) is close to the Do??bovac - Zuto Brdo group (sites Dubovac?? near Kovin and Zuto Brdo in the village Vinci near Golubac). These two groups belong to the culture of the middle Bronze Age. Their pottery has unquestionable aesthetic value, especially vessels shaped as animals.

Votive carts from Dupljaje were an important cult object. A cart drawn by pool bids displays an upright figurine. It is a male donned in female clothes. Science links this cart with the myth of the Apollo of Delphi, who sojourned six months in the land of the Hyperboreans and the other six in Delphi.