The Neolithic in Albania

The native painted pottery is similar to that of LN Katundas Cave, while the other painted pottery is similar to that of Maliq I, which is likely its source. These attributes relate the LN pottery of Konispol Cave technologically and chronologically with Maliq I in Albania and Classical Dimini (IV) in Thessaly." (uta.edu)
From the material above we can conclude that the "diversity of development made the Albanian area part of the ring of cultural complexes of south-east Europe and indeed one of the cardinal points between these complexes. [...] Albania was the meeting place of elements of the early Neolithic culture of the Central and East Balkans and of the contemporary Adriatic complex, and again of elements of the Middle Neolithic culture of the Adriatic zone and of Vinca, Dhimini and so on. Thus Albania had without question an important place in the Neolithic structure of the Balkans, and it played a not insignificant role in the synchronization of the individual Neolithic groups of the peninsula." (Cambridge Ancient History 191)
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