Key Debate 5: Is there a Polymetallic (R)evolution in the Balkans during the mid 5th Millennium BC?
The recent analysis of a tin-bronze object in a secure excavated context at Pločnik dating to the mid-5th millennium BC means that we can identify the contemporary use of four metals within the Balkans.
Whether it is the gold at Varna, Bulgaria; the silver at Alepotrypa cave, Greece; or the copper throughout the Balkans, the mid-5th millennium BC in the Balkans appears as the time of the polymetallic (r)evolution (Radivojević et al. forthcoming).