Vendbanimi neolitik Kamnik, Kolonjë !

Neolithic settlement Kamnik, Kolonjë. Neolithic settlement of Kamnik. The village of Kamnik is located on the right bank of the upper Lengarica stream, located on the right side of the Ersekë-Leskovik highway, about 4 km. southwest of the Barmash locality center. At the entrance of the village rises a small rocky hill with two ridges which the locals call Kamnik Rock. Its southern and western slopes fall from place to place with a sharp slope over the Barmash creek, while from the north and east it descends more gently and with terraced stairs. In the highest ridge of this hill, in 1967, traces of an ancient fortified observation point were found, while in its neck, called by the locals "City meadows" and below the northwestern ridge, many fragments were noticed on the surface. prehistoric ceramics. A year later, the Erseka Museum undertook survey excavations at the site. The works brought to light traces of a Neolithic settlement with a culture similar to that of the Maliq type In 1969 and 1970, excavations started by the Erseka Museum were continued by the archeology department of the Institute of History and Linguistics in order to study, in a wider area and in a more complete way, the life and culture of this the newly discovered prehistoric station, its architectural features and the character of the stratified deposits. Wanting to include more chronologically the culture of Kamnik's place of residence, we refer to the Kamnik-Dimini relations and in particular to the "classical" Dimini imports discovered in its earliest strata. These cultural relations clearly define not only the relative but also the absolute chronological position of this culture, the beginnings of which in Kamnik belong to the last phase of the late Neolithic. If we are to take as an impetus the absolute traditional dating of Dimini, then as the starting time for the settlement of Kamnik we must accept the years 2800-2700 BC, given more the end than the beginning of this period. Judging by the bones of soft and wild animals as well as by those few grains of grain and byk remnants mixed with kiln mud, it is clear that the Neolithic inhabitants of Kamnik were mainly engaged in livestock, agriculture, and hunting; that they cultivated cattle and small cattle, planted wheat, and hunted wild animals, mainly pigs and deer. They were also perfect masters at that time in the production of pottery. The clay vessels discovered in Kamnik show that the Neolithic potters of this settlement had great experience and a developed sense of color and shape which they knew how to combine so well and beautifully. Kamnik's "artistic" potters managed to create such works from baked clay, which can stand next to the most brilliant performances of Neo-Eneolithic decorative art of Southeast Europe. A painted pottery like that of Kamnik, which is distinguished for its clean way of working, for perfect baking, for elegance of shapes and harmony of colors, for accurate drawing and compositions of motifs from once bold and often to be admired, transcends the boundaries of primitive handmade production. In our opinion, this presupposes the existence of a "craft" production of pottery, realized through various technical means that were based on the rotation of the vessel. Skënder Aliu