The Balkan-Aegean migrations revisited: Changes in material culture and settlement patterns in the Late Bronze age Central Balkans in light of new data

Alleged ?Aegean migrations? have long been seen as underlying major transformations in lifeways and identity the Balkans 12th-11th centuries BC. Revisiting material culture settlement changes north-south ?routeway? of Velika Morava-Juzna Morava-Vardar/Axios river valleys, this paper evaluates developments within local communities. It is argued that mobility played an important role social change, including element inward migration from north. We argue rather than Aegean end point, these valleys themselves were destination migrants. The prosperity stimulated those communities led to increased networks personal incorporated elements wider Carpathians north Greece over course two centuries.