Caves, Herdsmen, and Migrants of the Late Eneolithic

The paper discusses a specific settling aspect of the bearers of the Late Eneolithic Coţofeni–Kostolac group in the territory of Serbia: the utilisation of caves and cavelets. Compared to other periods of later prehistory, bearers of the Coţofeni–Kostolac group seemingly display a higher preference for settling in caves, or in their immediate surroundings. Such a trend has been interpreted in tight relation to their presumed subsistence strategies, based primarily on mobile stockbreeding. The paper will aim to provide further chronological and cultural insight into such interpretations, with a small overview of the existing data.