 In zelo, ki sem tudi pravite, je to kombinacija od vrštih in nekaj rečen, ker sem v Abenju in Macedoniji za 10 rov, in to je inočno vrštih, kaj je vrštih, Julija, na to, da je to vrštih vrštih. So let me start with a slide that's focusing a little bit on the history of Geographic Macedonia, and especially in a period of conflict and unrest in the world region, in which most of the archaeological research was undertaken in combination with military campaigns. One of the key personalities, of course, is Kurt Day, which you can see here working in Tocica in 1921. He has created a huge, huge number of settlements in the region, and of course published a very important work at the end of the 30s, which for the next 40-50 years represented somehow a milestone. So a book which all of us work in Macedonia were referring to for our study. In particular, he is coveted also Armenovori, which is a mutile settlement, and he published a small amount of data from that site, especially pottery with somehow strange technological characteristics. So in his, according to his knowledge and the previous knowledge of the region, those assemblage remain somehow isolated for several years, so it's perceived detached from the most southern sites, which were gravitated somehow also towards the Aegean, and of course perceived as something different from the North as well. So the general picture of this region was a picture of isolation. This so-called Armenovori group, despite when there were many excavations in Roman Macedonia, also providing further data, was however a sort of picture of communities, local, not at all mobile stick to the territory, and very extremely conservative. Espeči da se ga so kornologi. All these evidences from Armenovori, despite it was a multileared settlement, so we have different settlements leading to the third millennium, was somehow compressed at the very end of the third millennium. So I'm just quoting Maran for obvious reason, because he was my PhD advisor. So he, of course, was convinced that Armenovori could have been dated only at the very end of the third, if not even during the Middle Bronze Age, so during the early second millennium BC. However, luckily we now in the last 20 years know much, much more sites, which can be connected to what is called Armenovori group. But let me just, I'm just skipping, so I'm coming back to the previous slide, let me just think that one of the main characteristics through which this Armenovori group was traced was with this non-decorated, two-headed vessel, the famous Armenovori type cantaros, which was representing a sort of guide to trace, so to attributed the pottery to this group. And so in the last 20 years, luckily our knowledge of the so-called Armenovori group increased dramatically, I would say. So here there is a work of Alexander Bulatovich, in which he pointed all this new and old sites, which could have been defined as Armenovori. So we have, of course, in blue, I think on the settlements, and in red there are the cemeteries, which were newly escalated in the last 20 years. So then we saw somehow two different groups, one more connected to Macedonia, and the Pylogonia, and Fenopetsalemuki, and the mountains are there, and another group, which was following this direction, Vardar Axios, up to the Yuzhna-Narava river. So, but this is a new excavation, where extremely functional in understanding what Armenovori really is, so what might be, except an assemblage of undecorated pottery used probably to drink. So let me just recall the most important excavation. The first one was in Armenovori itself, but, unlikely, it remained largely unpublished. So the main concern was only to somehow review the chronology and the succession of this habitation level made by her today, make some picture of nice pots, but that was it. So practically, again, so the eponymous site of this group remain practically unpublished. And this I'm also connecting in what Vardarica said earlier that indeed we need to work on this already excavated material lying in the museums. The second was Sovjan, a pile-dwelling site in the Kočepezin, where I spent a really good part of my life of working on this pottery assemblage, which provided for the first time not only a stratigraphic sequence, but also a connection with c-14. And the first time challenging somehow this chronology of Armenovori. Of course, the work of revision also of old excavation seen in the life of this new one was quite long and also problematic because I had to put together very different chronological traditions to find somehow a frame for this material. And also the surface, which was excavated, although spectacular, because there is a lot of wooden structure preserved, so it was not extremely consistent. So at the end, the wall assemblage from Sovjan is not extremely large, as the only structure, which can be dated to this Armenovori group, is the meson du canal, which is one part of the name. But another important data from this site is indeed the structure of the settlement. So we have the first, so then the most important and the only structure, which is the meson du canal, but there are also the traces of other structure, then we can also somehow trying to figure out also the plenimetry or somehow better the structure of the settlement. So it's the first data that are somehow helping us in understanding better the site, which is one hectare, more or less a small tail, as Giltusche defined it. Second discovery and excavation was the one undertaken at Arhuntiko in Pelle in Greece. Unfortunately, I don't have here, because the picture that I had was not usable, don't have the plenimetry, but as you can see, we have a lot of structure in Zidu. So we have an actual village excavated with several horizons, telling horizons, and this time also C14 datings. Cemetery. Another important piece of the puzzle to the knowledge of our area is coming from two cemeteries. One is an outstanding one. It was excavated quite recently, but still so huge, because we have more than 250 graves. The final publication is still ongoing. But finally, so we were able to not only have quite good number of contacts, but also, as you see, we have many C14 datings for this cemetery. Yes, here we are the main structure of the cemetery. Another one is Mutovac in Serbia. So we have a sort of a large gap in term of the geographical dimension of this group. And again, although the ritual is not actually comparable, in this case it was belonging to this arena, how it was attributed practically on the basis of pottery shape. The good news for this site is that together with Alexander Gulatov, who had the project focusing on third millennium in the carbon, will be out soon after one year in review. But we have also for this cemetery a large number of the C14 dates. And also, of course, which can be combined to different type of material culture. Yes, but one puzzle of this work coming back to chronology the borders that I mentioned, the special geographical dimension of this Hermenohori group and especially how this relates to other third millennium groups, especially in the Dalmatian and Adriatic site. So practically also thanks to C14 in this large amount of data, so you are asking yourself what is happening because if on one side towards the east, there seems according to our knowledge that indeed there are so that this bardar Akses represents somehow a border at least according to pottery pathology. On the other side now this border tends to be somehow less defined. And also to chronology to logical comparison between the Adriatic and Macedonian areas we wanted to see how this, if there wasn't an interrelation and to which type of geographical space this occurred. So if actually these mountains separated in Macedonia to Adriatic were actually border or not. The good thing about chronology is that thanks to this large amount of data that are not conclusive we saw that both groups belong to the entire second half of the third millennium so also chronologically they compare. We tried for pottery groups to model different overlapping phases and we tried to compare this with the work that was published by Kornbacher but as regards clear and easy distinction into phases in second part of the third millennium we see so we can put these as data but we are not 100% sure in where to put our limit to distinguish different phases and to compare these phases in between them. What is interesting here this is my proven method of sites that somehow are related to the third millennium ceramic group is that in it so there are a sort of overlapping of this group but one question is what can we compare if on one side as Julia pointed out we don't have any kind of site and on the other side most of the data are coming from settlements so we decide maybe besides seeing that those groups are quite chronologically homogeneous we can have a look what happens at the funerary level so indeed while the ritual is not comparable is not much comparable so we tried to publish some connection by looking at Shenoperatuar of course and some acculturation and so called Ibrid typological features some of those vessels were showed already by Julia which some of them do not represent like a prototype of Zetina but can be intended as a sort of combination of different typological traits and also technological one of course this somehow acculturation is not limited only in this area and these mountainous somehow in this border area assigned by the mountains but also you can see in different context throughout the large area in which we can find Zetina group pottery so finally I hit this sort of circle but it helped me a lot in understanding maybe different areas and overlapping so after all this time and thanks to new research I think that one key aspect is that the combination of isolation of different cultural groups should be definitely abandoned there are many, many open questions because we have lack of data we don't have coherent dataset to compare but at least I think that especially in the continuous area which is separating somehow or connected Macedonia to the mission should be an object of more attention so maybe they are not that separated after all thank you very much