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Archive » The Volga River Region Archaeology Vol.1 (23) 2018
Results of Studying Flint Inventory from the Neolithic Settlement of Ovcharovo-gorata (north-east Bulgaria)
Skakun N.N. (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), Mateva B. (Isperikh. Bulgaria), Angelova I. (Targoviste, Bulgaria).
page 28–55UDC 902
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2018.1.23.28.55
The geographical location, natural and climatic features were the reason why North-East Bulgaria non-uniformly colonized which resulted in a variety of manifestations of archaeological cultures in this comparatively small area (late 7
th – 5
th Millennium B.C.). For a long period of time it was considered to be unpopulated in the Neolithic due to the fact that the area was understudied. An early Neolithic settlement of Ovcharovo-gorata was discovered in the course of the scheduled exploratory works. The paper considers the results of comprehensive research of flint production inventory from this site. The authors conducted a comprehensive research which resulted in the characterization of the technical-morphological and functional features of the flint articles. They were compared with the materials of coexisting settlements in Bulgarian and the neighbouring regions, and the structure of the monument's utilization was identified and described in detail.
Keywords
archaeologyNeolithicNorth-East Bulgariaimplementsmorphologyfunctioncomprehensive research
About the author(s)
Skakun Natalia N. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation; skakunnatalia@yandex.ru
Mateva Boryana. Historical Museum, Isperikh. Tsar Osvoboditel St., 6, Isperikh, 7400, Bulgaria; boryamateva@yahoo.com
Angelova I. Targoviste, Bulgaria; mangelov1948@abv.bg