Post by UKarchaeology on Jan 24, 2016 22:45:56 GMT
7,000-year-old archaeological structures and artifacts from the Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age), including a wooden wall, a loom, and a shell amulet have been discovered during the 2015 excavations of the prehistoric settlement mound in Bulgaria’s Petko Karavelovo.
The prehistoric mound in town of Petko Karavelovo, Polski Trambesh Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo District in Central North Bulgaria has been excavated by the team of archaeologist Alexander Chohadzhiev from the Veliko Tarnovo Regional Museum of History.
The 2015 digs have been funded with BGN 7,000 (app. EUR 3,500) in government funding from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, and have been carried out with the participation of archaeology students from Veliko Tarnovo University “St. Cyril and St. Methodius" and New Bulgarian University in Sofia.
The most interesting discovery from the 2015 excavations of the prehistoric settlement mound near Petko Karavelovo has been the remains of a wooden wall from a Chalcolithic home, with preserved girders (support beams) and paneling, reports local daily Borba.
“The preserved wooden remains are 7,000 years old. But apart from this really impressive age, what has been more interesting for me is the fact that we have come across a structure that we had not studied earlier," lead archaeologist Chohadzhiev is quoted as saying.
Full story: archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2016/01/18/archaeologists-find-wooden-wall-four-leaf-clover-amulet-in-prehistoric-settlement-mound-in-bulgarias-petko-karavelovo/