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Eлементи към конска амуниция от Руец (коментар за формата и функцията им в Тракия): Elements of horse-trappings from Ruets (notes on their form and function in Thrace)
No full textThe article discusses three so far unpublished silver cone-shaped elements of horse-trappings found in the tomb near the village of Ruets, Targovishte region.The tomb near the village of Ruets (old Yrukleler), Targovishte region in North-eastern Bulgaria, was discovered by chance in 1925 in the Maljuk mound located in the Kavatsite locality to the southeast of the village. Vasil Mikov excavated the tomb in the same year. According to the available data, a burial was revealed in the tomb, that in turn was under a mound.The grave goods found in the tomb include a bronze Chalcidian type helmet, a bimetal bell cuirass made of bronze and iron, a folding bronze plate (μίτρη) worn together with/under the bell cuirass, an iron short sword – akinakes, two iron spear heads, eleven bronze arrowheads, a bronze amphora-hydria with images of Sirens in the lower parts of the handles, a bronze strainer, a bronze situla, a bronze vessel – podanipter, a bronze buckle, an iron bridle, two bone objects, a glass vessel (aryballos) and a fragment of a red-figured hydria. At present they are stored in the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. Due to the nature of their discovery, it is unclear whether these are all grave goods to the buried warrior. Tree silver cone-shaped elements of horse-trappings are also among the items mentioned above and they are the subject of the present study
Chipped stone assemblages of Haci Hüseyin höyük: a new Neolithic site in Gelibolu Peninsula, Turkey. Preliminary results
Full text linkRecent archaeological work at the Neolithic site of Hacı Hüseyin (also Hüsrev), located in the southern part of the Gelibolu (Gallipoli) peninsula, reveals clear evidence of the presence of a Neolithic settlement that played an important role on the Neolithization of the Thrace region. Discovered during a systematic field survey in the autumn of 2007, Hacı Hüseyin höyük is one of four important Neolithic sites on the Gelibolu Peninsula. Owing to earlier destruction by modern buildings and highway construction along the coast there may originally have been more than these four Neolithic sites in the region. Today the Neolithic settlement of Hacı Hüseyin has the form of a nearly flat settlement divided into two by the road to the village of Bigalı. The intensive fieldwork projects on the peninsula were focused mainly on pre-Neolithic and Neolithic settlements and were undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists. A large number of lithics were collected during 2007–2011 field surveys. This paper presents the preliminary results of a techno-typological analysis of the lithic assemblages from the site
Дванадесети конгрес на Международната асоциация за изучаване на средновековната и съвременна керамика в Средиземноморието: 12th Congress AIECM3 on Medieval and modern period Mediterranean ceramics
No full textNew technologies and transformations in the European Bronze Age: the case of Naue II swords
Full text linkIn many aspects, the Bronze Age was a formative epoch in European history. It was a time of movement and change, of travel, contact, cultural transmission and social transformation. To a large degree, the shape of the Bronze Age network that connected the Aegean/Mediterranean regions with the interior of Europe was predetermined by physical geography. Nevertheless, during the Bronze Age cross-cultural connections became increasingly stronger and allowed trade and exchange, as well as other, less peaceful forms of social interactions, to become intensified across vast areas. The archaeological evidence clearly reflects this, and suggests multi-directional interactions, including technological co-evolution, between contemporaneous connected societies. A prime example of this is the diffusion of flange-hilted swords of type “Naue II”, a pan-European weapon technology that bears witness to profound changes in warfare and society. This article provides an evidence-based interpretational framework that focuses on the distribution pattern and archaeological contexts of Naue II, connecting historic events with transformative changes in the material and social fabrics of Bronze Age Europe
От Баден до Троя. Използването на ресурси, металургия и пренос на знания – юбилеен сборник в чест на Ернст Перницка: Рецензия на книга: Martin Bartelheim, Barbara Horejs, Raiko Krauss (eds), Von Baden bis Troia. Ressourcennutzung, Metalurgie und Wissenstransfer, Eine Jubiläumsschrift für Ernst Pernicka. Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2016. ISBN 978-3-86757-010-7
Full text linkАрхеологическа карта на Плиска. Теренни издирвания на територията на Плиска през 2017 г.: Archaeological map of Pliska. Field survey of the territory of Pliska in 2017
No full textThe field surveys of the area of Pliska – the first Bulgarian capital – are part of the “Development of the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria” project. At the same time, they are a continuation of the long-term development for completion of the Pliska archaeological map, which began in the distant 1899. The creation of the archaeological map of Pliska has a long history and numerous authors. The main goal has always been the registration of visible sites within the Great earthen rampart – the Outer city of Pliska, as well as in the near vicinity of the town. So far intensive field surveys in the Pliska area were conducted in 2010–2012. In 2017, over a period of 25 days, 4 km2 were covered in the eastern, northern and western parts of the Outer city, which has a total area of 23 km2. Seventy six sites - settlements, buildings, building complexes, churches and a necropolis were registered. The common criteria for collecting and classifying information from the survey area set the basis for building an objective picture of the settlement structure of the Outer City of Pliska
Book review: Leszek Gardeła. Bad Death in the Early Middle Ages. Atypical Burials from Poland in a Comparative Perspective. Rzeszów: Instytut Archeologii UR, 2017. Collectio Archaeologica Ressoviensis 36, 288 pages., ISBN 9788365627162
Full text linkПетнадесета конференция за Римско провинциално изкуство (Грац, Австрия): 15th Colloquium om Roman Provincial Art (Graz, Österreich)
No full textTreasure of gold appliqués for horse harness from Primorsko: Съкровище от златни апликации за конска сбруя от Приморско
No full textIn 2016, rescue archeological excavations of a Thracian burial mound were conducted four kilometers to the north-west from the town of Primorsko in the locality “Silihlyar”. Foundations of a rectangular feature were discovered in the eastern part of the mound. Its walls followed the cardinal directions and were preserved up to 0.55 m in height. During the excavations of this feature, 40 gold appliqués of a horse harness were found under the walls and the floor. They were spread over an area of cca. 2 m². One of them was found in a mortar layer of the floor, while another seven were between the stones of the northern and eastern walls. The central element of the set represents a decorated shield to which an embossed eagle’s head was attached. The clay lamp buried together with the gold appliqués suggests a deposition date of the set in a relatively narrow chronological range – 333-250 BC.The Treasure of Primorsko is the first fully preserved set of gold decorations for horse harness found to the south of the Balkan Mountains. Further interdisciplinary research is forthcoming
Градището край Рибен: The Gradishteto hill site near Riben
No full textThe Gradishteto hill site near Riben has been known for long in the scientific literature. Until most recent time, it has been often wrongly identified with the Roman road station Ad putea. The excavations in 2013-2015 brought about much new evidence about the site but it was, unfortunately, partly misinterpreted by the investigators. The archaeological campaign in 2016 considerably enlarged the database and made it possible to thoroughly reconsider the traditional views and statements. It was proved that the habitation of the site began already in the Early Chalcolithic. In the Late Iron Age, if not even earlier, regular cult practices started to be performed here and a rock-cut sanctuary came into being. In the Roman period it developed into an important cult complex that ceased functioning in the late-3rd c. A burgus was built over its ruins in Diocletianic times, which was integrated in the mid-4th c. in the defensive system of a newly established fortified settlement. The latter suffered a destruction in the late-70s of the 4th c. but was soon rebuilt and resettled by new population, maybe of Gothic origin. By the mid-5th c. the settlement was again destroyed. The life resumed in the 10th c. and went on until the end of the 12th c. at the earliest. In the late-14th c. a coin hoard was buried in its ruins