- Karanovo culture
The Karanovo culture is a neolithic culture (Karanovo I-III ca. 62nd to 55th centuries BC) named for the
Bulgaria n village of Karanovo (Караново,Sliven Province coord|42|30|41|N|25|54|54|E|). The site at Karanovo itself was a hilltop settlement of 18 buildings, housing some 100 inhabitants. [http://w3.cnice.mec.es/eos/MaterialesEducativos/mem2001/huellas/origenes/neolitico/030dondevivian.htm] . This site was inhabited more or less continuously from the early 7th to the early 2nd millennia BC.The Gumelnita-Karanovo culture (Gumelnita is a site on the left (Romanian) bank of the Danube) is a chalcholithic (5th millennium) culture, extending along the Black Sea coast to central Bulgaria and into Thrace. The aggregate "Gumelnita-Karanovo VI-Kodjadermen" evolves out of the earlier Boian, Marita and Karanovo V cultures. It is supplanted by
Cernavoda I in the early 4th millennium.Timeline
The layers at Karanovo are employed as a chronological system for Balkans prehistory:
*Karanovo I-II: Early Neolithic (6th millennium BC)
*Karanovo III-IV: Late Neolithic (5th millennium BC)
*Karanovo V-VI:Chalcolithic (4th millennium BC)
*Karanovo VII:Early Bronze Age (3300-2700 BC)Literature
*Stefan Hiller, Vassil Nikolov (eds.), Karanovo III. Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa Österreichisch-Bulgarische Ausgrabungen und Forschungen in Karanovo, Band III, Vienna (2000), ISBN 3-901232-19-2.
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External links
*http://www.bulgariatravel.org/eng/sights.php?id=15
*http://www.worldmuseumofman.org/balkanneolithic1.htm
*http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/harsova/en/dobro3.htm
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