Karanovo culture

The Neolithic
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farming, animal husbandry pottery, metallurgy, wheel circular ditches, henges, megaliths Neolithic religion
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Not to be confused with Gumelniţa-Karanovo culture.

The Karanovo culture is a neolithic culture (Karanovo I-III ca. 62nd to 55th centuries BC) named for the Bulgarian village of Karanovo (Караново, Sliven Province 42°30′41″N 25°54′54″E). The site at Karanovo itself was a hilltop settlement of 18 buildings, housing some 100 inhabitants.[1]. This site was inhabited more or less continuously from the early 7th to the early 2nd millennia BC.

Karanovo stratigraphy

The layers at Karanovo are employed as a chronological system for Balkans prehistory:

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.
• Dominique Jongbloed, Civilisations antédiluviennes, Alphée. 2011

Notes

On site artefacts

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